Surface Pro updated at last: Kaby Lake gives longer battery life, but still no modern ports | Ars Technica: "Microsoft has announced the long-awaited refresh to its Surface Pro line of 2-in-1 tablets. The successor to the Surface Pro 4 is simply the Surface Pro—no numeric appellation to denote the hardware iteration—and it brings with it a Kaby Lake processor to replace the Skylake chip in the Pro 4. "

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Travel IT biz reportedly testing 100TB SSDs, which could mean – oh my gosh – exabyte racks • The Register: "Apply compression, say a 2:1 ratio, and we get 2EB; the capacity numbers become ridiculously high. Apply NVMe over Fabrics networking and network access becomes near enough as fast as to a locally attached NVMe SSD."

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Apple awards glassmaker Corning $200M to grow made in USA jobs with Advanced Manufacturing Fund: "Corning is on its fifth iteration of Gorilla Glass. According to the company, the new product survives up to 80 percent of the time when dropped face-down from a height of just over five feet onto rough surfaces, as opposed to the smoother surfaces that previous testing was performed on. "

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Ryzen 5 review: AMD muscles in on Intel’s i5 sweet spot | Ars Technica: "When it comes to crunching numbers, Ryzen is an absolute monster."

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It's been two and a half years of decline – tablets aren't coming back • The Register: ""The rate at which the tablet market grew from 2010 to 2013 was unlike many other consumer-oriented device markets we've seen before," said IDC worldwide mobile device trackers program VP Ryan Reith."

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In two-pronged attack, Microsoft intros low-end Windows 10 S, high-end $999+ Surface Laptop: "While the Surface Laptop will cost $999, eventual third-party Windows 10 S PCs will start as low as $189, targeting similarly-priced Chromebooks. "

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Liveblog: Microsoft takes on Chrome OS with new Windows, new hardware | Ars Technica: "On the software side, this should mean that a new version of Windows 10 will make its debut. Leaks and rumors have indicated that a new Windows SKU, variously known as Windows 10 Cloud or Windows 10 S, will be released. This will be a full version of Windows 10, but it will be restricted to running apps acquired from the Windows Store. "

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Rejoice, for Linux 4.11 has been delivered! • The Register: "Linux is now better at hot-swapping solid state disks and can now do journaling on RAID 4/5/6 volumes. While we're talking storage, there's also support for the OPAL self-encrypting disk drive standard."

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