• Browser ‘privacy’ extensions have eye on your AI, log all your chats

    More than 8 million people have installed extensions that eavesdrop on chatbot interactions Ad blockers and VPNs are supposed to protect your privacy, but four popular browser extensions have been doing just the opposite.


  • Browser ‘privacy’ extensions have eye on your AI, log all your chats

    More than 8 million people have installed extensions that eavesdrop on chatbot interactions Ad blockers and VPNs are supposed to protect your privacy, but four popular browser extensions have been doing just the opposite.


  • Stable Channel Update for Desktop

     The Stable channel has been updated to 143.0.7499.146/.147 for Windows/Mac  and 143.0.7499.146 for Linux, which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. A full list of changes in this build is available in the Log.


  • Extended Stable Updates for Desktop

     The Extended Stable channel has been updated to 142.0.7499.243 for Windows and 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.


  • Invoker Commands #CSSWrapped 2025

    Say goodbye to writing onclick handlers just to open a dialog. With Chrome 135, buttons can now control other elements purely with HTML. Bramus share’s one of his top feature picks from CSS Wrapped 2025. See all of the UI features that Chrome shipped this year → https://goo.


  • Gemini Deep Research can now generate charts and interactive simulations to visualize your data

    If you have used Gemini Deep Research lately, you know it is incredibly powerful at digging up information and synthesizing it into a comprehensive report. But let’s be honest: sometimes those reports can be a dense wall of text.


  • You can finally cast Apple TV+ content from your Android phone to your Google TV

    If you are an Android user who happens to enjoy Apple TV+ shows (we’re looking at you, Severance fans), you know there has been one glaring omission in the Android app since it launched: the lack of a Cast button.


  • Google launches ‘Preferred Sources’ globally to let you pick your favorite news sites

    Google announced today that it is globally rolling out “Preferred Sources,” a new feature that gives users direct control over which publishers appear in the “Top Stories” section of Search.


  • The 7 Best Chromebooks of 2025

    The 7 Best Chromebooks of 2025

    It’s that time of year again where we look at the growing, evolving Chromebook landscape and pick what we feel are the best devices out there for you to consider buying for yourself or a loved one.


  • LegalBERT Statistics And User Trends [2026 Updated]

    LegalBERT Statistics And User Trends [2026 Updated]

    LegalBERT has established itself as the dominant domain-specific language model for legal NLP tasks. Pre-trained on 12 GB of diverse legal text, this BERT variant consistently outperforms general-purpose language models on legal benchmarks, witnessing nearly 4.9 million monthly downloads on Hugging Face as of December 2025.


  • Wav2Vec 2.0 Statistics And User Trends 2026

    Wav2Vec 2.0 Statistics And User Trends 2026

    Meta’s Wav2Vec 2.0 recorded over 1.37 million downloads of its primary checkpoint on Hugging Face, establishing itself as one of the most deployed speech recognition models since its 2020 release. The transformer-based architecture achieved 1.


  • Imagen Statistics And User Trends 2026

    Imagen Statistics And User Trends 2026

    Google’s Imagen 4 reached general availability in May 2025, marking a significant milestone in enterprise AI image generation. The platform processes images at prices ranging from $0.02 to $0.12 per generation through Vertex AI. The global AI image generator market recorded $8.


  • How to Turn PDF Files into Editable Word Documents Quickly

    How to Turn PDF Files into Editable Word Documents Quickly

    PDFs are reliable for sharing documents—they keep formatting intact and look the same on any device. But when you need to make edits, add comments, or collaborate with colleagues, PDFs can quickly become frustrating. What if you could transform that PDF into a fully editable Word document in minutes?


  • Top ChromeOS Apps for Mindfulness, Relaxation, and Personal Well-Being

    A quiet moment during a busy day can feel like a small reset. ChromeOS gives users a simple way to keep those pauses close at hand through lightweight apps that support breathing habits, focus sessions, and restorative breaks.


  • Nvidia bets on open infrastructure for the agentic AI era with Nemotron 3

    AI agents must be able to cooperate, coordinate, and execute across large contexts and long time periods, and this, says Nvidia, demands a new type of infrastructure, one that is open. The company says it has the answer with its new Nemotron 3 family of open models.


  • Choosing an AI model for your project

    Ali Spivak, from Chrome Developer Relations, breaks down how to select the best generative AI model for your specific needs by focusing on your project’s requirements, data characteristics, and model types.


  • Google Search is getting a major Gemini 2.5 upgrade to its ‘Live’ conversational mode

    If you have tapped the little “Live” sparkle icon in the Google app recently, you know it’s a handy way to have a back-and-forth voice conversation to get answers. But as good as it has been, it can still sometimes feel a tad bit robotic.


  • Google Search is getting a major Gemini 2.5 upgrade to its ‘Live’ conversational mode

    If you have tapped the little “Live” sparkle icon in the Google app recently, you know it’s a handy way to have a back-and-forth voice conversation to get answers. But as good as it has been, it can still sometimes feel a tad bit robotic.


  • With a massive Gemini upgrade, Google Translate can now turn any pair of headphones into a real-time translator

    Maybe you’ve been there: you are traveling, trying to ask for directions or order food, and you hold up your phone with Google Translate.


  • With a massive Gemini upgrade, Google Translate can now turn any pair of headphones into a real-time translator

    Maybe you’ve been there: you are traveling, trying to ask for directions or order food, and you hold up your phone with Google Translate.


  • Create Scroll-Triggered Animations with CSS

    Bring your web stories to life with Scroll-Triggered Animations. Animate elements as they enter the viewport, transforming any website into an immersive narrative that is performant by default and unmissable by design. Go from complex JavaScript to a few lines of CSS.


  • AlphaFold 2 Statistics And User Trends 2026

    AlphaFold 2 Statistics And User Trends 2026

    AlphaFold 2 reached more than three million researchers across 190 countries by November 2025, marking unprecedented adoption for an AI scientific tool. The protein structure prediction system developed by Google DeepMind earned its creators the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry after transforming structural biology research.


  • SciBERT Statistics And User Trends 2026

    SciBERT Statistics And User Trends 2026

    SciBERT recorded 338,726 monthly downloads on Hugging Face as of December 2024, maintaining its position as a foundational architecture for scientific natural language processing five years after release.


  • Small Steps to Building a More Resilient and Energy-Independent House

    Achieving energy independence is no longer a utopian concept but a practical engineering challenge. With aging grid infrastructure and frequent weather-induced outages, homeowners are turning to micro-grid architectures.


  • The Future of Personalized Medicine: How Technology Is Shaping Healthcare

    Talk with any clinician on morning rounds and you’ll hear the tension: the standard treatment protocol helps most patients, yet fails a stubborn minority. That gap between population averages and individual biology is exactly where personalized medicine lives.


  • Crypto Casinos on Chromebooks: How to Deposit with Bitcoin, Ethereum & Stablecoins (Without Breaking a Sweat)

    If your Chromebook is already your portable office, Netflix machine, and “I’ll-start-my-side-hustle-tomorrow” device… it can also quietly become your crypto casino HQ.


  • How To Call On A School Chromebook

    How To Call On A School Chromebook

    School Chromebooks have become essential tools for students across the globe. These devices offer excellent browsing and productivity features, but they lack built-in phone capabilities. Many students need to make voice or video calls for group projects, virtual classes, or family check-ins.


  • Top 5 Biggest Wins in Crazy Time of All Time

    Top 5 Biggest Wins in Crazy Time of All Time

    Crazy Time by Evolution Gaming has delivered jaw-dropping payouts since its 2020 launch, with record multipliers turning modest bets into life-changing sums shared among thousands of players. These massive wins, often hitting 10,000x or higher, showcase the game’s high-volatility potential through bonus rounds like Cash Hunt and Crazy Time.


  • MolBERT Statistics And User Trends 2026

    MolBERT Statistics And User Trends 2026

    MolBERT processes 1.6 million molecular compounds through 85 million parameters, establishing itself as a foundational transformer model in AI-driven drug discovery. The global AI drug discovery market reached $1.86 billion in 2024 and projects growth to $6.89 billion by 2029 at a 29.9% compound annual growth rate.


  • Why I think Google’s new Disco browser is a glimpse at Aluminium OS

    For months, we have been tracking rumors and leaks about a massive platform shift—a move away from the ChromeOS we know today toward a new, Android-based platform codenamed “Aluminium OS.


  • Why I think Google’s new Disco browser is a glimpse at Aluminium OS

    For months, we have been tracking rumors and leaks about a massive platform shift—a move away from the ChromeOS we know today toward a new, Android-based platform codenamed “Aluminium OS.


  • Long Term Support Channel Update for ChromeOS

    A new LTS-138 version 138.0.7204.299 (Platform Version: 16295.84.0), is being rolled out for most ChromeOS devices. This version includes selected security fixes including:457351015  High  CVE-2025-13042  Inappropriate implementation in V8.Release notes for LTS-138 can be found here Want to know more about Long-term Support? Click hereAndy WuGoogle ChromeOS


  • Gemini’s new voice upgrade and ‘context-aware’ pacing is blowing my mind

    We have all heard AI text-to-speech (TTS) evolve from the robotic GPS voices of the past to the surprisingly decent assistants we have today. But Google’s latest update to Gemini’s voice capabilities feels like another generational jump. This week, Google announced significant enhancements to its Gemini 2.


  • Gemini’s new voice upgrade and ‘context-aware’ pacing is blowing my mind

    We have all heard AI text-to-speech (TTS) evolve from the robotic GPS voices of the past to the surprisingly decent assistants we have today. But Google’s latest update to Gemini’s voice capabilities feels like another generational jump. This week, Google announced significant enhancements to its Gemini 2.


  • Recognizing real-time data innovations for the agentic era

    Recognizing real-time data innovations for the agentic era

    Today, many organizations operate with data that’s trapped in silos, in disconnected legacy systems and is days or hours old.


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