Google continues its march towards total world domination. With the recent Google tech news focusing on Android advancements and apps, Google’s Web browser Chrome has quietly begun to eat up market share at a rapid pace.
According to a new report from NetApplications, Chrome showed the most growth of any Web browser last month. Chrome continues to beat Firefox and Opera, and it pulled Microsoft’s IE 8 below 60 percent of the market. Although still at a low 6.73 percent of the market – an increase from 6.1 percent the month before – Chrome is gaining more shares than anyone else.
With IE9 due out sometime soon (we hope), Google is taking full advantage of the lull between versions to secure its position in the Web browser market. Mozilla’s Firefox is currently in second place with 24.59 percent, but it has yet to pass the 25 percent mark, something that most considered a given.
Safari also saw a minor rise from 4.65 percent to 4.72 percent in April. IE8 fell from 60.65 percent to 59.95 percent. Since its peak in 2003 when IE held 93 percent of the market, the Microsoft browser has been in a steady decline, but continues to dominate the market.
Acer’s Predator Atlas 8 finally has a US release date and price, several months after the company first showed off the handheld in May. The highlight is the Intel Arc G3 Extreme chip inside, which has been adopted by only a couple of other consoles besides the Atlas 8. This version will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,299.99.
Acer originally said the Atlas 8 would arrive in North America in October, but left pricing open at the time. The launch came amid the ongoing DRAM crunch, which has made memory more expensive across the PC industry and complicated pricing for hardware makers.
Google DeepMind's AI world model Genie 4 can now build interactive worlds that you can explore and reshape as they run. It also generates ambient sounds, music, and dialogue that respond to your actions.
The new world model builds on Genie 3 with improved realism, more natural human movement, and better simulations of real-world physics. It could eventually help with everything from game development to training robots.
Apple has an incredible talent for making me admire its products while simultaneously questioning what on earth it's thinking with the pricing. This isn't even something as bizarre as a monitor stand, but the audacity for starting a new laptop lineup from $2,000 doesn't surprise me.
The newly announced 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 is just the latest to showcase this. The funny thing is, I already know that it's going to be a reliable workstation. You get a powerful new 2nm M6 processor, a gorgeous Liquid Retina XDR display, and up to 24 hours of battery life. We were impressed by the M5 MacBook Air, so the high-end M6 powered MacBook Pro definitely won't let us down.