News and notes on the latest from Google.
Today, Google announced a new way to browse in Chrome. Using a Google Daydream View or Lenovo Mirage Solo, you can interact with the web while in VR. With built-in features such as bookmarking, incognito mode, and sharing, you can sit back and browse the web in a cinematic view.
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Did you know you could use Morse code to type on Gboard? Google’s smart keyboard team recently partnered with Tania Finlayson, a developer who suffered from paraplegia, to teach and bring accessibility communication to the world. Continue reading “Learn Morse code with Gboard and Chrome Experiments”
Spectre and Meltdown are catastrophic vulnerabilities that affected all modern processors. They were so severe that Intel decided to pay out a $100,000 bug bounty. Software patches for it are available, but they impact system performance. Google is fixing the vulnerability for Chrome, but it will make it use more RAM than ever before.
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Google Chrome has kept the same design for quite a while now, but Google is now making tweaks to it. After changing Gmail and Google Drive’s web-design to match the new Material Design, Google is doing it for Chrome too.
Continue reading “[Update: More changes] Google is tweaking Chrome’s design”
If you were upset about the recent removal of the “View Image” button on Google’s image search engine, you’ll be happy to know a workaround has recently popped up. Specifically, a new Chrome Extension can be installed to generate the same old button that allows you to find an image and view it directly.
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When it comes to an infected computer, there is not much a person can do except to try and clean it up. However, if there are tools that help you do that, it makes your duty much easier. Let’s face it: ad revenue is important to all web publishers. It’s important to us as well.
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You fix one thing, you break another. Just when we thought the Yahoo Answers “infinite scroll” bug was done and dusted, it seems to have sprung back up again; this time, on Android.
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A little over a week ago, we brought attention to the “infinite scroll” bug on Yahoo Answers where, if using Chrome, answers would fly straight down the page before you could even glance at them. After being a known bug for nearly two years now and Yahoo not bothering to do anything whatsoever about it, I’ve scavenged the internet and finally found a simple solution to this mess.
Love it or hate it, you can’t deny that Yahoo Answers has come in handy at least once in your life. However, the point of this article is not to discuss how we feel about the service in general; rather, it’s to talk about a bug that I’ve noticed in Chrome for quite some time now: “infinite scrolling.”
