I interrupt your Sunday with what is arguably the best TV deal of 2019: An Amazon seller just lopped another $200 off “the best value TV of 2018.” For a limited time, and while supplies last, the TCL 6 Series 65R617 65-inch Roku TV is just $499. Previous price: $699, itself a new low. Before that, …
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Harry Potter and his fellow witches and wizards are in trouble in the new game Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, that’s similar to the wildly popular Pokemon Go. Wizards Unite pits you against dark wizards and magical beasts to save beloved characters from the Harry Potter books from the Calamity — an unexplained event scattering magical items across the Muggle, or …
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The Pencil is mightier than the finger. I’m referring, of course, to Apple’s fancy Pencil stylus, which lets you do some pretty amazing things on compatible iPads. It normally sells for $100, which is bananas, but today only, and while supplies last, Best Buy has the Apple Pencil (1st-generation) for $59.99 — the lowest price I’ve seen. The catch: It’s …
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Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, the augmented reality game that’s cast a spell on fans and players since launching last week, is getting its first real-world event this summer. The first Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Fan Festival is slated to take place Aug. 31 to Sept. 1 in Indianapolis, Indiana, the game’s account tweeted Thursday. Not many details are available yet, …
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Digital photos are all well and good, but there’s something to be said for an actual print you can hold in your hand, stick to the fridge, drop in an envelope to a friend and so on. Call me nostalgic, but printed snapshots are just kind of nice. And I’m not alone in this sentiment, as mobile photo-printers have soared …
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This year’s Amazon Prime Day, Amazon’s two-day online shopping extravaganza on July 15 and 16, is still weeks away, but it’s already hit a fever pitch across social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, Google, YouTube and all the rest. And when you don’t have Amazon Prime or are absolutely uninterested in membership, seeing every other article talking about it is enough …
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Lake City isn’t the first local government to pay out hundreds of thousands of dollars to hackers over ransomware, and it’s not likely to be the last. The northern Florida city said Tuesday that it would be paying hackers up to $460,000 in bitcoin to recover its computer systems. This comes days after Riviera Beach, a Florida city more than …
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Target isn’t letting eBay have all the fun in trying to take a bite out of Amazon’s summer sale dominance — the retailer announced its own Target Deal Days sales for July 15 and 16. It didn’t offer too many specifics, but said the deals would include home, apparel and toy brands. “Last year’s Target.com One-Day Sale was one of …
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Employees at the online furniture retailer Wayfair plan to walk off the job Wednesday in protest of the company’s sale of bedroom furniture to operators of detention centers for migrant children at the southern US border. The protest comes after employees learned last week that a $200,000 order of bedroom furniture had been placed by BCFS, a government contractor that …
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A US senator and a pair of consumer privacy groups sent letters Tuesday to the Federal Trade Commission expressing concern over YouTube‘s practices surrounding kids content. They called on the agency to take action against the Google-owned video site for any wrongdoing. Sen. Ed Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, urged the FTC to “hold YouTube accountable for any illegal activity affecting children that …
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