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Buy Microsoft Office for $100, get a $50 Amazon gift card

Cheapskates don’t use Microsoft Office. Or, at least, they don’t pay for it: Microsoft offers pretty decent freebie versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint that live in your browser. And let’s not forget the various free alternatives, such as Google Docs, LibreOffice and WPS Office. All that being said, some people have a particular need for Microsoft’s suite — and …

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Grindr’s Chinese ownership a national security risk, US government reportedly says

LGBTQ dating app Grindr was bought last year by a Chinese gaming company called Beijing Kunlun. The US government considers the deal a national security risk and is pressuring Kunlun to sell, according to a Reuters report. Kunlun fully acquired the California-based Grindr app in January of last year for an estimated $152 million after buying an initial $93 million …

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Razer Deathadder Elite is $38 for one

Razer’s Deathadder Elite is one of the most popular gaming mice available and that’s in spite of its regular price of $70. And today you can pick it up on Amazon for $37.99. Incredibly accurate with imperceptible latency, the corded Deathadder Elite has mechanical switches Razer says are tested to 50 million clicks. It’s also got seven programmable buttons, customizable …

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Get 8 (eight!) Fire HD 8 tablets for the price of one iPad Mini

Amazon is back at it with major discounts on its tablets for Amazon Prime members. With the Fire HD 10 at $99.99 (regularly $149.99), the Fire HD 8 at $49.99 (regularly $79.99) and the Fire 7 at $34.99 (regularly $49.99) we’re seeing Fire prices at Black Friday levels. The HD 10 and Fire 7 are currently out of stock for four to five days, so don’t expect immediate delivery. …

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Just in time for March Madness, Best Buy has a host of TVs on sale this week. Even if you don’t care about college basketball and haven’t filled out a bracket, we are less than a month away from the final season of Game of Thrones, which is as good an excuse as any for a TV upgrade.  Here are the …

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Best Buy sale: MacBook Pros are up to $400 off and iPhone X is $700 ($200 off)

As part of its three-day Tax Day sale that runs through March 23, Best Buy has a few deals worth highlighting on the Apple MacBook Pro laptops — and they’re the current version, not a generation or two old, as sometimes happens with these sales. Also, an unlocked version of the older iPhone X (64GB), which has a dual-lens camera (albeit …

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Apple’s rumored TV service may offer discounted streaming bundles

Apple’s rumored TV streaming service, expected to be unveiled next week, may bundle together other video subscriptions for a discounted price. Apple has negotiated the right to bundle together other streaming services, The Information reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the situation. That means Apple could offer bundles of streaming subscriptions — for example, to the on-demand versions of …

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Facial recognition can speed you through airport security, but there’s a cost

In the not too distant future, you could walk into the international terminal of almost any US airport and board a plane without showing anyone your passport.  At the check-in counter, you’d pose in front of a camera that scans your face and sends your image to a remote system that matches it to a stored copy of your passport …

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The new ‘AirPods 2’ are really AirPods 1.5

After much speculation and churning of rumor, Apple’s second-generation AirPods are finally here and they’re not quite what some folks were hoping the AirPods 2 would be. The rumored color options, design changes and biometric features are all no-shows. And there’s presumably no boost to sound quality either, since Apple didn’t mention that in its press release. And while there are …

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Amazon’s entry

There’s good news and bad news about the “all-new” Kindle, the next iteration of Amazon’s entry-level e-reader. First, the good: It now has a self-illuminated screen. The bad? It costs $90 (£70, $AU139), or $10 more than the previous model, the Kindle 2016. Set to ship on April 10 and available for preorder today, the new Kindle comes in black …

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