Thanks to a post yesterday over at the official Google Developers Blog, we can feel quite certain that at least some of the 'significant product updates and announcements' Sundar Pichai referenced in the earnings call earlier this week will be Google Assistant and smart home related and will happen … [Read more...] about Google confirms new Google Assistant product announcements coming at I/O 2021
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Chrome OS devices will soon come with Google Meet and Chat pre-installed
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 … [Read more...] about Chrome OS devices will soon come with Google Meet and Chat pre-installed
New Google Pay features help you save money on groceries, pay for transit, and budget better
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 … [Read more...] about New Google Pay features help you save money on groceries, pay for transit, and budget better
Chrome is getting playback speed controls for its in-built media player
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 … [Read more...] about Chrome is getting playback speed controls for its in-built media player
Nest speakers and smart displays set to improve voice recognition and continued conversation
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 … [Read more...] about Nest speakers and smart displays set to improve voice recognition and continued conversation
A Tiger Lake ASUS Chromebook Flip C436 successor could be on the way
With the recent arrival of the first of many Tiger Lake Chromebooks in the form of the ASUS Chromebook CX5 this week, it only seems fitting that we've uncovered evidence of yet another in development. If you recall from CES 2021, ASUS unveiled 3 new Chromebooks on the way in the CM5, CX5, and CX9. … [Read more...] about A Tiger Lake ASUS Chromebook Flip C436 successor could be on the way
Chromecast with Google TV fixes WiFi and Bluetooth and adds better video controls
While last month's Chromecast with Google TV update focused on improving 4K support and decreased the likelihood that users would have their dongle bricked, the April update, which is rolling out now, seeks to improve security, WiFi, Bluetooth, and more. It's also adding a new menu section for … [Read more...] about Chromecast with Google TV fixes WiFi and Bluetooth and adds better video controls
The Tiger Lake-powered HP Chromebook x360 14c is available and it’s only $619!
About three weeks ago, HP quietly rolled out an updated version of the very popular Chromebook x360 14c. From the looks of it, nothing has changed at all apart from an update to the 11th Gen Tiger Lake Core i3 processor. This is the same CPU that powers the ASUS Chromebook CX5 that we just unboxed … [Read more...] about The Tiger Lake-powered HP Chromebook x360 14c is available and it’s only $619!
ASUS’ AMD-powered Chromebook CM5 is up for pre-order at $499
We got our hands on the latest hardware from ASUS and let's just say, the first-ever Tiger Lake Chromebook is proving to be a beast of a device at half the price of some 10th Gen flagship devices. Personally, I'm holding out for the Chromebook CX9 and its quad-core Core i7 Tiger Lake CPU and Iris Xe … [Read more...] about ASUS’ AMD-powered Chromebook CM5 is up for pre-order at $499
Google CEO Sundar Pichai teases ‘significant product updates and announcements’ ahead of Google I/O
As we are just inside 3 weeks to go before Google's I/O developer conference makes its return after a full cancellation of the event in 2020, Sundar Pichai - Alphabet & Google's CEO - took to prepared remarks in a quarterly earnings call to highlight a few interesting things going on at Google … [Read more...] about Google CEO Sundar Pichai teases ‘significant product updates and announcements’ ahead of Google I/O
Stadia is finally getting a search bar, game sorting, and a social media style activity feed
It's about time! Google Stadia is finally rolling out an official search bar that will help users find games and add-ons. It should be appearing at the top-right of the window for many of you right about now. Go ahead and refresh your 'game console' in order to begin making use of it. We previously … [Read more...] about Stadia is finally getting a search bar, game sorting, and a social media style activity feed
Neverware offers free CloudReady licenses with Chrome EDU or Enterprise Upgrades
Last December, Google acquired the Neverware and along with it, the companies popular software platform that essentially turns aging PCs into Chromebooks. For over half a decade, Neverware's CloudReady software has afforded companies and educational institutions a low-cost solution to utilize the … [Read more...] about Neverware offers free CloudReady licenses with Chrome EDU or Enterprise Upgrades
