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The next phase of Microsoft’s effort to lure you into using its overhauled Edge web browser begins in your office with an effort to making searching for work information not suck. Today, you’re likely to get useful results if you search the internet for hotels or car repair tips, but a lot of people can’t …

Is a Chromebook a laptop? Is it a budget machine? Is it something you’d just use online? Is it something you’d make your main computer? I can’t entirely answer all these questions, because I haven’t come to terms with them either. I’ve used Chromebooks for years. My kid lives on them at school. I had to work on a Chromebook, …

Slim metal body, large touchpad, expansive 13.3-inch screen. Is it a MacBook Air? Or, a Surface Laptop? No, it’s a Google Pixelbook. Next to Google’s newest Pixel 4 phones, Pixel Buds earbuds and Nest products at Google’s fall hardware event, there’s also a new made-by-Google Chromebook in town. It isn’t a convertible tablet-hybrid or a snap-on-keyboard solution like last year’s Pixel …

HP has unveiled its refreshed Chromebook x360 laptops, with the 12- and 14-inch models getting thinner and lighter. They also now offer USI (Universal Stylus Initiative) pen compatibility. They’ll be available later in September for $359 and $379, respectively, with HP’s rechargeable USI Pen launching in November at a cost of $70. Dubbed by HP as “the best of Chrome …

Google’s Chrome gets a splash of color Thursday and some new ways to get a grip on the browser if you have an overabundance of website tabs open. You can now select the colors that’ll show on the tab strip, the background behind it and the new tab page. The colors are a nice touch if you want to personalize …

The long wait for the Pixel 4 seems to finally be reaching its expected end. Google on Monday invited the media to an event in New York City on Oct. 15 to “come see a few new things Made by Google.”  The invite itself doesn’t reveal too much, but Google has traditionally used its October events to roll out new …

There are a lot of efforts trying to rein in advertising tech that tracks you online, and the newest option is coming from the ad industry itself. The IAB Tech Lab, a partner to the Interactive Advertising Bureau that has long represented online ad companies, proposed a new digital token on Wednesday designed to offer a better balance between advertisers’ …

Mozilla has switched on Firefox’s tracking protection feature for everyone on Windows and Android, dialing up its effort to protect privacy from website publishers and advertisers that would like to keep tabs on your online behavior. Mozilla enabled tracking protection for new Firefox users in June, but now it’s on for everyone, the nonprofit said Tuesday. Tracking protection is all …

Mozilla Chief Executive Chris Beard will resign at the end of 2019 after more than five years of leading the nonprofit behind Firefox. His tenure includes the expansion of the organization’s focus beyond the web browser and a new priority on preserving our privacy against pervasive online tracking. He took over Mozilla in 2014 at a tumultuous time when co-founder …

Chromebooks — laptops that run on Google’s Chrome OS — are a growing part of the global PC market. The devices have consumed a large part of the education market in the past few years and have steadily pushed into the business world. Dell announced Monday the world’s first Chromebook Enterprise two-in-one and laptop to help solidify Chrome OS’ business presence. …