When a piece of software malfunctions on Windows, you press Ctrl+Alt+Delete or Ctrl+Shift+Esc to bring up the task manager, and on Mac, you press Cmd+Alt+Esc to launch the mini Activity Monitor. Force quitting and re-launching a program can be as effective as “turning it off and on again” as the old joke goes. However, when […]
Continue ReadingThe Nest Detect is out of stock and won’t return until after the new year
Upon visiting the Google Store to buy an extra Nest Detect for my one unguarded window, I found that its splash page is covered by a large banner stating that it’s now out of stock until early 2021 – bummer. I guess I’ll have to cover that window with an attack cat dog or go […]
Continue Reading[Updated] Stadia Pro free trial with no payment method goes live, but with one caveat
Update: The screenshot below was improperly attributed to ‘Cloudproto’. It’s’ been updated to credit Ben Schoon. We received hints a few months ago about Stadia possibly offering a Pro trial to newcomers without asking for their credit or debit card in order to get started. A user on the official Stadia Discord channel who goes […]
Continue ReadingThese Dyson appliances will now work with your Google Assistant-enabled devices
Dyson is the latest company to add support for Google Assistant-enabled devices like the Nest Hub, for example. Several of their products will also receive the newly created ‘Works with Hey Google’ badge on their packaging as well. You can now invoke the Assistant after you go through the seamless setup process and link your […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Chrome wants all PWAs to work offline, withholds install prompts from those that don’t
Progressive Web Apps or PWAs for short are getting a lot of attention lately. We’re certainly talking about them more often and Google has a mind for them as well. During their 2020 Dev Summit, Chrome developer Asami Doi discussed a new change to PWAs in Chrome – If you’re a dev and you don’t […]
Continue ReadingForager Mobile just released for your Chromebook and it offers hours of procedurally generated fun
Forager is a highly popular and quirky game where you explore, craft, gather and manage resources, find secrets, and build your base out of nothing. The interesting mechanic here is that once you get enough money, you can purchase another entire plot of procedurally generated land in any direction of your current space and snap […]
Continue ReadingGoogle creates a Games Lobby for Nest Hub and releases 10 fun new titles
Google’s Nest Hub has become quite the center for education and fun as of late. They’ve now created a “Games Lobby” and dubbed it the central place to find Assistant-based gaming experiences. All you’ll need to check it out is to say “Hey Google, let’s play a game”. All of this has been knit together […]
Continue Reading‘Chrome Labs’ becomes the new home for experimental browser features
We don’t normally write about things that are going on in Chrome Canary because, well, most people can’t exactly try them out right away. Chrome Canary is a highly unstable, experimental version of the browser that is meant for developers to test features. It gets its name through the term ‘canaries in a coal mine’, […]
Continue ReadingStar Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II – The Sith Lords releases for Chromebooks
The original Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic was released on the Google Play Store a long time ago – six years ago to be exact. Aspyr Media and Lucasfilm ported the entire KOTOR experience to mobile without slimming it down whatsoever. Now, they’re doing the same for the game’s sequel and it’s definitely […]
Continue ReadingYou can now virtually try on makeup with Google Search because the future was yesterday
Google says that more than 73 percent of U.S. shoppers are planning to buy online during this holiday season. Without having the ability to try products on to get a better sense of them before checking out, return rates have skyrocketed in recent years. In fact, about 15-40% of online purchases have been returned in […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Meet gets more live caption languages, a redesigned Nest Hub Max experience, and more
After Zoom announced that they were going to allow their software to run on Nest Hub Max, they also dropped news of extending their 24-hour calls through March of 2021. Now, Google is rivaling that with its own extension on unlimited 24-hour calls in the free version of Google Meet through March 31, 2021, for […]
Continue ReadingYour Google One storage quota across Gmail, Drive, and Photos may have been incorrect all year
Oops! In January, Google may have accidentally told you that you were using more storage space than you really were. The company has been reaching out to those affected via email, which admittedly was a small number of users on iOS using the Google One app, to let them know about the error. Photos, emails, […]
Continue ReadingGoogle News on the web receives a much needed dark theme
Yesterday, I was browsing Google News like I always do, and wishing it had a dark mode like I always do and felt my daily ping of disappointment…like I always do. Then, I refreshed the page and just like that, my eyes were finally saved from the burning white torch of light mode. Before my […]
Continue ReadingMillions of users have had their data stolen by these 15 Chrome extensions – remove them right now!
Malicious extensions in the news again? No way! Well, yes, unfortunately, but you’re probably not at all surprised and you’re certainly not at all happy about it. In February, Google removed over 500 malicious extensions from the Chrome Web Store which were injection ads into millions of Chrome browsing sessions. Back in June, Awake Security […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Assistant-enabled device boxes to receive a new badge that indicates an easier setup process
Google wants to make its hardware ecosystem as approachable as its software services. In order to do so, they’ve launched several initiatives to clearly mark boxes with a badge to indicate that a specific accessory or product works best with their own as with their Works with Chromebook program. They also created the Works with […]
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