Weekly Issue: 2025-48

If you’ve been hunting for the Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 recently, you’ve probably run into a bit of a wall. The top-tier model—the one with 16GB of RAM and the touchscreen—went out of stock not long after we wrote about it going on sale last week.

Google Ads generated $66.9 billion in Q1 2025 and $71 billion in Q2 2025, marking year-over-year growth of 8.5% and 10% respectively. For the full year, analysts forecast Google Ads revenue to reach approximately $296.2 billion.

Earlier this month, Google announced a massive Gemini upgrade for Maps, promising a smarter, more conversational co-pilot for your drives. Now, that update is finally hitting phones.

If you’ve been enjoying the powerful new capabilities of Gemini 3 Pro and the viral Nano Banana Pro image generator, you might have noticed things getting a little tighter lately.

While we usually focus on the gadgets in our hands, the real magic of the AI era happens in the massive data centers powering them. This week, Google officially launched Ironwood, its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), and the specs are absolutely staggering.

The digital entertainment industry is constantly evolving – every day, digital stores add thousands of apps. They promise a fantastic pastime, including online games, shopping, video players, streaming platforms, and much more.

Buckle up, folks, the holiday shopping season is upon us. Deals, closeouts, and “doorbusters” are popping up everywhere you look. And while Black Friday has morphed from a single day of chaos into a month-long marathon, the frenzy to buy remains the same.

Netflix crossed 300 million paid subscribers by the end of 2024, cementing its position as the largest streaming platform globally. The company added a record 18.9 million subscribers in Q4 2024 alone, pushing total paid memberships to approximately 301.6 million.

Chromebooks handle most everyday tasks well, but torrent files need some special attention. Chrome OS does not include a built-in torrent client by default. You need third-party software to open and manage these files on your device.

More flexible, audience-specific plans might be headed to YouTube TV.

The rise of the AI logo creator has truly democratized branding. Small business owners can now get great visuals without spending a fortune. That’s a big win for anyone running their own shop. It’s simple, affordable, and professional. Perfect for independent entrepreneurs.

Watermarks are essential for brand protection. They mark ownership. Sometimes, though, they become a huge problem. You may have a legally acquired stock video. It might have an unwanted logo. Maybe you need to remove watermarks for old footage. The goal is simple. You need a clean, professional file.

Modern supply chains are no longer simple links between suppliers and buyers. They are complex digital ecosystems.  Every connection, API, or data exchange adds convenience, but it also adds risk. Attackers know this. They target weak points across the chain to reach stronger networks. Recent breaches show a pattern.

A new Android Authority survey suggests users are ready to move on from ChromeOS and embrace “Aluminium OS.”

Chromebooks have sparked debate since Google launched them in 2011. Many users still wonder whether these devices qualify as legitimate computing machines. The question “is the Chromebook a real computer yet” comes up frequently in tech discussions. Early Chromebooks relied heavily on internet connections and offered limited functionality.

Your mouse right-click function might fail or get disabled at times. This creates problems when you want to save pictures from websites. The good news is that your Chromebook touchpad offers a built-in alternative. You can download any image using a simple two-finger tap gesture instead.

Soft2Bet stands as a global iGaming technology company that delivers turnkey solutions for providers alongside products and services for online gaming and sports betting operators.

Mastodon posts mislabeled with the wrong language as well as costly translations that depend on a server: Those are common problems for many Mastodon instances.

In this talk, Hugo Zanini, Product Lead at Nubank, walks you through a case study on building Cursor Extensions with JavaScript and Running Models Locally. Resources: Connect with Hugo → https://goo.gle/4qOJR10 See more Web AI talks → https://goo.gle/web-ai Subscribe to Chrome for Developers → https://goo.

Learn from Rody Davis, Senior Developer Relations Engineer at Google, how to query and embed documents using SQLite and embeddings with EmbeddingGemma and Gemma3. Create an offline RAG system that runs in the browser offline. Resources: Github → https://goo.gle/4p2b3b1 See more Web AI talks → https://goo.

Dara Tumenbayeva, Founder & CEO of Black Swan, demonstrates how brain signals captured from a non-invasive headset can control drones in real time. Powered by WebAI and TensorFlow, this dual-use technology showcases the future of human–machine collaboration across e-sports, defense, and robotics. Resources: Learn more → https://goo.

Prototyping novel AI-driven XR interactions is a high-friction process, requiring low-level integration of on-device models, XR, and AI APIs. Ruofei Du, Interactive Perception & Graphics Lead at Google, presents XR Blocks (https://xrblocks.github.io), a cross-platform framework to accelerate human-centered AI + XR innovation.

That new AI feature in your product doesn’t need to be a massive chatbot. Smaller language models can reduce friction, automate workflows, and create moments of delight. In this talk, Dr.

Google’s Gemma 3 and Gemma 3n large language model (LLM) families offer some of the most powerful LLMs yet for their respective sizes.

We have all been there: you are hunting for a specific item—maybe a hot holiday toy or a specific beauty product—and you aren’t sure which local store actually has it in stock.

It has been a whirlwind few weeks for Google. From the launch of Gemini 3 to the viral success of Nano Banana Pro, the company’s AI division seems to be firing on all cylinders.

Even as it prepares to further diversify its iPhone range, Apple is about to regain the smartphone crown from Samsung, according to analysts from Counterpoint.

Even as it prepares to further diversify its iPhone range, Apple is about to regain the smartphone crown from Samsung, according to analysts from Counterpoint.

If you have been waiting for the right time to pick up a pair of high-end wireless earbuds, this is it. The Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro—which are, without a doubt, my favorite earbuds I have ever used—are currently seeing a massive discount for Black Friday.

A solid deal on a top tracker that’s louder, smarter, and more flexible than most rivals.

Head over to the related video “Hangar CSS debugging #DevToolsTips” to learn how fix up this airplane made from HTML and CSS! Watch more DevTools Tips → https://goo.gle/DevToolsTips Subscribe to Chrome for Developers → https://goo.gle/ChromeDevs #ChromeForDevelopers #Chrome Speaker: Matthias Rohmer Products Mentioned: Chrome, Chrome DevTools

Privacy-focused analytics platforms recorded significant adoption growth in 2024, with open source solutions now powering over 2 million websites globally. The shift away from Google Analytics accelerated after GDPR enforcement actions, pushing organizations toward self-hosted alternatives.

The largest data breach in 2024 exposed approximately 2.9 billion records through a single incident at National Public Data, a U.S.-based data broker. This event marked a record-breaking moment in cybersecurity history, dwarfing previous breaches by a factor of five.

Historically, Chromebooks have been viewed as low-end laptops and/or laptops for students and/or professionals; they were never intended for high-end gaming. Nevertheless, over the past few years, Android’s “app” support and the growing Android game ecosystem have allowed games like PUBG Mobile to find their way on Chrome OS.

In the past, when technology wasn’t as advanced as it is now, it would’ve been understandable for them to be taken by surprise when hackers got into their systems to obtain valuable data.