OnePlus 5T Launched
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 17th of November 2017 10:17:25 PM Filed under

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OnePlus 5T Keeps the Headphone Jack, Introduces Face Unlock and Parallel Apps
Five months after it launched its OnePlus 5 flagship Android smartphone, OnePlus unveiled today its successor, the OnePlus 5T, running the latest Android 8.0 (Oreo) mobile OS.
OnePlus held a live event today in New York City to tell us all about the new features it implemented in the OnePlus 5T, and they don't disappoint as the smartphone features a gorgeous and bright 6.0-inches Optic AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with multitouch, a 1080x2160 pixels resolution, 18:9 ratio, and approximately 402 PPI density. The design has been changed a bit as well for OnePlus 5T, which is made of anodized aluminum.
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OnePlus 5T Launched: Comes With Bigger Screen, Better Dual Camera, And Face Unlock
Whenever costly phones like iPhone X or Google Pixel 2 are bashed (here and here) and their alternatives are discussed, OnePlus is always mentioned. In the past few years, the company has amassed a fan base that has found the concept of “Never Settle” impressive.
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Split Screen is Coming to Google's Pixelbook Chromebook, Here's a Sneak Peek
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 14th of November 2017 04:59:14 AM Filed under


Good news for PixelBook owners today as Chromium evangelist at Google François Beaufort informs the community via his Google+ page that split screen support is coming to the Chromebook Pixel.
In an attempt to improve the multitasking capabilities of Chromebooks, Google implemented split screen support in the latest Chrome OS Dev channel via a new flag called "Split view in Tablet mode," which can be enabled only on the Google Pixelbook.
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Chromebooks Run Chrome OS, GNU/Linux (e.g. Crouton), and 'Windows' (CrossOver)
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 7th of November 2017 09:24:59 PM Filed under


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CrossOver on Chrome OS Beta app lets you run (some) Windows apps on (some) Chromebooks
CrossOver is a software tool that lets you run some Windows applications on non-Windows operating systems, including GNU/Linux and macOS. Last year the developers behind CrossOver launched the first technical preview for Android and Chrome OS.
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CrossOver Now Lets You Run Windows Apps On Chrome OS
CodeWeavers has now announced the availability of their Wine-powered CrossOver software for Chrome OS.
CrossOver for Chrome OS allows you to run Windows games/applications on Google's Chromebook/Chromebox devices. CrossOver is available via the Google Play store on Chrome OS.
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Android/Google/Samsung
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 3rd of November 2017 11:29:52 AM Filed under

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Chromium in Slackware, New Chrome Beta
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 31st of October 2017 12:20:52 AM Filed under

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[Slackware] Chromium is now compiled using clang
In my previous blog post about Chromium 62, I described the issues I had while attempting to compile it on Slackware14.2. The gcc compiler suite on Slackware 14.2 is “too old” for Chromium because it lacks the required C++11 support. More to the point, the Google developers use clang instead of gcc for their own compilations and therefore gcc support is becoming stale. Response by Google developers when they encounter a gcc-related bug report is to ‘please switch to clang’.
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Google Pushes Chrome 63 Into Beta with Dynamic Module Imports, Device Memory API
Google recently pushed the Chrome 63 web browser for beta testing for all supported platforms, giving us a heads up to what we should expect from this release when it hits stable next month.
Google Chrome 63 now lives in the Beta channel pocket, and it can be installed on Chrome OS, Linux, Android, Mac, and Windows operating systems. It promises big changes for developers, including dynamic module imports, a new Device Memory API, permissions UI changes, as well as async generators and iterators.
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Google Pixelbook review: Prepared today for the possible reality of tomorrow
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 26th of October 2017 02:44:37 PM Filed under


Chromebooks may be most popular in the classroom, but Google wants to ride that train out of schools and into the next phase of students' lives. The Pixelbook is the manifestation of that idea, the piece of hardware that combines Google's revamped design aesthetic and Internet-based software with the needs and wants of a younger generation.
Google stopped selling the original Chromebook Pixel, but seemingly only because the company wants to shine the spotlight on its new Chrome OS laptop. No distractions, no other (potentially) cheaper options: if you're someone who grew up using Chrome OS in school, this $999 convertible is the one you should get if you want to continue using Chrome OS later in life.
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Chrome and Mozilla
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 18th of October 2017 11:03:44 PM Filed under


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Google Quietly Releases Chrome 62 to Stable Channel for Linux, Mac, and Windows
Google quietly promoted the Chrome 62 web browser to the stable channel today for desktops, including Mac, GNU/Linux, and Microsoft Windows platforms.
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Chrome 62 Promoted To Stable
Google has released Chromium/Chrome 62 as the latest update to its widely-used web browser.
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Chrome Working On JPEG Encode Accelerator With VA-API/V4L2 Support
Landing in the Chromium browser code-base this morning is a JPEG encode accelerator interface.
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Mozilla brings Microsoft, Google, the W3C, Samsung together to create cross-browser documentation on MDN
Community contributions are at the core of MDN’s success. Thousands of volunteers have helped build and refine MDN over the past 12 years. In this year alone, 8,021 users made 76,203 edits, greatly increasing the scope and quality of the content. Cross-browser documentation contributions include input from writers at Google and Microsoft; Microsoft writers have made more than 5,000 edits so far in 2017. This cross-browser collaboration adds valuable content on browser compatibility and new features of the web platform. Going forward, Microsoft writers will focus their Web API documentation efforts on MDN and will redirect relevant pages from Microsoft Developer Network to MDN.
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A Week-Long Festival for Internet Health
Says Mark Surman, Mozilla’s Executive Director: “The Internet is layered into our lives like we never could have imagined. Access is no longer a luxury — it’s a fundamental part of 21st century life. A virus is no longer a nuisance consigned to a single terminal — it’s an existential threat that can disrupt hospitals, governments and entire cities.”
But much of the Internet’s best nature is flourishing, too. Each day, new communities form despite members being separated by whole continents. Start-ups and artists have access to a global stage. And open-source projects put innovation and inclusion ahead of profit.
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Laptops: Chrome OS and System76
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 18th of October 2017 09:41:14 AM Filed under


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Chrome OS Gets Material Design for "Do Not Disturb," Android-Like Screenshots
Chromium evangelist François Beaufort is sharing today information on a new Material Design refresh for Google's Chrome OS' "Do Not Disturb" mode, which landed in the latest Chrome Canary channel.
According to the developer, the Material Design refresh for the "Do Not Disturb" mode will make the Notification Center look nicer, but also consistent with the Android user experience. Those using the Chrome Canary experimental channel can give it a try right now.
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System76 'Lemur' and 'Galago Pro' Ubuntu Linux laptops get 8th gen Intel Core CPUs
The famed Linux-laptop seller also says, "The Lemur you know and love is now even better with the Intel 8th Gen Coffee Lake CPU with 4 cores and 8 threads, allowing you to multitask up to 40-percent faster. The slim, 3.6 lb laptop with impressive 14.1-inch 1080p IPS display is still your perfect travel companion; easy to carry from meeting to meeting or across campus."
New processors aside, these laptops should be pretty much identical to prior generations -- which is a very good thing. If you want to configure a Lemur with a Coffee Lake chip, you can build your own here. A Galago Pro with an 8th Gen Intel Core processor can be configured here.
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Review: Google Pixel 2
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 17th of October 2017 07:55:28 PM Filed under


If I had to pick the moment I most appreciated the Google Pixel 2, it would be when our airboat driver-slash-tour guide put a hot dog and a piece of raw chicken in his pocket, dove into the New Orleans swamp, and began playing with a giant gator named Who Dat. I’m no social media whiz, but I knew there was Instagram gold unfolding in front of me. So I pulled out my Pixel 2 XL, the larger of Google’s two new models, double-clicked on the power button to open the camera, and started snapping.
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Microsoft is 'Ripping Off' Chromium, Google Chrome Improves GTK Support
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 9th of October 2017 12:18:21 PM Filed under


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Edge in name only: Android and iOS Edge web browser
The Android Edge app, meanwhile. will use the Google's open-source Chromium Blink engine. Microsoft isn't trying to port its Microsoft EdgeHTML rendering engine to either platform.
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Google Chrome Now Uses Native GTK Window Buttons on Linux
Google Chrome now draws native GTK window buttons for minimisze, maximize and close in the latest development builds rather than using custom controls.
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