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During an “Ask Me Anything (AMA)” session on the Youtube Music Help site recently, a Community Manager for Team Youtube took time to answer some questions directly. In addition to Canada getting free background listening soon, the Youtube Music app will soon restrict non-paying members to audio-only content. For those who haven’t tried yet, you […]
Back in April, Ruku called out Google in an abrasive email, threatening to no longer carry Youtube TV on its devices. Shortly afterward, it followed up on those threats, and did exactly that, stating that Google had basically become a monopolistic bully for imposing its marketing presence over its competitors in unfair ways. In a […]
The Chrome OS development team is looking for more impactful ways to get feedback from its beta testers and to share new updates with them. To do this, it’s launching the Chrome OS Beta Community, which is appropriately named. Tomorrow, on October 21, 2021, it will host a Youtube live event to break down the […]
With the overwhelming amount of digital meetings and collaboration that has become the new normal thanks to the global pandemic, it can be very easy to become overwhelmed. Google has previously baked Time Insights into Calendar to help you see where you’re spending your time and how often you’re sitting in calls, but that only […]
Google Workspace has been built out over the past year to become the future of work, and Google itself is putting in overtime to add useful features and tools for increased productivity and collaboration. Now, a new universal @ menu will let you mention and insert people, content, and events anywhere in your document. Simply […]
Google just finished revealing its Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro phones, and with it, a new subscription. Don’t worry, this one isn’t exactly new. Pixel Pass actually combines many of your existing Google subscriptions into one bundle so that you can manage it all in one place and with one payment each month. Pixel […]
Discovered by XDA Developers‘ own Mishaal Rahman, the much-discussed Eche app for phone screen mirroring is now making an appearance in Chrome OS Canary. The new feature will reside on the user’s shelf via the Phone Hub which connects their phone to their Chromebook when enabled. Mishaal encountered the new “Recently used apps” section in […]
The new Side Panel experiment that Google has rolled out to the Chrome browser is fast evolving into a useful tool. Not only does it house your bookmarks and Reading list items, but Google Lens integration recently joined in the mix when using it on desktop. One thing I’ve always felt though is that it’s […]
If you’re accustomed to browsing several pages to find what you need on Google Search using your phone, you’ll probably have noticed already that you no longer need to click to navigate between each new page of results. Google has officially rolled out “Continuous scrolling“, bringing Search into the 21st century. Earlier this year, the […]
First communicated last August, Google set in motion a timeline for its plans to kill off traditional Chrome Apps on Chrome OS. Now, it’s amending that timeline based on Enterprise customer feedback and extending the deadline by at least three years. Originally, general support for Chrome Apps for Google’s laptop operating system was supposed to […]
Now that Chrome OS is shifting to a 4-week update schedule instead of 6-weeks, we’re going to start seeing features and bug fixes roll out much faster than ever before. The development team made this decision believing that they’ve found a comfortable cadence for pushing the operating system forward while maintaining its stability. With that […]
First discovered by 9to5Google, the ability to change your Chrome OS wallpaper directly using Google Photos may soon be inbound as a feature. Kyle Bradshaw discovered a new Chromium Repository feature flag that’s being developed that will integrate the popular photo storage and sharing service directly into the Wallpaper picker. Add feature flag for Google […]
