Google’s iOS 16 lock screen widgets include a shortcut to Chrome’s Dino game

Apple released iOS 16 earlier today, and one of the more notable features the update introduces is a redesigned lock screen experience. For the first time, Apple is letting you customize the typeface and accent color of on-screen elements like the date and time. Moreover, you can finally add widgets. As of today, there are […]

Google turbo-charging the back button with Chrome’s new “back/forward cache”

Enlarge / Now that’s some shiny chrome. (credit: Marc Ellis / Flickr) Google is developing a new cache for Chrome (via CNET)that should make some page loads extremely fast. The only catch? They’ll have to be pages you’ve already seen and are revisiting after hitting the browser’s back button. Chrome already caches the files that […]

A look at Chrome’s new tab design

Chrome is getting a major redesign soon, and this week new changes have started to land in the Chrome’s nightly “Canary” build. Google is launching a new version of Material Design across its products, called the “Google Material Theme,” and after debuting in Android P and Gmail.com, it’s starting to roll out across other Google’s major […]

Despite Chrome’s pending “mark of shame,” 3 major news sites aren’t HTTPS

Fox News is one of three top news websites that are not encrypting content. In February, Emily Schechter, the Chrome Security Product Manager at Google, announced in a blog post that beginning with the release of Chrome version 68, “Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as ‘not secure’.” This means that Chrome users will see […]

Chrome’s pull-to-refresh starts making its way to Chromebooks

Chrome on Chromebooks and Windows-2-in-1 devices is on its way to becoming more like its sibling on mobile. As lucasban has posted on Reddit, the pull-to-refresh gesture is now available on the browser’s developer channel for those platforms. While the feature might not make that much of a difference as it does on mobile — […]