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Google I/O Rumours: What’s Next For Android, Chrome, Nexus, And More

Google I/O, the company’s mammoth annual developer hoopla, goes down this week. Here’s what you can expect to hear from Google during Wednesday’s three-hour keynote extravaganza.


You Can Download Any Spotify Song As An MP3 With This Chrome Extension

At long last, Spotify has launched the web extension it introduced last year. Unfortunately, it left a gaping security vulnerability that leaves the songs wide-open to download with a simple Chrome extension. UPDATED.


Google Experiments With A New Launcher And Ditching The Black Bar

There’s a new, cleaner Google web interface being tested right now. It does away with the black bar in favour of nicking the Chrome OS and Android grid icon and using it to populate a nice little white dropdown menu.


Google Forking WebKit To Create New Rendering Engine

Google announced last night that it’s going to stop using WebKit — the rendering engine currently used by the likes of Safari and Chrome to display web pages — in favour of its own solution, which will be called Blink.


Latest Chrome Experiment Turns Websites Into A Playable Marble Maze

If your favourite websites just aren’t as captivating as they used to be, the latest Chrome experiment should breathe some life back into them. Just feed it a website, and the World Wide Maze will automatically deconstruct and turn it into a 3D marble maze that can be controlled using your smartphone’s accelerometer.


Eric Schmidt Says Chrome OS And Android Aren’t On A Collision Course

When Andy Rubin left Android last week and was replaced by VP of Chrome and Apps Sundar Pichai, there were a thousand theories as to why. Every single one of those theories lead to Android and Chrome OS just begging to be merged. Well, Eric Schmidt has a rebuttal for you.


Chrome And Android’s Excellent Collision Course

Andy Rubin left Android, and Chrome and Apps boss Sundar Pichai is taking over. Desktop melts into mobile. It’s a familiar dance, following iOS and OS X and the whole Windows 8 philosophy down the same convergence rabbit hole. But this one is a little different.


Reign In Your Gazillion Browser Tabs With This Handy Chrome Extension

Tabs, tabs, tabs. They somehow grow like a virus in your browser window. The more squeeze in, the more you STRESS OUT. OneTab offers a simple solution.


Google Chrome Is Blocking A Bunch Of Major Sites For Malware, Even YouTube

If you were just cruising around the web today and got hit smack in the face with a Google Chrome malware error, you weren’t the only one. A whole number of sites from such as imgur, DeviantArt, The San Francisco Chronicle and YouTube were blocked for many users citing malware from us.bernerverein.ch.


Google May Be Building Its Own Chromebook With A Crazy Display

Google looks to be doing with its Chromebook laptops what it did with tablets and smartphones in the Nexus program: taking it in-house and making it better. That is if a new video purporting to be from Google is to be believed saying the company is making a crazy, high-resolution Chromebook for us all.