[Link] The latest Surface is a $250 laptop that takes a swing at cheap Chromebooks

Read: 10/11/2021 arstechnica.com

Microsoft's next Surface device is the company's latest and most direct attempt to compete with Chromebooks in schools. The $250 Surface Laptop SE is a low-end, 11.6-inch laptop made for basic browsing, document editing, and remote learning.

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[Link] Google Stadia’s salvaged future as a back-end cloud service is here

Read: 25/10/2021 arstechnica.com

Quick Google Stadia recap: Things have not been great. Google's AAA cloud gaming service launched in 2019 to middling reviews and since then has severely undershot Google's sales and usage estimates by hundreds of thousands of users.

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[Link] You should download the new Google Drive for Desktop

Read: 8/8/2021 www.popsci.com

You might be familiar with Google Drive from its web interface or its mobile apps. But desktop software is available as well, allowing you to seamlessly sync files stored in your Google Drive with the file system on your Windows or macOS computer.

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[Link] AWS to retire EC2-Classic – the network connecting the compute service that started the IaaS rush

Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com

Comment Amazon Web Services has announced the retirement of the network structure underpinning its third cloud service, the EC2-Classic network underpinning the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.

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