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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Google pushes out Chrome 10

It was barely a month ago that Google released Chrome version 9 with various improvements and performance upgrades, but they're back again to unleash version 10 fresh out of beta today. What gifts have they given in this iteration? Well, more speed of course, including a 66 percent improvement in JavaScript performance on the V8 benchmark suite. There's also a new settings interface that is loaded in it's own tab in the browser instead of in a window like you're used to.



You can also now synchronize your saved web passwords with installs of Chrome across different computers. Google has also extended it's sandboxing tech to the integrated
Flash player in Chrome to better guard against malicious websites.



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Monday, February 8, 2010

Nexus One Testing



This video shows a fascinating behind the scenes look at a few of the stress tests that HTC puts it's phones through to simulate the effects that real world usage will have on the phones throughout their lifetime. Unfortunately, this video doesn't show a crucial test that I'm assuming they don't do. And that's the drunken 'drop your phone into some sort of container of liquid' maneuver. Oh well, maybe for the Nexus Two...





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