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October 26, 2015, 5:45 PM

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David Pierce / Wired:
The Inside Story of Surface Book, Microsoft's Next Big Thing  —  One night about two years ago, Panos Panay couldn't sleep.  This happens a lot, waking up in the middle of the night with loud thoughts rattling around in his head.  Panay popped off the pillow, reached for his new Surface Pen …
Panos Panay / Windows Blog:
Microsoft Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 now available in US and Canada  —  Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 go on sale today  —  The team and I could not be more pumped today.  Today Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book go on sale in the US and Canada!  It's been three years exactly since …
Keith Peiris / Facebook:
Facebook bolsters Notifications tab on mobile with birthday, events reminders, location based news, weather updates, nearby movie, restaurant info, more  —  A More Useful Notifications Tab on Mobile  —  Today, we're starting to roll out an expanded, personalized notifications tab in the Facebook app.
Jack Clark / Bloomberg Business:
Google's “RankBrain” AI system is used for a “very large fraction” of queries and is now the third most important signal in the search ranking algorithm  —  Google Turning Its Lucrative Web Search Over to AI Machines  —  ‘RankBrain’ uses artificial intelligence to filter results
BelfastTelegraph.co.uk:
TalkTalk hack: Police arrest teenager (15) in Northern Ireland  —  A 15-year-old teenager has been arrested in Co Antrim in connection with the TalkTalk security breach.  —  Metropolitan Police said the teen was arrested at around 16:20 by PSNI officers on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences.
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
The new Apple TV is now available to order from the Apple Online Store, first units ship October 30th  —  The Apple TV is now available to order from Apple's online store, $149 for the 32 GB model and $199 for the 64 GB model.  The first Apple TV orders will ship later this week, from October 30th.
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Kangaroo is a phablet-sized $99 desktop PC running Windows 10 on Intel Z8500 SOC, 2GB of RAM, and 32GB of storage, expandable via microSD card  —  Kangaroo is an amazing $99 Windows 10 portable PC  —  InFocus today debuted the Kangaroo, a $99 Windows 10 portable PC that “goes anywhere and works with any screen.”
Vindu Goel / New York Times:
Facebook's Internet for All Is a Tough Sell in India  —  MUMBAI, India — If Mark Zuckerberg hopes to deliver on his vision of bringing the Internet to the four billion people who lack it, the Facebook chief will first need to make his plan more appealing to salesmen like Shoaib Khan.

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