Google Wallet has long been a champion of reducing the bulk of physical wallets, making it possible to store essential cards securely on your smartphone, thus reducing keyring clutter and scoliosis. Now, it’s introducing a feature that simplifies this process even further.

At Google, we have a long history of solving problems at scale using Ethernet, and rethinking the transport layer to satisfy demanding workloads that require high burst bandwidth, high message rates, and low latency.

Editor’s note:Today, we hear from Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Google VP and Technical Fellow and Amin Vahdat, VP/GM. Partha delivered a keynote address today at the OCP Global Summit, an annual conference for leaders, researchers, and pioneers in the open hardware industry.

One of the biggest barriers for some people to use ChromeOS is a lack of native desktop app support. However, the most underrated feature on a Chromebook can help solve that problem.

Today is the day, folks! At some point, we fully expect the roll-out of ChromeOS 118 and – more importantly – the official Stable Channel update for qualifying Chromebooks to officially become Chromebook Plus devices.

Managing high risk data, whether Protected Health Information or social security numbers, is difficult for academic researchers across many domains. Each institution has its own guidelines to safeguard different kinds of datasets, and governmental agencies and funding organizations have their own regulations and compliance requirements.

As an interdisciplinary research center, Stanford’s Center for Population Health Sciences (PHS) aims to improve the health of populations by bringing together researchers and data to understand and address social, environmental, behavioral, and biological factors on both a domestic and global scale.

Today, we are excited to announce general availability of the C3D machine series powered by 4th Generation AMD EPYC™ Processors (code-named Genoa) to Google Compute Engine (GCE) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) customers.The C3D machine series is a general-purpose VM that offers the enterprise-grade performance and reliability of AMD Genoa.

With businesses increasingly relying on cloud-based applications and distributed workforces, data loss prevention (DLP) is fundamental in any organization’s secure enterprise browsing journey. According to IBM’s latest annual Cost of Data Breach report, the global average cost of a data breach in 2023 has surged to USD 4.

If you need to take a screenshot on a Chromebook, we’ll show you how.

Google Cloud (Apigee) has been recognized as a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for API Management, the eighth time in a row we’ve been recognized.

Of the new Chromebook Plus models, the only one we’ve fully reviewed up to this point is the budget-conscious ASUS Chromebook Plus CM34 Flip.

Plus: Stanford prof tells off industry for making decisions based on anecdotal data If it ain’t broke, there’s no need to fix it. Or so is the mantra at one of the fastest-growing mature tech companies. Unlike some of its peers, Nvidia still promises flexible working policies.…

The Dev channel has been updated to 120.0.6062.2 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.

In a recent article on ‘The Keyword‘ by Google, Sebastian Bauer celebrates Android’s customization features such as wallpapers, widgets, and emoji as tools that ‘help us be ourselves’ on our phones.

For the past 10 days I’ve been out of town with the family. After a 12 hour drive down to Florida, a 7 day cruise, and a 12 hour drive back, I’ve been out of the office for quite a bit of time.

Interested in getting one of the new Chromebook Plus laptops at a discount? The Asus Chromebook Plus CM34 Flip launched at $499 but is on sale for $399 all this week.

My thoughts on the Chromebook Plus initiative after a laptop review and time to digest the effort. Good for most current ChromeOS users, nothing new for potential switchers.

Here are four Chromebook security tips to improve your data privacy and protection. Giving up some convenience might be worth it.

In this short tutorial we discuss how to copy and paste on a Chromebook. We also include a few additional tips and keyboard shortcuts.

Back when Chromebooks first entered the scene, they were considered a “web browser in a box” – an insult meant to sting, and though times have certainly changed and the web is capable of well, practically everything now including running apps and AAA gaming, there’s no shame in wanting something a little more on the…

Here are four Chromebook security tips to improve your data privacy and protection. Giving up some convenience might be worth it.

This tutorial demonstrates how to right click on a Chromebook or other Chrome OS device using three simple approaches.

Google has long since decided it would keep the main Google.com search page simple and clean.

 The Dev channel has been updated to 120.0.6062.2 for Mac and Linux. Windows coming soonA 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.

If you’re not yet familiar with artificial intelligence-created images using nothing but text, it’s a real thing. In fact, it’s taking the world by storm right now, and while I know how important the ethics concerns tied to these tools are, I have to admit they’re getting really impressive.

While I surprisingly enjoyed the Lenovo Chromebook Duet 5 a bit more than I expected when Lenovo’s two current ChromeOS tablets launched, I’ve always had a soft spot for the Duet 3.

Right up front, I need to warn you that this is all in the very early stages and there’s no way to be even close to certain that Google will even make any of this a reality.

In a blend of a bit of tech activism, Samsung – the world’s #1 Android manufacturer – recently unveiled an interesting video that aligns the tech giant with Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign.

Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 119 (119.0.6045.24) for iOS; it’ll become available on App Store in the next few days.You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.Erhu AkpobaroGoogle Chrome

Innovators in financial services, gaming, retail, and many other industries rely on Cloud Spanner to power demanding relational database workloads that need to scale without downtime. Built on Google’s distributed infrastructure, Spanner provides a fully managed experience with the highest levels of consistency and availability at any scale.

According to 9to5Google, who did a deep dive of the latest Google app beta version 14.41, code strings for Assistant with Bard point to support for more than just the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro.

Microsoft has been struggling to get people to use its Edge browser for years. Even though the company made Edge the default browser in Windows 10, users left in droves, most of them flocking to Google Chrome — and with good reason.

Troubled logistics and supply chain software firm Flexport Inc. has confirmed it will lay off approximately 20% of its staff, in what is the second major round of job cuts it has embarked on this year.

Here’s how you can transfer iPhone photos to your Chromebook via cloud and USB.