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it's Thursday February 24 I'm Natali Morris and it's time to get loaded invitations for the next ipad launch did in fact go out this week the new ipad will be announced next wednesday march second so hold on to your horses cnet will of course be there to cover the event a new line of macbook pros were also announced today there wasn't a big fancy announcement the new laptops have Intel's light peak technology and Sandy Bridge 32 nanometer core i series chipsets the 15 and the 17 inch models also have AMD graphics cards microsoft began rolling out its first software updates to windows phone seven this week reports came out that the updates bricked the phones are basically broke the software making the phone's unusable this happened to only a small number of phones though apparently only ten percent microsoft said that they had a ninety percent success rate and the ten percent of phones that did have the problem either had inadequate storage on the phone or bad connectivity you can now borrow ebooks from the open library the same way you borrow books from your local library this is the ebook lending program from the open library which is a group of libraries led by the internet archive there are over 80 thousand titles available to read either in a browser or on an e reader that reads epub or PDF formats you can borrow up to five books at a time for two weeks but books can only be borrowed by one person at a time you can find more details at open library org Netflix has reached a deal with our parent company CBS 2 streams CBS TV shows for a minimum of two years these include current CBS entertainment shows as well as past shows like Star Trek and cheers the content becomes available in April terms of the deal were not disclosed and of course we don't have any further inside information our shows are not included unfortunately and finally facebook founder mark zuckerberg has been immortalized in a comic book character the 48-page biographical comic is called mark zuckerberg creator of facebook it tells the story of Zuckerberg shrewd business practices that led him to lead one of the most successful and talked about web businesses of our time the comic is available now for 699 that's your news of the day I will have more tomorrow remember visit cnet com / loaded for more links to our stories I'm Natalie warrants for seen it and you just been loaded