Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Google Chrome for Android is experimenting with a new interface that puts all controls - including the address bar - at the bottom of the screen. The new interface is enabled by default in Chrome Dev.

The browser-based OS previously could show pages only in full-screen mode, but now Google adopts a more familiar resizable, movable windows and a task bar. Still, are full-screen views the future?

Your Chromebook's got a new and improved way of getting stuff accomplished, and it'll take you all of 20 seconds to turn it on. Google’s Chrome OS software is in a constant state of evolution. And for ...

Google loves to toy with ideas in its products, updating them to apply a change as a test, then upon finding it’s unpopular or not what the company really wanted, undoes them leaving us with the old ...