Year: 2022

Want to bring your old PC or Mac back to life? You can revive it from the dead with Google ChromeOS Flex.

Google details the benefits of moving from “big bang” OS upgrades to rolling releases. It saved its engineers from burn out.

That means that the official release of Android 13 is just around the corner.

Arm-based chips are already ubiquitous in mobile phones, but they’re becoming more popular in the cloud.

An increased focus on individualized, digital, interactive experiences is the new standard for education.

In a sign of the times and following other tech companies, CEO Sundar Pichai told employees today that Google is “slowing the pace of hiring for the rest of the year.” more… The post Google to slow hiring as Sundar …

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Earlier this year Google signed a temporary deal with Match Group, the company that owns the popular dating app Tinder, which would allow the group’s apps to use third-party billing during a lawsuit. Now, Google has issued a counterclaim against …

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Initially selling for as high as $219, you can now snag this $79 Chromebook for casual browsing, media streaming, and tinkering needs.

Google’s budget-friendly flagship phone is $100 off ahead of Prime Day.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that Google has “proposed splitting parts of its business that auctions and places ads on websites and apps into a separate company under the Alphabet umbrella.” more… The post Report: Google offers to …

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Samsung copies Apple but thinks entertainment is a fine way to get young people to care about privacy. Maybe it is.

Jack Wallen explains the difference between the different ChromeOS channels and how to change from the default.

Google has rolled out a new Docs page layout called Pageless. Jack Wallen has the skinny on this new feature and how to enable it.

Buying things and paying for subscriptions online has been completely normalized and is one of the easiest ways to do so. Google lets you add and keep debit and credit card information stored in your Google Account, so you have …

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There are good reasons why some former iPhone users may choose to go with Android. Google also offers some dubious ones.

In just over an hour I was back up and running.

Even if location history is enabled, visits to locations considered sensitive will be removed from logs.

Google pushes out a fix for Chrome due to a flaw affecting its WebRTC stack in the browser that is under attack.

The amount spent on shared cloud IT infrastructure will overtake spending on traditional IT gear for data centers in 2022 for the first time.

The Google-Samsung relationship has improved a great deal in recent years with the latter often appearing at the former’s keynotes, while there have been joint ad campaigns. The latest highlights a slew of Google services running on Samsung hardware. more… …

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