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.

Samsung Chromebook 4 and the Samsung Chromebook 4+ are the latest budget Chromebooks from Samsung and feature slim bezels and up to 6GB RAM.

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.

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.

The Chrome OS landscape is vast—Ars is here to help you navigate it.

The Chrome OS landscape is vast—Ars is here to help you navigate it.

A crop of new Chromebooks have been unveiled by Acer at IFA 2019, including the Chromebook 314 & 315 and the Acer Chromebook Spin 311.

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…

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.

The Lenovo Chromebook C340 and S340 are showcased in a slick new promotional video from Lenovo. The new notebooks go on in the summer.

Editors 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.

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?

At 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.

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.

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.

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…

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.

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.

Google 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.

When customers in the UK want to compare prices for things like car insurance, home insurance, credit cards, and loans, they increasingly turn to MoneySuperMarket.

Editor’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.

The first AMD machines are part of Chrome OS’ bread and butter: low power, low cost.

The first AMD machines are part of Chrome OS’ bread and butter: low power, low cost.

At $599 and 3.9 pounds, this Chrome OS convertible has clear pros and cons.

At $599 and 3.9 pounds, this Chrome OS convertible has clear pros and cons.

15 additional Chromebooks now support the feature, too.

15 additional Chromebooks now support the feature, too.

HP also adds AMD processors to one of its existing affordable Chromebooks.

The Chrome OS Beta Channel has been updated but not in the way that was expected.  An almost unheard of seventh build has arrived to the channel in the current cycle and comes a few days after it was expected to be moved up a build.  The new build is still based on Chrome 68…

Acer has launched a set of four new Chromebooks, two 13″ models with impressive specs, and two 15″ models with so-so specs.  The new models are the Acer Chromebook 13, Acer Chromebook Spin 13,  Acer Chromebook 15, and the Acer Chromebook Spin 15.  As the name somewhat suggests, the two Spin models are 2-in-1 designs…