Amazon’s latest Kindle Paperwhite is still available for its Black Friday price

The Kindle Paperwhite lying on a bunch of physical books while turned on. — *The latest Kindle Paperwhite is still available for its best price yet at Amazon and elsewhere* | Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge

Despite the arrival of Amazon’s latest entry-level Kindle, the Kindle Paperwhite remains one of the best e-readers on the market. Currently, you can still find the ad-supported model of the 8GB Kindle Paperwhite discounted to $94.99 at Amazon (normally $139.99). The ad-free model is also available for $114.99 through Amazon instead of $159.99. If you’re doing your shopping elsewhere, you can find the ad-supported model discounted to $94.99 at Best Buy, and Target as well. While 8GB can still hold roughly 2,000 individual pieces of literature, if you’re planning on using your Paperwhite to listen to audiobooks, there are also substantial discounts on the 16GB model, lowering the price of the $149.99 ad-supported model to $99.99, and the a...

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Pandora Stories lets artists add commentary to their own playlists

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Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge Instagram is making significant changes to how its system recommends content, with a focus on original content and increased distribution for smaller accounts. The slew of changes were announced by the company in a blog post today. The biggest change deals with aggregators — accounts that download or screenshot other users’ videos and photos and repost them. Sometimes aggregators will credit the original poster by tagging them in the post or caption, but often, content is wholesale ripped off with no acknowledgment, and engagement is siphoned off from the person who created the content in the first place. Instagram clearly has a problem with this and will begin removing reposted content from recommendations across the platform. The... Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/ECgcPAU

We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all different and confusing

When you set up a new camera, or even go to take a picture on some smartphones, youâ€™re presented with a key choice: JPG or RAW? JPGs are ready to post just about anywhere, while RAWs yield an unfinished file filled with extra data that allows for much richer post-processing. That option for a RAW file (and even the generic name, RAW) has been standardized across the camera industry â€” but despite that, the camera world has never actually settled on one standardized RAW format. Most cameras capture RAW files in proprietary formats, like Canonâ€™s CR3, Nikonâ€™s NEF, and Sonyâ€™s ARW. The result is a world of compatibility issues. Photo editing software needs to specifically support not just each manufacturerâ€™s file type but also make changes for each new camera that shoots it. That creates pain for app developers and early camera adopters who want to know that their preferred software will just work. Adobe tried to solve this problem years ago with a universal RAW form...

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