Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it will begin testing its controversial “Recall” AI search and recall feature for Windows Insiders in October. Earlier, it was slated for launch in June.

OpenAI has expressed opposition to California’s proposed bill regulating AI development and deployment as lawmakers prepare for an upcoming vote.

ChromeOS was designed with security at the forefront. Features like verified boot, sandboxing, and on-device encryption help ChromeOS users feel confident they are protected from bad actors, even without third party security software.

Hi, everyone! We’ve just released Chrome 128 (128.0.6613.88) 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.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Stable 128 (128.0.6613.92) for iOS; it’ll become available on App Store in the next few hours.This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log.

The Dev channel is being updated to OS version: 16002.2.0, Browser version: 129.0.6668.0 for most ChromeOS devices.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 129 (129.0.6668.9) 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.

The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 128 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This will roll out over the coming days/weeks.Chrome 128.0.6613.84 (Linux) 128.0.6613.84/.

About a week ago, our review units of the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, and Pixel 9 Pro XL arrived in the office and I was only partially interested in checking them out.

Following Android (and even iOS with a shortcut), Circle to Search — officially “Drag to search” —  is coming to desktop Chrome/Chromebooks with a very prominent Google Lens icon.

Lenovo Chromebox Micro MSRP – $249.00 The Lenovo Chromebox Micro is a solid offering with a very specific target audience.

Discover a mini web machine that captures the users attention and focuses them into a blocking, overlaying action experience! Check out the full video for an overview of the dialog element and how to transition it with transition-behavior and @starting-style. Watch more Mini Web Machines→ https://goo.

Developers love Cloud Run for its simplicity, fast autoscaling, scale-to-zero capabilities, and pay-per-use pricing. Those same benefits come into play for real-time inference apps serving open gen AI models. That’s why today, we’re adding support for NVIDIA L4 GPUs to Cloud Run, in preview.

While most students are back in school at this point in the year, this is still the time many are on the lookout for great deals on solid Chromebooks.

Apple and Google can take a moment to breathe, as the UK’s competition regulator has decided to end its investigation into their app stores — but not for long.

Google Chrome is by far the most-used browser in the world. It has a massive user base on both desktop and Android, and it is about to get a long-overdue update to how it handles your data.

Data encryption is critical. Whether you’re using a PC provided by your employer or working from your own personal computer, encryption ensures that thieves and anyone else who might get their hands on your PC can’t view any sensitive private data. Storage encryption can be complex on Windows PCs.

The Stable channel is being updated to OS version: 15917.71.0 Browser version: 127.0.6533.132 for most ChromeOS devices.If you find new issues, please let us know one of the following waysFile a bugVisit our ChromeOS communitiesGeneral: Chromebook Help CommunityBeta Specific: ChromeOS Beta Help CommunityReport an issue or send feedback on ChromeInterested in switching channels? Find out how.

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge Google will have to face a class action lawsuit that accuses it of collecting users’ data through Chrome without their consent.

Image: The Verge You’ll soon be able to access your saved passwords, bookmarks, and addresses in Chrome by simply signing in to your Google account on the browser.

Chrome 128 is rolling out now! With displaying ruby elements improved with line breaks, starting Promise chains with Promise.try, PointerEvent interface extended to uniquely identify multiple pens, and there’s plenty more. Adriana Jara has all the details about what’s new for developers in Chrome 128. Check out https://goo.

Of all the Chromebook Plus models currently available, the Lenovo Flex 5i is always at the top of the list of my favorites. And the reasoning is pretty clear: it does a lot right for the price. After all, isn’t that what really defines a great Chromebook experience?

About Apache Airflow is a popular tool for orchestrating data workflows. Google Cloud offers a managed Airflow service called Cloud Composer, a fully managed workflow orchestration service built on Apache Airflow that enables you to author, schedule, and monitor pipelines.

To keep pace with modern threats, organizations large and small need to take a hard look at their security tooling and determine how they can adapt to accelerate step function change. And while this may seem daunting, Google Cloud Security can help you make sure it doesn’t have to be.

Zoom has raised the webinar attendee limit to one million users to enable large-scale events on the video meeting platform.

It’s been three years since Google acquired Fitbit, and the landscape of smartwatches has shifted significantly in that time frame.

Microsoft has unveiled Loop “2.0,” bringing several UI updates to the productivity app. Announced in 2021, Loop is essentially Microsoft’s answer to the emergence of a new breed of flexible document creation apps such as Notion and Coda.

We all know that protecting our personal data is vital but sometimes, in the rush of a screen-sharing session with colleagues or a presentation to a larger group, those sensitive details can slip through the cracks, especially in form fields.

Google Meet is starting to roll out a pretty big update to its video calling experience, and it is one that Google says is designed to make connections with friends, family, and colleagues more enjoyable and seamless than ever.

Google Chrome is adding an accessibility feature that lets you control Chrome using your face gestures. The feature is code named FaceGaze.

Google included a long-awaited surprise on Tuesday at their Made by Google event by finally announcing the wider availability of its much-anticipated Zoom Enhance feature. Not only will it be included in the upcoming Pixel 9 Pro series, it’s also rolling out to the Pixel 8 Pro as well.

Over the past few years, AI has been quietly revolutionizing the Chrome experience without many of us even noticing, making it faster, safer, and more helpful. From blocking malicious sites to providing real-time captions, Google says AI is often working behind the scenes to enhance your browsing.

Learn about content scripts in Chrome Extensions, including how to register CSS and JavaScript to run on a particular page.

Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of the C4 machine series, the most performant general-purpose VM for Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) customers.

August tends to be a quiet month in tech, but not for the Google Cloud database team. Cloud Next happened in Tokyo this month, bringing you groundbreaking announcements, product updates and inspiring customer stories. So grab a cup of coffee and let’s dive into the latest from Google Cloud databases.