Weekly Issue: 2023-24

Sometimes SD cards and USB thumb drives play up, get full or just otherwise require a quick once over to get them back in shipshape. Chrome

As first noticed by 9to5Google, Hangouts users will be losing a bit of their data next month on July 19, 2023. The reason for this is that the “Google Hangouts Album Archive” is being sunset and will no longer exist.

The latest June Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11 broke Chrome for users running Malwarebytes. Malwarebytes has acknowledged the issue and released an update to its Product to make Chrome launch again.

One of the “Safety Check” features aimed at alerting harmful extensions users may have installed in Chrome browser is going to launch soon. Three years back, Google launched the Safety Check feature in Chrome.

Father’s Day is just two days away but it’s not too late to pick up some new tech for dad and save some cash in the process.

Chrome has been going through a metamorphosis this year. Straight from the top, a “super secret 2023 refresh” began implementation a few months back, and ever since, it’s been going strong.

In the unusual and unexpected news department, Google announced today that it would be selling off the company’s Domain registrar service to Squarespace.

We’re coming up on 2 years since Walmart first jumped into the Android-based streaming hardware game, and that first attempt was quite good. As a matter of fact, we recommended the original Onn.

Dataflow is the industry-leading platform that provides unified batch and streaming data processing capabilities, and supports a wide variety of analytics and machine learning use cases.

Last December, we, the Looker team, hosted our annual Cloud BI Hackathon for our developer community to collaborate, learn, and inspire each other. Nearly 300 participants from over 80 countries joined our 43 hour long virtual hackathon.

One of the most significant advantages of running databases in the cloud is the ability to ensure business continuity. In a database context, it’s common to define continuity as a combination of database availability and data durability.AlloyDB is a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database for demanding transactional workloads.

I fired up YouTube Music this morning and to my surprise, the user interface had undergone a significant transformation. The addition of a left-hand sidebar caught my attention immediately. The sidebar now includes Home, Explore, and Library navigation options, with a clear emphasis on playlists.

If you have followed us for any amount of time, you’ve likely heard us talk about how much we love Google’s 4K Chromecast w/Google TV. We’re even fans of the affordable alternatives like the $20 4K streamer for Walmart’s in-house brand onn.

In preparation for the official release of the Pixel Tablet just around the corner, I’ve been doing a bit more research on Android tablets in general. I’ve used the OnePlus Pad (a friend has one), I’ve toyed with Samsung tablets, and I’ve messed around with Apple’s latest take on iPadOS.

Alongside Google’s first-party Admin Console solution for ChromeOS device management, the Chrome team has been working hard to provide equivalent functionality exposed via APIs. These APIs empower customers to add customized, advanced workflows, which enable partners to build integrated ChromeOS management solutions in their own platforms.

Formatting tables in Google Docs has always been kind of a pain.

The dev channel has been updated to 116.0.5829.0 for Windows, Linux and Mac.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.

Here’s a first look at the updated Google Password Manager Chromebook app, which can be installed as a PWA in the latest ChromeOS beta software.

The number of online meetings has skyrocketed as organizations continue to rely on geographically distributed teams or employees who spend some of their time working from home.

As the Pixel family of devices continues to grow, Pixel Feature Drops get larger and larger. With this latest update, there are some helpful new items for Pixel phones, but some of the more notable additions this time around come to the Pixel Watch.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Dev 116 (116.0.5830.4) 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.

With Android 13 T supporting a new API, Chrome can now allow users to take screenshots in incognito Mode without showing incognito screenshot thumbnails in the app switcher. Till now, Chrome did not permit users to take screen grabs in private mode on Android.

The Beta channel has been updated to 115.0.5790.32 for Linux and Mac and  Windows is coming soon.A 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.

The Beta channel is being updated to OS version: 15474.21.0 Browser version: 115.0.5790.30 for most ChromeOS devices.If you find new issues, please let us know one of the following waysFile a bugVisit our ChromeOS communitiesGeneral: Chromebook Help CommunityBeta Specific: ChromeOS Beta Help CommunityReport an issue or send feedback on ChromeInterested in switching channels?

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 115 (115.0.5790.32) 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.

 LTS-108 is being updated in the LTS channel to 108.0.5359.234 (Platform Version: 15183.97.0) for most ChromeOS devices. Want to know more about Long Term Support? Click here.This update contains multiple Security fixes, including:1444360 High  CVE-2023-2721 Use after free in Navigation1433211 High CVE-2023-2724 Type Confusion in V8Giuliana Pritchard Google Chrome OS

As Google Chat and Spaces in particular gain popularity, boasting over 50,000 active users, we must be open to point out its shortcomings as a platform.While it’s a great tool that’s helped me structure my life and work beyond any other solution I’ve tried in the past, it’s not perfect.

Google Lens is a powerful visual search tool available in the Google app, on the web and via the search bar on your phone’s home screen (if you have an Android, of course).

Write any CSS you want in the contenteditable -pre- and some JavaScript will tell the browser to start a view transition (take a before screenshot), apply the written styles to the page, then take an after screenshot and transition between the two states (whatever they are!). Codepen demo → https://goo.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 115 (115.0.5790.32) 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.Krishna GovindGoogle Chrome

I wrote at length about Material You on Chromebooks back in May, and I held to my word from that article: I’ve stayed in the Beta Channel of ChromeOS 114 since that time for the sake of keeping Material You as a part of my daily Chromebook experience.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the power to drive innovation, but many companies still grapple with how to realize the full potential of this technology. On average, only 54% of AI projects ever make it from pilot to production. One central problem is that most companies have insufficient AI infrastructure.

Statsig is a modern feature management and experimentation platform used by hundreds of organizations. Statsig’s end-to-end product analytics platform simplifies and accelerates experimentation with integrated feature gates (flags), custom metrics, real-time analytics tools, and more, enabling data-driven decision-making and confident feature releases.

Oracle Corp. today said it has added account reconciliation and transaction matching capabilities to its NetSuite enterprise resource planning suite, addressing what it says is a major pain point for organizations closing their books.

Cameyo is an industry-leading cloud-native virtualization solution that allows enterprises to seamlessly deliver any application to any device without the need to run a full Windows OS instance.