Weekly Issue: 2023-21

Google has begun the switch to its Tasks service in Calendar as a replacement for standard and Assistant-based “Reminders”. Previously, you could set reminders from Assistant or Google Keep for notes so that they would pop up at a pre-determined time or location.

Starting right now, if you have a Google One subscription for 2TB or higher and have signed up for Labs in Search, you can enable Google’s new SGE, or Search Generative Experience. Essentially, this is its artificial intelligence integrated with Google Search!

This week on The Chrome Cast, we start the show by discussing a recent video we publish that highlights all the ways ChromeOS is hiding in plain sight all around you.

Love it or hate it, Google Collections, Google’s content curation tool that’s kind of but sort of not meant to replace bookmarks is still alive and kicking.

Google is not relenting in trying to make ChromeOS the operating system for the masses. With more and more devices arriving and more features being added on a very consistent basis, the young OS has become extremely versatile but there’s still plenty of room for more.

The story of the Pixel Watch 2 has been an interesting one thus far. Ahead of Google I/O 2023, we had mountains of leaks for devices like the Pixel Fold, Pixel Tablet and Pixel 7a.

During quarterly earnings calls, retail CxOs often talk about the impact to margins of extra shipping costs, increases in split shipments and monitoring inventory levels. Across the U.S. apparel sector, for example, earnings before interest and taxes dropped by over 30% due to accelerated demand of online business.

Subskribe helps SaaS companies keep up with modern demands by delivering a unified system for configure, price, quote (CPQ), billing, and revenue recognition.

Twilio Flex is an omni-channel CCaaS (Contact Center as a Service) that makes it easy to build personalized support that’s unique to your business. In this post, we will show you how to integrate Flex’s asynchronous channels with Google DialogFlow.

Malicious scams such as phishing, malware, and ransomware continue to evolve and have become a critical concern to users around the globe.

By now, you’ve likely come into contact with CapCut: the video editing phone app that is used by millions to make viral, short-form videos for services like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.

Google LLC today started opening access to Search Generative Experience, or SGE, an experimental version of its search engine with generative artificial intelligence features. SGE is available through a software testing program called Search Labs.

 The dev channel has been updated to 115.0.5790.3 for Windows, Mac and Linux.A partial list of changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

LTS-108 is being updated in the LTS channel to 108.0.5359.232 (Platform Version: 15183.95.0) for most ChromeOS devices. Want to know more about Long Term Support? Click here.This update contains multiple Security fixes, including:1430692 High  CVE-2023-2458 Use-after-free in ChromeOS AshGiuliana Pritchard Google Chrome OS

Can I edit the source code and save changes in DevTools? Yes you can! Let’s set up workspaces together and learn tips to make it work.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Dev 115 (115.0.5790.5) for Android. It’s now available on Google Play.You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log. For details on new features, check out the Chromium blog, and for details on web platform updates, check here.

Discovering new drugs is at the heart of modern medicine, yet finding a “needle in the haystack” is immensely challenging due to the enormous number of possible drug-like compounds (estimated at 10^60 or more).

The new AMD Chromebook chips aren’t that new .The Zen 2 chipsets are based on the company’s 2019 tech, making AMD Chromebooks second class citizens again.

If you read Chrome Unboxed often, you’ll no doubt have heard of Wasserstein accessories. I write about them all the time and think they’re some of the best third-party accessories for the Google and Nest ecosystem.

Yesterday, I was using the Google Search app on my Pixel phone and I tried to ask it and Assistant how to say something Japanese in English to verify that I was learning the best approach to the language in the Duolingo app for professions.

Look, this is slightly awkward, but I’m not gonna sugarcoat it: Reading stuff on the web these days can be a pretty painful experience.You know what I’m talkin’ about, right? (Insert awkward pause here.

Google has listened to user feedback on Chrome’s Tab Hover Card Images and reinstated the associative flag back again in Chrome 114 to disable them. Google is still working on providing a setting for the same, as of now it is not available.

 Hi, everyone! We’ve just released Chrome 114 (114.0.5735.52/.53) for Android to a small percentage of users: it’ll become available on Google Play over the next few days. You can find more details about early Stable releases here.This release includes stability and performance improvements.

 The Stable channel has been updated to 114.0.5735.45 for Windows and Mac as part of our early stable release to a small percentage of users. A full list of changes in this build is available in the log.You can find more details about early Stable releases here.Interested in switching release channels?  Find out how here.

The Beta channel has been updated to 114.0.5735.45 for Windows,Linux and MacA full list of changes in this build is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how here. If you find a new issues, please let us know by filing a bug.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 114 (114.0.5735.53) for Android. It’s now available on Google Play.You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log. For details on new features, check out the Chromium blog, and for details on web platform updates, check here.

In a recent announcement on the Keyword blog, Google revealed that its highly customizable Chrome theming system will now be accessible directly from the Side Panel of the browser, and what’s more, it will show you real-time changes as you make them.

Early hands-on with Google’s upcoming Pixel Tablet from a wide array of reviews appears to be very positive at this point.

Cloud SQL is excited to announce support for PostgreSQL 15. PostgreSQL 15 has many new and valuable enhancements and we thought it would be great to deep dive into these for our users. One can broadly categorize the improvements into five areas:SecurityDeveloper experiencePerformanceToolingObservabilityLet’s deep dive.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 114 (114.0.5735.49) for iOS; it’ll become available on App Store in the next few days.You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.Harry SoudersGoogle Chrome

Microsoft could learn a few things from Google and add some of these ChromeOS features to future Windows updates.

If you use Google Chrome to manage your passwords, you can now install Chrome Password Manager as an app. Let me show you how. Installing Google Password Manager To install the Password Manager: I hope you found this tutorial useful and installed the Google Password Manager app on your computer.

We’re all familiar with Chromebooks for work, education, and other consumer computing needs; but what if I told you that behind the scenes, ChromeOS is being used in some very public places that you would likely never notice?

It goes without saying that the COVID-19 pandemic produced serious long-term effects on the labor force. In the blink of an eye, millions of employees were forced into navigating off-site, work-from-home, and hybrid work models.

If you’re an IT or security professional, you’re probably very familiar with the advantages of the browser when it comes to your tech stack. It allows your workforce to get more done, making it easier than ever to be productive.