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Been Waiting on a Discount to Watch All Those Apple TV Shows? Boom. Wish Granted.

I’ve got a bad habit of listening to people recommend to me the same hit, water cooler TV shows and then not watching them out of… spite?...

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Preorders for the Nothing Headphones Finally Opened Up

With a retro-futuristic, pop-punk/techno look, the Nothing Headphone (1) looks like, well, nothing else out there. It’s something I’d expect to...

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The Nothing Phone (3) Available for Pre-Order Now, Release Date Set for July 15

Another small black brick, eh? All phones look the same, eh? Well then, Smartypants, check out the Nothing Phone (3). Guaranteed to look like nothing...

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Snag Two Months of Paramount Plus for Two Bucks. Just Be Quick About It.

Damn television, always applying pressure when the weather is nicest to try to keep us indoors, rather than out building a soapbox derby car or...

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Want (Almost) Half Off an Echo Pop? And Also, What’s an Echo Pop?

It isn’t sub-32 degrees, frozen, and sold out of an ice cream truck. You can check your hunger, although you’d be forgiven for going straight to a...

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New Social Media App ICEBlock Shows Nearby ICE Raids in Real Time

Have you checked out the Apple App Store lately? There’s a new number one on the leaderboard under the free social media app list. Developer, Joshua...

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Think Twice Before Opening That PDF. It Could Be a Popular Scam.

Gone are the days when you could easily spot a scam by the phrase “Nigerian prince” and “bank draft.” Likewise, I’ve lately noticed scammers...

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Sick of AI Crawlers? Cloudflare Can Block Them or Make Them Pay You.

It sounds like a dystopian future, where sentient robotic bugs roam the Earth’s surface like a bunch of DSLR-toting tourists swarming the streets of...

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Sony’s Excellent Noise-Canceling Headphones Just Got Even Better

Don’t you love free upgrades? Sometimes I’m left thinking the upgrades are just overdue features that should’ve been included in the release in...

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It’s a Star Wars LEGO Sale for the Fourth of July

May the Fourth (of July) be with you? Ok, it isn’t May 4th, Star Wars Day, but there are a whole bunch of LEGO Star Wars sets on sale at the moment....

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Have Mercy. The Brand-New 65″ LG C5 4K TV Is $1,000 Off for Prime Day.

Are my eyes deceiving me? Only a month after I went gaga over a deal on the 48″ LG C5 being $200 off, Amazon has knocked a full thousand bucks off...

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The Apple TV 4K Streaming Box Got a Rare Sale

Look, I won’t bullshit you. I’ve seen better deals on tech products than $10 off a $130 device. Have I seen better deals on the rather fantastic...

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Netflix Is Gonna Start Streaming NASA Content From Space

News has landed, and it’s come from… space? Well, and Los Gatos, California, where Netflix is headquartered, and Washington D.C., where NASA...

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The External Drive I Used to Backup My Life Is on Sale

I hate to alarm you, but you might be living an inch from disaster. No, not in the way that we all are with the nukes and the wildfires and the...

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Meta’s Threads Is Adding DMs for Everyone. Yay?

Meta’s Threads is introducing a long-requested feature that it’s largely lacked since it launched two years ago: DMs. Threads had been testing the...

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I Hate Bulky Wallets, So I Keep a Bellroy Leather Card Sleeve in My Front Pocket

To hell with bulky wallets. I’ve never liked them. When I was a teenager, I couldn’t get over how irritating it was to sit down on a bulky wallet...

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The Echo Glow, Amazon’s Most Ambiguous Echo, Is on Sale

OK, it’s technically for kids. But who says adults don’t enjoy color? Or things that glow for no reason? The Amazon Echo series of smart home...

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Get a Deal on This Backup Drive You Could Kick Out a Window

Rugged storage drives aren’t just straight-shootin’, truck-drivin’ aficionados of flannels and outlaw country. They may be into one or all of...

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Anker Issues Yet Another Recall, This Time for Five Popular Power Banks

Anker’s not been having a hot month. Or actually, it’s been having a very hot month, which is the problem, what with its Anker PowerCore...

30.06.2025 2

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Save $130 on This JBL Bluetooth Speaker—Perfect for the Pool This Summer

I’ve spent plenty of time at the beach in my eight years of living there. Nothing beats the calm quiet of the surf breaking against the shore as...

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Waiting Is for Chumps. The Apple Watch Series 10 Just Dropped an Early Prime Day Deal.

Amazon Prime Day is only a couple of weeks away. Weirdly enough, as Prime Day begins to spread beyond one day to two and now to four (July 8-11), its...

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Dell Just Launched the Most Boring Name Change to Its Now-Dead XPS Laptop

Dell’s XPS wasn’t the most exciting nameplate in the world, but it had brand recognition. Having been introduced in 1993, it was a steady lineage...

28.06.2025 3

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This 75″ 4K TV Is $400. No, It’s Not Missing a Zero.

All right, all right. You’ve read the warnings about buying a TV that’s too large for your space, like this one. I wonder who wrote that. Look,...

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Anthropic AI Says It Has a Plan to Save the Job Market From AI

Now we know what it must’ve felt like for all the poor bastard craftsfolk on the eve of the Industrial Revolution. More or less. We’re eating...

28.06.2025 4

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The Heated Ember Smart Mug 2 Is at an All-Time Low Price

Coffee time is the most blessedly precious time in all the day. Every morning, no matter how much of a hectic day I have ahead of me, I leave my phone...

27.06.2025 4

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Blueair Debuted a New Air Purifier That’s Also a Small Table. One Week Later, It’s $60 Off.

One of the greatest upgrades I made to my home was the addition of an air purifier. There it sits in my living room, pumping away to cleanse my indoor...

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Dig a Smartwatch That Masquerades as an Analog Watch? This One’s $80 Off.

The Samsung Galaxy Watch7, which is currently on a deal and has never been cheaper. But Samsung hasn’t released a Classic version of the Watch7 like...

26.06.2025 2

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Garmin’s New-for-2025 Smartwatch Is Already on Sale

All right, now that I’ve set the expectations (and you’ve clicked through the headline anyway, you little trooper), let me just point out that $50...

26.06.2025 2

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Go Ahead and Get the Google Pixel 8 Pro for $599—Instead of the $1K Pixel 9 Pro

All hail Google’s latest Pixel 9 Pro, the flagship of its smartphone lineup. It’s powerful, it’s fast, it’s new for 2025. It’s also $999....

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The Best Budget Bluetooth Party Boombox Is 15% Off

Sound is expensive. Well, in a way. Even cheap headphones and speakers sound worlds better than the average setups from the 20th century, so in a way...

26.06.2025 1

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Pre-Orders of Samsung’s New AI Smart Monitor Come With a $300 Credit

AI is in everything, so why wouldn’t they start shoving it directly into not just computers, but also the things we plug into them? Samsung just...

26.06.2025 2

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Lawsuit Forces the Takedown of Jony Ive’s and OpenAI’s io

Whoopsy daisy. OpenAI probably should’ve done more due diligence on the name of its new partnership with Jony Ive, of Apple “how thin can we make...

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How About a Light Show for $20? JLab’s New Pop Party Bluetooth Speaker Is Cheap Fun.

JLab, the maker of budget audio equipment, never seems to forget that speakers are about fun. Its latest budget, hand-sized, light-splashing Pop Party...

25.06.2025 2

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The Samsung Galaxy Watch7 Has Never Been Cheaper

Deals right now have been scarce ahead of Amazon’s Prime Day, a four-day Midsommar-esque celebration dedicated to buying things, held this year from...

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How’s an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Gaming Laptop for Under $1,200 Sound?

Ever since NVIDIA launched its latest series of graphics cards earlier this year, it’s been pandemonium at American retailers trying to get them in...

24.06.2025 2

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The iFFALCON Wants to Shatter Samsung’s Hold on the ‘Art TV’ Market

It takes up a lot of wall space, don’t you know? That big-screen TV hanging on your wall. Or does 55″ even count as big anymore? Well, it’s...

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TikTok Is Shutting Down Its Short-Lived Book Publisher

Yeah, I had no idea, either. Perhaps it had to do with ByteDance’s quiet entry into the publishing world in 2023, hot on the heels of the growth of...

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What If I Said You Could Have a 98-Inch TV for Just Over $1.5K?

Who doesn’t love a big-ass TV? Back in the ’90s, it very practically hip-checked Uncle Sam aside as the new mascot of America. Even as pedestrian...

24.06.2025 2

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Tempt Fate (and Congress), Buy a New DJI Drone at Its Cheapest-Ever Price

DJI could find itself banned from operating in the US, thanks to the US government’s suspicions about its links to China’s ruling Communist Party....

23.06.2025 2

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Why Is the Sonos Arc Ultra Wall Mount So Hard to Find?

When Sonos unleashed the Arc Ultra upon the world on October 29, 2024, three years after the Arc, one of the first things I wanted to know was whether...

23.06.2025 3

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This Is the Only MacBook Air M3 Deal You Should Bother With

The MacBook Air M3 is a good laptop. And generally, it’s a bad deal. I’ve passed over most of them because they just weren’t much, if any,...

23.06.2025 3

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Oakley and Meta Are Tag-Teaming a New Pair of Smart AI Sunglasses

One more piece of technology to make it appear as if people are talking to themselves in public. That’s what AI-equipped smart sunglasses are, with...

22.06.2025 3

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What, You’ve Never Seen a Camera That Prints Poems Instead of Photos?

Picture this: You show up at the party, the picnic, the park hang, whatever, and to your horror you find out that every third person has brought along...

21.06.2025 3

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I’ve Never Seen the Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro for This Cheap

There’s something to be said about buying a pair of headphones or earbuds from the same fine folks who made your smartphone, tablet, or computer....

21.06.2025 2

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Love Art and Television? Check Out This Deal on Samsung’s ‘The Frame.’

All that space on your wall where a TV just hangs, wasted when the TV is off and just a big, oppressive black rectangle that rubs in your face every...

21.06.2025 2

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Extreme (Work From) Home Makeover: Nintendo NES Edition

Home office too boring? There’s no need to keep it professional. You’re at home, where at least for the immediate future your company can’t...

21.06.2025 2

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Could These Animal Crossing LEGO Sets Be as Relaxing as the Game?

What is it about Animal Crossing that soothes people so much? The number of folks I know who use the game to mentally unwind is astounding. Even The...

20.06.2025 2

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iPhones Are Getting a New Ringtone. Is It Pretty or Creepy AF?

You know it so well that if you have an iPhone, anytime someone nearby gets a call on their iPhone, you check yours because you’ve likely got the...

20.06.2025 2

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Dell’s Best Windows Laptop for MacBook Haters Is $300 Off Right Now

I get it. Apple products are so wildly prominent that it can sometimes unfairly feel that the internet has sorted devices into two categories: Apple...

20.06.2025 2

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They Blew Up Twitter’s Bird Mascot in the Nevada Desert

You maniacs! You blew it up! Ahhh, damn you! Damn you all to hell! Anyone? Don’t click it if you haven’t watched Planet of the Apes (the good...

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