Google Releases Chrome 25 With Voice Recognition Support

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Google on Thursday released Chrome version 25 for Windows, Mac, and Linux (http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/02/21/google-releases-chrome-25-voice-support-new-tab-page-disabled-silent-extension-installs-and-more/). While Chrome 24 was largely a stability release (http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/01/11/1639202/chrome-24-released-chrome-beta-channel-for-android-added), Chrome 25 is all about features, including voice recognition support (http://chrome.blogspot.ca/2013/02/bringing-voice-recognition-to-web.html) via the newly added Web Speech API and the blocking of silent extension installation. You can update to the latest release now using the browser's built-in silent updater, or download it directly from google.com/chrome (https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/)."But if you're more interested in the growing raft of Google-branded hardware than running Google OSes, some good news (via Liliputing (http://liliputing.com/2013/02/the-chromebook-pixel-can-run-ubuntu-linux-mint-other-distros.html)) about the newly released Pixel (http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/02/21/200217/the-chromebook-pixel-is-real-and-expensive): Bill Richardson of Google posted on Thursday that the Pixel can boot Linux Mint (https://plus.google.com/u/1/100479847213284361344/posts/QhmBpn5GNE9), and explained how users can follow his example, by taking advantage of new support for a user-provided bootloader.

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