Weekly Issue: 2023-51

Building on the “Chromebook Plus” platform that Google unveiled earlier this year, ASUS has revealed the ExpertBook CX54 Chromebook Plus, which packs high-end specs, including up to an Intel Core Ultra 7 processor.

This morning, I found myself on OnePlus’ website looking at the OnePlus Open. Since it was leaked months ago, I’ve been fawning over it quite a bit.

CHIPS introduces a new behavior that improves user privacy and security. The new cookie attribute, Partitioned, allows developers to opt a cookie into partitioned storage, with separate cookie jars per top-level site. Resources: Find out more about CHIPS → https: goo.

You know what I’m already getting a bit fatigued hearing about? AI infused into just about everything you can imagine. There’s a great number of things AI will assist us with in the coming years – that much is certain.

Nuclera, a UK and US-based biotechnology company, is collaborating with Google Cloud to serve the life science community, marrying Nuclera’s rapid protein access benchtop system with Google DeepMind’s pioneering protein structure prediction tool, AlphaFold2 (ref 1) served on Google Cloud’s Vertex AI machine learning platform.

European organizations continue to embrace cloud-based solutions to support their ongoing digital transformation.

Storage systems are a fundamental resource for technological solutions development, essential for running applications and retaining information over time.Google Cloud and NetApp are partners in the cloud data services market.

ChromeOS 121 will bring the Linux upgrade from Debian 11 to 12 on Chromebooks. I tested it out and it worked perfectly. Here are the details.

There are Chromebook deals and then there are Chromebook deals. Any time a solid device drops below the $200 barrier, it’s worth noting; and any time a Chromebook this good jumps all the way down to $149, you have to sit up and take notice.