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One of the fun parts of any update to Chrome OS is hunting around for new feature flags that work well with the latest version of the OS. Experimental feature flags are generally signs of things to come in Chrome and Chrome OS, but actually trying them out can be an exercise in patience and […]
Yesterday was officially World Password Day – a day in which everyone celebrates how passwords have kept us safe by cross-checking their own personal security and strengthening their own passwords so that their data remains safe and sound. In fact, last year, the search query “How strong is my password” was up 300%, according to […]
In honor of all of the hard-working mothers and for Mother’s day, Google Assistant is picking up a handful of new and useful features. First, off, you’ll officially be able to utilize the popular Broadcast feature outside of your home to send quick voice announcements to family members! Previously, this feature was only possible on […]
In March of last year, Adobe released a Workspace add-on that allowed organizations to access and share their Creative Cloud files directly in Gmail. They made it easier to share links to your creative assets with external teams and stakeholders with just a few clicks. Now, a new update to the add-on brings access to […]
A user on Reddit by the name of Leopeva64 (Thanks for the heads up!) made us aware of some pretty significant changes that are coming to your Chrome browser’s global media controls and even provided Chromium Repository commits to reflect these changes. We previously detailed how Google was turning your music controls on their head, […]
This is a small change, but Chrome OS 90 has come with a change that I didn’t fully realize until today and I absolutely love it. Though Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) have carried their icons along with them for some time, pinned web apps that aren’t fully realized as PWAs on Chromebooks have a tendency […]
Starting right now, Google Docs will begin showing you recent edits made to a document, and more importantly, to a specific range of text when you highlight and right-click. If you want to use the menu system above the document, you can highlight some text and then choose ‘Show Editors’ from the dropdown menu. This […]
Google recently redesigned the way you navigate the Play Store menu system, and we’ve heard from several of our readers that they’re ending up a bit confused with the changes. Previously, it featured a left-hand three-line “hamburger menu” that housed your entire library of apps and games, a list of things that needed to be […]
In the near future, your new Chromebook will probably have Google Meet and Chat – the company’s video and messaging applications – pre-installed. In fact, should a new Chromium bug report find its way to the finish line, these two apps could very well be installed by default on all Chrome OS devices, new or […]
The new Google Pay app is gaining steam pretty quickly since its release. Having first been used in India and then rolled out to the United States and other countries, it affords users a new take on a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payments. Today, Google announced that it will soon add three incredibly useful new […]
Ah, the power of the web. Every day, more and more tools are being created or honed to make the web a place for more powerful tools that can increase productivity and release us from the dependency of bloated, locally installed software. While powerful tools such as online video editors like Clipchamp or streaming game […]
Using the state-of-the-art BERT technology, or Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers – a pre-training model for natural language processing that was open-sourced in 2018 – Google is looking to significantly improve the voice recognition and continued conversation technology in Nest speakers and smart displays. To spare you from all of the geeky details, which you […]
