Take action on multiple text selections in Google Docs

Quick summary 

In Google Docs, you can now make multiple text selections at once, and apply actions such as delete, copy, paste, or format to all selections. This will make formatting and editing documents faster by eliminating the need to make repetitive changes, increasing your overall productivity. 

Formatting adjustments are made to several pieces of selected text




Getting started 

  • Admins: There is no admin impact. 
  • End users: This feature will be available by default. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using keyboard shortcuts for Google Docs. 

Rollout pace 


Availability 

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers 

Resources 


May 2022 core update releasing for Google Search

Several times per year, we make substantial improvements to our overall ranking processes, which we refer to as core updates. Core updates are designed to increase the overall relevancy of our search results and make them more helpful and useful for everyone. Today, we're releasing our May 2022 core update. It will take about 1-2 weeks to fully roll out.

Google Research enhances its AI growth in Africa



When we launched our first African AI research centre in Ghana in 2018, we did so with the aim of fostering the continent’s growing capabilities in the field, to deliver innovative solutions that will benefit both Africa and the world, working with local universities and research centres, as well as working with policymakers on the potential uses of AI in Africa.



Since its launch, the team at the Accra-based Research Centre has engaged in significant AI work, including mapping Africa’s built environment using satellite imagery and machine learning, which allowed to quadruple the number of African buildings on Google Maps, bringing the number up past 250-million. The team also released the Open Buildings Dataset last July - which being used by various organisations such as the UN. In other works, the team uses machine learning and Google's unique capabilities to advance support of Sub-Saharan African languages, reduce the harms of locusts, adapt our existing flood forecasting systems to respond to the special challenges of the continent, and more.



At our Google for Africa event last October, our CEO, Sundar Pichai, announced a plan to invest $1 billion over the next five years to support Africa's digital transformation. As a continuation of that commitment, last month we announced a new product development center in Africa, to be located in Nairobi. The product development center will help to create products and services for people in Africa and the world.


We are also working on applying Google Translate to more languages in Africa. Earlier this month, Google announced it is adding 24 new languages to Google Translate, 10 of which are African languages. This will help more people on the continent access more of the internet and use it to its full potential.



Expanding our commitment
Last week, we made several exciting announcements aimed at expanding our commitments. We inaugurated our new office in Ghana, which will allow us to grow our in-country team. We are accelerating our growth in Accra and are expanding our Research AI residency program, which is designed to jump start research careers. We also underlined our commitment to growing our presence in the ecosystem through making our site a community hub for in-person engagements with the community. Last week we hosted our first community workshop in the field of NLP and African languages and a panel with Ghanaian entrepreneurs working on sustainable development goals.



In addition to the new office, we’ve also made several investments aimed at growing research talent in Africa. We announced Generation Google Scholarships in 2022 for female computer science students and students in related technical fields at universities in Africa and last week we hosted young students as part of our global Mind the Gap program of encouraging students towards science and technology.


Back in 2018, I visited Rwanda for the launch of the African Master’s in Machine Intelligence (AMMI) program at the African Institute for Maths and Sciences (AIMS), with support from Google as one of the founding partners. AMMI is a one-year program which has successfully been run in Rwanda, Senegal and Ghana, and with graduates taking on continued graduate studies or taking positions in the industry, including at our Research Center in Accra. We are happy to continue our funding support.



Last week we announced signing the first Master Sponsored Research Agreements in Africa, with Kwame Nkrumah University in Ghana (KNUST) and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Ghana (AIMS) to enable research and leadership sponsored programs developing young tech-talent in Africa. I also got to visit the AIMS Ghana Campus as well as University of Ghana, meeting faculty and students, where once again I was reminded of the great talent and potential that exists in Africa.



In the decade-plus that Google has had a presence in Africa, we’ve witnessed first-hand the incredible potential for what people can do with the internet and technology. AI is undoubtedly the next frontier of that relationship and we’re excited to play an ongoing role in its African growth journey.




Posted by Yossi Matias, Vice President, Engineering & Research






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Chrome Dev for Android Update

Hi everyone! We've just released Chrome Dev 103 (103.0.5060.22) for Android. It's now available on Google Play.

You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log. For details on new features, check out the Chromium blog, and for details on web platform updates, check here.

If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Krishna Govind
Google Chrome

Chrome Dev for Android Update

Hi everyone! We've just released Chrome Dev 103 (103.0.5060.22) for Android. It's now available on Google Play.

You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log. For details on new features, check out the Chromium blog, and for details on web platform updates, check here.

If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Krishna Govind
Google Chrome

Chrome For Android Update

Hi, everyone! We've just released Chrome 102 (102.0.5005.58, 102.0.5005.59) 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.

Erhu Akpobaro
Google Chrome

Chrome For Android Update

Hi, everyone! We've just released Chrome 102 (102.0.5005.58, 102.0.5005.59) 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.

Erhu Akpobaro
Google Chrome

Stable Channel Update for Desktop

The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 102 to the stable channel for Windows (102.0.5005.61/62/63), 102.0.5005.61 for Mac and Linux.Chrome 102 is also promoted to our new extended stable channel for Windows and Mac. This will roll out over the coming days/weeks.

Chrome 102.0.5005.61 contains a number of fixes and improvements -- a list of changes is available in the log. Watch out for upcoming Chrome and Chromium blog posts about new features and big efforts delivered in 102.

Security Fixes and Rewards

Note: Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed.


This update includes 32 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the Chrome Security Page for more information.


[$TBD][1324864] Critical CVE-2022-1853: Use after free in Indexed DB. Reported by Anonymous on 2022-05-12

[$10000][1320024] High CVE-2022-1854: Use after free in ANGLE. Reported by SeongHwan Park (SeHwa) on 2022-04-27

[$7500][1228661] High CVE-2022-1855: Use after free in Messaging. Reported by Anonymous on 2021-07-13

[$3000][1323239] High CVE-2022-1856: Use after free in User Education. Reported by Nan Wang(@eternalsakura13) and Guang Gong of 360 Alpha Lab  on 2022-05-06

[$2000][1227995] High CVE-2022-1857: Insufficient policy enforcement in File System API. Reported by Daniel Rhea on 2021-07-11

[$1000][1314310] High CVE-2022-1858: Out of bounds read in DevTools. Reported by EllisVlad on 2022-04-07

[$1000][1322744] High CVE-2022-1859: Use after free in Performance Manager. Reported by Guannan Wang (@Keenan7310) of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab on 2022-05-05

[$TBD][1297209] High CVE-2022-1860: Use after free in UI Foundations. Reported by @ginggilBesel on 2022-02-15

[$TBD][1316846] High CVE-2022-1861: Use after free in Sharing. Reported by Khalil Zhani on 2022-04-16

[$5000][1236325] Medium CVE-2022-1862: Inappropriate implementation in Extensions. Reported by Alesandro Ortiz on 2021-08-04

[$5000][1292870] Medium CVE-2022-1863: Use after free in Tab Groups. Reported by David Erceg on 2022-02-01

[$5000][1320624] Medium CVE-2022-1864: Use after free in WebApp Installs. Reported by Yuntao You (@GraVity0) of Bytedance Wuheng Lab on 2022-04-28

[$3000][1289192] Medium CVE-2022-1865: Use after free in Bookmarks. Reported by Rong Jian of VRI on 2022-01-20

[$3000][1292264] Medium CVE-2022-1866: Use after free in Tablet Mode. Reported by @ginggilBesel on 2022-01-29

[$3000][1315563] Medium CVE-2022-1867: Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Data Transfer. Reported by Michał Bentkowski of Securitum on 2022-04-12

[$TBD][1301203] Medium CVE-2022-1868: Inappropriate implementation in Extensions API. Reported by Alesandro Ortiz on 2022-02-28

[$NA][1309467] Medium CVE-2022-1869: Type Confusion in V8. Reported by Man Yue Mo of GitHub Security Lab on 2022-03-23

[$TBD][1323236] Medium CVE-2022-1870: Use after free in App Service. Reported by Nan Wang(@eternalsakura13) and Guang Gong of 360 Alpha Lab  on 2022-05-06

[$7000][1308199] Low CVE-2022-1871: Insufficient policy enforcement in File System API. Reported by Thomas Orlita  on 2022-03-21

[$7000][1310461] Low CVE-2022-1872: Insufficient policy enforcement in Extensions API. Reported by ChaobinZhang on 2022-03-26

[$2000][1305394] Low CVE-2022-1873: Insufficient policy enforcement in COOP. Reported by NDevTK on 2022-03-11

[$500][1251588] Low CVE-2022-1874: Insufficient policy enforcement in Safe Browsing. Reported by hjy79425575 on 2021-09-21

[$500][1306443] Low CVE-2022-1875: Inappropriate implementation in PDF. Reported by NDevTK on 2022-03-15

[$TBD][1313600] Low CVE-2022-1876: Heap buffer overflow in DevTools. Reported by @ginggilBesel on 2022-04-06


We would also like to thank all security researchers that worked with us during the development cycle to prevent security bugs from ever reaching the stable channel.

As usual, our ongoing internal security work was responsible for a wide range of fixes:

  • [1328866] Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives


Many of our security bugs are detected using AddressSanitizer, MemorySanitizer, UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer, Control Flow Integrity, libFuzzer, or AFL.


Interested in switching release channels?  Find out how here. 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

Stable Channel Update for Desktop

The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 102 to the stable channel for Windows (102.0.5005.61/62/63), 102.0.5005.61 for Mac and Linux.Chrome 102 is also promoted to our new extended stable channel for Windows and Mac. This will roll out over the coming days/weeks.

Chrome 102.0.5005.61 contains a number of fixes and improvements -- a list of changes is available in the log. Watch out for upcoming Chrome and Chromium blog posts about new features and big efforts delivered in 102.

Security Fixes and Rewards

Note: Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed.


This update includes 32 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the Chrome Security Page for more information.


[$TBD][1324864] Critical CVE-2022-1853: Use after free in Indexed DB. Reported by Anonymous on 2022-05-12

[$10000][1320024] High CVE-2022-1854: Use after free in ANGLE. Reported by SeongHwan Park (SeHwa) on 2022-04-27

[$7500][1228661] High CVE-2022-1855: Use after free in Messaging. Reported by Anonymous on 2021-07-13

[$3000][1323239] High CVE-2022-1856: Use after free in User Education. Reported by Nan Wang(@eternalsakura13) and Guang Gong of 360 Alpha Lab  on 2022-05-06

[$2000][1227995] High CVE-2022-1857: Insufficient policy enforcement in File System API. Reported by Daniel Rhea on 2021-07-11

[$1000][1314310] High CVE-2022-1858: Out of bounds read in DevTools. Reported by EllisVlad on 2022-04-07

[$1000][1322744] High CVE-2022-1859: Use after free in Performance Manager. Reported by Guannan Wang (@Keenan7310) of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab on 2022-05-05

[$TBD][1297209] High CVE-2022-1860: Use after free in UI Foundations. Reported by @ginggilBesel on 2022-02-15

[$TBD][1316846] High CVE-2022-1861: Use after free in Sharing. Reported by Khalil Zhani on 2022-04-16

[$5000][1236325] Medium CVE-2022-1862: Inappropriate implementation in Extensions. Reported by Alesandro Ortiz on 2021-08-04

[$5000][1292870] Medium CVE-2022-1863: Use after free in Tab Groups. Reported by David Erceg on 2022-02-01

[$5000][1320624] Medium CVE-2022-1864: Use after free in WebApp Installs. Reported by Yuntao You (@GraVity0) of Bytedance Wuheng Lab on 2022-04-28

[$3000][1289192] Medium CVE-2022-1865: Use after free in Bookmarks. Reported by Rong Jian of VRI on 2022-01-20

[$3000][1292264] Medium CVE-2022-1866: Use after free in Tablet Mode. Reported by @ginggilBesel on 2022-01-29

[$3000][1315563] Medium CVE-2022-1867: Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Data Transfer. Reported by Michał Bentkowski of Securitum on 2022-04-12

[$TBD][1301203] Medium CVE-2022-1868: Inappropriate implementation in Extensions API. Reported by Alesandro Ortiz on 2022-02-28

[$NA][1309467] Medium CVE-2022-1869: Type Confusion in V8. Reported by Man Yue Mo of GitHub Security Lab on 2022-03-23

[$TBD][1323236] Medium CVE-2022-1870: Use after free in App Service. Reported by Nan Wang(@eternalsakura13) and Guang Gong of 360 Alpha Lab  on 2022-05-06

[$7000][1308199] Low CVE-2022-1871: Insufficient policy enforcement in File System API. Reported by Thomas Orlita  on 2022-03-21

[$7000][1310461] Low CVE-2022-1872: Insufficient policy enforcement in Extensions API. Reported by ChaobinZhang on 2022-03-26

[$2000][1305394] Low CVE-2022-1873: Insufficient policy enforcement in COOP. Reported by NDevTK on 2022-03-11

[$500][1251588] Low CVE-2022-1874: Insufficient policy enforcement in Safe Browsing. Reported by hjy79425575 on 2021-09-21

[$500][1306443] Low CVE-2022-1875: Inappropriate implementation in PDF. Reported by NDevTK on 2022-03-15

[$TBD][1313600] Low CVE-2022-1876: Heap buffer overflow in DevTools. Reported by @ginggilBesel on 2022-04-06


We would also like to thank all security researchers that worked with us during the development cycle to prevent security bugs from ever reaching the stable channel.

As usual, our ongoing internal security work was responsible for a wide range of fixes:

  • [1328866] Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives


Many of our security bugs are detected using AddressSanitizer, MemorySanitizer, UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer, Control Flow Integrity, libFuzzer, or AFL.


Interested in switching release channels?  Find out how here. 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

Apple Music is now available on Waze

For years, Waze has partnered with audio services to give you the best, safest and most fun driving experience. Starting today, Apple Music will seamlessly integrate with Waze, so you can keep your eyes on the road while enjoying the ride.

With a direct connection between the apps, you can now access Apple Music content directly from the Waze Audio Player. Enjoy more than 90 million songs, tens of thousands of curated playlists, Apple Music Radio and more while you navigate. We’re thrilled to join forces with Apple Music to bring Apple Music subscribers their tunes while driving with Waze on iPhone.