The email landed like a gut punch for the few brave souls who’d been running Elden Ring on a $299 Chromebook: “Steam for ChromeOS Beta will end on January 1, 2026.

The Crucial Outsourcing Decision: Beyond the Price Tag So, you’re ready to build that breakout app in 2025. You know success hinges on crafting a gorgeous user interface (UI) and an addictive user experience (UX).

Chrome for Android is testing a new setting that lets you give websites only the location details you want.

For months, we’ve known that a massive shift was coming as Google has been somewhat-openly discussing its plans to merge the foundations of ChromeOS and Android to create a unified platform that leverages the best of both worlds. But until now, we didn’t have a name for sure.

As Google prepares to introduce its new Android experience for PCs next year, a new job listing is revealing some details around Google’s efforts and how that ties back to ChromeOS.

Chrome for Android is now testing maybe its most useful tool for tabs ever.

If you’ve been on social media lately, you might have seen a viral warning claiming that Google quietly updated its settings to start harvesting your personal emails to train its Gemini AI models. It sounded troubling, plausible, and—according to Google—it is completely false.

We’ve seen the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Plus dip to $599 a few times, and we thought that was a steal. But just ahead of the holiday shopping rush, the price has dropped even further, hitting a new all-time low of just $549.99.

Google wants to replace ChromeOS with Aluminium OS, its new, Android-based operating system for PCs.

Today, we’re excited to announce that Anthropic’s newest model, Claude Opus 4.5, is generally available on Vertex AI. As Anthropic’s most advanced model to date, it excels in coding, agents, vision, computer use and office tasks — at one-third the cost of its predecessor, Opus 4.1.

By far the most common question developers have about building Chrome Extensions is how to find an audience in the Chrome Web Store. In this episode, Oliver answers some of your questions from Reddit. Chapters: 00:00 – Intro 01:07 – What are users searching for?

Understanding how to overheat a Chromebook helps you avoid the common mistakes that damage these devices. Chromebooks overheat when their cooling systems fail to work properly, leading to performance issues and potential hardware failure. Many users unknowingly create conditions that cause excessive heat buildup.

ChromeOS proves itself a reliable system with only about 55 security flaws since 2010. Windows 10 cannot match these numbers, since from 2021 to 2023, it has accumulated almost 1200 vulnerabilities.

With the dynamism of software development, Chrome OS has rapidly replaced a mere browser operating system with a powerful cloud development platform. This innovation is offering formidable competition to rival software as more developers start using Chromebooks to do their programming.

This guide explains how to use Split View in Google Chrome. Split View places two tabs side by side in one window. It helps you compare pages, watch a video while reading, or take notes without switching tabs.

Earlier this year, Google brought Gemini to Google Classroom, but it was almost entirely focused on the educators. Teachers got tools to help draft lesson plans, create rubrics, and manage their workload. It was great, but it left out the most important people in the room: the students.

We recently covered the launch of Nano Banana Pro, and Google isn’t just dropping this into a standalone app and calling it a day.

The global Chromebook market reached USD 11.57 billion in 2024 and projects to USD 14.70 billion in 2025, representing a 12.62% compound annual growth rate through 2034. Statistical analysis programs for Chromebook have evolved from basic spreadsheet tools to advanced browser-based and Linux-supported software including JASP, jamovi, and XLMiner.

Oliver explains what happens if you lose access to the device where you set up a passkey. For more information, check out the related video “What if you lose the device with a passkey?”. #ChromeForDevelopers #Chrome Speaker: Oliver Dunk Products Mentioned: Chrome

Discover how leading websites like Miravia are leveraging Chrome’s built-in AI APIs to create smarter, more engaging user experiences.

WebGPU delivers a more modern GPU API over the familiar OpenGL ES 2.0 based WebGL that was introduced in 2011.

In this talk, Gordon Williams, Founder & Lead Developer of Espurino, showcases an amazing smartwatch that runs JS and is the perfect pairing with custom Web AI models that leverage the sensor data from the device! Resources: Learn more → https://goo.gle/3JRbZjp See more Web AI talks → https://goo.

Build AI that runs where your users are—directly in the browser. Max Schridde, Full Stack Engineer at Roboflow, explores dataset curation, training, and deploying with InferenceJS, then showcases a live scavenger hunt game.

Harness the power of LiteRT on the web! This talk introduces LiteRT.js, Google’s new WebAI runtime that runs your custom .tflite models with WebGPU.

Learn how to create stunning AI-powered web applications with Transformers.js, an innovative JavaScript library for running state-of-the-art machine learning models 100% locally in your browser.

Moh Haghighat, Intel Fellow, showcases the latest performance advancements in WebGPU and WebNN on Intel AI PCs.

A new LTS  version 138.0.7204.298 (Platform Version: 16295.83.0), is being rolled out for most ChromeOS devices. This version includes selected security fixes including:450328966  High CVE-2025-13224 Type Confusion in V8.

In this video, Oliver talks about how passkeys make it easier for users to keep access to their account across all of their devices. Chapters: 0:00 – Intro 0:12 – Benefits of passkeys 1:14 – Cross-device synchronization 1:30 – Account recovery 2:00 – Conclusion Resources: More on Passkeys / Passkeys week → http://goo.

From uncovering new insights in multimodal data to personalizing customer experiences, AI is emerging as the engine of modern innovation.

Google is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems for the sixth year in a row, and for the third consecutive year is positioned furthest in vision.  This comes as we cross into the era of agentic AI.

The Dev channel has been updated to 144.0.7534.3 for Windows, 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.

Need to flip or mirror an image on your Chromebook? The process is straightforward. Your device offers several built-in and third-party options. Inverting pictures means creating a horizontal or vertical mirror of your image. This helps fix selfies, create symmetrical designs, or prepare images for printing.

For many of you that have been interested in the Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 and its powerful, long lasting MediaTek Kompanio Ultra but wanted a convertible, Acer has recently released a Chromebook that solves this for you.

Chromebooks run various applications including Android apps, web programs, Chrome extensions, and Linux software. This variety enhances your device but limited storage means you need to remove unused programs regularly. Learning how to delete an app on a Chromebook maintains optimal performance and frees storage space.

The ChromeOS Stable channel is being updated to OS version 16463.25.0 (Browser version 143.0.7499.33) for most ChromeOS devices.