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Amazon Cyber Monday 2019: The full list of available deals

Yes, we’ve collected our favorite Amazon Cyber Monday deals here, and we’ve listed every Cyber Monday Amazon device sale as well. But if you want the full list of everything Amazon cutting the price on for Cyber Monday, you’ve come to the right place. Yes, many of these are just Black Friday deals extended, but they’re still …

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Cyber Monday 2019 deals: the best at Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, Target and more

Black Friday 2019 is but a memory, and by all accounts customers dropped a ton of cash: According to Adobe, shoppers spent $7.4 billion that day, a 19.6% increase on last year. Among the big sellers were Frozen 2 toys and FIFA 20. The shopping season though, has just begun.  Check out the best Cyber Monday deals on iPhones, game consoles and …

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Full Amazon Black Friday 2019 deals revealed: Up to 50% off electronics and more starting this week

Amazon has early Black Friday deals you can hop on right now, and the next wave of discounts hits this Friday, Nov. 22 when Amazon kicks off its Black Friday Deals Week that runs until Black Friday itself, Nov. 29. In addition to Black Friday Deals Week, Amazon will launch daily deals on Nov. 28 (Thanksgiving), Nov. 29 (Black Friday) …

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Early Black Friday deal: This 70

Black Friday is two weeks from today — but with deals like this, why wait? Best Buy now has a solid 65-inch Samsung 4k HDR TV on sale for $550 — down from its yesterday price of $900. It’s the latest “daily doorbuster” from Best Buy, as it counts down the days to its own Black Friday sale. The Samsung joins the …

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Apple AirPods Pro: Watch us test how long their batteries last, live

Tune in on 10:30 a.m. PT/1:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, Nov. 14, as we livestream a battery test of Apple’s new $250 wireless earbuds, the AirPods Pro. These are the first Apple headphones to come with active noise-cancellation technology — and now in a new noise-isolating design.  Apple says the AirPods Pro can get 4.5 hours of listening time with …

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Samsung Developer Conference: How to watch the keynote

Samsung is about to get real geeky. Unlike previous events, where phones like the Galaxy Note 10 served as the headliner, the Korean consumer electronics titan will put its square focus on software and its platform for the keynote presentation at the company’s annual developer conference. But that doesn’t mean we won’t get any hardware. Keep in mind, last year’s …

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Buy a Google Pixel 4, get 3 free months of Google One

At today’s Made by Google event, the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL were announced as expected. Google also announced an extended trial of sorts for its Google One cloud-storage service: When you buy one of the new phones, you’ll get three free months on the 100GB tier. Google One affords not only cloud storage for your devices, but also …

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Galaxy Fold lasts for 120,000 folds in CNET’s livestreamed test

Our livestreamed test is over and the results are in: Samsung’s new Galaxy Fold didn’t make it all the way through our durability test, but it survived around 120,000 automated folds.  After an attempted launch this past spring marred by complaints of screen problems on preproduction review units, Samsung’s foldable phone was released Sept. 27 with key design changes and a more …

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The best new tech from IFA 2019

It’s tricky to cover IFA, Europe’s largest trade show, from the perspective of an American consumer. A lot of the products announced here won’t come to the US right away, if ever. That makes it hard to filter things a bit. Will readers back home care about a TV they might never have a chance to buy?  We’re approaching this …

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Last chance: 50 percent off H&R Block tax software

You can’t ignore it much longer: Your taxes are due on April 15.  But burying your head in the sand may have finally paid off: H&R Block is offering 50 percent off its current tax software.  The deal started yesterday, and it expires tonight at 11:59 p.m. CT. (That’s 9:59 p.m. PT, 12:59 a.m. ET.) Note that CNET may get …

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