Weekly Issue: 2024-19

With ChromeOS 124 came the new, overhauled settings app as well. With this new system app, your Chromebook settings are finally parsed out into proper sections instead of being one, long feed of toggles and buttons.

According to a recent post over at 9to5 Google, it seems the ChromeOS team is now at work to bring one of the more technologically impressive audio features to Chromebooks: Spatial Audio.

It’s been a bit of a roller coaster ride for anyone eagerly awaiting Walmart’s new Onn 4K Pro Google TV streaming box.

Google is working to bring Spatial Audio to Chromebooks, enabling a more immersive listening experience.

 Hello, Everyone! We’ve just released Chrome 124 (124.0.6367.171) 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.

Google I/O is one of my favorite times of the year when the brightest minds at Google unveil their work in software, hardware, and AI innovation.

On a mission to disrupt and transform the fintech industry, Airwallex is constantly innovating, embracing new technologies that can help businesses overcome international money transfer challenges so they can grow without borders.

Editor’s note: Today, we’ll hear from Trendyol, a leading ecommerce marketplace and Google Cloud partner based in Türkiye, about how it uses Looker on top of its BigQuery and BigLake data lake infrastructure to allow its thousands of users to gain real-time insights while maintaining strong governance in the cloud.

PostgreSQL is an advanced open-source, relational database management system that empowers businesses with robust, reliable, and scalable database solutions. It has a rich set of features including security, availability, and performance that ensure data integrity and business continuity.

A couple of days ago, Google announced that the Google Pixel Tablet is now available as a standalone device, with the 128GB model starting at just $399 now, $100 off the original price that included the charging dock.

The Beta channel is being updated to OS version: 15853.24.0 Browser version: 125.0.6422.31 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.

The Stable channel has been updated to 124.0.6367.201/.202 for Mac and Windows and 124.0.6367.201 for Linux 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 124.0.6367.201 for Mac and Windows which will roll out over the coming days/weeks.

Hello All,The Stable channel is being updated to 124.0.6367.154 (Platform version: 15823.51.0) for most ChromeOS devices and will be rolled out over the next few days.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Dev 126 (126.0.6465.0) 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.

For years now, Apple has been as much a marketing company as a technology company. But after Apple CEO Tim Cook introduced the iPad Pro ad this week, you have to ask whether Apple has lost its marketing mojo.

It’s not often an Apple advertisement bombs, but when it does it generates international attention.

Google is rolling out an update that could transform how you present in Google Meet. As noted by Android Central, live annotations are here for select Workspace users, and they’re bringing a whole new level of interactivity and collaboration to your virtual meetings.

The Pile is a CSS and HTML mini web machine that enables easy and powerful element layering, like how a discard pile or dog pile work, last in is on top.

Introduction Cloud SQL for SQL Server offers configurable auditing, capturing events like login attempts, DDLs, and DMLs. These events are stored locally on the instance for up to 7 days and can be preserved longer in GCS buckets.

When it comes to AI use cases, language translation is amongst the most practical and widely adopted by companies and organizations alike. From Canva to Bloomberg, companies have pursued the flywheel of automatic multi-lingual translation, seeking to make content more accessible to employees, customers, communities, and the public.

Over the course of the past year or two, it’s become a forgone conclusion that the place to get Chromebooks and find Chromebook deals is Best Buy.

Just over a month ago, HP launched 4 new Chromebooks that included a couple convertibles and a couple clamshells – and one of each of those models is an upgraded Chromebook Plus version.

Despite record revenues, Wall Street doesn’t expect growth to last Chip designer Arm predicts that PCs based on its architecture will account for a significant share of the Windows market within three years as the company claims record revenues for the quarter just ended.…

Paramount+ is a treasure trove of streaming entertainment for a global audience.  With a click, swipe, or voice command, viewers have instant access to iconic films like “The Godfather” and “Top Gun”, television classics like “Star Trek” and “Survivor,” and modern hits like “Yellowstone,” “1883,” and “Halo.

Building and maintaining a diverse workforce improves organizations in myriad ways, including fostering innovation, enhancing problem-solving capabilities, attracting top talent, building customer understanding, and contributing to social responsibility.

Microsoft’s licensing of its software and services in the cloud is getting it into more hot water in Europe. This time it’s a group of Spanish startups that has called on regulators to investigate Microsoft behavior in the cloud marketplace.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 125 (125.0.6422.32) 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.Krishna GovindGoogle Chrome

The Dev channel is being updated to 126.0.6455.0 (Platform version: 15879.0.0) for most ChromeOS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes and security updates.

  Hi, everyone! We’ve just released Chrome 125 (125.0.6422.34) for Android to a small percentage of users. It’ll become available on Google Play over the next few days. You can find more details about early Stable releases here.This release includes stability and performance improvements.

Set to launch in the coming months, the new “App Mall” for ChromeOS is available now to preview (even if you’re not on a Chromebook).

The Stable channel has been updated to 125.0.6422.41 for Windows and Mac as part of our early stable release to a small percentage of users. A full list of changes in this build is available in the log.You can find more details about early Stable releases here.

The Beta channel has been updated to 125.0.6422.41 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.

Learn more about how the new generative AI tools for Chrome browser were developed.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Stable 125 (125.0.6422.33) 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 Google Pixel Tablet, originally launched back in June, just got a makeover. In addition to the new mid-range Pixel 8a announced yesterday, Google is also now selling the 128GB Pixel Tablet without its charging speaker dock and has taken $100 off, dropping the starting price down to $399.