Weekly Issue: 2026-36

As we count down the days until Google’s September 15 media showcase in New York City, the continued addition of cross-device continuity features being prepped behind the scenes is making me more and more excited about using these laptops on day one.

Samsung’s new hinge really does make up for it.

Original Chromecasts still beat Google TV for simple streaming.

Learn how to use Chrome DevTools for agents to install and interact with Chrome extensions automatically. By configuring the specific setup flags, you can streamline your extension testing process significantly. Watch the full episode of Developer Tooling Tips to implement these automated testing strategies in your workflow.

When Acer teased its upcoming Googlebook at IFA 2026 in Berlin earlier this week, the spotlight naturally turned to the “Coming Soon” teaser slide and the silhouetted, sleek clamshell chassis.

The Dev channel has been updated to 155.0.8040.2 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.

Making complex, multi-layered edits to an image has traditionally meant either wrestling with intricate layer masks and clone stamping in heavy desktop software or settling for blunt one-tap filters that never quite nail the execution.

As a global media and technology company connecting hundreds of millions of users to finance, sports, and entertainment platforms, Yahoo operates a massive data infrastructure where analytics workloads must run continuously at high speed.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Dev 155 (155.0.8040.0) 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.

For many people, football is far more than entertainment. It is drama, excitement, tears, and smiles—and, above all, common ground that connects millions of people around the world, including passionate fans in Iran. Tehran football derbies are filled with intense rivalry and passion between the “blue” and “red” supporters.

Watching a match is entertaining, but statistics can make it much easier to understand what is really happening on the pitch. Online data reveals aspects of a game that spectators may not notice through observation alone.

How to Read Casino Bonus Terms Properly on a Chromebook? Using a Chromebook to compare casino promotions is actually quite practical because the offer, terms page and a calculator can all stay open in separate Chrome tabs.

Solipsism Browser is a new, ambitious browser project that’s already won me over.

  Hello Everyone! We’ve just released Chrome 153 (153.0.8010.27) for Android to a small percentage of users. It’ll become available on Google Play over the next few days. You can find more details about early Stable releases here.This release includes stability and performance improvements.

The Stable channel has been updated to 153.0.8010.27/.28 for Windows. Mac is coming shortly , as part of our early stable release to a small percentage of users. A full list of changes in this build is available in the log.You can find more details about early Stable releases here.

  Hi, everyone! We’ve just released Chrome 152 (152.0.7977.82) for Android. It’ll become available on Google Play over the next few days. This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log.

The Stable channel has been updated to 152.0.7977.82/.83 for Windows and Mac and 152.0.7977.82 for Linux, which will roll out over the coming days/weeks.

Find out how to build custom third-party tools for Chrome DevTools for Agents. By doing this, you can expose your application’s internal state directly to your coding agent using plain JavaScript. Learn how to enable the third-party tools, understand the required schema and how to serve tools from your application.

Over the last several months, Google has been steadily expanding Gemini across its core productivity suite, evolving from persistent custom instructions in Google Docs to deeper Gemini Live integration in the desktop Chrome browser.

Let me first address the elephant in the room: AI fatigue is very real. I get it, and even though I’m finding more and more use for Gemini each day, the constant stuffing of AI terminology in the current tech sphere is getting tired.

One in four social media posts longer than 250 words was flagged as fully AI-written in Pangram’s scan of 1,002,627 posts collected between 24 April and 9 July 2026. The precise figure is 25.72%.

Gemini in Chrome can finally sink its AI teeth into your files.

For the ninth consecutive year, Gartner® has named Google a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services, positioned furthest for Completeness of Vision.

M-151, ChromeOS version 16733.60.0 (Browser version 151.0.7922.222) has rolled out to ChromeOS devices on the Stable channel.

With just under two weeks until Google takes the stage in New York City to unveil Googlebook, the software ecosystem around the new platform continues to show up in plain sight.

The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 154 to the Beta channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. Chrome 154.0.8037.

With Google’s private media event in New York City less than two weeks away, the hardware partners slated to show off devices are starting to drop hints in plain sight. We’ve already tracked leaks pointing to launch laptops from Lenovo, HP, Dell, Asus, and Acer.

To further empower our customers in their data journey, we are excited to announce the launch of identity columns in BigQuery. This new feature allows users to define columns that automatically generate sequential 64-bit integer values, simplifying the way you manage unique identifiers within your tables.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 154 (154.0.8037.0) 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.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 154 (154.0.8037.0) 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.

I have watched enterprise AI agents move from executive whiteboards to production line items in less than eighteen months. In 2024, most CIOs were still debating whether “agentic AI” was a real category or vendor marketing.

The latest Google Home update should get affected devices working again.

When it comes to productivity these days, we’re got two competing concepts to consider: Automate everything with AI and let an unreliable, error-prone bot do work on your behalf (thus likely spending even more time reviewing — and correcting — its mistakes) Find intelligent systems for increasing your own efficiency while maintaining complete control over…

 Hi, everyone! We’ve just released Chrome 152 (152.0.7977.75) for Android. It’ll become available on Google Play over the next few days. This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log.

The Beta channel is being updated to OS version 16765.38.0 (Browser version 152.0.7977.74) for most ChromeOS devices.