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Black Friday is usually a great time to find OLED TV deals, and it’s looking like the 2024 season will be no exception. That being said, what you may not realize is that plenty of early discounts become available well before the holiday shopping season kicks off, so I’m gathering a selection of my favorite … Read more
TL;DR Google Play Points users who are at least Gold tier can get free Disney Plus and Hulu subscriptions as a perk. Depending on your Points level, you can get six, nine, or twelve months of access. The offer is only for new users of these streaming services. If you’re the kind of Android user … Read more
Amazon is shutting down its Amazon Today service, which provided same-day delivery from mall and brick-and-mortar retailers. The program will mostly wind down by December 2, 2024, with select partners fulfilling orders until January 2025. CNBC reports: A small amount of employees will be laid off and provided with severance, while others will be transitioned … Read more
“Remove some entries due to various compliance requirements. They can come back in the future if sufficient documentation is provided.” That two-line comment, submitted by major Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman, accompanied a patch that removed about a dozen names from the kernle’s MAINTAINERS file. “Some entries” notably had either Russian names or .ru email … Read more
Apple plans to introduce the first Apple Intelligence features in iOS 18.1, debuting Writing Tools, notification summaries, smart replies, and more. iOS 18.1 will be followed by iOS 18.2, which Apple started testing this week. iOS 18.2 has Genmoji, Image Playground, and Siri ChatGPT integration, but there are still some Apple Intelligence features that won’t … Read more
It may seem like Black Friday deals are in the distant future, but actually there are some awesome early Black Friday deals already happening. Because there are so many, we’ve spent the time to focus on some key areas. The focus here is iPad deals. There are some big discounts on highly sought after tablets. … Read more
Android 15 is out of the door, both on the AOSP and on Pixel phones, which means other OEMs are to follow suit soon. One company that is usually prompt with updates is OnePlus, and the company has just announced that it will begin beta-testing OxygenOS 15. OnePlus has just unveiled its latest mobile operating … Read more
Clark Johnson says he has wanted to be a scientist ever since he was 3. At age 8, he got bored with a telegraph-building kit he received as a gift and repurposed it into a telephone. By age 12, he set his sights on studying physics because he wanted to understand how things worked at … Read more
For the third month in a row, a football game has taken the top slot in the U.S. sales charts, according to industry-tracking firm Circana. Granted, the three games represent two different kinds of football — while Madden NFL 25 and EA Sports College Football 25 dominated August and July, respectively, September’s big seller was … Read more
ZDNET’s key takeaways Lenovo’s IdeaPad Flex 5 2-in-1 is available now at Walmart for $679. It’s a durable budget laptop that comes with Windows S mode, a restricted but streamlined version of the operating system that improves performance. The restrictions that come with Windows S mode won’t make sense for everyone, and the laptop is … Read more