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Google’s controversial Scroll to Text Fragment feature in Chrome 80 doesn’t work unless you enable a flag.
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By now you might have already seen Google showing a notification on top of its search website with a message that it is updating its Terms of Service and it wants you to know about them before they come into effect on March 31, 2020.
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There have been a lot of reports from Chrome users on the official help forum and social media sites that PDFs are no longer loaded by Chrome PDF Viewer plugin in Chrome 80 stable version on Windows and Mac, the PDFs appear gray or blank or don’t render completely.
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“Yes.” That was Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s simple answer when I asked if he thought he’d achieved what he set out to do in his first year. A year ago, he took the helm of Google’s cloud operations — which includes G Suite — and set about giving the organization a sharpened focus by…
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Google Cloud today announced the launch of its premium support plans for enterprise and mission-critical needs. This new plan brings Google’s support offerings for the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in line with its premium G Suite support options. “Premium Support has been designed to better meet the needs of our customers running modern cloud technology,”…
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If you use Google Chrome for work or research you may want to save open sites for future reference. Here’s how to save open tabs in Chrome on all systems.
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Android coming to Chrome OS is one of those arrangements between two parties that just works. Chrome OS as a platform was desperately in need of a shot to the arm or risk being discarded and Android was looking for a new medium to flex its massive muscle after effortless […]
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The Chrome browser needs no introduction for it stands at the top of the podium in the ever-competitive browser market space owning up to 68% of it. Being at the tip of the spear means Chrome as a platform constantly needs to evolve to match the rapid expansion and availability […]
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For obvious reasons, Gmail has become my primary email service holding the keys to almost every platform I want to access. My devotion to the service isn’t misplaced since Gmail has become one of the most widely used email services around, handling the email affairs of over a billion users. […]
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There is a hugely contested notion that Google’s titular mobile operating system Android when compared to Apple’s mobile platform, is a security nightmare. This notion, however obnoxious, is technically accurate especially if you take the platform’s recent predicament around malicious apps easily finding their way onto the Play Store. To […]
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G Suite users get more AI writing help, Google Assistant calendar integration and more
Issue 2019-47Google is launching a number of updates to its G Suite tools today that, among other things, brings to Google Docs an AI grammar checker, smarter spellchecking and, soon, spelling autocorrect.
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Our Chromebook keyboard shortcut cheat sheet showcasing nine nifty key combos for Chromebooks that might save you time or help to speed up your workflow.
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Anyone itching to get their hands on the rumoured Google Pixelbook Go may find their device comes with a set of exclusive wallpapers. Code spotted by Dinsan over at ChromeStory suggests that the search giant is planning to furnish its upcoming “Made by Google” Chromebook(s) with bespoke background images, just like it does on the…
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HP has taken the shrink-wrap off a pair of new Chromebooks and a new Chromebox aimed at business users. In this post we share specs and pricing.
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A simple keyboard shortcut to quickly adjust a backlit Chromebook keyboard. You can make the backlit keyboard brighter, dimmer, or turn it on or off.
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Samsung Chromebook 4 and the Samsung Chromebook 4+ are the latest budget Chromebooks from Samsung and feature slim bezels and up to 6GB RAM.
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Google Chrome makes it easier to send Chrome tabs to your phone and vice versa with a new “Send to Your Devices” tab context menu in Chrome 77.
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The ASUS Chromebook Flip 433 is a new Chromebook on the way from ASUS, and in this post we take a look at its specs, price and availability.
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The Chrome OS landscape is vast—Ars is here to help you navigate it.
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The Chrome OS landscape is vast—Ars is here to help you navigate it.
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A crop of new Chromebooks have been unveiled by Acer at IFA 2019, including the Chromebook 314 & 315 and the Acer Chromebook Spin 311.
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It doesn’t look like the first generation Chromecast will receive any major updates going forward. Official support documentation for the OG streaming stick suggests that the model will get critical bug and security fixes here-out, but no new features or enhanced capabilities. Launched back in 2013, the original Chromecast was at the forefront of the…
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Bill Nye, aka ‘The Science Guy’, stars in a new Chromebook ad aimed at persuading people to ‘switch to Chromebook’ from Windows and macOS devices.
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The Lenovo Chromebook C340 and S340 are showcased in a slick new promotional video from Lenovo. The new notebooks go on in the summer.
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Magazine Luiza: How we transformed our e-commerce platform with Apigee, Firebase, and GCP
Issue 2019-22Editors note:Today’s post comes from Andre Fatala, chief technology officer at Brazilian retailer Magazine Luiza. Apigee, Firebase, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) have helped this 60-year-old company become one of the most successful e-commerce operations in Brazil.
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The great thing about building applications on G Suite is that you have flexible options. That said, we often get questions from developers about which tools they should use, specifically “should I build my application using Apps Script or App Maker?
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Preview zone: How Google Cloud CRE helps SaaS companies prevent unanticipated failures
Issue 2019-21At Google, our Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) teams work with customers to help implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices to continually attain their reliability goals. This work often includes defining objectives and implementing operational best practices like blameless postmortems or analyzing error budget spend.
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Google Groups is a critical tool to control access to your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects, and you’ve told us that having Google Group audit logs available in Cloud Audit Logs would help streamline security and access monitoring.
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Each year, CRN honors exceptional women leaders within the IT channel through its “Women of the Channel” recognition. These leaders are recognized for their outstanding work, vision, and unique role in driving channel growth and innovation.
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When I first joined Google Cloud back in November and met with customers across every industry to understand the challenges companies were faced with, it became clear that companies in the manufacturing industry were looking to improve the quality of their decisions, crunch vast quantities of data to achieve unprecedented clarity, and reduce time to…
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From its first open-source commit five years ago to now, Kubernetes has become the industry standard for modern application architecture. It was built on over a decade of Google’s experience as the world’s largest containerized application user.
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Google’s policy is to store your passwords with cryptographic hashes that mask those passwords to ensure their security. However, we recently notified a subset of our enterprise G Suite customers that some passwords were stored in our encrypted internal systems unhashed.
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Expanding our partnership with Citrix to modernize workspaces and move them to the cloud
Issue 2019-21Google and Citrix have been strategic partners since 2011, working together to deliver secure virtual apps and desktops to Chromebooks. Today, we are extending our deep engineering collaboration with the launch of Citrix Workspace with Machine Creation Services (MCS) support for Google Cloud.
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No comparison: How MoneySuperMarket is turning their data into competitive differentiators
Issue 2019-20When customers in the UK want to compare prices for things like car insurance, home insurance, credit cards, and loans, they increasingly turn to MoneySuperMarket.
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Google Cloud networking in depth: Faster, more reliable connectivity with HA VPN and 100 Gbps Dedicated Interconnect
Issue 2019-20Editor’s note: Fresh off several additions to the Google Cloud networking stack at Next ‘19, here’s the latest installment in our blog series exploring the five pillars of the portfolio: ‘Connect,’ ‘Scale,’ ‘Secure,’ ‘Optimize’ and ‘Modernize.’ Today, we do a deep dive into our recent Cloud Interconnect and VPN announcements.
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