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If you aren’t aware, YouTube does a very cool thing for content creators when they hit certain milestones. At 100,000 subscribers, creators get a special plaque that commemorates the acheivement and they do the same for 1,000,000 subs and 10,000,000 as well. The plaques are silver followed by gold and then by platinum for the […]
This week on The Chrome Cast we have so much to talk about that we actually had to bump a few things over to next week’s episode. We’ll obviously be discussing those things and more next week, but for this week we talked about the impact Krita could have on desktop-class applications on Chrome OS […]
As Stadia continues to mature, I keep finding more and more I love about the service. More titles keep pouring in and better functionality continues to show up month after month as the team builds the streaming game platform into the most cohesive, best-performing online game service you can experience right now. Sure, we’ve lamented […]
Anyone remember the Chromebit? As in the singular, one-time, tried-once Chromebit? It’s OK if you don’t. Quite a few years ago, though, ASUS worked with Google and devised a small HDMI dongle with just enough guts inside to run Chrome OS and marketed it as a Chromebit. The thing was the size of a Roku […]
It’s been a full 5 months since I had any time to spend with the Lenovo Flex 5 Chromebook in Las Vegas at CES 2020, and in that time, I’d honestly almost completely forgotten what this Chromebook felt like in the flesh. I wrote a piece last week about my realization that I under-valued the […]
We wrote about an insane deal on the Google Home back in the beginning of May that saw the original Google-made smart speaker on sale for a ridiculous $29. It was an insane deal that made me think almost immediately that the first-ever Google Home may be on its death bed. While I don’t doubt […]
From time to time, it is useful to get your thoughts in one place. As we continue to track new baseboards and upcoming Chrome OS devices on a daily basis, it can become a bit confusing for us as writers and for you as readers exactly which board is expected to do what. A few […]
If you haven’t heard already, Google is paving the way for end-to-end encryption for Google Messages. This is a big move as one of the big gripes with RCS versus Apple’s iMessage or WhatsApp is the fact that it doesn’t have end-to-end encryption. By getting this in place, Google takes away a huge issue with […]
Let’s get this out of the way: I’m no artist. At least not with a pencil, pen, chalk, or a brush in my hand. I’d love to be and I spent a good deal of time re-sketching comic book frames of Batman when I was younger, but my drawing/painting abilities on my own have always […]
Though our launch of the Lenovo Chromebook Duet has already happened here in the US, we’ve long known that this tablet was slated for availability across the world in many markets. Don’t worry, our review will be out very soon and I can already tell you that at this price point, there’s a ton to […]
When we first laid eyes on the Lenovo Flex 5 Chromebook in Las Vegas back in January at CES 2020, it was so easy for it to get pushed aside in favor of the more-flashy, more attention-grabbing devices like the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook, ASUS Chromebook Flip C436, and the surprisingly-affordable Chromebook Duet. It’s rare that […]
This week has been full of news surrounding the release and availability of the upcoming Lenovo Flex 5 Chromebook. From the Core i3 model actually going up for sale to Canadian availability to our podcast conversation being primarily about Lenovo’s current hardware position in the Chromebook market, the Flex 5 has simply dominated our attention […]
