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Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Lewis Hamilton had a chrome helmet, and now Oscar Piastri has a Chrome helmet.

It’s not as slick as the fully reflective, Daft Punk-like helmet Lewis Hamilton had at Suzuka earlier this year, but as Formula 1 drivers take to the improvised racetrack in Las Vegas this week, McLaren rookie Oscar Piastri will be wearing a *Google Chrome helmet, that matches the sponsor’s wheel covers on his car.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Check how much memory a Chrome tab is using with this one easy trick.

Well, if it’s rolled out to you. With Chrome 119, Google has been slowly rolling out the ability to check how much memory that tab is using just by hovering over the tab, 9to5Google reports. 9to5Google also has details on the flag to enable if you want to switch the feature on for yourself. Handy!

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Chrome says it saved users over 10,000 years of waiting for webpages to load this year.

That’s all thanks to Chrome’s Core Web Vitals feature, which allows website owners and developers to evaluate how well their site performs. According to a blog post shared by Google, Core Web Vitals and other small tweaks also made the average page load in Chrome 166ms faster.

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