Weekly Issue: 2024-46

Google is finally back on track with their Pixel Watch updates. After a bit of a botched update in September when they paused the Wear OS 5 update for older devices, the November 2024 update is rolling out today.

The Stable channel is being updated to OS version: 16033.58.0 Browser version:130.0.6723.126 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.

Chrome 131 is rolling out now! CSS Highlight Inheritance is changing, more CSS styling for the details element, easier print layout with page margin boxes, and there’s plenty more. Mariko Kosaka has all the details about what’s new for developers in Chrome 131. Check out https://goo.

The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 131 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This will roll out over the coming days/weeks.Chrome 131.0.6778.69 (Linux)  131.0.6778.69/.70( 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 130.0.6723.127 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.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Stable 131 (131.0.6778.73) 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.

It’s that time of year, right? Deals are everywhere, and this one is definitely on the list of ones that are too good to miss!

Illustration: The Verge The iOS version of Google’s Chrome browser is getting upgraded with several features from the Android iteration, including simultaneous Google Lens image and text search.

Getting insights into customer’s preferences and needs is crucial for any modern business — and that’s especially true for a retail bank. Insights from customer data help deliver improved customer experiences through custom tailored products, better services, and higher levels of automation.

Have you heard of the monkey and the pedestal? Astro Teller, the head of Google’s X “moonshot factory,” likes to use this metaphor to describe tackling the biggest challenge first, despite being tempted by the endorphin boost of completing more familiar tasks. It’s a challenge startups know well.

Here are four new Chrome iOS features making it even easier to use this browser across devices.

Illustration: The Verge The iOS version of Google’s Chrome browser is getting upgraded with several features from the Android iteration, including simultaneous Google Lens image and text search.

Here are four new Chrome iOS features making it even easier to use this browser across devices.

Though the past few years have seen the emergence of video platforms like TikTok, YouTube is still the king of online video.

Google has clearly established itself in the smartphone market over the years, but none have been as good as this one.

Image: The Verge Earlier this year Microsoft’s Edge browser automatically started up on my PC and imported my Chrome tabs without consent. Microsoft refused to explain why this behavior had occurred, and then quietly addressed the problem in a Microsoft Edge update.

Image: The Verge Earlier this year Microsoft’s Edge browser automatically started up on my PC and imported my Chrome tabs without consent. Microsoft refused to explain why this behavior had occurred, and then quietly addressed the problem in a Microsoft Edge update.

Leveraging first-party data, and data quality in general, are major priorities for online retailers. While first-party data certainly comes with challenges, it also offers a great opportunity to increase transparency, redefine customer interactions, and create more meaningful user experiences.

 A new LTS-126 version 126.0.6478.257 (Platform Version: 15886.82.0), is being rolled out for most ChromeOS devices.

It’s that time of year again! Black Friday deals are already starting to pop up, and if you’re in the market for a new router, now’s the perfect time to snag one at a steal.

Since the introduction of the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Plus and the Quick Insert key that is prominently placed on its keyboard, I’ve been a bit worried that I wouldn’t be able to adjust to this new keyboard layout.

Join Aidan Nelson and Yu Lee in this talk that will showcase ml5.js – an open source library built on top of TensorFlow.js with a goal of making machine learning approachable for a broad audience of artists, creative coders, and students.

Hear from Moh Haghighat, Fellow at Intel, where he showcases WebNN, an emerging unified W3C web standard API for on-device web ML acceleration across client AI execution engines: CPU, GPU, and NPU. Currently in Developer Preview on Chrome and Edge browsers and integrated in popular ML frameworks (e.g.

Hear from Rob Kochman (Google Chrome), and Rafael Cintron (Microsoft), with regards how advanced web technologies like WebAssembly and WebGPU have recently brought real AI capabilities to the browser.

Join Joshua Lochner from HuggingFace to learn about Transformers.js, an exciting new JavaScript library that empowers developers to build never-before-seen web applications. It is designed to be functionally equivalent to Hugging Face’s Python transformers library and supports over 120 architectures across a diverse set of tasks and modalities.

Get an overview for the state of Web AI in 2024 (performing AI on the client side in JavaScript via the browser) and why the Web AI Summit was created.

If you run Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), you know it’s important to secure access to the cluster control plane that handles Kubernetes API requests, so you can prevent unauthorized access while still being able to control the cluster.

Well, I knew the day would come, and I’d be willing to bet that many of you did as well.

The IP address 127.0.0.1, also known as the localhost or loopback address, is a unique IPv4 address used by each computer to refer back to itself. Unlike typical IP addresses that enable communication between devices, this address serves only the device on which it is configured. How Does 127.0.0.1 Work?