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Google Chrome To Remove Theora Video Codec Support
Google Chrome To Remove Theora Video Codec Support

The Xiph.Org-developed Theora lossy video compression format was once popular for open-source video compression but in an era of VP9 and AV1 its usage has waned. Google engineers are now working to remove Theora support from their Chrome/Chromium web browser.

29 October 2023 - Dropping Theora - 85 Comments
Android 14 Open-Source Project Released
Android 14 Open-Source Project Released

Google formally unveiled Android 14 today in New York City at its Made By Google event. With that, Google has also published the Android 14 Open-Source Project (AOSP).

4 October 2023 - Android 14 AOSP - 23 Comments
Go 2 For "Breaking With The Past" Will Never Come
Go 2 For "Breaking With The Past" Will Never Come

An update on the Go programming language roadmap was shared today that highlights some recent improvements for backward compatibility to Go and why the developers now no longer expect to ever have a "Go 2" release that would break compatibility with existing Go 1.x programs.

14 August 2023 - Go 2 Not Happening - 36 Comments
Google May Reconsider JPEG-XL Image Support Within Chrome
Google May Reconsider JPEG-XL Image Support Within Chrome

Last year Google decided to deprecate JPEG-XL image support within their Chrome/Chromium web browser. They expressed not enough interest and other factors for so quickly removing JPEG-XL support from their browser. They went ahead and removed the support for this next-gen JPEG standard while now a half-year later they may be having second thoughts.

7 August 2023 - JPEG-XL Back In Chrome??? - 60 Comments
Google Revises New Driver For Stadia Controller Rumble Support On Linux
Google Revises New Driver For Stadia Controller Rumble Support On Linux

While Google shutdown their Stadia game streaming service, with updated firmware there is Bluetooth (BLE) support for the controller as well as USB wired connectivity for those wishing to continue using this gaming controller. Google engineers have also been working on a new Linux driver for enabling force feedback "rumble" support with this controller.

10 July 2023 - Force Feedback For Stadia Controller - 3 Comments
Google Limiting IO_uring Use Due To Security Vulnerabilities
Google Limiting IO_uring Use Due To Security Vulnerabilities

While IO_uring has been one of the greatest Linux kernel innovations in recent years for helping to deliver more performant and efficient I/O, it's also been home to various security vulnerabilities. Due to ongoing security issues, this interface for asynchronous I/O is being restricted or outright disabled across Google products.

16 June 2023 - Restricting IO_uring - 15 Comments
Chrome 113 To Ship WebGPU By Default
Chrome 113 To Ship WebGPU By Default

While Chrome 112 just shipped this week and Chrome 113 only in beta, there is already a big reason to look forward to that next Chrome web browser release: Google is finally ready to ship WebGPU support! WebGPU provides the next-generation high performance 3D graphics API for the web.

6 April 2023 - Chrome 113 + WebGPU - 24 Comments
Google Chrome/Chromium Lands Wayland Fractional Scaling Support
Google Chrome/Chromium Lands Wayland Fractional Scaling Support

On top of today seeing the KDE XWaylandVideoBridge announcement, the debut of GNOME 44 with its many Wayland improvements, and XWayland 23.1 being released with multiple new features/improvements, there is more good news for Wayland fans. Google has merged to the Chrome/Chromium Ozone code support for Wayland fractional scaling via the fractional-scale-v1 protocol.

22 March 2023 - fractional-scale-v1 - 36 Comments
libvpx VP8/VP9 1.13 Released With Yet More AVX2 & Arm Neon Optimizations

Google engineers last week released libvpx 1.13 as the newest feature release to this library that serves as the reference software implementation for the VP8 and VP9 codecs. While Google engineers have already spent years tuning libvpx for maximum performance with Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX), the game is not over and v1.13 has yet more tuning there -- along with continued Arm Neon optimizations too.

14 February 2023 - VP9 Encoder - 1 Comment
Google To Allow Rust Code In The Chromium Browser
Google To Allow Rust Code In The Chromium Browser

Google announced today that moving forward they will be allowing Rust code into the Chromium code-base, the open-source project that ultimately served as the basis for their Chrome web browser.

12 January 2023 - Rust Toolchain Being Added - 110 Comments
Google Chrome/Chromium Goes Ahead In Removing JPEG-XL Support
Google Chrome/Chromium Goes Ahead In Removing JPEG-XL Support

Back in October was the surprising move of Google deprecating JPEG-XL support in their Chrome/Chromium web browser. Google engineers argued there wasn't enough interest in JPEG-XL and not sufficient enough benefits over existing formats. Their plan was to remove the JPEG-XL support in Chrome 110 and indeed that has now happened.

11 December 2022 - No More JPEG-XL - 61 Comments
Google Chrome Is Already Preparing To Deprecate JPEG-XL
Google Chrome Is Already Preparing To Deprecate JPEG-XL

JPEG-XL has been looked on rather favorably as a royalty-free, next-generation lossy/lossless image format with much better performance than JPEG. To much surprise, Google Chrome is already making preparations to deprecate JPEG-XL image support in their browser.

29 October 2022 - Chrome Deprecating JPEG-XL - Add A Comment
Google Announces Lyra V2 Low Bit-Rate Voice Codec

Last year Google announced the Lyra voice codec for low bit-rates that combined with the open AV1 codec could lead to voice chats on 56kbps connections. Lyra makes use of machine learning and other techniques for extremely low bit-rate speech compression that can function at 3kbps. Google last year open-sourced the Lyra code while today they announced the availability of Lyra V2.

30 September 2022 - Google Lyra V2 - 18 Comments
Google Shutting Down Its Stadia Game Streaming Service

Back in 2019 Google announced Stadia as their cloud gaming service using Linux, embracing Vulkan, and leveraging AMD graphics. While promising at first, it's been dwindling down and Google announced today they are in the process of shutting down this streaming service.

29 September 2022 - Google Stadia - 87 Comments
Framework Laptop Launches Chromebook Edition With Google
Framework Laptop Launches Chromebook Edition With Google

The Framework Laptop has proven to be very popular with enthusiasts thanks to its focus on the ability for users to make repairs and upgrades to their laptop. Google has even taken notice and they in cooperation with Framework Computer Inc have launched a Chromebook Edition laptop.

21 September 2022 - Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition - 25 Comments
Android 13 Sources Released To AOSP
Android 13 Sources Released To AOSP

Google announced today that the Android 13 sources have been published to the Android Open-Source Project as part of officially releasing this newest version of Android.

15 August 2022 - Android 13 AOSP - 17 Comments

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