Weekly Issue: 2023-42

Google’s new Chromebook Plus devices are all available right now, but if you didn’t know better, you may think a few of them haven’t hit the market just yet. After all, most new Chromebooks come to Best Buy as it has become the go-to spot for Chromebook hardware without question.

Lack of local clouds and inflexible offers see users depart.

   Hi, everyone! We’ve just released Chrome 118 (118.0.5993.80) 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.

With @scope you can override styles based on proximity, which is different from the usual CSS styles that are applied relying only on source order and specificity. In the following example, there are two themes. #NewInChrome

The Beta channel is being updated to OS version: 15633.13.0 Browser version: 119.0.6045.23 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.

Illustration: The Verge Google Chrome on iOS and Android devices will look for possible typos in URLs and suggest corrections for you, Google announced in a blog post on Tuesday.

The Stable channel has been updated to 118.0.5993.88 for Mac and Linux and 118.0.5993.88/.89 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 118.0.5993.89 for Windows and 118.0.5993.

The web is getting more powerful with every new experience. Time to #GetYourWebOn with #ChromeforDevelopers

The web is getting more powerful with every new experience. Time to #GetYourWebOn with #ChromeforDevelopers

This week, Google Play Store users witnessed a subtle yet significant change as the beloved “Google Camera” was renamed to read “Pixel Camera.

One of Europe’s leading providers of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, Mistral AI, is on a mission to design highly performant and efficient open-source (OSS) foundation models.Mistral AI is teaming up with Google Cloud to natively integrate their cutting-edge AI model within Vertex AI.

It’s been quite a while since we’ve talked about Samsung in the Chromebook space. Ironically, one of the biggest and most noteworthy devices released early in the life cycle of Chrome Unboxed was the Samsung Chromebook Plus.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Stable 118 (118.0.5993.92) 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.

Oracle Corp.’s NetSuite subsidiary today is adding dozens of new features and financial tools to its enterprise resource planning suite grounded in generative artificial intelligence and aimed at improving operational productivity, financial planning and business analysis, along with a more flexible licensing model for task-specific employee roles.

Google Wallet has long been a champion of reducing the bulk of physical wallets, making it possible to store essential cards securely on your smartphone, thus reducing keyring clutter and scoliosis. Now, it’s introducing a feature that simplifies this process even further.

At Google, we have a long history of solving problems at scale using Ethernet, and rethinking the transport layer to satisfy demanding workloads that require high burst bandwidth, high message rates, and low latency.

Editor’s note:Today, we hear from Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Google VP and Technical Fellow and Amin Vahdat, VP/GM. Partha delivered a keynote address today at the OCP Global Summit, an annual conference for leaders, researchers, and pioneers in the open hardware industry.

One of the biggest barriers for some people to use ChromeOS is a lack of native desktop app support. However, the most underrated feature on a Chromebook can help solve that problem.

Today is the day, folks! At some point, we fully expect the roll-out of ChromeOS 118 and – more importantly – the official Stable Channel update for qualifying Chromebooks to officially become Chromebook Plus devices.

Managing high risk data, whether Protected Health Information or social security numbers, is difficult for academic researchers across many domains. Each institution has its own guidelines to safeguard different kinds of datasets, and governmental agencies and funding organizations have their own regulations and compliance requirements.

As an interdisciplinary research center, Stanford’s Center for Population Health Sciences (PHS) aims to improve the health of populations by bringing together researchers and data to understand and address social, environmental, behavioral, and biological factors on both a domestic and global scale.

Today, we are excited to announce general availability of the C3D machine series powered by 4th Generation AMD EPYC™ Processors (code-named Genoa) to Google Compute Engine (GCE) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) customers.The C3D machine series is a general-purpose VM that offers the enterprise-grade performance and reliability of AMD Genoa.

With businesses increasingly relying on cloud-based applications and distributed workforces, data loss prevention (DLP) is fundamental in any organization’s secure enterprise browsing journey. According to IBM’s latest annual Cost of Data Breach report, the global average cost of a data breach in 2023 has surged to USD 4.

If you need to take a screenshot on a Chromebook, we’ll show you how.

Google Cloud (Apigee) has been recognized as a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for API Management, the eighth time in a row we’ve been recognized.

Of the new Chromebook Plus models, the only one we’ve fully reviewed up to this point is the budget-conscious ASUS Chromebook Plus CM34 Flip.

Plus: Stanford prof tells off industry for making decisions based on anecdotal data If it ain’t broke, there’s no need to fix it. Or so is the mantra at one of the fastest-growing mature tech companies. Unlike some of its peers, Nvidia still promises flexible working policies.…

The Dev channel has been updated to 120.0.6062.2 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.

In a recent article on ‘The Keyword‘ by Google, Sebastian Bauer celebrates Android’s customization features such as wallpapers, widgets, and emoji as tools that ‘help us be ourselves’ on our phones.

For the past 10 days I’ve been out of town with the family. After a 12 hour drive down to Florida, a 7 day cruise, and a 12 hour drive back, I’ve been out of the office for quite a bit of time.

Interested in getting one of the new Chromebook Plus laptops at a discount? The Asus Chromebook Plus CM34 Flip launched at $499 but is on sale for $399 all this week.