Gadgetory

these are the top stories of the week amazon introduces new cheap tablets Apple devices get updated the Facebook dislike button and more Amazon made big news this week with a new lineup of gadgets first up Amazon refreshed its fire tablet line with a $50 7 inch fire you can actually buy them in six packs for 250 dollars there are also new versions of the Amazon Fire HD 8 at $150 in a new Fire HD 10 at 230 dollars the new fire tablets are available for pre-order now and will be released on September 30th Amazon also introduced a new fire TV set-top box that supports up to 4k Ultra HD video it also includes Amazon's answer to Siri Alexa the fire TV stick will also get a LexA with a software update on Wednesday Apple introduced a new version of its phone and tablet operating system iOS 9 it brings lots of new functions to iPads including picture and picture video and the ability to run two apps at the same time Siri is also smarter with Google now like suggestions the Notes app can do a lot more with photos and you can now draw in that app and for anyone looking for Apple's app known as passbook it's got a new name it's called wallet because it's a digital wallet Apple watch was supposed to get a software upgrade but a bug has delayed its rollout Apple says it will release watch OS 2 shortly this week the headlines read Facebook to introduce a dislike button turns out that's only half true in a town hall Q&A Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company is working on a new button to express empathy on Facebook where a like wouldn't make a lot of sense so Facebook is working on something but it's not a button that lets you down both posts let's take a look at what flew under the radar this week remember Google glass new reports from Business Insider and the Wall Street Journal say that Google glass is now known internally as project aura Google also hired some people laid off from Amazon's lab 126 that's Amazon's Hardware subsidiary behind the Kindle the echo Fire tablet and the fire phone or will still be a part of Google and not become a separate company new parent company alphabet a new version of glass is apparently at least a year away for more information on everything tech go to cnet.com Amaya's Akhtar signing off