Weekly Issue: 2023-45

Anyone hoping to save their eyesight late at night can, of course, toggle dark mode on their Chromebook, but did you know there’s another way to save your vision without sacrificing the light mode theme if you’re a fan of it? Yep, it’s called ‘Night light’.

Just this week I wrote a post outlining why the Fitbit Charge 6 was filled with potential as a possible smartwatch replacement for me and why, in the end, I went back to my Galaxy Watch 5.

We get asked a lot about editing video on Chromebooks. Can it be done? What’s the best tool? What are the limitations? Should I even bother?

This week on Google’s Workspace Updates blog, the company announced a new Smart Chip filter feature.

This week on The Chrome Cast, our discussion is largely dominated by the naming mess that Chromebook Plus is facing right now.

Marketers tell antitrust cops privacy proxy will make it harder to protect kids online, etc etc Exclusive  Google’s plan to prevent marketers from tracking Chrome users across different websites by anonymizing IP addresses is being challenged by, surprise surprise, a marketing advocacy group.…

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Dev 121 (121.0.6116.2) 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.

Just as I predicted, Google decided to shutter its podcasting service in favor of its new favorite child, YouTube Music.

A lot of the discussion at this week’s KubeCon event focused primarily on projections about the future of Kubernetes, open source and the growing DevOps community. We’re now at an inflection point where maturing technologies, such as artificial intelligence, are finding a home in Kubernetes.

Cost-optimization is a common challenge facing many organizations. Businesses often accumulate a very large corpus of data over the years. Now, we are making it easier for companies to manage the balance of ever-growing data sets and costs.

BigQuery stores massive amounts of unstructured and structured text data, including customer information and business operations. BigQuery’s Search and Machine Learning (ML) capabilities provide powerful analytical tools for extracting valuable business insights from these text data sets.

I published my initial review of the Framework Chromebook on the last day of 2022. So how does it hold up, nearly a year later?

If you’re a gamer or at all interested in Fortnite, then you’ll be no stranger to the fact that Google has had an ongoing battle with Epic Games to get the popular title on the Google Play Store so that Chromebook and Android users can enjoy it.

Not to be outdone by all the fuss over Chromebook Plus, the Lenovo Chromebook Duet 5 has once again dropped to its lowest-ever price of just $329, down a full $170 once again from its MSRP.

Not every Chromebook is created equal, so if one is on your list, try to buy one of these three types.

What are all those chrome: URLs? This video explains. Chapters: 0:00: Introduction 0:39: What are the types of chrome: URLs? 1:29: Chrome setup 3:44: Chrome environment 4:35: Testing and experimentation 6:41: What are Chrome internals pages? 8:48: Find out more More Chrome Concepts videos → https://goo.gle/cc Subscribe to Chrome for Developers → https://goo.gle/ChromeDevs #ChromeConcepts #ChromeForDevelopers

The Dev channel has been updated to 121.0.6115.2 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.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 120 (120.0.6099.19) 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.

Artificial intelligence is all the rage at the moment. Fanning the intense and unending dialogue around AI, is the fact that the industry has only scratched the surface of its vast capabilities.

As with all Google updates, they take about six months to a year to materialize after being announced. The same can be said of Google Chat’s new four-colored Workspace-oriented logo and revamped homepage. Luckily, today is the day I can officially announce they’re going live.

I was pretty excited for the Fitbit Charge 6.

As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly makes its way into workplaces and classrooms, many people are understandably cautious about how it will impact them and their work – especially with a technology as potentially powerful as AI.

Today, we’re proud to announce that Google Cloud is a founding member of the DAOS Foundation, launched today by the Linux Foundation. Created in collaboration with partners, the DAOS Foundation will accelerate investment and development of the world-record-setting open-source DAOS storage stack, which supports next-generation HPC and AI/ML workloads.

Contents For a bit over a month, we’ve talked a lot about Chromebook Plus. While I love what Google is doing with this new campaign, it’s not without its difficulties right now.

Ever found yourself switching to a new phone and missing all those web apps you had installed since they were more convenient or readily available than apps?

I won’t go on a diatribe about Chromebook Plus branding right now (though a post on that is coming soon), but it’s a real shame that devices as fantastic as the Acer Chromebook Spin 714 aren’t publicly labeled as Chromebook Plus right now.

Brit chip house now looking to cloud and automotive to grow revenues Arm has shown better than expected revenue in its first earnings report since the company’s public offering, but its shares fell on a weaker outlook for the quarter ahead.…

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 120 (120.0.6099.16) 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

   Hi, everyone! We’ve just released Chrome 119 (119.0.6045.134) 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.

The Beta channel has been updated to 120.0.6099.18 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.

Contents Not long ago, we reported on the removal of all development on the once-upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c+ Gen 3 Chromebooks.

Contents Anyone who knows me will know that while I missed the Chromebox boom and craze, I’m addicted to the idea of daily driving my Chromebook as a desktop workstation.

AI models continue to get bigger, requiring larger compute clusters with exa-FLOPs (10^18 FLOPs) of computing. While large-scale models continue to unlock new capabilities, driving down the cost of training and serving these models is the key to sustaining the pace of this innovation.

With the boom in generative AI, the size of foundational large language models (LLMs) has grown exponentially, utilizing hundreds of billions of parameters and trillions of training tokens.

Today, we are announcing two important updates to our Cloud TPU platform. First, in the latest MLPerf™ Training 3.1 results1, the TPU v5e demonstrated a 2.3X improvement in price-performance compared to the previous-generation TPU v4 for training large language models (LLMs). This builds upon the 2.