Weekly Issue: 2023-28

It’s Sunday morning and drinking my coffee. Maybe I’m being too contemplative today but I can’t shake the feeling that Chromebooks are getting boring.

Google Chat may not have launched with many of the same standard features as its competitors, but it’s slowly started added them over time – a Google staple for the development pipeline.

One persistent challenge Android users have faced over the years is the inability to understand precisely what updates Google is incorporating into its operating system. Often, they’d have had to rely on news outlets (like us!

Sabre is a leading software and technology company that powers the global travel industry. With decades of revolutionary firsts, their team of experts drive innovation and ingenuity across the travel ecosystem. Sabre partners with airlines, hoteliers, agencies, and other travel partners to retail, distribute, and fulfill travel.

Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs for short, are primarily designed to enhance user anonymity. They achieve this by giving you the freedom to choose the country from which your IP address is being broadcast from.

Here in the office, we have the new Lenovo IdeaPad Chromebook Slim 3 – or what we tend to just call the Slim 3. This Chromebook showed up quietly, following the same design ethos that Lenovo employed for the Flex 3i we recently reviewed and really enjoyed a lot.

The Beta channel is being updated to OS version: 15474.56.0 Browser version: 115.0.5790.94 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? Find out how.

The Dev channel has been updated to 116.0.5845.32 for Windows, Mac and Linux.A partial list of changes is available in the Git log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

When it comes to creativity, curiosity and imagination are really what bring everything to life. From a child’s imaginative game to an entrepreneur’s brand-new business idea, these qualities are intrinsically human and have found a new assistant here in 2023 with the rise of large language model AI.

If you use Google Drive as much as I do, then you’ll know all too painfully well how many emails you get whenever someone makes a change to a file, invites you, or requests access, among many other things.

Passkeys on Chromebooks and Chrome will greatly reduce, if not get rid of, having to type passwords. Here’s what you need to know about them.

In today’s GUI Challenge, @AdamArgyleInk progressively enhances a multi-state button to morph between states using the super rad View Transitions api.

Google is working to further improve Incognito Mode at OS Level. The company is working to prevent OS “media controls” from showing title/artists/artwork or other details during media playback in Incognito on Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and iOS.

One of the oldest arguments of the tech world is whether or not you’ll buy a Roku or a Chromecast for your grandmother, and there are very clearly parties that fall on either side.

Here’s all you need to know about installing Threads on Windows, Linux, macOS, or ChromeOS and getting started with the Meta app on a PC or Mac.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Dev 116 (116.0.5845.30) 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.

The first few days of this week saw Best Buy launching a huge sales event clearly aimed at Amazon’s massive Prime Day sales blitz.

Illustration: The Verge If you’re using the new macOS Sonoma beta, you might want to know about a glorious new bridge between ecosystems that lets Mac Chrome users connect with their iCloud passwords.

Yeah, you read that right. This past Sunday I was out for a casual round of golf and as I have done a few times already with my Pixel Fold review unit, I had the phone secured in my magnetic clamp that I keep on attached to the golf cart.

I have been using Google Chrome for a while now. Well, it has been years. I have customized Chrome to make it look and work the way I like. What if I want to go back to how it was?

I have been using Google Chrome for a while now. Well, it has been years. I have customized Chrome to make it look and work the way I like. What if I want to go back to how it was?

At Google I/O 2023, Google unveiled a variety of AI-first developments. Among these was Project Tailwind, a cutting-edge note-taking tool crafted to leverage large language models to expedite learning. And today, Google is announcing that Project Tailwind is now being released under its new name: NotebookLM.

 Hi, everyone! We’ve just released Chrome 115 (115.0.5790.85) 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 115.0.5790.90 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.

Chrome 115 is rolling out now! Use ScrollTimeline and ViewTimeline to create scroll-driven animations that enhance user experience. Fenced frames work along other Privacy Sandbox APIs to embed relevant content while preventing unnecessary context sharing.

The Beta channel has been updated to 115.0.5790.90 for Windows, Mac and Linux.A partial list of changes is available in the Git log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Hello All,The Dev channel has been updated to 116.0.5845.27 (Platform version: 15509.20.0) for most ChromeOS devices.If you find new issues, please let us know one of the following ways:File a bug Visit our Chrome OS communitiesGeneral: Chromebook Help CommunityBeta Specific: ChromeOS Beta Help CommunityReport an issue or send feedback on ChromeInterested in switching channels? Find out how.Google ChromeOS

If you’re familiar with the Google Docs editing experience on Android either on your phone or tablet, you’ll know that it’s kind of annoying.

Till now, Chrome allows deleting saved autofill form info. Now, Google has added an “Undo autofill” feature to Chrome to revert or clear everything browser auto-filled with a single option.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Stable 115 (115.0.5790.84) for iOS; it’ll become available on App Store in the next few hours.This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log.

The Acer Spin 714 features the latest CPUs from Intel under the hood, and it’s now $160 off, and just $540

As companies modernize their applications and infrastructure, many IT stakeholders are looking to open source technologies to help them do so. One area where open source is gaining traction is in relational database management systems (RDBMS).

Kubernetes is an increasingly key part of the application deployment strategies at large organizations, and one of the most recommended options for the teams we work with.

Cloud SQL is Google Cloud’s enterprise-ready, fully managed database service for running MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server workloads. It’s used across industries from digital services to banking to retail, with more than 95% of Google Cloud’s top 100 customers using Cloud SQL today.

Google is once again adding useful features to Gmail that make the things we do inside email just a bit easier and more streamlined. This time around, they are integrating a new feature that streamlines the process of scheduling meetings.