If you feel constrained by the walled garden of Chrome OS, you might be interested in the Chrome OS Developer Mode. It's a hidden setting on your Chromebook that turns off all the restrictions and ...

Chromebooks are known for their simplicity, reliability, and seamless integration with Google services. While these devices are perfect for everyday tasks, there are times when users may crave more ...

Google now offers the ability to edit Office documents within Chrome OS, although the new feature is currently far less capable than the document-editing capabilities of Google’s own Google Apps.

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

Chrome OS began as a simple browser-based operating system that only ran progressive web and Chrome apps. Over the years, Google's OS has evolved well past its humble origins. Modern Chromebooks ...

If you’d like to employ a Chromebook as a developer machine, you might be interested in a new multi-Linux container feature in Chrome OS 98. Jack Wallen shows you how to enable and use it. Chrome OS ...

Less than two weeks ago, the source code for Google's Chrome OS was released on November 19, 2009 under open source licensing as Chromium OS. It took less than a day, for the first hacked Chrome OS ...

Chromebooks come pre-installed with ChromeOS, an operating system from Google. Usually you have access to most features, but sometimes you need more. You can unlock the developer mode of ChromeOS to ...