Fix Android’s Recent App Crashes With These Two Updates
If you happened to notice a bunch of your Android apps crashing yesterday, you’re not alone. An issue with Android’s System Webview component caused a bit of grief, but it’s…
How to Set Up Chrome Live Captions on Your Desktop
Screenshot: Brendan Hesse Google recently added Live Captions to the desktop version of Chrome. With Live Captions enabled, Chrome auto-transcribes any audio playing in the browser, even if the sound…
How to Check if You’re Running Android’s Speedier 64-Bit Chrome
Screenshot: David Murphy The recent release of Chrome 89 brought with it one super-useful upgrade for a number of Android users: an official 64-bit version of the browser, which Google…
Where’s the Forward Button in Android’s Chrome Browser?
Sometimes I take on some pretty intense questions for Lifehacker’s weekly Tech 911 Q&A column—hacking this, security that, why-is-there-porn-on-my-device kinds of things. Real monumental stuff. This week, I’m going to…
Android Users Can Finally Preview Pages in Chrome
Until recently, the only way to open a link in Chrome’s mobile browser was to leave your current page or punt the link to a separate tab. Neither scenario is…
How to Back Up All of Your Google Data
It’s more than likely you’ll live happily with your Google account until such time as Jeeves comes back from the dead to reassert dominance in the search market (forever, in…
How to Make Vertical Tabs Better in Edge Chromium
Update your Edge Chromium browser today, and you’ll get a fun little prompt asking you whether you want to enable the browser’s new Vertical Tabs feature. As one who always…
Make Sure Your Browser’s Read-It-Later Tool Isn’t Oversharing
When you come across an interesting article online that you don’t have time to read right away, you may be in the habit of opening it in a new tab…
How to Limit Google’s Apps From Tracking You on Your Apple Devices
Apple recently updated its App Store and iOS privacy policies to force app developers to be more transparent about their data collection practices. As a result, users have a little…
How to Record Your Screen on a Chromebook
Photo: CC Photo Labs (Shutterstock) Google is adding a built-in screen recording feature for all Chromebooks in the coming weeks. The new tool lets users capture video of their device’s…