Hi everyone! We've just released Chrome Beta 120 (120.0.6099.16) for iOS; it'll become available on App Store in the next few days.
You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.
Harry Souders
Google Chrome
After sharing tons of teasers and behind-the-scenes footage over the past few weeks, we’re excited to announce that our very first Demo Day is finally here! Today, we released 10 demos (i.e. pre-recorded short videos) alongside technical resources to show you what’s new, what’s possible, and how you can solve your biggest app development challenges with Firebase. You don’t want to miss this peek at the future of Firebase!
Tune in from anywhere, at any time to check out the demos at your own pace.
The demos are designed to help you build and run full stack apps faster, harness the power of AI to work smarter and build engaging experiences, and use Google technology and tools together to be more productive.
AI has everyone buzzing, but are you wondering how to practically use it in your app development workflow? You won’t want to miss these demos:
We also worked closely with our friends across Google, including Flutter and Project IDX (to name a few) to demo integrated solutions from your favorite Google products so you get a seamless development experience. Check them out:
And last but not least, we’re committed to helping you improve all parts of app development. Watch these demos on strengthening app security, releasing safely and reducing risk, and automating and scaling your infrastructure. We’ve even added new quality-of-life features and given the Firebase console a highly-requested makeover that’ll take you to the dark side.
Check out the demos and then join the conversation on X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn using #FirebaseDemoDay to ask questions, give us feedback, and see what the rest of the community is saying.
Hi, everyone! We've just released Chrome 119 (119.0.6045.134) for Android: it'll become available on Google Play over the next few days.
This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.The Beta channel has been updated to 120.0.6099.18 for Windows, Mac and Linux.
A partial list of changes is available in the Git log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.
Srinivas Sista
Google Chrome
The 8 Gig plan includes symmetrical upload and download speeds up to 8,000 Mbps, a Wi-Fi 6 router (or you can use your own), up to 2 mesh extenders for strong WI-Fi coverage, and professional installation with GFiber’s dedicated customer service.
Huntsville is a city that’s always been on the cutting edge of technology, and GFiber has loved being a part of the story of innovation that drives the city. We can’t wait to see what happens when our customers put all that speed to use, whether it’s multi-stream streaming, speed-of-thought gaming, big data uploads and downloads, or something we can’t even imagine. We know big things are happening in Huntsville — and they can happen even faster with GFiber 8 Gig.
Posted by Nick Saporito, Head of Product
Learn more from this hands-on review of the Google Pixel 8 Pro.
Generative AI in Search, or Search Generative Experience (SGE), is expanding around the world, and adding four new languages.
In November 2020, we launched our Open Source MPW Shuttle Program to make it easier for researchers and developers to build custom silicon and to enable a thriving ecosystem around open source hardware. Working with our partner, SkyWater Technology, we released the first foundry-supported open source process design kit (PDK) for their 130nm mixed-signal CMOS technology (SKY130), then welcomed GlobalFoundries as a partner with the release of an open source PDK for their 180nm MCU process (GF180MCU).
Then, to give researchers and developers a way to validate and prove their designs made with the PDKs, we partnered with Efabless to fund a series of no-cost manufacturing shuttles for open source designs. In support of this program, Efabless released an end-to-end RTL to GDS design stack called OpenLane that is open source, freely available, and fully supported by their manufacturing platform. OpenLane is now being maintained as part of the OpenROAD Project. When combined with open source PDKs, a design’s verification results can now be freely shared and easily replicated by other researchers and developers, which has enabled a new collaborative model to evaluate and iterate on ideas.
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| Pictures of a full wafer from the first SKY130 shuttle, a tray of bare dies, and a project bring-up from SKY130 MPW-2. |
The Open Source MPW Shuttle Program has been a success and we’re excited by the growth we’ve seen in this ecosystem. Since its inception, the program has launched eight shuttle runs on SKY130 and an initial test run on GF180MCU, the last of which are being packaged now. With 40 slots per shuttle, we’ve manufactured 360 designs out of over 600 submissions from 19 countries around the world.
The program has also fostered collaboration between the open source community and Google. We’ve learned valuable lessons from designers who participated in the program giving feedback and filing hundreds of bugs and pull requests. These have helped to improve each successive run and to make the platforms and tools more feature-complete.
Elsewhere in the ecosystem, we’re excited by the release of new open source PDKs from foundries like the 130nm BiCMOS process from IHP, the SOI-CMOS PDK from Minimal Fab, and also by the publication of new semiconductor research using open source PDKs. Multiple universities have incorporated open source PDKs into their curriculum, and last year, NIST adopted the SKY130 PDK to migrate their existing planarized wafer designs for nanotechnology research.
We’ve just launched a new MPW-1 shuttle for GF180MCU in our partnership with Efabless. Submissions will be accepted until December 11th, targeting delivery in early 2024.
The open source silicon ecosystem is continuing to grow and evolve. After GF180 MPW-1 concludes, the open source SKY130 and GF180MCU PDKs will be joining the Linux Foundation’s CHIPS Alliance under a new working group to foster continued open source PDK development, and we expect future PDK releases will join as well. This will help with the transition to a broader governance model that enables more participation by industry, academia and the community, opening the possibility for larger shuttle programs with multiple sponsors as the ecosystem continues to grow.
Low-cost manufacturing options will continue to be available through this transition, both through commercial shuttle offerings like Efabless’ ChipIgnite program and also through educational efforts like TinyTapeout.
Lastly, we’d like to thank the open source community. Your feedback has been invaluable to the success so far, and has helped to improve the tools and documentation to be more user-friendly. We have also seen contributions from the community in the form of hundreds of new and fully manufacturable designs, which have helped to expand the range and capabilities of open source hardware available to the community. We look forward to continuing partnerships to build a thriving ecosystem around open source silicon.
By Aaron Cunningham – Technical Program Manager, Core Hardware Tools
Developers in Malaysia created KitaJaga, a digital platform using Google Maps API to map out requests for aid to those who need it.
We're pleased to announce that v202311 of the Google Ad Manager API is available starting today, November 8, 2023. This release brings support for marketplace ID on Proposals and consolidates MCM Child Network information in the Company object, removing the Network.childPublishers field.
For the full list of changes, check the release notes. Feel free to contact us on the Ad Manager API forum with any API-related questions.
- Chris Seeley, Ad Manager API Team
Posted by Annum Munir – Product Marketing Manager
