I gave Claude access to my Home Assistant. It helped me audit, debug, and improve my smart home better than I ever could have.

Google Trends is a free tool from Google that shows how search interest changes over time. It helps users compare topics, keywords, locations, time ranges, categories, and search types such as web ...

Google patched 30 Chrome vulnerabilities, including four Critical flaws. Here’s what users should know and how to update Chrome and Firefox. Chrome users have 30 new reasons to restart their browser.

Reporting from May 2026 accurately claimed that Google Chrome silently installed a 4-gigabyte artificial intelligence model on users' devices without consent, and that the model reinstalls itself if ...

Google’s Chrome browser is already a notorious storage hog, but now comes word that it’s crowding our PC drives in a new way: with a local AI model. That model ...

The ongoing march of AI features continues to go on, whether you want it to or not, and a recent update to Google Chrome probably installed a few gigabytes of local ...

Summary: Google announced at Cloud Next 2026 that Chrome is becoming an agentic workplace platform with Auto Browse (autonomous multi-step task completion), Chrome Skills (saveable AI workflows), a ...

Google announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out a new way to explore the web with AI Mode, its conversational search experience. Now, when you’re using AI Mode on Chrome desktop, clicking a link ...

Skills turn one-off Gemini prompts into saved, repeatable workflows. Skills run across multiple open tabs, letting you apply the same prompt to different pages. Google is also launching a library of ...

I cover Android with a focus on productivity, automation, and Google’s ecosystem, including Gemini and everyday apps. With a background in engineering and software development, I tend to go beyond ...

When it comes to web browsers, I bet most of us don't really want them to change. Browsing the web has become such an integral part of our lives that any little "upgrade" can feel like a huge hassle ...

Google has started rolling out vertical tabs in Chrome. With vertical tabs, all your open web pages appear in a sidebar. You can more easily see, manage, and work with your open tabs. Vertical tabs ...