Stadia is adding three awesome, new indie titles to its lineup soon. In its Community blog post, it made sure to state that these are “active, current publishers excited to bring more of their titles to players”. This is probably specifically targeting naysayers who have stated Google is only adding old, dead games to the […]
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Adaptive Charging for ChromeOS learns your battery charging habits: Now available in Canary
All the way back in January, we reported on a new ‘Adaptive Charging’ feature for Chromebooks. Essentially, Google wants to bring the same intelligent capability from Pixel and Android for your device to learn your battery usage and charging habits to its laptops. At the time, it was just a Chromium repository commit, but now, […]
Continue ReadingPixel and Android phones could soon detect when you snore or cough because why not
The second-generation Nest Hub in the past has added many health tracking features including the ability to detect when you’re snoring when noise occurs in your environment while you sleep, and well, how you’re sleeping overall. This is possible because the device’s sensors capture and process information securely on the device without sending anything to […]
Continue ReadingChromeOS 102 arrives with better note-taking, accessibility improvements and more
While not precisely when scheduled, Google has officially announced the release of ChromeOS version 102 and it should be rolling out to eligible devices over the next few days. This release is relatively light in the features department but I think that you’ll find the updates are very welcome and quite useful on many fronts. […]
Continue ReadingUnboxing the most powerful ARM Chromebook yet: The Acer Spin 513
You’ll likely recall that we had hands-on time with the new Acer Chromebook Spin 513 back in January for CES 2022. At the time, we couldn’t benchmark it, we couldn’t show you too much of it and we knew that the hardware was unfinished and pre-production. The Spin 513 we have here today is anything […]
Continue ReadingYou can now copy and paste files across Google Drive instead of having to use the ‘Move’ option
Before Google cleaned up Drive’s duplicate, messy file structure, pretty much all users had multiple versions of the same file in many locations, making it nearly impossible to manage. Now that they’ve gone through and turned these into what can basically be considered arrows or shortcuts pointing to the original file, Google is allowing you […]
Continue ReadingThis upcoming change to Gboard would have made my time with the Galaxy Fold much better
A few months back, I tested the foldable phone waters a bit more extensively by spending some time with the Samsung Galaxy Fold 3. I’d considered it quite a few times over the years, testing the original Galaxy Fold and the original Surface Duo for only a few days each before deciding both of those […]
Continue ReadingYour Nest Hub will now show the date, time, and weather all at once on the standby screen
Appearing on version 46.32.13.418036576 and Cast firmware version 1.56.290464 of the second-generation Google Nest Hub, as well as on the JBL Link View as per 9to5Google, the time, date, and weather will all now appear simultaneously on the bottom-left of the device homescreen! As you can see in the image above, all three are present […]
Continue ReadingIt looks like your Chrome Tab Groups are no longer planned to be stuffed into the Side Panel
We’ve been tracking with the changes Google is making to the Chrome browser’s Side Panel feature for some time now and have seen it evolve over the course of its development. Instead of simply storing bookmarks, it also gained the ability to house Read Later or rather “Read Anything” items, and even Google Lens. Up […]
Continue ReadingChrome Canary begins showing interactive tutorial for creating and managing Tab Groups
A new update to the Chrome Canary browser on desktop shows off a new interactive tutorial that Google is trying out. The tutorial is meant to onboard users to its Chrome Tab Groups feature. Tab Groups allow you to group together browser tabs, give them a color and a name, and even collapse them to […]
Continue ReadingIt looks like we might be waiting a while on Google’s first Pixel foldable
Go ahead and mark me down as not surprised on this one. While I’ve been pretty vocal about wanting a Pixel-branded folding device, the fact that nothing was mentioned about the so-called Pixel Notepad at Google I/O 2022 amidst a wave of new hardware told me all I needed to know. If Google was ready […]
Continue ReadingThe Chromebook virtual keyboard is getting a Material You makeover
It’s been quite some time since the look of the built-in ChromeOS virtual keyboard got a new look. Back in 2020, Google gave it an overhaul and made it decidedly more Gboard-esque, but little has changed since then. Two years later, it seems they are ready to try out a fresher, more Material You look […]
Continue ReadingHow to use the VLOOKUP function in Google Sheets to find things in a table or range by row
Google Sheets is powerful. It’s not as powerful in some ways as Microsoft Excel has become over the past four decades, but it’s stuffed full of functions – Google’s name for formulas – and these can be used to turn the spreadsheet service into a powerhouse for data organization and analysis. Today, I’m going to […]
Continue ReadingSearch with Google Lens in Chrome’s side panel without needing to leave the tab you’re on
Google Lens is an extremely powerful image recognition software that Google has created for Android and uses computer vision and machine learning in order to find similar images across the web. It’s now available on Chrome for desktop as many of you are aware based on our past coverage. However, up until now, right-clicking any […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Maps’ Street View celebrates its 15 anniversary with a new camera and new features
Street View on Google Maps launched fifteen years ago today, and it is celebrating this monumental occasion with the release of new features and a brand new camera. This new camera weighs less than fifteen pounds. It is roughly the size of a house cat, making it highly portable, shippable, and customizable, making it possible […]
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