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 ...

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 ...