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today's forecast calls for a downpour of hybrid tablets I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update next time you buy a computer it's time to consider a hybrid tablet it's a tablet that comes with a full keyboard that you could just snap on and off and it's exploding category this year with the release of Windows 8 just this week alone there's been several new models announced from all the big laptop brands in the last show I brought up the sony vaio duo 11 but there's also Dells XPS duo 12 that swivels to hide the keyboard and the dell XPS 10 it attaches from the keyboard HP Envy x2 tablet includes a full keyboard as well that you can detach and Samsung's got the new series 5 and 7 slates and because Windows 8 is all about working with a touchscreen you'll also see full laptops with touchscreens like the HP spectre xt touchsmart although that might not be very practical you see you gotta stretch out your hand that touchscreen just kind of moves back but we'll see so the President of the United States was on reddit don't know if you heard about it it only took over Twitter all Wednesday afternoon and crashed the reddit servers with record traffic he participated in an ask me anything session where anyone can log on and writing questions and he answered 10 of them but it wasn't so much about the answers he gave it was Obama showing he's in touch with technology and Internet culture by using reddit as a promotion tool at the end of the questions he even referenced his own meme saying that reddit is not bad so Amazon made a big announcement that it sold out of the kindle fire oh really they sold out exactly one week before the press conference when they will announce the new version of the fire ain't that funny how it works out hey amazon we're not stupid sony announced a cheaper version of its music streaming service instead of the ten-dollar monthly all you can listen to your music service there's now a five dollar a month option but it doesn't work on mobile devices no mobile I don't know if that's going to be a good seller lexmark will no longer be making inkjet printers it will focus more on laser printing and office products a tomtom navigation app is coming to android in october no price info yeah however the Apple version costs around fifty dollars and also in the mapping world Google Maps is making news first Android users will now be able to get turn-by-turn directions for bicycles in the latest upgrade and for those of you that use Google's map maker to tweak your own maps you can share your maps with your circles on the Google+ network when you're on a map just click Share to post it that your tech news roundup for today for more on today's stories go to cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey