Google News Archives

Google released the latest beta of the Chrome/Chromium web-browser today. Chrome 65 Beta isn't as exciting as some past browser updates, but there are still some new additions to note.

Google's cpu_features library makes it easier for detecting modern CPU capabilities like FMA, SSE, and AVX extensions when writing hand-tuned code.

Google's WebM folks quietly released libvpx 1.7.0 earlier this week as the latest version of their VP8/VP9 encoder/decoder library.

If the release of Firefox 58 yesterday didn't excite you, Google has today rolled out to stable channel the Chrome 64.0 web-browser.

We're finally getting actual technical details on the CPU vulnerability leading to the recent race around (K)PTI that when corrected may lead to slower performance in certain situations. Google has revealed they uncovered the issue last year and have now provided some technical bits.

Ahead of the holidays Google has pushed out the Chrome 64 beta to all supported platforms.

Back in March we wrote about GAPID as a new Google-developed Vulkan debugger in its early stages. Fast forward to today, GAPID 1.0 has been released for debugging Vulkan apps/games on Linux/Windows/Android as well as OpenGL ES on Android.

Ahead of the weekend, the beta of Chrome 63 is now available for all supported platforms.

Even Google is concerned about attack vectors with UEFI and Intel's Management Engine that their NERF project seeks to alleviate some of these concerns and is used by their servers.

Google today has pushed out Android Studio 3.0 as the latest stable release of this integrated development environment for their mobile operating system.

Google has released Chromium/Chrome 62 as the latest update to its widely-used web browser.

Landing in the Chromium browser code-base this morning is a JPEG encode accelerator interface.

Google's Chrome has offered virtual reality support for a while and most recently will even let you browse the web in VR while the Linux support has lagged behind.

Google has rolled out their public beta of the upcoming Chrome/Chromium 62 web-browser update.

For those looking to follow the development of Google's Fuchsia operating system that is written from scratch, it's low-level Magenta core has been renamed to Zircon.

Chrome/Chromium supports GPU sandboxing for security purposes and now it will work fine with the AMD graphics on Linux.

Google has announced the availability today of the Android Native Development Kit (NDK) Release 16. This release is worth mentioning in that Google is now encouraging developers to start using libc++ as their C++ standard library.

Google has pushed Chrome 61 into the stable channel today as the latest release of their cross-platform web browser.

Version 1.9 of Google's Go programming language is now available for developers.

Google has today announced Chrome Enterprise as a subscription service to take Chrome OS and Chromebooks into more work environments.

Google has announced the release of Android 8.0. Formally known as "Android O", the tasty codename has been revealed as Oreo.

Google today is shipping the beta version of the upcoming Chrome 61 web-browser release.

Google's Chrome/Chromium web-browser has now enabled support by default for OpenType Variable Fonts.

It looks like Chrome on the Linux desktop could finally be seeing Intel GPU video acceleration support with the web browser having patches pending for VA-API.

The Google team responsible for the Go programming language have begun publicly discussing plans and ideas for the Go 2.0 programming language.

The latest Google Chromium Git code has enabled its GPU scheduler by default.

Following last week's Chrome 59 debut, Chrome 60 is now in beta.

Google's newest open-source project is called Lullaby.

With Chrome 59's stable release this week, Google's attention is shifting to Chrome 60 that is currently in beta and then Chrome 61 that is in development.

Google is looking at potentially supporting Btrfs on Android devices.

Google's Brotli compression format is nearing its big 1.0 release.

Google promoted Chrome 59 to the stable channel today for Linux, macOS, and Windows. This is an exciting update for Linux users.

The Portable Native Client (PNaCl) ecosystem hasn't been too vibrant for executing native code in web-browsers given its lack of adoption outside of Google/Chrome and other factors. With WebAssembly seeing much broader adoption and inroads, Google is planning to end PNaCl.

It seems Google is working on a new Go language compiler that's making use of the LLVM compiler infrastructure.

Some additional Android news from Google I/O 2017 is the first preview (Canary 1) release of the Android Studio 3.0 integrated development environment.

To no surprise, there's plenty of Android news at Google's I/O 2017 conference that kicked off today.

The Chrome/Chromium web-browser now has a GPU service scheduler.

In addition to today marking the announcement of the accepted Outreachy 2017 summer projects, Google also announced today the participants for this year's Google Summer of Code.

The Chromium/Chrome web-browser should now be seeing GTK3 support flipped on for those relying upon 32-bit builds.

Not long after the Firefox 53 release, Google has promoted Chrome 58 to stable.

Chrome 59 stable isn't expected until early June, but when this release comes it will bring with it an interesting feature: a headless mode.

A new, unofficial project at Google is XRTL, creating a cross-platform real-time rendering library, with support for Vulkan and other graphics APIs.

Landing today within Git for Google's Chrome/Chromium web-browser is initial support for supporting native desktop notifications under Linux.

A Phoronix reader pointed out that last month Google developers landed some significant multi-threading performance improvements into their official VP9 video encoder.

For student developers wishing to look for an interesting summer project while being paid by Google, the GSoC application deadlines are on Monday, 3 April. Sadly, the X.Org/Wayland/Mesa turnout so far for applicants are very low.

Google's Chrome / Chromium web-browser has added a native glTF 1.0 parser. The GL Transmission Format, of course, being Khronos' "3D asset delivery format" for dealing with compressed scenes and assets by WebGL, OpenGL ES, and other APIs.

Google is working on Android Studio support atop Chrome OS. With this official Android integrated development environment on Chrome OS, could it make Chromebooks/Chromeboxes a great platform for Android development?

Google developers are busy today not only with the Android O Developer Preview but the Chrome team has delivered the first public beta for the upcoming Chrome 58.0.

The first public developer preview is now available for Google's upcoming Android "O" operating system.

Google has announced Guetzli, not a German cookie, but rather a new open-source algorithm for creating high-quality JPEGs that are 35% smaller than currently available methods.