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The news sounds fishy: (via Forbes) Google Leak Reveals Massive Pixel 2 Cancellation / https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2017/06/13/google-pixel-2-xl-cancellation-new-pixel-smartphone/#5f3cf36f3401

In a word - "whitelisting:" The answer is simple. You can't block a paying customer... / Why Google has to build its own adblocker / http://www.businessinsider.com/why-google-has-to-build-its-own-adblocker-2017-4

The debunking bot: (via PCW) Google combats fake news with 'Fact Check' results in search and news / http://www.pcworld.com/article/3188177/internet/google-combats-fake-news-with-fact-check-results-in-search-and-news.html

More on Google's Fact Checker Results:

Productivity offline access with progressive web apps: (via CNet) No network? No problem for Google Docs on Firefox / https://www.cnet.com/news/google-docs-firefox-edge-browser-web-app-offline/

I haven't looked at browser statistics in a while, and I really haven't needed to. Google Chrome has been the gorilla browser for quite some time. There is simply no avoiding that, and the latest statistics show nearly three quarters of the browser traffic are now Chrome. I myself have recently made a jump to making Chrome my default browser on most (but not all) machines. However, this doesn't mean a web browser Utopia. There remain some key areas that Chrome needs work on -- and the primary area remains their synchronization.