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Google's Googlebook is the company's answer to Google's Chromebook. (Tom's Hardware)

It's a laptop running Android.

Which raises the question: Why didn't the Chromebook run Android in the first place?

There are no specs or indeed any hardware information at all; that will be left to Google's partners including Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo.

It might potentially be a good time to be launching a laptop that doesn't need 32GB of RAM to get out of bed - as indicated by the runaway success of Apple's MacBook Neo. And there's a slim chance that at least one of the partner companies won't screw things up.

Tech News

TokenSpam. (Tom's Hardware)

These people are literally retarded.

Amazon is requiring its developers to use AI tools to boost productivity. I mean, fair enough up to a point; I use Claude to review code and it catches conceptual issues and pattern mismatches that my IDE can't.

But Amazon is measuring productivity by the amount each developer costs the company on their AI tool usage, with perfectly predictable results.
Microsoft is constructing a new datacenter in Kenya that will - if completed - use half the power of the entire country. (Tom's Hardware)

That's a bit of an overstatement; the number is closer to 40%.
Micron is sampling 256GB DDR5 modules running at 9200MHz. (WCCFTech)

You can't have one.
The EU is cracking down on TikTok and Instagram because they are... Popular. (CNBC)

Honestly, that seems to be it.

Time to cut the cables.

Musical Interlude

There is an official music video of this but it seems to be restricted, so that's a reuploaded version. Just in case, here is the official videoless version as well.

Disclaimer: You got non in my biyori!

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