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Amazon released lots of new hardware.

The company dropped a video calling device along with a fitness wearable among many other things.

But it's the company's $999 astro robot

that's driving the most attention.

On the heels of the Microsoft Surface event, it's important to remember that every

major software company also has a hardware effort. In other news, Rivian on its first try produced the

Goldilocks of pickup trucks. The Rivian R1T electric truck is neither too big nor small.

It handles rock crawling and off-camber trails with ease and can zip from zero to 60 miles per hour on a dirt road.

It's loaded with the kind of interior and exterior touches that put it firmly in the premium

zone and yet the R1T is no delicate. it's wasn't just indulging in wishful thinking when it said it wanted more third-party

app stores in Windows 11's portal. The verge notes that new Microsoft store

policies now allow third-party storefront apps and no Amazon's App Store isn't the only partner hopping

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