Weekly Issue: 2025-21

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 137 (137.0.7151.35) for iOS; it’ll become available on App Store in the next few days.You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

After weeks of leaks, speculation, and in-store sightings, Walmart’s new Onn Google TV 4K Plus streaming device is now officially available for purchase, both on Walmart.com and on store shelves. And it’s still coming in at that incredibly attractive $29.88 price point.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 137 (137.0.7151.44) 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.

Google Chrome’s Incognito Mode is a private browsing feature that helps prevent Chrome from storing your browsing activity on the device you’re using. It’s useful for enhancing local privacy, such as keeping your searches hidden from others who use the same device.

Like most organizations, Google Cloud is continually engaging with customers, partners, and policymakers to deliver technology capabilities that reflect their needs. When it comes to digital sovereignty solutions, Google Cloud has worked with customers for nearly a decade.

Choc Fac brings gen mods to Android, Chrome, pretty much everywhere else Google IO  Google technical folk laid out a menu of geeky delights on Tuesday at Google I/O, in the hope that software developers will pay to build upon the Chocolate Factory’s platforms and services.…

As AI adoption accelerates, companies want to modernize their infrastructure without locking into a single platform or deployment model. That pressure is reshaping vendor alliances, particularly those built to support AI infrastructure flexibility through open architectures and hybrid approaches. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Red Hat  Inc.

Gemini 2.5 Pro has already established itself as Google’s top-tier model, excelling in areas like coding and complex reasoning.

Google I/O 2025 is off and running, and the announcements are painting a clear picture of an AI-driven future; especially for Google Search.

Alright, Google I/O 2025 has just delivered tons of cool new AI features, and one of the standouts is Gemini in Chrome – AI browsing assistant built right into the Chrome browser on desktop, ready to summarize, clarify, and eventually even navigate for you.

Just announced in the flurry of Google I/O 2025 news, Google is embedding its powerful Gemini AI directly into the Chrome browser on desktop, giving users access to Gemini anywhere they are on the web at any time!

Who has time to use Google Chrome when you can make the AI do it.

Perplexity beat Google to the punch with its Chrome extension, but Gemini has the advantage of letting you talk to Live

Today, we are introducing the next wave of generative AI media models on Vertex AI: Imagen 4, Veo 3, and Lyria 2.  We’ve already seen customers generate stunning, photorealistic images with Imagen 3, Google’s image generation model.

Google is going to let Chrome’s password manager automatically change your password when it detects one that is weak, the company announced at its Google I/O conference.

Google is adding its Gemini AI assistant to Chrome, the company announced at Google I/O on Tuesday.  Initially, Gemini will be able to “clarify complex information on any webpage you’re reading or summarize information,” according to a blog post from Google Labs and Gemini VP Josh Woodward.

Cloud Run has become a go-to app hosting solution for its remarkable simplicity, flexibility, and scalability. But the age of AI-assisted development is here, and going from idea to application is faster and more streamlined than ever.

Google is adding its Gemini AI assistant to Chrome, the company announced at Google I/O on Tuesday.  Initially, Gemini will be able to “clarify complex information on any webpage you’re reading or summarize information,” according to a blog post from Google Labs and Gemini VP Josh Woodward.

Google is going to let Chrome’s password manager automatically change your password when it detects one that is weak, the company announced at its Google I/O conference.

The Beta channel has been updated to 137.0.7151.32 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.

The main event is finally here! While Google got a jump on its Android announcements last week with “The Android Show: I/O Edition,” where they highlighted the redesigned Material 3 Expressive interface, Google I/O 2025 truly kicks off in earnest today, Tuesday, May 20th.

Luminar is quite popular on iPhones and desktop for its AI-powered tools, and now it’s here for Android and Chromebooks.

As the world transitions from prototyping AI solutions to deploying AI at scale, efficient AI inference is becoming the gating factor. Two years ago, the challenge was the ever-growing size of AI models. Cloud infrastructure providers responded by supporting orders of magnitude more compute and data.

Because technology changes so quickly, IT teams must constantly learn new things, from cloud platforms and coding languages to AI tools, data science methods, and security measures. But relying on technical skills alone isn’t enough to guarantee success. Many organizations now see that balancing strong technical abilities, a.k.a.

GenAI is transforming the way people think about their work and giving businesses of all sizes an opportunity to re-imagine everything from their internal processes to the way they engage with their customers.

Gambling Apps serve users who want to bet on the go quickly. Mobile users achieve betting and slot spinning and live poker games participation through minimal touch commands from any location.

There’s a lot to look at, watch, and listen to on the web. Fully utilizing the bookmarks feature in Google Chrome can be a real help in staying on top of everything.

Google’s AI assistant, Gemini, is in a constant state of evolution, and its latest upgrade is a big one for anyone living in the Google Workspace ecosystem. After a period in preview, Google has announced that Workspace apps (a.k.a. – extensions) for the standalone Gemini app are now generally available.

Google One, the company’s umbrella subscription for cloud storage and, more recently, advanced AI features, has just hit another impressive milestone. According to a Reuters report, Google One recently crossed the 150 million subscriber mark.

If you’ve ever wondered how to get better scores in Kahoot without working too hard, this manual explores some of the most popular ways people try to cheat in the game. These include auto-answer programs, bot spam, GitHub code, and other cheat tools.

For a while now, YouTube TV’s multiview feature has been a handy way to keep tabs on a few pre-selected channels at once, especially during big sporting events.

Want to design an interactive game using Kahoot? Whether you’re a teacher or a workplace trainer, this detailed manual shows how to use Kahoot Create to build your quiz from scratch. You’ll learn how to craft, arrange, and open up your quiz for others to access or help with.

The Dev channel has been updated to 138.0.7180.3 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.

Change has been on the horizon for Google’s smart speaker ecosystem for a while now, and the latest news about the Nest Audio confirms what we’ve all been expecting: Gemini is fully taking over for the outgoing Google Assistant.

Chromebooks were once seen as simple, budget-friendly tools for education and productivity. Designed for light computing and optimized for browser-based tasks, they weren’t considered ideal for gaming. But that perception is changing.