Weekly Issue: 2024-34

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge Google will have to face a class action lawsuit that accuses it of collecting users’ data through Chrome without their consent.

Image: The Verge You’ll soon be able to access your saved passwords, bookmarks, and addresses in Chrome by simply signing in to your Google account on the browser.

Chrome 128 is rolling out now! With displaying ruby elements improved with line breaks, starting Promise chains with Promise.try, PointerEvent interface extended to uniquely identify multiple pens, and there’s plenty more. Adriana Jara has all the details about what’s new for developers in Chrome 128. Check out https://goo.

Of all the Chromebook Plus models currently available, the Lenovo Flex 5i is always at the top of the list of my favorites. And the reasoning is pretty clear: it does a lot right for the price. After all, isn’t that what really defines a great Chromebook experience?

To keep pace with modern threats, organizations large and small need to take a hard look at their security tooling and determine how they can adapt to accelerate step function change. And while this may seem daunting, Google Cloud Security can help you make sure it doesn’t have to be.

About Apache Airflow is a popular tool for orchestrating data workflows. Google Cloud offers a managed Airflow service called Cloud Composer, a fully managed workflow orchestration service built on Apache Airflow that enables you to author, schedule, and monitor pipelines.

Zoom has raised the webinar attendee limit to one million users to enable large-scale events on the video meeting platform.

It’s been three years since Google acquired Fitbit, and the landscape of smartwatches has shifted significantly in that time frame.

Microsoft has unveiled Loop “2.0,” bringing several UI updates to the productivity app. Announced in 2021, Loop is essentially Microsoft’s answer to the emergence of a new breed of flexible document creation apps such as Notion and Coda.

We all know that protecting our personal data is vital but sometimes, in the rush of a screen-sharing session with colleagues or a presentation to a larger group, those sensitive details can slip through the cracks, especially in form fields.

Google Meet is starting to roll out a pretty big update to its video calling experience, and it is one that Google says is designed to make connections with friends, family, and colleagues more enjoyable and seamless than ever.

Google Chrome is adding an accessibility feature that lets you control Chrome using your face gestures. The feature is code named FaceGaze.

Google included a long-awaited surprise on Tuesday at their Made by Google event by finally announcing the wider availability of its much-anticipated Zoom Enhance feature. Not only will it be included in the upcoming Pixel 9 Pro series, it’s also rolling out to the Pixel 8 Pro as well.

Over the past few years, AI has been quietly revolutionizing the Chrome experience without many of us even noticing, making it faster, safer, and more helpful. From blocking malicious sites to providing real-time captions, Google says AI is often working behind the scenes to enhance your browsing.

Learn about content scripts in Chrome Extensions, including how to register CSS and JavaScript to run on a particular page.

Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of the C4 machine series, the most performant general-purpose VM for Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) customers.

August tends to be a quiet month in tech, but not for the Google Cloud database team. Cloud Next happened in Tokyo this month, bringing you groundbreaking announcements, product updates and inspiring customer stories. So grab a cup of coffee and let’s dive into the latest from Google Cloud databases.

Picture this: You’re in the middle of your peak sales period and your e-commerce platform is humming along. Despite surging customer demand, your Kubernetes infrastructure is seamlessly adapting to handle the increased traffic.

Google’s second stab at a foldable phone, the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, is apparently flying off of virtual shelves already at the Google Store just days after its release.

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, fewer people than ever work from the office full time. That means demand for remote IT support for desktop, laptop, mobile, and other devices has strongly increased.