If you’ve never owned a dedicated e-reader, allow me to make the case. Sure, you can read e-books on your phone or tablet, but those devices are rife with distraction. You’re constantly getting interrupted by emails, text messages, the time-suck that is TikTok and so on. Plus, if you like to read at night, those …
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Apple lowered the price of the Watch Series 3 to $199 back in September — and it remained there for most of the holiday shopping season. A few retailers dropped it even further around Black Friday, including Walmart, which advertised a price of $129 for the 38mm model and $159 for the 42mm version. See it at Amazon You can get it …
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My perennial advice for TV shoppers is to wait until the Black Friday season, around the end of November, for prices to drop before pulling the trigger on that fancy, new TV they’ve been eyeing. In 2019 that date seems to have come earlier than ever: Best Buy’s latest sale, through its high-end Magnolia subsidiary, basically guarantees Black Friday pricing …
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Tile took the wraps off a variety of new and updated trackers on Tuesday — perhaps getting out in front of Apple, which is rumored to start offering its own line of such devices. And even though it’s barely a day old, the new Tile Sticker already has a deal designed to drive home its “smart” capabilities: For a limited time, …
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It’s not Prime Day, Black Friday, Labor Day, National Cat Awareness Day or any other holiday, but Vizio has chosen this moment to offer a great sale on a great TV. For a limited time, Amazon has the Vizio M-558G1 Quantum 55-inch TV for $498. Vizio proper sells it for $650, and here it’s a buck below the all-time lowest …
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At $80, the Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet is a pretty amazing value. At half that price, it’s an outright steal. And that’s just the deal you can get right now — provided you’re a first-time QVC shopper. (The website, not the TV channel.) For a limited time, and while supplies last, the Amazon Fire HD 8 is $39.98 with …
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Update, Sept. 18: Read our full rated Apple Watch Series 5 review here. The Apple Watch Series 5 has arrived, but that wasn’t the only Watch news at today’s Apple event: Effective immediately, the Apple Watch Series 3 will have a starting price of $199 — an $80 cut that makes it arguably the single best Apple Watch deal to …
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Cord-cutting is more popular than ever, but one of the big challenges is how to retain local channels. Sure, you can connect an antenna for over-the-air (OTA) viewing, but how can you pause playback and/or record those channels — without paying added monthly fees (which was the whole point of cutting the cord)? One popular solution: Amazon’s Fire TV Recast. …
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For a long time, Apple laptops were expensive, premium products that were rarely discounted. You might find a modest deal on an older model or a retailer might sweeten a sale with a gift card. But that’s changing — we’re seeing significant, sustained price breaks on an almost daily basis. Some of those lower prices come from back-to-school discounts — …
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Amazon continues to struggle with worker discontent in the Minneapolis area. A group of Amazon employees protested outside the Eagan, Minnesota, warehouse Thursday morning. The Eagan protest was to raise concerns about working conditions and a lack of parking at the location, which has resulted in Amazon towing workers cars off its lot, according to the Awood Center, a local …
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