Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 116 (116.0.5845.51) 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.

As the news and reviews of all of Samsung’s new hardware floods the internet, a simple tweet from OnePlus is enough to maybe turn a few heads in a different direction; especially the heads of those interested in Samsung’s expensive, extremely iterative Galaxy Z Fold 5.

First discovered by our friend Leopeva64 on Twitter, Google is working on something called Link Preview.

As we near the kick off of another NFL season, Verizon is offering up a huge incentive for new and existing customers that also happen to be NFL Football fans.

Today we’re sharing three big improvements to how the Maps JavaScript API is loaded: an API for flexible library loading, the new inline bootstrap loader, and a set of performance improvements.Flexible library loadingThe Maps JavaScript API is made up of libraries which developers specify for inclusion when loading the API.

On Google’s Keyword blog today, the company released a wave of significant updates for its Google Play Games for PC beta.

Working in the browser has become the norm for many companies. There is a whole ecosystem of applications and technologies that support people being productive in Chrome every day.

The Beta channel has been updated to 116.0.5845.49 for Windows and 116.0.5845.50 for 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.

Windows Task Manager’s “Efficiency Mode” may cause Google Chrome to freeze, here is how to disable it permanently, rather than temporarily turning it off for Chrome’s sub-processes. Microsoft has launched efficiency mode for Windows 11 with version 22H2 to reduce Power and CPU consumption.

  Hi, everyone! We’ve just released Chrome 115 (115.0.5790.138) 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 115.0.5790.110 for Windows and Linux and 115.0.5790.114 for Mac, which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. A full list of changes in this build is available in the log.Interested in switching release channels?  Find out how here.

In the constantly evolving landscape of education technology, managing and tracking IT assets in schools and school districts can often feel like an uphill battle. Fortunately, the new VIZOR “Crescent” release is here to help, bringing significant advancements along with it.

Chromebooks have traditionally been dubbed “a web browser in a box” by naysayers and even early adopters who didn’t stick around, but they’ve rapidly evolved into dynamic devices for both creativity and gaming.

Just yesterday we talked about the official ChatGPT Android app arriving in the Play Store as “coming soon” for anyone interested. While I thought the turnaround on that availbility would happen in the coming week or so, rollout has begun far faster than that.

This post is the first in a short series of blog posts about Feast on Google Cloud. In this first blog post, we describe the benefits of using Feast, a popular open source ML feature store, on Google Cloud.

Data is the lifeblood of any machine learning application. To make more accurate predictions, ML models need access to high-quality data signals, commonly referred to as ML features.

In this blog post, we’re highlighting Vodafone for the DevOps achievements that earned them the ‘Unlocking the secrets of DevOps’ award in the2022 DevOps Awards. If you want to learn more about the winners and how they used DORA metrics and practices to grow their businesses, start here.

When it comes to software delivery and deployments, details matter. Earlier this year, we added parallel deployments to Cloud Deploy. Since launching that feature, we’ve received feedback to support differentiated release deployments across individual child targets.

I’ve written extensively in the past about Google’s new Smart Canvas tools and, quite honestly, I’ve become a huge fan. These nifty tools, including smart chips, tables and more, have practically reinvented Google Docs for the new age.

So, this is a little bit of awkward territory. A new device came to the office a couple weeks ago and it is a review unit, so the box was already opened and doing a normal unboxing felt strange.

Microsoft’s Bing’s AI chatbot (powered by ChatGPT-4) has been an Edge-only affair up to this point. But as of this week, you can now try it out on Google Chrome and Safari, too. First noticed by Windows Latest (via 9to5Google), Bing.

Hello All,The Beta channel has been updated to 116.0.5845.46 (Platform version: 15509.31.0) for most ChromeOS devices.If you find new issues, please let us know one of the following ways:File a bug Visit our Chrome OS communitiesGeneral: Chromebook Help CommunityBeta Specific: ChromeOS Beta Help CommunityReport an issue or send feedback on ChromeInterested in switching channels? Find out how.Google ChromeOS

Something something don’t cross the streams Google has been ordered by a US federal court to cough up $338.7 million in damages for infringing someone else’s patents with its Chromecast gear.…

This is a very, very exciting announcement that we’ve been waiting to share for a bit.

In the event that you have somehow missed all the hype/fear/excitement over ChatGPT, perhaps a recap is in order. ChatGPT is a highly sophisticated AI chatbot built to deliver state-of-the-art language modeling techniques.

In recent memory, Google Docs gave you a bunch of extra control over formatting by letting you view non-printing characters, toggle page numbers and default styles, indent headers based on levels and more.

While we’re still waiting for our review unit of the latest, higher-end Chromebook from Acer – the new Chromebook Spin 714 – that doesn’t mean we don’t already know enough about this device to easily and enthusiastically recommend it.

We’re excited to announce that Google Cloud Support is now available as Public Preview* in the Google Cloud mobile app.View and manage Google Cloud Support cases We understand how important it is to be able to access and collaborate on Cloud Support cases.

There’s no denying that the foldable phone form factor spices up the somewhat boring smartphone market. As with any new phone, there are usually awesome, new features and there are failures; and the Pixel Fold is no exception.

Google Tasks, once a standalone website, was transitioned into the Gmail Sidebar as part of the company’s new “integrated workspace” strategy. This strategy aimed at streamlining productivity by housing multiple tools and apps, including Meet and Chat, in one central location: Gmail.

Here’s a first look a the new Microsoft 365 Chromebook integration. It brings a seamless Office productivity workflow to ChromeOS.

The ChromeOS 115 release is now rolling out to most supported devices on the Stable Channel. Here’s a rundown of the several new Chromebook features.

Google Photos appears to be testing a significant interface overhaul. As reported by @Nail_Sadykov, an editor for the Google News Telegram Channel, there’s a fresh Google Photos UI design making the rounds, and it seems to divert quite significantly from Google’s current design principles.

Right on schedule, ChromeOS 115 is arriving on a Chromebook near you and unlike the last few 4-week updates, this one has quite a few new tricks up its sleeve.

The Dev channel has been updated to 117.0.5897.3 for Mac and Linux, 117.0.5897.3 /.4 for Windows.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.