Weekly Issue: 2023-35

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 117 (117.0.5938.36) 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

Take a trip to the Forgotten Realms with your Chromebook & NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW cloud gaming service.

Duet AI for Google Workspace has expanded its reach from Docs, Sheets, and Slides into Chat and Meet this week. Now, Google Docs is introducing another feature: “Proofread”.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 117 (117.0.5938.35) 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.

Remember how someone got Google Keep’s text formatting features working before they were officially announced this past week? Well, that same user, @AssembleDebug on Twitter, erm…’X’, has discovered yet another new feature.

In a move that takes Google’s hardware events right back to the beginning of it all, we are now set to officially hear about the latest from Google on October 4th, 2023 in NYC.

In this episode we’re shifting the topic to layout shift, that moment where you watch the page adapt to something lazily loaded which has impacted the layout in some way where you see content shift around. CLS → https://goo.gle/3kle3AW Optimizing CLS → https://goo.gle/3fxu6IE CSS for Web Vitals → https://goo.

The Beta channel has been updated to 117.0.5938.35 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.

As we head into the latter parts of 2023 and begin looking towards what is on the horizon, we obviously have to talk about Chromebook Plus and the devices that should be showing up soon that bear the branding of Google’s latest Chromebook category.

Innovators in financial services, gaming, retail, and many other industries rely on Cloud Spanner to power demanding relational database workloads that need to scale without downtime. Built on Google’s distributed infrastructure, Spanner provides a fully managed experience with the highest levels of consistency and availability at any scale.

As more organizations adopt open database standards, they need easy-to-use, high-performance migration tools, especially for heterogeneous migrations between different database engines. This week, we announced that Database Migration Service (DMS) has several new capabilities for converting and migrating Oracle databases to PostgreSQL.

Businesses across industries are increasingly combining their data with external sources or collaborating directly with partners to gain new insights and unlock business value.

As organizations continue to digitally transform, one of the major barriers they face is how to safely run analytical and reporting queries or large batch jobs against live operational databases without risking disruptions.

It’s hard not to get excited about leaks of new Google hardware, and it’s even more fun when Google themselves make an accidental slip that gives us a fully-official look at upcoming gadgets.

Illustration: The Verge I thought I had malware on my main Windows 11 machine this weekend.

Last night, 9to5 Google published a finding that we’ve been expecting to see at some point, outlining a handful of Chromebooks that are slated to make the ‘Chromebook Plus’ cut.

 Hi, everyone! We’ve just released Chrome 116 (116.0.5845.163) for Android: it’ll become available on Google Play over the next few days.This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Duet AI for Google Workspace just launched, and acts as your personal AI assistant and collaborator across Google’s services. In fact, it can even take notes and attend meetings on your behalf!

In the age of remote work, Google Meet has been a lifeline for many of us. Even if you were more accustomed to Zoom during the pandemic, Meet has cemented its place as a competitor and offers plenty of great features that even Zoom doesn’t have.

The Stable and Extended stable channels has been updated to 116.0.5845.140 for Mac and Linux and 116.0.5845.140/.141 for Windows, which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. A full list of changes in this build is available in the log.

In a post on the Nest Community Forum today, Google unveiled a handful of new starters and actions for your smart home routines.

Google Cloud partners with with more than 100,000 companies around the world in support of our customers. This year at Google Cloud Next 2023, we’re proud to highlight these partners and their role in helping customers incorporate generative AI into their businesses.

It’s been over three and a half years since the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook arrived at CES 2020.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Stable 116 (116.0.5845.146) 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 emergence of generative AI is poised to become one of the most significant technological shifts in modern memory, opening up endless transformative possibilities for enterprises. Our customers are already seeing incredible benefits with AI.

Three years ago, we launched Vertex AI with the goal of providing the best AI/ML platform for accelerating AI workloads — one platform, every ML tool an organization needs.

Generative AI has captured our imagination in countless ways — not just for chatbots with humanlike responses, but also in the way it can unlock entirely new user experiences.

As enterprises and government organizations navigate their digital transformation journey, they face many challenges: connectivity constraints, the need for low-latency connections, or industry-specific compliance and data sovereignty requirements. These challenges can make it difficult to fully adopt a public cloud.

For generative AI to achieve its immense potential, it needs to be broadly accessible and easy to integrate into a range of services. That’s why we offer our customers Vertex AI Search and Conversation— generally available today— to abstract the complexity of creating generative search and chat applications.

Organizations depend on the network to drive transformation and deliver business outcomes.

We’re at a once-in-a-generation inflection point in computing. The traditional ways of designing and building computing infrastructure are no longer adequate for the exponentially growing demands of workloads like generative AI and LLMs.

Since announcing Generative AI support on Vertex AI less than six months ago, we’ve been thrilled and humbled to see innovative use cases from customers of all kinds — from enterprises like GE Appliances, whose consumer app SmartHQ offers users the ability to generate custom recipes based on the food in their kitchen, to startup…

Last year, the Chromebook world saw a new and slightly unexpected shift towards gaming-centric devices.

While Chromebook X devices have yet to reach store shelves, you may already own one. Here are the current and future ChromeOS devices that will be upgraded to Chromebook X or “Chromebook Plus.”

Google is rolling out ChromeOS version 116 and it adds a new OneDrive integration, and tons of other new features