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November, 2020

  • 25 November

    Apple will redesign Macs, Apple Watch in 2021, analyst predicts

    Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has predicted that the tech giant will release the next generation of MacBooks and Apple Watches in the second half of next year, 9to5Mac reported on Wednesday. The products will have a redesign, according to Kuo.  There’ll be two new versions of the Apple Watch next year, Kuo predicted, with “innovative …

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  • 25 November

    Galaxy Note 20: Here’s who should buy it and who should upgrade to the Ultra

    8.2 Samsung Galaxy Note 20 5G $966 at Amazon $950 at Best Buy Get Price Alerts $550 at Samsung You’re receiving price alerts for Samsung Galaxy Note 20 5G Like Brilliant screen Solid camera with 3x optical zoom Powerful, high-end performance features All-day battery life Don’t Like Lacks premium look and feel Plastic backing can feel sharp and poorly constructed …

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  • 25 November

    More PS5 consoles are coming in 2020, Sony promises

    The PlayStation 5 has been out of stock at most retailers since Sony launched its next-gen console earlier this month. But on Wednesday, the company promised that more inventory will be available before 2020 ends. We want to thank gamers everywhere for making the PS5 launch our biggest console launch ever. Demand for PS5 is unprecedented, so we wanted to …

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  • 25 November

    IBM to cut 10,000 European jobs ahead of sale, report says

    Hoping for a $2.3 billion bump in the last quarter of 2020, IBM will cut 10,000 jobs in Europe before selling off most of its legacy IT services business in the region, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. UK and German jobs are expected to bear the brunt of the cuts in the division, which manages daily support functions for client data centers …

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  • 25 November

    The Too Good To Go app has cut food waste in Europe. Now it could do the same in the US

    This story is part of Tech for a Better World, stories about the diverse teams creating products, apps and services to improve our lives and society. In the US, up to 40% of all food — much of it perfectly good — ends up in landfills, instead of on someone’s plate or in a compost bin. An app with nearly …

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  • 25 November

    Lenovo Chromebook Duet review: Best small 2

    With Android apps available on Chromebooks, lightweight tablets with a detachable keyboard like Lenovo’s IdeaPad Duet Chromebook make more sense. Google has added to Chrome OS’s support for tablets, too, with new touch gestures and a tablet mode for the Chrome browser making this slim, small two-in-one feel like a hybrid of the desktop side of Chrome and tablet side of …

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  • 25 November

    Walmart, Target and Best Buy are closed on Thanksgiving Day. Here’s where you can get Black Friday deals online instead

    This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. While Black Friday used to mean “big sales the day after Thanksgiving,” nowadays, it’s come to mean “any good deal in November.” That rings true this year more than ever, with Black Friday sales already happening at Best Buy, Target and (of course) Amazon. Plus, Walmart’s big sale …

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  • 25 November

    Get a Fi Series 2 GPS dog collar for $74 (save $75)

    Happy Thanksgiving, fellow cheapskates! I’m off tomorrow, of course, but back here Friday wrangling up the last of the Black Friday deals — followed immediately by Cyber Monday deals. Until then, let me wish you and yours a safe, happy, healthy holiday. Before we dive in today, a few odds and ends: Last year’s fantastic Hulu deal returns tomorrow. If …

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  • 25 November

    Amazon Web Service outage takes down major apps and sites

    A prolonged outage of Amazon Web Services — a core component for a vast number of sites and apps — brought part of the internet to a halt Wednesday, as reported earlier by The Verge. The affected sites include not only major players on the web like Flickr, Adobe Spark and Roku, but at least three news outlets. The Tampa …

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  • 25 November

    Disney Plus: How to watch Taylor Swift’s new Folklore concert special right now

    Taylor Swift on Tuesday revealed that a behind-the-scenes special exploring songs from her latest album, Folklore, is coming to Disney Plus on Wednesday. The streaming service described the film, entitled Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions, as an “intimate concert” of the singer-songwriter’s record-breaking album.  The film-album-concert is now officially available on Disney Plus, as of 12:01 a.m. PT (3:01 a.m. …

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