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Windows 10 has a personality of its own I'm Bridget Carey this is your CNET update now that the free Windows 10 update has arrived there's still one very important question that Microsoft has not answered and that is what's the name of the Windows 10 magical anime girl allow me to explain you see it's a tradition for Microsoft to create an anime schoolgirl character to represent each version of Windows think of it as a cartoon mascot you'll find these characters used in marketing and in ads in Japan as well as Singapore and Taiwan with Windows 7 there was Madhavi Nanami Windows 8 was represented by the twins modo be you and I for the two different versions of Windows 8 and this girl with white and light blue hair she's the personification of Windows 10 there's a contest for fans to give her a name she has a backstory she's 17 years old and is visiting from a hundred years in the future so I guess Windows 10 is going to be around for a long long time in 2013 we met Inori Izawa the personification of Internet Explorer in a cartoon promoting the browser she defends the world from the evils of Internet malware but in Windows 10 there is no Internet Explorer it's a new browser program called windows edge so what happens to all these outdated magical anime operating system girls maybe they all live together in the retirement home of 1995's Microsoft Bob well Google may not have anime mascots but Android does have some new tricks Google search can answer many questions for you but now it can also tell you when a store or restaurant is the most crowded if you search for a store you just go to the summary of details and you can scroll through trends of when it's the most busy by hours and days of the week Google does this all with location data it collects from users it's similar to how it tracks traffic congestion on the roads and over at Amazon the company can now keep track of how often you need toilet paper with - buttons they're now on sale - all Prime members for $5 a button these branded wireless buttons can be put anywhere in the home and when you press the button you're telling Amazon to order more of that item so it can be helpful if you see you're running low and you don't want to run to the store you'll get an alert on your phone to cancel if you made a mistake and if there's a kid in the house going on a button-pressing spree with twenty clicks it's not going to order twenty items it'll only order it once and it won't respond to other clicks until the items delivered I did order a few of these buttons so I'll let you know later how it works out that's it for this tech news update there's more at cnet.com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey