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Best Black Friday deals 2021 — biggest early sales and what to expect

Best Black Friday deals 2021 — biggest early sales and what to expect

Black Friday deals have started with a bang and new deals are rolling out every day. Major retailers like Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, and Target are unveiling Black Friday deals on everything from TVs and laptops to appliances and headphones.  On Wednesday night Walmart unveiled its first batch of official holiday deals. The sale included an $87 Samsung Chromebook, a $228 TCL 55-inch 4K Roku TV,…

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Infrastructure bill has an amendment to tax code section 6050I that requires some recipients of digital assets worth $10K+ to report sender's details to IRS (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Infrastructure bill has an amendment to tax code section 6050I that requires some recipients of digital assets worth $10K+ to report sender's details to IRS (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Infrastructure bill has an amendment to tax code section 6050I that requires some recipients of digital assets worth $10K+ to report sender’s details to IRS  —  The vote passed with bipartisan support on Friday night.  —  The U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill …

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Drag-and-Drop Emails on Your iPhone to Notes, Reminders, and Other Apps in iOS 15 « iOS & iPhone :: Gadget Hacks

Drag-and-Drop Emails on Your iPhone to Notes, Reminders, and Other Apps in iOS 15 « iOS & iPhone :: Gadget Hacks

There has been drag-and-drop functionality for iPhone since at least iOS 11, but iOS 15 adds a new ability that makes essential emails even easier to find when you need them. I’m not a big fan of flagging emails in Mail because assigning colors is as organized as it gets. You get seven different colors, but flagged emails from Gmail, Outlook, and other email services will only show up as red even…

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Xbox Series X restock update: Track on Twitter, Best Buy, GameStop and more

Xbox Series X restock update: Track on Twitter, Best Buy, GameStop and more

The second Xbox Series X restock of November has been confirmed. Walmart will be taking orders of Microsoft’s next-gen console today (Nov. 5) at 3 p.m. ET. It’s not been announced if this drop will require a Walmart Plus membership.  While we search for more Xbox Series X restock, we suggest you check the retailers listed below. Do make sure to bookmark and regularly refresh this page, as that…

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Kitman Labs, which uses AI to analyze data collected by sports teams, raises a $52M Series C led by Guggenheim Investments, bringing its total raised to $82M (Tim Casey/Forbes)

Kitman Labs, which uses AI to analyze data collected by sports teams, raises a $52M Series C led by Guggenheim Investments, bringing its total raised to $82M (Tim Casey/Forbes)

Tim Casey / Forbes: Kitman Labs, which uses AI to analyze data collected by sports teams, raises a $52M Series C led by Guggenheim Investments, bringing its total raised to $82M  —  Kitman Labs, a sports analytics and technology company that works with more than 700 college and professional teams across the world …

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iOS 15 Gives You More Reasons to Use Your iPhone's Accessibility Shortcut « iOS & iPhone :: Gadget Hacks

iOS 15 Gives You More Reasons to Use Your iPhone’s Accessibility Shortcut « iOS & iPhone :: Gadget Hacks

I use the Accessibility Shortcut on my iPhone practically every day, whether it’s to dim the screen below the standard threshold, keep my child confined to a specific app, or open up the simulated magnifying glass. But with iOS 15, there are at least three more things I can use it for, and one of them is really good. First, in case you didn’t know already, the Accessibility Shortcut lets you…

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Best Black Friday TV mount deals — top sales right now

Best Black Friday TV mount deals — top sales right now

Thinking about the best Black Friday deals might conjure up thoughts of discounted big screen TVs and other major products, but some of the biggest savings can be found on smaller TV accessories. TV mounts offer a simple way to upgrade your entire TV setup, and Black Friday is bringing deals on the best TV mounts you can get. If you’re already checking out the best Black Friday TV deals, or best…

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Google strikes a cloud deal with CME and invests $1B in the futures exchange (Alexander Osipovich/Wall Street Journal)

Google strikes a cloud deal with CME and invests $1B in the futures exchange (Alexander Osipovich/Wall Street Journal)

Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: Google strikes a cloud deal with CME and invests $1B in the futures exchange  —  Alphabet Inc.’s Google has invested $1 billion in futures-exchange giant CME Group Inc. and struck a deal to move the company’s core trading systems to the cloud.  —  Under the deal, the technology giant’s Google Cloud unit …

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Best Black Friday Garmin watch deals 2021 — Forerunner, Vivoactive and more

Best Black Friday Garmin watch deals 2021 — Forerunner, Vivoactive and more

Early Black Friday Garmin watch deals are slowly starting to trickle in. While the holidays might still be a little way off, November is only a few weeks away and all the Black Friday deals will be rolling in before you know it. If you’ve been holding off upgrading your running watch or fitness tracker, now might be a good time to shop, as some of the most popular Garmin watches are expected to…

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Indian ride-hailing company Ola reports its first operating profit since beginning operations a decade ago, with $12M for FY ending March 2021 (Aditi Shah/Reuters)

Indian ride-hailing company Ola reports its first operating profit since beginning operations a decade ago, with $12M for FY ending March 2021 (Aditi Shah/Reuters)

Aditi Shah / Reuters: Indian ride-hailing company Ola reports its first operating profit since beginning operations a decade ago, with $12M for FY ending March 2021  —  Indian ride-hailing company Ola, backed by Japan’s Softbank Group (9984.T), has notched up its first-ever operating profit since beginning operations …

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No, this trick doesn't speed up the Google Pixel 6 fingerprint sensor

No, this trick doesn’t speed up the Google Pixel 6 fingerprint sensor

For all that the Google Pixel 6 gets right, you can’t make use of it without unlocking your phone. And if you’re lucky enough to have already got one despite the stock shortages, you’re likely unlucky enough to have experienced the sluggish under-display fingerprint scanner. While this has proven a nuisance, there is a possible workaround within the settings menu. Canadian tech YouTuber…

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Fiverr acquires Stoke Talent, which helps companies manage their freelance teams, for $95M; Stoke raised about $20M and was last valued at around $44M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Some Mac owners report that upgrading to macOS Monterey bricked their computer  —  macOS Monterey, released last week as the latest version of macOS, is bricking older Mac computers, rendering them unusable and unable to even turn on, according to a number of reports from users across social media and online forums.

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Apple's AR/VR headset could arrive in 2022 with this killer upgrade

Apple’s AR/VR headset could arrive in 2022 with this killer upgrade

We’ve heard a great many rumors about the upcoming Apple VR and mixed reality headset, including news of a possible delay caused by its complicated design. The latest tidbit may tell us a little more about how the headset connects. According to a new investor note from Ming-Chi Kuo (via 9to5Mac), well known for his Apple predictions, the Apple headset will utilize Wi-Fi 6E to offer higher…

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interest in Facebook, measured by social media interactions per article, declined over 2021, with little mainstream attention for “Facebook Papers” (Axios)

interest in Facebook, measured by social media interactions per article, declined over 2021, with little mainstream attention for “Facebook Papers” (Axios)

After a three-day outage, Roblox says it is back online  —  According to Roblox’s status page, all versions of the game have been down since Oct 28 starting at 7 pm EST  —  Roblox, one of the most popular games in the world, has been down for over a day now and while many frustrated players …

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iPhone Not Getting Any Photo Messages? iOS 15 Updates Disable MMS on Google Fi & Other Carriers — Here's the Fix « iOS & iPhone :: Gadget Hacks

iPhone Not Getting Any Photo Messages? iOS 15 Updates Disable MMS on Google Fi & Other Carriers — Here’s the Fix « iOS & iPhone :: Gadget Hacks

If you have an iPhone running iOS 15 that’s connected to Google Fi or another mobile virtual network operator, you may not be getting any photos or videos in Messages. That may be because you recently installed a software update, and you’ll have to restore your cellular data network settings to get MMS working again. According to Apple, your iPhone may erase all or some of the custom cellular…

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How to run a 5K - tips for beginners and beating your record

How to run a 5K – tips for beginners and beating your record

A 5K race is one of the most popular distances for running races, as it’s relatively short, making it very accessible for those who don’t run regularly. That said, there are a few things you should know before setting off on the course. Whether you’re hoping to run your first 5K or get faster over the 5K distance, we’ve got everything you need to run stronger than ever. A 5K is 3.1 miles in…

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Experts say sourcing chips has turned almost into a lottery amid the global chip shortage, as wait times have ballooned to 22 weeks as of October (Wall Street Journal)

Experts say sourcing chips has turned almost into a lottery amid the global chip shortage, as wait times have ballooned to 22 weeks as of October (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Experts say sourcing chips has turned almost into a lottery amid the global chip shortage, as wait times have ballooned to 22 weeks as of October  —  Nearly a year into the crisis, some customers are finding it is taking months more than expected to get needed parts