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Plus, in this week’s Installer: Amazon’s new tablet, a new book on the AI industry, Star Wars racing, and more.

Plus, in this week’s Installer: Amazon’s new tablet, a new book on the AI industry, Star Wars racing, and more.

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 147, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, I missed you all, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)

I’m back from parental leave! Part time, anyway. Thanks to everyone who sent well wishes and tips for managing three kids. I need ’em all. This week, I’ve been reading about McMansions and data centers and sports cardsand ICANN, trying to run my life on the Dell XPS Googlebook, testing a new and very purple Kindle, reinventing my whole note-taking system now that Google Docs can handle Markdown files, listening to episode after episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,and watching all of Shrinkingbetween the hours of 1 and 5AM while feeding a baby.

I also have for you the new Facebook movie, a tech-related procedural, a couple of great new gadgets, the Star Wars game that is going to destroy my productivity, a terrific book about the AI industry, and much more. Let’s do this.

(As always, the best part of Installer is your ideas and tips. What have you been watching / reading / playing / listening to / putting in the air fryer this week? Tell me everything: installer@theverge.com. And if you know someone else who might enjoy Installer, forward it to them and tell them to subscribe here.)