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Looking Ahead: My 2017 Projects

Scott Lowe

In this post, I’m going to share my list of planned projects for 2017. Without further ado, here’s the list for 2017: Finish the network automation book. One way or another, the network automation book I’m writing with Jason Edelman and Matt Oswalt is getting finished in 2017. Stretch goal: publish 12 episodes in 2017.).

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What Sundar Pichai’s ‘long-term’ hardware commitment means for the Pixel

The Verge

Last week, I wrote about Google’s somewhat confounding hardware strategy in the wake of a report about internal conflict from The Information. The whole interview is worth a listen, of course. Not to belabor the metaphor, but when it comes to Google’s hardware efforts, there’s a bit of a “darkest before the dawn” vibe.

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Microsoft ends production of the Xbox One as focus turns to new consoles

GeekWire

The Xbox One S was effectively the “baseline” version of the hardware, which replaced the launch edition in 2016. A later revision of the hardware, the Xbox One X, came out in 2017. In 2019, Microsoft released an All-Digital Edition of the Xbox One S that didn’t include a disc drive for physical media.

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Losing YouTube on the old Apple TV underscores how far ahead competitors are

The Verge

Namely, that it’s been nearly three and a half years since Apple has last updated its streaming box hardware. If you own the old model with the now defunct YouTube app, your only Apple-made option is the Apple TV 4K, released in September 2017.

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Google keeps adding Pixel features it claims it didn’t need: 2020 edition

The Verge

Google’s Super Res Zoom software feature can offer some of the benefits of a telephoto lens without the dedicated hardware, but there’s no faking the extra field of view an ultrawide camera offers. Google is far from the only company that changes course like this. Google, meanwhile, has repeatedly changed course each year.

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Barnes & Noble will reveal a Lenovo-made Nook tablet next week

The Verge

As problems go, of course, this is a bitter-sweet one for a retailer,” she added. The GlowLight 3 was released in 2017, while the larger GlowLight Plus is almost two years old.) Barnes & Noble isn’t letting its older e-reader hardware or the incredibly oversaturated Android tablet market stand in its way.

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Facebook is giving up on brain-typing as an AR glasses interface

The Verge

In another training course, he tried to produce full sentences using those words, which included basic verbs and pronouns (like “am” and “I”) as well as specific helpful nouns (like “glasses” and “computer”) and commands (like “yes” and “no”). In that training, he would attempt to speak isolated words from a 50-word vocabulary set.

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