• Google Vids just got a massive upgrade with Veo 3.1 “Ingredients-to-Video”

    If you’ve ever tried to use AI to make a video for work, you know the struggle. You generate a clip of a person or a product, and it looks great.


  • YouTube TV is handing out $60 credits to win back subscribers after the Disney blackout

    The dust has finally settled on the brief but chaotic contract dispute between Google and Disney.


  • Bringing Gemini 3 to Enterprise

    Bringing Gemini 3 to Enterprise

    The fastest way to transform your business is here. Today, we’re bringing Gemini 3, our most intelligent model, to every developer and enterprise team. It’s the best model in the world for multimodal understanding, and our most powerful agentic and vibe-coding model yet.


  • Character AI Statistics And User Trends 2025

    Character AI Statistics And User Trends 2025

    The AI character chat market reached $120 million in revenue during 2025, with 337 active applications serving millions of users worldwide. Character.AI leads with 20 million monthly active users and $32.2 million in annual revenue.


  • Cici AI Statistics And User Trends (2025)

    Cici AI Statistics And User Trends (2025)

    Cici AI recorded 86 million global downloads as of October 2025, with 13 million downloads occurring in the last 30 days alone. ByteDance’s international AI chatbot achieved the number one download position in Mexico and maintained top 20 rankings across five countries for three consecutive months.


  • How To Turn On Permissions For Sites Apps And Extensions

    How To Turn On Permissions For Sites Apps And Extensions

    Browsers control what websites and extensions can access on your device. These permissions cover everything from your camera and microphone to location services and notification settings. Different browsers handle these controls in their own way. Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Opera each provide tools to manage what sites can do.


  • The 2035 Setting Explained: Real-World Tech That Could Appear in Black Ops 7

    The Black Ops series has always blurred the lines between fiction and reality by taking emerging technology and introducing it into various high-pressure scenarios.


  • 7 Game Genres That Work Great on Chromebooks 

    7 Game Genres That Work Great on Chromebooks 

    Chromebooks have spent the last few years becoming surprisingly decent for gaming, even if most people still picture them as lightweight machines for school or work. Steam’s alpha program will wrap up in 2026, so ChromeOS isn’t really chasing full native PC blockbusters anymore, but that hasn’t slowed things down.


  • Beta Channel Update for ChromeOS / ChromeOS Flex

    The ChromeOS Stable channel is being updated to OS version 16463.20.0 (Browser version 143.0.7499.28) for most ChromeOS devices.


  • Stable Channel Update for Desktop

     The Stable channel has been updated to 142.0.7444.175/.176 for Windows and 142.0.7444.176 for Mac and 142.0.7444.175 for Linux, which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. A full list of changes in this build is available in the Log.


  • Wasm, WebGPU, and WebNN are the foundational compute abstractions that enable developers to build and deploy AI systems with almost limitless autonomy and control.


  • Don’t let AI agents push your buttons – use webMCP instead!

    Browser agents are coming. In this talk, Khushal Sagar, Staff Software Engineer for Chrome, covers a new way that web authors can integrate with these agents: webMCP.


  • Building a VR Assistant and llms.txt widget

    Browsers are AI runtimes. In 15 minutes, Erick Wendell, Professional JS Instructor, demos Chrome’s built-in AI APIs to create a VR assistant that understands intent to schedule, cancel, and check barber bookings, and a lightweight widget that reads llms.txt to answer site questions instantly.


  • Accelerating Web AI on Arm

    Arm architecture is everywhere. Our technology powers 99% of smartphones (Apple and Android), Macs, iPads, Windows on Arm PCs, cars—nearly every computing platform.


  • Beyond the demo: Building the WebAI Playbook

    We talked to hundreds of developers about AI. Their biggest challenge? Moving from the promise of AI to production value. Kenji Baheux, a Product Manger for Chrome Built-in AI, shares our learnings on the ""Playbook Vacuum"" and offers the foundational principles to start filling it. Resources: Explore built-in AI → https://goo.


  • Chrome: Browsing, building, and web in the AI era

    Join Parisa Tabriz, VP on Chrome for her opening remarks around browsing, building, and the future of the web ecosystem in the AI era. See more Web AI talks → https://goo.gle/WebAIVideos Subscribe to Chrome for Developers → https://goo.


  • Web AI Summit 2025: State of client side AI

    What’s the state of Web AI in 2025? Get the key high level updates in this talk by Google’s Web AI lead, Jason Mayes, so everyone is on a level playing field – suitable for everyone!


  • The best Chromebook ever made drops to its lowest-ever price

    Just last week, we were pretty excited to see the Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 get its first-ever discount – even if it was a meager $30 off.


  • Google Calendar and Tasks are finally working together the way they always should have

    If you’re like many users, you live a double life inside Google Workspace: your Google Calendar tells you where you need to be, and your Google Tasks list tells you what you need to do. The problem? Those two worlds have always been frustratingly separate.


  • ChromeOS 142 is here, continuing the trend of no new user-facing features

    It’s that time again, and the next milestone update for ChromeOS is beginning its roll-out. ChromeOS 142 is now arriving on most devices. However, if you were hoping this would be the update that breaks the recent trend of no new front-facing features, I have some bad news.


  • ESPN and ABC are back on YouTube TV after Disney and Google reach a new deal

    After a frustrating two weeks for subscribers, the Disney and YouTube TV blackout is finally over. The two companies announced on Friday that they have reached a new “multi-year” agreement, and all Disney-owned channels, including ESPN, ABC, FX, and more, have already begun returning to the service.


  • You can now use Google Forms’ AI creator in Spanish, French, German, and more

    One of the most practical AI time-savers in Google Workspace has been the “Help me create” feature in Google Forms. This Gemini-powered tool allows you to generate a full, multi-question form from just a simple text prompt or by referencing an existing Doc, Sheet, or PDF. The only catch?


  • Apple preps for iPhone diversification

    Apple preps for iPhone diversification

    Once upon a time, Apple introduced a new iPhone every year. These days, in some years it introduces five of them. Have we reached saturation point? Possibly. Solution? Ship six iPhones a year. As expected, Apple is building a new market dynamic. Think of it this way.


  • Apple preps for iPhone diversification

    Apple preps for iPhone diversification

    Once upon a time, Apple introduced a new iPhone every year. These days, in some years it introduces five of them. Have we reached saturation point? Possibly. Solution? Ship six iPhones a year. As expected, Apple is building a new market dynamic. Think of it this way.


  • GetImg AI Statistics And User Trends (2025)

    GetImg AI Statistics And User Trends (2025)

    GetImg AI recorded 3.58 million monthly website visits in April 2024, generating over 5 million images weekly as the AI image generation market reaches $400 million in 2024.


  • Frontline Intelligence: Analysis of UNC1549 TTPs, Custom Tools, and Malware Targeting the Aerospace and Defense Ecosystem

    Written by: Mohamed El-Banna, Daniel Lee, Mike Stokkel, Josh Goddard Overview Last year, Mandiant published a blog post highlighting suspected Iran-nexus espionage activity targeting the aerospace, aviation, and defense industries in the Middle East.


  • Understanding content://cz.mobilesoft.appblock.fileprovider/cache/blank.html on Android Devices

    Android users occasionally encounter unfamiliar file paths while using productivity applications. The URI content://cz.mobilesoft.appblock.fileprovider/cache/blank.html represents a standard Android Content Provider path generated by the AppBlock application. This address appears when AppBlock blocks websites by replacing them with a blank HTML page.


  • How To Turn Off Proxy On Chromebook?

    How To Turn Off Proxy On Chromebook?

    Proxy servers route your internet traffic through another server before reaching websites. Some schools and workplaces use proxies to control network access. You might need to turn off proxy on Chromebook if you’re experiencing connection problems or switching from a restricted network to home use.


  • How To Manually Add A Printer To A Chromeboo

    How To Manually Add A Printer To A Chromeboo

    Chromebook users need a reliable way to connect printers for everyday tasks. Whether you have a wireless model or an older USB device, knowing how to manually add a printer to a Chromebook ensures you can print documents when automatic detection fails. Chrome OS recognizes most modern printers automatically.


  • AI21 Jurassic Statistics And User Trends 2025

    AI21 Jurassic Statistics And User Trends 2025

    AI21 Labs generated $57.8 million in revenue during 2024 while maintaining a lean team of 278 employees. The company’s Jurassic-2 model family achieved an 86.8% win rate on internal HELM evaluations and disclosed training on 1.2 trillion tokens.


  • Is A Chromebook Good Enough For Programming

    Is A Chromebook Good Enough For Programming

    Chromebooks captured 18% of the programming education device market in 2024, marking a 23% increase from 2023. The platform supports over 40 web-based development environments and runs native Linux applications since 2019.


  • Waze keeps traffic flowing with 1M+ real-time reads per second on Memorystore

    Editor’s note: Waze (a division of Google parent company Alphabet) depends on vast volumes of dynamic, real-time user session data to power its core navigation features, but scaling that data to support concurrent users worldwide required a new approach.


  • Accelerating discovery at the speed of cloud: What’s New for HPC at Google Cloud for SC25

    With the pace of scientific discovery moving faster than ever, we’re excited to join the supercomputing community as it gets ready for its annual flagship event, SC25, in St. Louis from November 16-21, 2025.


  • Review: Apple’s 14-in. M5 MacBook Pro – one day all computers might be as good

    The laptop you use tomorrow will be like a Mac: Beautifully-designed, easy-to-use, highly secure, and packed with enough power to run artificial intelligence (AI) on device.


  • Review: Apple’s 14-in. M5 MacBook Pro – one day all computers might be as good

    The laptop you use tomorrow will be like a Mac: Beautifully-designed, easy-to-use, highly secure, and packed with enough power to run artificial intelligence (AI) on device.


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