It’s Wednesday, so the big Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2018 sales are mostly gone. That goes for most retailers, including Target, but a few nice deals are still available today at Target.com. Most of them involve discounts on the Google Home Mini smart speaker with Google Assistant. There’s also a stray Bose bluetooth speaker …

Welp, it’s a wrap. Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2018 are solidly in the rear-view mirror, and all those great sales on Chromecast, Roku, Nvidia Shield TV and most Fire TV streamers are over too. They’ve assumed their standard pricing, starting at $30 for the Roku Express and $35 for Chromecast and others. Deal hunters who don’t mind the Fire …

The darling of retailers this holiday season is the smartphone. Following years of less-than-stellar sales through mobile devices, phones have now turned into reliable cash machines for online merchants looking to move as many TVs, toys and trinkets as possible during the busy shopping season. For nearly half of US holiday shopping, phones have become the default device for browsing …

Facebook rolled out a feature called “Watch Party” in July that allows users to watch and chat about a video in one spot as if they were sitting together in a digital living room. Facebook’s “Watch Party” feature. Facebook Now that tool, which was made available first within Facebook Groups, is expanding to all pages and profiles on the social …

There are lots of advantages to solid-state drives (SSD): they have no moving parts that can break and render the thing useless; they’re quicker to start up than traditional hard drives; and they’re small, light and energy efficient. But SSDs are usually more expensive than hard drives, which is one reason many people don’t use them in laptops or PCs. Samsung’s new …

Google doesn’t want Gmail to predict someone’s gender. The email service’s Smart Compose technology won’t suggest gender-based pronouns because the risk of offending someone is too high, Google product leaders told Reuters. Google’s Paul Lambert said the change came about after a company research scientist typed “I am meeting an investor next week” and Smart Compose suggested “Do you want …

Sprint is bolstering its family of 5G products for 2019, but isn’t telling us much about them. The nation’s fourth-largest wireless carrier said it was working with HTC to release a 5G “smart hub” in the first half of next year. The device, which doesn’t have a name, list of features or specific release date, is supposed to “deliver multimedia …

Cyber Monday has brought out the best deals on headphones, whether you’re an audiophile looking for the most premium set of cans, are in search of the ideal noise-canceling headphones to shut out the world (or these weekend shopping crowds), or you merely need a pair for your phone that isn’t old and tangled beyond reasonable use. You’ll find headphones …

An expanded Firefox search deal with Google helped push Mozilla’s annual revenue up 8 percent to $562 million for 2017 — money that should come in handy as the nonprofit tries to salvage what’s good about the internet. Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal and Russian election meddling have led plenty of people to question whether today’s tech is actually a …

Chinese phone-maker OnePlus has announced a partnership with UK carmaker McLaren Formula 1. The companies will host a “Salute to Speed” event at McLaren’s Technology Centre in Woking, England on Dec. 11. OnePlus is holding a contest, for European fans only, to attend the event. OnePlus has done the special edition thing before — tying in movies, other brands and …