Weekly Issue: 2025-20
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Why Chrome’s Incognito Mode Often Shows reCAPTCHA Prompts
If you often use Chrome’s Incognito mode, you may have noticed that reCAPTCHA challenges appear more frequently. This article explains why that happens, what causes it, and how you can reduce the number of reCAPTCHA prompts.
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145 Funny Kahoot Names And Memes
Kahoot isn’t just about quizzes—it’s a digital playground for laughter, inside jokes, and hilarious usernames. If you want to take your trivia game to the next level, coming up with a funny Kahoot name is the way to go.
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Gemini lets you command Google Sheets with natural language prompts
Let’s be honest, for many of us, opening a complex spreadsheet can feel a bit like being asked to decipher an foreign language. Finding the right formulas, cleaning up messy data, or trying to build a sensible chart can quickly turn into a frustrating task.
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YouTube’s refreshed Android miniplayer is rolling out now
It looks like YouTube is already tweaking that floating miniplayer on Android. You’ll recall that back in October 2024, the app switched from its persistent bar above the bottom navigation to a more dynamic, floating Picture-in-Picture (PiP) style window that could be moved around.
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Gmail for Android is testing a handy new bottom reply bar
It looks like Google is experimenting with a more streamlined way to handle quick replies in the Gmail app on Android.
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Google highlights Chrome and ChromeOS accessibility features for GAAD 2025
Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is an important reminder of the ongoing work needed to make technology accessible and empowering for everyone. This year, Google is taking the opportunity to shine a spotlight on a range of valuable accessibility features built right into Chromebooks and the Chrome browser.
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AI Hypercomputer developer experience enhancements from Q1 25: build faster, scale bigger
Building cutting-edge AI models is exciting, whether you’re iterating in your notebook or orchestrating large clusters. However, scaling up training can present significant challenges, including navigating complex infrastructure, configuring software and dependencies across numerous instances, and pinpointing performance bottlenecks.
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Supercharge data access performance with GKE Data Cache
Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability (GA) of GKE Data Cache, a powerful new solution for Google Kubernetes Engine to accelerate the performance of read-heavy stateful or stateless applications that rely on persistent storage via network attached disks.
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Quizizz Hacks And Cheats: What’s Working?
Covering quizizz hack, quizizz hacks, quizizz cheat, quizizz bot, quizizz answer key, how to find Quizizz answers, and quizizz bookmarklet Ways to Reveal Quizizz Answers Using Code Tricks If you’re searching for Quizizz hacks to unlock answers during a quiz, two main approaches have been shared by online developers.
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Three insights you might have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of Nutanix .NEXT
Workload freedom is no longer a wish — it’s a demand. Enterprises want workload flexibility that lets them run apps anywhere, across any environment, with AI-ready infrastructure built in. Nutanix Inc. is answering that call with a bold platform evolution designed to power the next generation of intelligent, autonomous workloads.
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ChromeOS 136 release notes are here: how to enable the latest Quick Share features
ChromeOS 136 started making its way to Chromebooks yesterday, and as is often the case, the official release notes from Google took a little bit longer to show up. The good news?
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Working From Home With a Chromebook: What Actually Works
Working from home was supposed to be simple, right? Just grab your Chromebook, find a spot, and start typing. But after months of hunching over my kitchen table and dealing with constant back pain, I knew something had to change.
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How to Stop “Allow Paste” Notifications in Chrome on iPhone
If you use Google Chrome on your iPhone and see the “Allow Paste” prompt every time you try to paste something, here is your solution. This is part of Apple’s privacy feature that alerts you when an app wants to access content you’ve copied.
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Amazon invents another robot — this time with feeling!
Amazon recently unveiled a new warehouse robot that can “feel,” according to the company. Called the Vulcan robot, the two-armed beast is already working in Amazon fulfillment centers in Spokane, WA, and Hamburg, Germany, where it’s handled more than half a million orders.
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Chrome for Android could soon automatically fill verification codes sent via SMS
This is a welcome move if you’re like me and usually prefer websites to apps.
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Best Crossplay Games in 2025: Ranked and Reviewed
Cross-platform gaming has taken center stage in 2025, offering players the freedom to play together regardless of their chosen hardware. Whether you’re on PlayStation, Xbox, PC, or even mobile, crossplay ensures that no gamer is left behind.
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Google patches Chrome vulnerability used for account takeover and MFA bypass
Chrome users are advised to update their browser immediately to fix a critical vulnerability that is being exploited to launch account takeover attacks. In some environments, this could even give attackers the ability to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA).
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Chrome Beta for Desktop Update
The Beta channel has been updated to 137.0.7151.27 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.
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Quizizz, Kahoot, or Quizlet : The Best Classroom Tool In 2025
Interactive digital tools have completely changed how students prepare for lessons. Instead of relying on dull worksheets or quiet study, many teachers now use exciting online quiz games to make learning more engaging. Among the top choices in this category are Quizizz, Kahoot, and Quizlet Live.
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SMH: after foolishly removing ‘HBO’ a few years ago, we’re back to ‘HBO Max’
In a move that has many of us saying, “Well, duh,” Warner Bros. Discovery has announced it’s walking back a major branding decision and will be renaming its primary streaming service from “Max” back to “HBO Max” this summer.
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Stay tuned for the Build-AI with Gemini Nano talk at #GoogleI/O
From London to Vegas, Chrome Developer Relations Engineer Thomas always has an ace up his sleeve! Register and tune in during #GoogleIO to see what aces he’ll reveal during his "Practical Built-in AI with Gemini Nano in Chrome" talk ➡️ https://io.google/2025/ Subscribe to Chrome for Developers → https://goo.
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5 Chromebook accessibility features for inclusive classrooms
For Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we’re sharing Chromebook accessibility features and use cases.
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Introducing Cassandra-compatible APIs in Spanner for zero-code-change migration
You heard at Next ‘25 that native support for the Cassandra Query Language (CQL) API in Spanner is available in preview, providing near-zero code-change application migration, along with a suite of complementary tools for zero-downtime data migration.
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5 Chromebook accessibility features for inclusive classrooms
For Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we’re sharing Chromebook accessibility features and use cases.
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New AI and accessibility updates across Android, Chrome and more
In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we’re excited to roll out new updates across Android and Chrome, plus new resources for the ecosystem.
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New AI and accessibility updates across Android, Chrome and more
In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we’re excited to roll out new updates across Android and Chrome, plus new resources for the ecosystem.
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Chrome’s Android app will now let you zoom in on text without affecting the webpage
Google is rolling out a handy update for Chrome on Android, as it will now allow you to zoom in on text without affecting the appearance of the webpage.
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Chrome’s Android app will now let you zoom in on text without affecting the webpage
Google is rolling out a handy update for Chrome on Android, as it will now allow you to zoom in on text without affecting the appearance of the webpage.
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The awesome Lenovo Legion Tab Gen 3 gets promoted to Android 15
The Lenovo Legion Tab Gen 3 that launched early this year with Android 14 has actually been receiving its Android 15 update over the past few weeks. But if this is news to you, you’re probably not alone.
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ChromeOS 136 is rolling out: here’s what we’ve found so far
The latest version of ChromeOS – M136 – has begun rolling out to most Chromebooks, and while Google’s official release notes are still on their way, we’ve found a a few things this update brings to the table by looking at official enterprise notes and developer channels.
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Chrome Dev for Android Update
Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Dev 138 (138.0.7178.0) 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.
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Zoho integrates payments into enterprise workflows with Zoho Payments
Zoho has announced Zoho Payments as a unified payment platform for US businesses, aimed at helping CIOs streamline financial operations with enterprise-grade security and scalability.
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Beyond the office: Preparing for disasters in a remote work world
Despite high-profile return-to-office mandates from the likes of Amazon, AT&T, Dell, and even the US government, many organizations continue to support employees who work remotely. According to a November 2024 Gallup poll, 26% of US workers with remote-capable jobs work outside the office full-time.
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Here’s how Material 3 Expressive may come to Google Drive (APK teardown)
Google Drive developers are getting an early start at their Expressive design UI refresh.
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Why Chrome on Your Android Phone Might Be Searching for Gambling Sites Without You
If your Android phone opens Google Chrome and starts searching for gambling-related content without your input, you’re not the only one. Over the past six months, multiple users and cybersecurity researchers have observed similar behavior. The issue is usually caused by hidden adware or malware inside apps that appear harmless.
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