Weekly Issue: 2025-17

If you’ve been considering adding a smart security camera, Walmart has a Flash Deal that might just push you over the edge. Google’s latest battery-powered Nest Cam is currently down to just $129.99, a solid $50 discount from its usual $180 price.

For years, Chrome users on desktop computers have benefited from the browser’s integrated PDF viewer. Clicking a PDF link online or opening a downloaded file happens right within a Chrome tab, bypassing the need for external applications for viewing and marking up a PDF.

Google continues to refine the user experience on larger-screened Android devices, and the latest app to get a significant usability boost is Gmail.

If your daily step goals on your Pixel Watch have felt a bit too easy to achieve lately, it unfortunately looks like it wasn’t just a sudden burst of energy on your part.

Google’s Find My Device network for Android didn’t exactly hit the ground running. Early comparisons to established players like Apple and Samsung highlighted significant gaps, particularly in how quickly lost items could be located.

Every time someone uses the internet, the browser records the websites they’ve visited. This can be useful if you want to return to a page later. It saves time and helps load those websites faster. But it also means someone using the same device could see which pages were opened.

Chrome sometimes shows alerts when it detects performance problems—like too many tabs or heavy extensions. If you don’t want these alerts, you can turn them off easily.

Chrome could eventually be up for sale, if the US Department of Justice gets its way in the remedies trial for US v. Google. And there are already buyers lining up at Google’s door. Any potential sale might not happen for a very long time.

Chrome could eventually be up for sale, if the US Department of Justice gets its way in the remedies trial for US v. Google. And there are already buyers lining up at Google’s door. Any potential sale might not happen for a very long time.

M-135, ChromeOS version 16209.59.0 (Browser version 135.0.7049.120), has rolled out to ChromeOS devices on the Stable channel.

Well, that was a short-lived little treat. After finally showing up without flags necessary in ChromeOS 133, rounded window corners – a small-yet-significant visual change to the OS – has vanished with the update to ChromeOS 135.

The new 7-inch E Ink tablets offer the flexibility of Android along with stylus support.

Google’s been under the antitrust microscope for a while now, especially after last year’s court ruling finding it holds a monopoly in online search.

Turn your Chrome browser into a Whack-a-Mole game! Watch ‘Whack-a-Mole in your browser – Is it possible?!’ to see it in action and learn how to use the extension messaging APIs to communicate between extensions and more. Resources: Get the code → https://goo.gle/42byDcy Watch more Chrome Extensions → https://goo.

Those reading this article who use a Chromebook daily are likely to have picked up the basics. You know how to use the launcher with ease and can manage tabs like a seasoned pro.

In today’s digital age, online gaming and betting have become increasingly popular pastimes. With the convenience of accessing a wide range of games and betting platforms from your Chromebook, it’s essential to ensure your online activities are secure.

As every Chromebook fan knows, these powerful laptops punch way above their weight, and you can do just about anything imaginable with these little powerhouse laptops.

With Google I/O 2025 kicking off in about a month on May 20th, the official schedule has just dropped.

As the gap between traditional finance and Web3 keeps shrinking, one tool has rapidly gained traction among traders and everyday users alike — a crypto card.

An address bar that’s easier to reach? Sign me up.

Protect sensitive information and browsing activity by regularly updating your web browsers on your devices, including smartphones, tablets, and computers. Why should you update your browsers?

We’re all talking to fake people now, but most people don’t realize that interacting with AI is a subtle and powerful skill that can and should be learned.

As AI integration accelerates, businesses are facing widening skills gaps that traditional employment models struggle to address, and so more companies are choosing to hire freelancers to fill the void, according to a new report.

If your Chromebook suddenly stops responding, don’t panic. Most freezes are easy to fix. Here’s how you can get things working again—step by step. Restart Your Chromebook A simple restart often clears up temporary glitches.

Psst: Come close. Your Android phone has a little-known superpower — a futuristic system for bridging the physical world around you and the digital universe on your device. It’s one of Google’s best-kept secrets. And it can save you tons of time and effort. Oh — and no, it isn’t Gemini.

Cryptocurrency offers a decentralized and secure way to handle digital assets, but the devices you use can impact your privacy. When accessing wallets, exchanges or decentralized apps from a Chromebook or smartphone, there are specific challenges and risks to be aware of.

The official ChatGPT extension brings AI right into your browser. You can ask questions, summarize pages, or get help with writing—without switching tabs. Installing the Official ChatGPT Chrome Extension Only use the official extension from OpenAI. Here’s how to get it: The ChatGPT icon will appear near your address bar.

The Google antitrust trial is “a nonsensical move by the US government that is ridiculously short-sighted, because if compromising privacy for ad revenue is bad, compromising privacy to train AI models is dangerous,” an industry analyst said Thursday.

Since it finally hit the US market back in January at CES 2025, the 8.8-inch Lenovo Legion Tab Gen 3 gaming-centric tablet has seen waves of stock selling out rapidly.

Google Photos is introducing a subtle but noticeable change to its sharing workflow. A new “Quick Edit” screen is starting to appear for some users after they hit the share button, offering a final opportunity to tweak images before sending them off.

Earlier this year, Google teased an upgrade to the media controls for the Pixel Watch. The promise was richer, more context-aware controls, specifically catering to podcast playback within YouTube Music, including actions like fast forward/rewind, playback speed adjustment, and queue management.

Web browsers rely on small data files to support key functions like authentication, session management, and user customization. Follow these steps to activate these files in a popular browsing application across different devices.

Cybersecurity today is less about building walls and more about deciding which risks to own and which to offload. Today’s chief information security officers are managing cybersecurity risk not as a fixed enemy, but as a moving target that requires flexibility, foresight and the right allies.

Cybersecurity today is less about building walls and more about deciding which risks to own and which to offload. Today’s chief information security officers are managing cybersecurity risk not as a fixed enemy, but as a moving target that requires flexibility, foresight and the right allies.

The Dev channel has been updated to 137.0.7141.3 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.