As part of their effort to speed up release cycles , Google no longer likes to acknowledge in a big way when they update Chrome. They’re simply doing it too often for it to mean much. But today they’ve taken a bit of time to  acknowledge an update to both Chrome and Chrome OS, in part because they were able to quash a big bug

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Chrome, Chrome OS Updated With First “Elite” Bug Squashed

Do you smell that? Just wait a second. You will

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So Google, You’ll Be Dropping Support For Flash Next, Right?

I’ve always been a big advocate of storing things in the cloud. Not just emails and files, but my entire life.

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Why I’m Having Second Thoughts About The Wisdom Of The Cloud

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