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The Verge Tech

Remarkable’s refurbished Paper Pro bundle is hundreds off

Color E Ink tablets aren’t usually affordable. I’m not going to say that Woot’s price on a refurbished “good as new” Remarkable Paper Pro is cheap, but it’s pretty fantastic compared to buying one new. Normally $629 just for the tablet, you can get a bundle that includes the big 11.8-inch Paper Pro plus $139 worth of brand new accessories (a Mosaic Weave Book Folio and a Marker Plus) for $509 if you buy it used. The bundle comes with a 90-day warranty, which pales in comparison so Remarkable’s o

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AWS Database Blog

Understanding how backups work in Amazon Aurora

In this post, we dive deep into the Aurora backup architecture, how it differs from Amazon RDS backups, and the Amazon CloudWatch metrics available to monitor your backup storage usage. Through detailed scenarios and visualizations, we demonstrate how workload patterns and retention periods impact backup costs. We also explore cross-Region backup options and share recommended practices to optimize your backup storage consumption.

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ExternalSoftware Engineering
GitHub Changelog

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — May update

May 2026 brought sharper tooling for planning, reviewing, and managing your work with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2026. Highlights Here’s what’s new for all GitHub Copilot users in Visual… The post GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — May update appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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GitHub Changelog

Enterprise Teams is now generally available

Enterprise Teams is now generally available on GitHub Enterprise Cloud. First announced in public preview last September, enterprise teams let enterprise admins define a group of users once at the… The post Enterprise Teams is now generally available appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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DZone

The Hidden Cost of AI Tokens: Engineering Patterns for 10x Resource Efficiency

Last March, our VP of Engineering asked me a deceptively simple question during our quarterly review: "How much CO2 does our AI platform emit?" I had no idea. We'd been obsessing over token costs — tracking every cent spent on OpenAI and Anthropic — but we'd never connected those tokens to their environmental impact. We were processing 42 million tokens daily. The finance team knew exactly what that cost in dollars: $127K monthly. But carbon? Nobody had asked.

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