Weekly Issue: 2023-41

A Zero Trust approach to security can help you safeguard your users, devices, and apps as well as protect your data against unauthorized access or exfiltration.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 119 (119.0.6045.18) 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.Erhu AkpobaroGoogle Chrome

Extensions are built on web technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript and let you extend Chrome to make it your own. #DevToolsTips

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, data-driven decision-making has become paramount for organizations aiming to stay ahead of the competition. With the emergence of generative AI (gen AI) technology, it’s now possible to provide a business user with a conversational interface to data that enables new engagement styles.

With the launch of AlloyDB for PostgreSQL in Google Cloud, customers are increasingly interested in eliminating their dependency on high-cost, legacy databases with unfriendly licensing and moving to cost effective, open, fully supported, high-performance databases.

Today, we announced significant price-performance improvements for Cloud Spanner, now providing up to 50% increase in throughput and 2.5 times the storage per node than before, with no change in price.

 Hi, everyone! We’ve just released Chrome 118 (118.0.5993.65) 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.

In this episode we tackle one of the most asked questions of all CSS history.. how do I center this div? We’ll cover multiple strategies that each have tradeoffs and super powers over each other. Centering in CSS → https://goo.gle/3RRki02 Comparing grid and flex place-items and place-content → https://goo.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Stable 118 (118.0.5993.69) 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.

As the holiday season looms closer and closer, retailers are getting a jumpstart on sales to draw consumers’ attention, and the shoppers’ wallets.

The Stable channel has been updated to 118.0.5993.70 for Mac and Linux and 118.0.5993.70/.71 for Windows, which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. A full list of changes in this build is available in the log.The Extended Stable channel has been updated to 118.0.5993.71 for Windows and 118.0.5993.

Right now, Best Buy is running a Flash Sale for today and tomorrow where they are slashing prices across the board on everything from laptops to watches to washers and dryers. The savings are pretty awesome, and of course there are a few Chromebooks thrown into the mix as well.

On October 4th, Google unveiled the much-anticipated Pixel 8 series with a boatload of new features and advancements that have a lot of us pretty excited about Google’s latest hardware.

Though Google has sold off its Domains service to Squarespace, and users will be automatically transitioned over to the competition in due time, I wanted to cover something important – transferring your domain from one Google Account to the other.

Yesterday we covered the fact that Chromebook Plus was arriving for all certified devices in the Beta Channel of ChromeOS 118.

Go ahead and call me officially bummed out.

At Google Cloud, we believe you should have full control over your log data.

Chrome 118 is rolling out now! Declare specific styles within a component with the @scope css rule. We have two new media queries: scripting and prefers-reduced-transparency. Devtools improved the sources panel and there’s plenty more. Adriana Jara has all the details about what’s new for developers in Chrome 118.

Modern marketers know that in the digital ad marketplace, speed is the key to maximizing the return on investment on your ad spend.

If you’ve enjoyed the addition of emoji reactions to Google Docs comments that were added earlier this year, then you’ll be happy to know that Google Sheets is now on board with the same feature.

If you need a solid everyday Chromebook with an ARM-based chip, you’ll love the Acer Chromebook Spin 513, which is $100 off for Prime Day.

Flash storage pioneer Pure Storage Inc. said today it’s once again disrupting the storage-as-a-service industry with its Evergreen portfolio, introducing what it says is a first-of-its-kind commitment to pay for customers’ power and rack space costs.

A year after first making passkeys available for developers in Android and on Chrome, Google LCC announced today that it’s now giving all users the ability to set up their own passkeys by default.

An irresistible combo of portability, performance, and affordability gets even better with its lowest price ever

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 119 (119.0.6045.11) 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.

Here’s how to use your iPhone with Chromebook, including which apps to download to synchronize your Google and Apple life.

The Dev channel is being updated to OS version: 15633.6.0 Browser version: 119.0.6045.10 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?

There was never a good time for Google to pull the bandage off with Chromebook Plus, and some of the resulting branding alignments should result in a lot of deals we’ll begin seeing now that this launch is fully underway.

Yesterday, Google officially launched its Chromebook Plus initiative, an advanced standard set by the company that’s meant to ensure specific devices are optimized for performance and so you get the most out of them for an affordable price.

We had official word arrive from Google this morning and are already hearing murmors of Chromebook Plus showing up for certified devices that happen to be in the Beta Channel of ChromeOS 118.

The Dev channel has been updated to 120.0.6051.2 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.

On the past two editions of theCUBE Podcast, industry analysts John Furrier and Dave Vellante have discussed the ransomware attack that crippled services at MGM Resorts International Inc., and it turns out the details reported were correct. What’s coming out now are the details of the damage done.

Today on The Chrome Cast podcast, we get into all of the hardware and software details from the Chromebook Plus announcement that we didn’t have time to cover in our episode last week.

Vertex AI is Google Cloud’s machine learning (ML) platform for training and deploying ML models and AI applications — a one-stop destination for data engineering, data science, and ML engineering workflows. The new Vertex AI Feature Store supports these workflows and is inpublic preview.

A United States grocery store chain wanted to leverage data from various areas of their business to enhance operations and generate additional revenue. The company faced several challenges, including disparate legacy systems, data quality concerns, and a lack of cloud expertise.