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During Google’s Smart Home Developer Summit yesterday, the company made several big announcements, but none were as important as the newly minted and unified platform renaming. Beginning its journey five years ago with Google Assistant and the Google Home, smart home tech has come an incredibly long way, and now encompasses smart displays, lights, locks, […]
It’s been a while since we’ve touched on CrossOver. It’s a commercial product from CodeWeavers, the developers behind Wine and Proton, which allows Windows applications and games to run natively on Linux and macOS. Thankfully the janky old days of CrossOver running on Chromebooks through limited Android integration is now behind us. They have moved […]
At the beginning of the year, Google finally implemented the controversial Manifest v3 for extensions which was created to solve a problem with privacy and data abuse among many other things. After popular tab suspension tool The Great Suspender went rogue after changing hands (this was just one example), Chrome finally decided to do something […]
I’m going to be honest: we’ve put this post off for a very long time. You see, there are certain folks who will undoubtedly get upset when I publish this information because by sharing it, I come across as flippant about the greater Chrome OS community and the issues and trials the Canary Channel (and […]
As we continue to see progressive web apps storm the Play Store in place of traditionally packaged apps, a new development to the PWA install dialogue has been revealed. Upon looking at the image below, you’ll notice that it looks a whole lot like a Google Play Store app listing. It has a description, an […]
Google has a team of vulnerability researchers who work around the clock to find holes in Chrome, the Google Play Store, Android, and more, and that hasn’t changed despite the pandemic. Google recently took time to detail how much money it has paid out to researchers in 2020 via its Vulnerability Rewards Program (VRP). Those […]
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 […]
