Weekly Issue: 2024-20

Find out about the latest from Angular, including updates on server-side rendering and reactivity. Discover everything from community updates and the request for comments process to new features landing in v18 and beyond. Angular’s official website → https://goo.gle/angular Introducing Angular v17 → https://goo.

Google for Education has for years touted the potential of AI to revolutionize learning. Today, that potential takes a major step forward towards reality with the introduction of Gemini for Google Workspace for the education sector.

Google for Education has for years touted the potential of AI to revolutionize learning. Today, that potential takes a major step forward towards reality with the introduction of Gemini for Google Workspace for the education sector.

Unless you’ve been camping out under a mossy tech news rock all week, you’ve probably heard plenty of news connected to Google’s annual Google I/O gala by now. And my goodness, has there been a glut of it!

The Dev channel is being updated to 126.0.6475.0  (Platform version: 15886.0.0) for most ChromeOS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes and security updates.

 Hello, Everyone! We’ve just released Chrome 125 (125.0.6422.53) 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.

 The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 125 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This will roll out over the coming days/weeks.Chrome 125.0.6422.60 (Linux)  125.0.6422.60/.61( Windows, Mac) contains a number of fixes and improvements — a list of changes is available in the log.

The Extended Stable channel has been updated to 124.0.6367.221 for Windows and Mac which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. A full list of changes in this build is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how here.

If you noticed during the Google I/O 2024 Keynote yesterday, every time a live demo of something on the web was shown off, the laptops being used were a pair of the last model made by Google themselves: the Pixelbook Go.

We are excited to announce the general availability of Guided Deployment Automation for SAP on Google Cloud.

Developers and engineers face several major challenges when scaling AI/ML workloads. One challenge is getting access to the AI infrastructure they need. AI/ML workloads require a significant amount of computational resources, such as CPUs and GPUs. Developers need to have sufficient resources to run their workloads.

Editor’s note: In this post, we’ll hear from specialty chemical manufacturer Solenis about how its migration journey to SAP on Google Cloud has supercharged its innovation and unlocked new value.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 125 (125.0.6422.53) 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.

If you happened to tune in to the Google I/O 2024 Keynote yesterday, you (like me and many others) probably felt a bit overwhelmed and bombarded by the constant, unending references to Gemini – Google’s main AI platform.

How many Chrome tabs do you have open currently? How much memory (RAM) are they using, do you now? Google Chrome now offers a quick way to view the memory usage by individual tabs. Here is how you can see how much memory each tab is using.

Chrome 125 is rolling out now! With the CSS anchor positioning API, the Compute Pressure API, an expansion to the Storage Access API and there’s plenty more. Adriana Jara has all the details about what’s new for developers in Chrome 125. Check out https://goo.

Hello All,The Stable channel is being updated to 124.0.6367.219 (Platform version: 15823.58.0) for most ChromeOS devices and will be rolled out over the next few days.

Plus: Google Chrome, Apple bugs also exploited in the wild Happy May Patch Tuesday.

Welcome to the next era of the web with AI and reimagine what’s possible with Gemini Nano in Chrome. See how AI made it easier for companies like Adobe and CyberAgent to build powerful experiences on the web. Watch more: Check out the blog to learn more → https://goo.

Well, Google’s main Keynote for I/O 2024 is in the books. And if you couldn’t tell by the title, it wasn’t just Gemini-heavy: it was all about Gemini. Gemini in Search, Gemini in Workspace, Gemini on Android, Gemini in the cloud…you get the gist.

The HP Dragonfly Pro Chromebook isn’t just the best Chromebook ever made; it’s arguably one of the best all-around laptops ever made, period. It is superlative in so many ways, from its excellent build quality and incredibly bright screen to the super smooth haptic trackpad.

Chrome is getting an onboard artificial intelligence model that devs can query Google’s annual developer conference is still called Google I/O, though this year Google A/I would be equally apt.…

Vertex AI is Google Cloud’s fully-managed, unified development platform for leveraging models at scale, with a selection of over 150 first-party, open, and third-party foundation models; for customizing models with enterprise-ready tuning, grounding, monitoring, and deployment capabilities; and for building AI agents.

Generative AI is transforming how we interact with technology while simultaneously opening tremendous efficiency opportunities for business impact. But these advances require ever greater compute, memory, and communication to train and fine tune the most capable models and to serve them interactively to a global user population.

Image: The Verge Google is building its Gemini AI into Chrome on desktop. During its I/O event on Tuesday, Google announced that Chrome 126 will use Gemini Nano to power on-device AI features, such as text generation.

Have you seen it yet? Yesterday, OpenAI launched ChatGPT-4o (the “o” is for “omni”) and the examples and results are staggering. We’re talking next-gen AI, here, and the practical applications are just beginning to take shape for all those encountering the ChatGPT-4o news this morning.

Hit by a return-to-office mandate?

As hybrid work arrangements become more common, it can be a challenge to get coworkers in the same place at the same time. With that in mind, Microsoft hopes to make it easier to coordinate in-person collaboration with the launch of Places, an app with features to help plan the time employees spend in the office.

Though it has been a bit of a mess for the past few years, Walmart is finally starting to get their Chromebook selection reigned in a bit.

I’ve written or talked about this exact thing at least a dozen times here at Chrome Unboxed over the past 10 years.

The Dev channel has been updated to 126.0.6468.2 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.

  Hello, Everyone! We’ve just released Chrome 125 (124.0.6367.179) 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 Stable channel has been updated to 124.0.6367.207/.208 for Mac and Windows and 124.0.6367.207 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 124.0.6367.207 for Mac and Windows which will roll out over the coming days/weeks.

I banged this drum a bit a couple weeks ago, but another big reason has emerged to prove the point that the Snapdragon X Plus just belongs in a future Chromebook.

The dream of using your smartphone to power an entire computing experience is very much alive and well and, according to a new report, Google has shown off that its possible to have a Pixel phone powering ChromeOS on an external monitor.