I use Google’s services every day, including Google Drive. I use them for work. I wrote this story in Google Docs, in fact. I use them at home, whether using Sheets to map out the summer schedule for my kids, or adding to my ever-expanding folder of recipes — it makes it easy to share …
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Brave, the maker of a popular ad blocking browser, opened on Tuesday a public beta of its privacy-focused search engine, a first step in creating a product that could compete with market titan Google. Brave Search will become the default search engine in the Brave browser later this year. Unlike other new search engines, which generally repackage results from Google …
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This story is part of Amazon Prime Day, CNET’s guide to everything you need to know and how to find the best deals. Amazon Prime Day 2021 is entering the home stretch but there are still live deals on Roku streaming devices. If you’ve got an older TV without built-in streaming capabilities, any one of the Rokus spotlighted in this …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s Safari has beaten Google’s Chrome to the punch with extensions that customize your browser on smartphones and tablets. The software add-ons will be available in Apple’s upcoming iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 operating systems, which are expected to arrive this fall. (The …
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Vivaldi has never been afraid to add new options, such as mouse gestures, split-screen tab tiling and customizable keyboard shortcuts, to its web browser. On Wednesday, the Norwegian company unveiled two enormous new features: email and calendar apps. Vivaldi 4.0 sports an email app that lets you read, write and manage email from multiple accounts. It’s in beta testing for …
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The teams behind the Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge browsers have banded together to improve extensions, the add-ons you can download to customize the software. That should mean your extensions will work better and come with a better security foundation to protect you from malware. On Friday, the teams unveiled a discussion and development forum at …
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Google is losing one of its strongest champions of the web. Alex Russell, who has led the Fugu project to make web apps as powerful as those running on Google’s Android or Apple’s iOS software, is leaving the company on Wednesday. Russell announced his departure on Twitter. He’s not quitting in anger or being pushed out. But after 12 years …
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Microsoft Edge will get a speed boost with version 91 this week thanks to a feature called sleeping tabs that gives computing priority to the tabs you’re actively using while pausing others in the background. The new web browser version also will start up faster, the software giant announced at its annual Build developer conference on Tuesday. The changes will …
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Google Chrome is getting a new ability to fix your hacked password fast. It’s standard for web browsers to warn you when your password is found on a list of hacked passwords, but now Google’s browser also will be able to fix it with a tap of a button. When Google spots a vulnerable password, Google Assistant will offer a …
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Google is testing a new experimental Chrome feature that would allow people to get the latest content from the websites they follow using RSS feeds, according to a Wednesday Chromium blog post. By tapping an RSS-powered “Follow” button in Chrome, you could keep up with any site you choose, large or small. When the site publishes content, you’d see updates …
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