There’s now a better way for you to sift through your mounting pile of tabs on Google Chrome. As part of the Chrome 81 build, Google is now rolling out a feature that lets you group your active tabs. The update was slated to arrive earlier, but the company had to postpone it as its workforce adjusted to collaborating remotely.
Once you have updated to the latest version on your Mac or Windows PC, you can cluster your tabs together. To create a new tab group, all you need to do is right-click a tab and select the Add to new group option. Chrome will highlight a group by color-coding the tabs and place a dot on the left of the first tab.
You can click the group to name it, an action that will expand the dot into a pill and pick from a handful of colors. To add more tabs to this collection, right-click them and select the group’s name under the Add to the existing group option. Alternatively, you can simply drag tabs and drop them on top of a group to add them. Similarly, drag a tab out of a group to remove it or click Remove from group in the right-click menu.
By grouping several tabs while working on a project, for instance, it will be easier for you to locate a specific one as compared to frantically going through each one of them. However, in its current state, Google Chrome’s Tab Groups is far too limited — especially when you consider what other browsers offer. It still lacks a tab manager that would allow you to just search for a group or quickly jump between tabs from a straightforward drop-down list.
Even after the update, in case you don’t have Tab Groups, head over to Chrome’s experimental features page and look for tab-groups. Enable the flag and restart the browser.
Google is also rolling out the Chrome OS 81 update for Chromebooks, which comes with a host of improvements for the operating system’s tablet mode. It brings Android 10-style navigational gestures that let you move around the OS through a bunch of swipes. It also enables the picture-in-picture view for all Play Store apps, which means whenever you minimize a video app with an active playback like YouTube, it will continue to play the media in a floating window.
The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.
Apple is less than a day away from launching its highly anticipated OLED MacBook Pro with a touch-sensitive screen. But it appears that the upgrade is going to cost a pretty penny. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly eyeing a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while the 16-inch version could start at $3,399 in the US.
"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
I've spent a good amount of time digging into the spec sheet of the new M6 MacBook Pro (14-inch), and for all intents and purposes, this is a classic Apple "chip and connectivity" refresh. It's not a full redesign. The chassis, Liquid Retina XDR panel, speakers, ports, and battery, all of them carry over unchanged.
However, the M6 brings more cores, stronger on-device AI, higher memory bandwidth on the larger configs, and modern wireless. Here’s the practical rundown of what actually improved, and whether those gains are worth your money.