We’ll get into why Facebook noticed its total enterprise fall off a cliff on Monday, however first: e-readers.

It’s a tool class we don’t see a lot improvement in — most likely as a result of it’s very a lot a tool for studying textual content and never a lot else. Amazon’s Kindle, because of its highly effective on-line e-book retailer, typically has the class sewn up, with a number of e-reader choices from luxe to sometimes-$60 slates.

But I like an underdog — and most issues with an e-ink show. Like and .

So I’ve time for Kobo’s new $260 Sage e-reader, which helps you to add handwritten notes with a stylus. It has an 8-inch 1,440 x 1,920 e-ink display that adjusts brightness and coloration relying on the time of day. You can even convert to plain textual content your handwritten e-notes made on e-books and PDFs and ship them to different gadgets — a characteristic Kobo already supplied on its bigger and costlier $399 .

If you’re searching for an e-reader that doesn’t have Amazon hooks — or it is advisable to take notes in your e-books — you possibly can pre-order the Sage now. It begins delivery on October nineteenth.

— Mat Smith

It ought to have been routine upkeep.

Following the large service outage that took out all of its providers, Facebook has revealed a weblog submit detailing what occurred. According to Santosh Janardhan, the corporate’s vice chairman of infrastructure, the outage began with what ought to have been routine upkeep.

A command was issued that was presupposed to assess the supply of the spine community that connects all of Facebook’s disparate computing amenities. Instead, the order unintentionally took all these connections down. Matters have been made worse as a result of the outage made it inconceivable for Facebook engineers to connect with the servers they wanted to repair.

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It addresses a lot of our earlier complaints, however that worth…

The Surface Pro 8 addresses lots of the points we had with the Pro 7, together with a beautiful premium design. Editor-in-Chief Dana Wollman put the hybrid machine via its paces, and he or she notably beloved the 120Hz show.

But the beginning worth ($1,100) is greater than its predecessor — nonetheless not together with a keyboard. That makes it harder to justify selecting the Surface Pro 8 over a comparably priced laptop computer. Especially at a time when there are such a lot of glorious choices to select from. 

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A greater Surface Book, a missed alternative

Oh, we’re not performed. Microsoft’s Laptop Studio was additionally in for evaluate. Devindra Hardawar examined it out, and he believes the Surface Laptop Studio is a stable successor to the Surface Book. While it’s quicker than the Book 3, and it has a beautiful, versatile display, it’s oddly missing in sheer CPU energy in comparison with the competitors. He explains all in his full evaluate.

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But in streaming cloud type.

The three fundamental Kingdom Hearts video games are coming to Nintendo Switch. You’ll be capable of play Kingdom Hearts – HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMix, Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue and . They’re all cloud streaming video games on Switch, so you will want a very good web connection to play them. The information got here off the again of the announcement that Kingdom Hearts protagonist, Sora, can be closing character to affix Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Sora means ‘sky’ in Japanese, so there’s some irony within the recreation sequence being streamed from the cloud.

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Find out all concerning the firm’s newest flagship telephones.

The firm plans to disclose all the pieces there’s to know concerning the Pixel 6 lineup on October nineteenth at 1 PM ET. Months in the past, the corporate spilled some information on the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, together with what the telephones seem like. In August, Google mentioned Tensor, the primary system-on-chip it designed, will characteristic within the new additions to the Pixel sequence.

Expect some substantial digital camera upgrades, with the Pixel 6 Pro packing 4x optical zoom and a further telephoto choice. In comparability, Apple’s iPhone 13 Pro tops out at 3x optical zoom.

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