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these are the top stories of the week Microsoft's brand new surface tablet and laptop Facebook may use emojis Netflix raises prices and what flew under the radar Microsoft held a big event as expected there's a brand new surface pro tablet the surface pro 4 packs a 12.3 inch screen in the same size as a surface pro 3 which had a 12 inch screen there's a new type cover to go along with the pro 4 with a larger trackpad and a redesigned keyboard however the big surprise with Microsoft's first laptop this surface book it's got a 13.5 inch screen there's actually a hybrid laptop the screen can be removed and act as a tablet not all the guts are in the screen the GPU is located in the keyboard bass so the machine is more powerful when docked microsoft also showed up three new phones there's the 5.2 inch 950 and the 5.7 inch 950 XL both can be attached to the new microsoft display dock which allows these phones to operate more like desktop computers the budget lumia 550 was also introduced but it can't act like a desktop facebook is now testing a new way to share your emotions instead of the like button it's a collection of six emojis they're like love haha yay Wow sad and angry the test will take place in two markets Spain and Ireland this sounds like a good approach we'll see if it becomes a standard Facebook feature Netflix is raising prices its standard price now costs 999 for new members in the US Canada and Latin America that's up one dollar per month the company already raised prices in Europe earlier this year existing members won't see the price hike until some time later it's time to go rapid fire here are some more stories you should know Roku introduced the Roku for a 4k media streamer Twitter named interim CEO Jack Dorsey as its permanent CEO and the latest version of Android Android 6.0 marshmallow arrived on some Nexus devices here's were flew under the radar say hello to the light l16 camera it features 16 individual camera modules that can take pictures from 13 to 52 mega pixels in size so why is this important the claim is it can take awesome photos like a DSLR and a packet it can fit into your pocket dslrs are clunky to carry around so if this thing could deliver to be impressive light is taking pre-orders right now for more information on everything tech go to cnet com amaya's akhtar signing off