Google has a service called Transparency Report which is to examine billions of URLs per day to identify dangerous pages which may trigger downloading of malicious software. When you search a site, it will give the status of the site and also the safety details of the site if there are potential dangerous pages on the site. These details will help the site owners to identify the potential issues and fix them as early as possible,Embarrassingly when searching for Google.com, it is considered as a partially dangerous site because some pages contain malicious software. So how Googl...

Google is going to have new Nexus product release at 12 o'clock 30th September(Beijing time). This new Nexus will ship with the latest Android 6.0 Marshmallow system from Google. Here is the live stream from YouTube.Two Nexus phones are expected to be unveiled tonight. They are from LG and Huawei respectively.. The Nexus 6P is Huawei's first Nexus device and will be available for pre-order on Tuesday in the U.S., U.K., Ireland, Canada and Japan starting at $499.99 and the device features a metal body, ...

Chinese president Xi Jinping has started his formal visit to US on 22nd September. The first stop is Seattle where Microsoft and Amazon headquarters are located. On 23rd September (Wednesday), Xi Jinping attended a forum named "The 8th US-China Internet Industry Forum" in Seattle. On this forum, president Xi expressed the attitude of Chinese government to Internet. He advocated to build an peaceful, secure, open and collaborative Internet environment so that every country can benefit from it. He emphasized that both US and China are two giants of Internet industry, there are many tech gia...

Have you ever wondered a simple string can crash one of the most sophisticated designed web browsers -- Chrome? There is a finding from Andris Atteka who found that a null string "%%30%30" appended to an URL can crash Chrome. For example, if you have below URL in your browser address bar or you mouse over below URL, Chrome will crash:http://www.pixelstech.net/%%30%30When the browser crashed, it may show :Or on Windows, you will see :This bug has been reported to Google at Issue 533361. And the engineers are still working on fixing this bug....

Along with the new announcement of the new Google logo, there is a new change to the Google search -- The Google Search By Voice. When you use Google in a browser, you will see below color mic icon now: With this, you can search by speaking in front of your computer, OK, Google will listens to what you are saying and do the search for you.  As described by Google, this change:A colorful Google mic help you identify and interact with Google whether you’re talking, tapping or typing.As claimed by Google, there will be more minor changes to Google products with the new change...

Google has been restructured and it now has a parent company which is called Alphabet. This new company will fully own the original "Google". Larry Page will be the CEO of Alphabet and Sergey Brin will be the president of the new company. Sundar Pichai will be the new CEO of the new Google.The new Google will continue its current business with some slimmed changes. While Alphabet will focus on working on the next generation of Internet and creating more billion user companies and services.  These new services include but not limited to web, life science, space, automobile etc.The rea...

YouTube has made an update on its video player control bar and made it general available to the public now. The update is to make the video player control bar transparent and float on top of the videos being played. There are no functional changes about this control bar. The original control bar is black but not transparent.After the update, the control bar looks like:YouTube started to test this new change back in April 2015. At that time, it was tested in a small scale and only a small group of people can see this change. Now it's generally available for public. Compared to the old desi...

When browsing a non-English language(Chinese for example) website when using Chrome, it will offer to translate the page to English every time the page is loaded. To disable the translation for all non-English websites all at once, there is a setting in Chrome you can set.Below are the steps for doing this:1. Go to Settings and scroll down to bottom2. Click the Show advanced settings... link and the advanced settings will be expanded3. Find the section Languages and uncheck the option "Offer to translate pages that aren't in a language you read".Or if you are a web developer and you don't want...