Google’s upcoming Android Q may add a system-wide dark mode. “Dark mode is an approved Q feature,” Google’s Lukasz Zbylut wrote in the Chromium bug tracker, according to Android Police. “The Q team wants to ensure that all preloaded apps support dark mode natively. In order to ship dark mode successfully, we need all UI elements …
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Making its debut at CES 2019, the HP Chromebook 14 is the world’s first AMD-powered Chromebook running on either an AMD A4 or A6 processor with integrated Radeon R4 or R5 graphics. Chromebooks — laptops that run on Google’s web-based Chrome OS — are a growing part of the global PC market. AMD’s processors typically offer more value than competitor …
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Acer has been an active player on the Chromebook scene for years, and has regularly stretched the conventions of the category. In 2015, the company introduced the first Chromebook OS laptop with a 15.6-inch display — a size that has become common since. And with the new Chromebook 315, announced today at CES, Acer has another breakthrough under its proverbial belt: …
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On Thursday, Asus debuted its Chromebook Education series, a range of different Chrome OS devices designed for use in the classroom. Enlarge Image Specs of the Asus Chromebooks and convertible. Asus The announcement covered the Asus Chromebook C204 and Asus Chromebook C403 (both clamshell laptops), the Asus Chromebook Flip C214 convertible and Asus Chromebook Tablet CT100. While Asus has released …
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Google is letting you doodle within its Chrome browser with a simple app. You can go to Canvas using canvas.apps.chrome and start drawing immediately, as previously reported by Chrome Unboxed. It’s pretty straightforward — you can choose among pencil, ink pen, marker, chalk and eraser, then pick any hex color. This gives you a massive range of palettes. Your drawing …
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Starting Tuesday, Firefox will nudge you to try out options designed to make the web more interesting, more useful or more productive. Mozilla’s new Firefox 64 keeps an eye on what you’re up to and prompts you to try extensions and features that could help you with that activity, the browser maker said. For example, if you open the same …
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Microsoft’s Chromium-based Edge refresh will most likely support existing Chrome extensions, a developer revealed. That’ll give you access to a massive library of browser customization options as Edge moves toward Google’s open-source project. “It’s our intention to support existing Chrome extensions,” Microsoft’s Kyle Alden wrote on Reddit, as previously reported by Thurrott. Now playing: Watch this: How Chrome changed web …
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Borrowing Google’s open-source Chrome browser technology is popular these days. One day after Microsoft announced it’s ditching its own EdgeHTML core and rebuilding its Edge browser on Google’s rival Chromium project instead, rival Brave said it’s completed its own move to a tighter integration with the software. When Brave launched two years ago, it used its own interface software, but …
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Microsoft will rebuild its Edge browser on Google’s Chromium software, the company said Thursday, a move that expands the search giant’s dominance over the web. Microsoft confirmed in a blog post that it’ll start using Google’s open-source project, which sits at the heart of the Chrome browser. It said the shift will take place over the next year. The company billed the change, which had …
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Mozilla is building a version of its Firefox web browser for Windows 10 personal computers using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors, a move that boosts the chipmaker’s efforts to challenge Intel’s dominance. Most PCs these days use Intel’s x86 family of processors, though a small fraction come with AMD chips that can run the same software. But Qualcomm, smelling blood in the …
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