A year after its official launch, Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service is close to completing its expansion to support every platform. Just last week the beta of the service became available for Chrome on Windows and Mac, and on Thursday the company announced the app will work on Apple Macs that use the new …
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Apple has added support for speech recognition technology into a version of its Safari web browser the company is testing with the release of MacOS 11.3 Big Sur for developers. The speech recognition interface lets websites and web apps listen to spoken words and use the resulting text. Apple released the developer beta version of MacOS 11.3 on Tuesday. The …
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Nvidia this week added Chrome browser support for its game streaming service GeForce Now. According to release notes, beta support for GeForce Now gaming on Google’s browser is now available for Windows and Mac users. GeForce Now via Chrome browser has also added a way to create bookmarks and shortcuts for your favorite games. To do this, just click on …
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With Mozilla’s release of Firefox 85 on Tuesday, Adobe’s once ubiquitous Flash technology is really gone for good. The software had been widely used to expand gaming, video and animation on the web, though Adobe stopped supporting it at the end of 2020. Firefox was the last major browser to support Flash. Apple, whose late boss Steve Jobs helped sink Flash …
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Transcription service Otter has launched a Chrome extension that will allow groups of co-workers to keep automatic notes on meetings through Google Chat. Otter already offers a similar service for Zoom. Google Chat already has a live captioning feature, but Otter’s big draw is its editable transcript that the whole team can access and alter during and after the meeting, …
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Acer’s going after the Chromebook education market. On Tuesday the computer added two new classroom-focused Chromebooks to its lineup, what it calls the Chromebook Spin 511 and Chromebook Spin 512 laptops. The two devices, both of which feature 360-degree hinges to flip the screen around into a tablet mode, run on Google’s Chrome OS platform and feature an antimicrobial Gorilla …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. The Samsung Galaxy Chromebook is a beautiful 13.3-inch Chrome OS two-in-one with a gorgeous 4K-resolution AMOLED display and a strong Intel Core i5 processor. It’s also $1,000 and has a relatively short battery life compared to some of its less costly competition. …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Acer approaches CES 2021 with its first AMD-based Chromebook, the 14-inch $480 Chromebook Spin 514, and its twin spin-off, the $750 Chromebook Enterprise Spin 514. A variation on the clamshell Chromebook 514, the Spin model has a similar design, but with improved …
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With the next version of Chrome, Google is moving ahead with a plan to improve privacy and security by reining in some abilities of extensions used to customize the browser. The move had angered some developers who expected earlier it would cripple ad blockers. Manifest v3, the programming interface behind Google’s security plans, will arrive with Chrome 88 in mid-January, …
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Google is loosening control over the core of its Chrome browser, a move that helps Microsoft, Samsung and Brave build competitors while advancing the search giant’s vision of the web. Over the past six months, Google welcomed a new outside developer into the leadership of its Chromium project, the software that powers the similarly named browser. The Alphabet subsidiary is …
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