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As if you didn’t have enough shopping to do this week with Prime Day, Walmart, Target, Best Buy and even eBay are all holding their own sales alongside Amazon’s two-day shopping barn-burner that started yesterday, runs through today, and at least for Walmart, goes into tomorrow, July 17.

We’re collecting all of the best deals that each of the other shopping retailers are offering to compete with Amazon, so even if you’re not an Amazon Prime member, or you just want to avoid the competition and madness, you’re still in the right place to score a deal.

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Just like Prime Day, these countersales run 48 hours — with some offers popping up just for a bit before returning to full price. Keep this post bookmarked and check it regularly to see the best the deals you can find from other the retail giants.

Note: CNET may get a share of revenue from the sale of the products featured on this page.


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Xbox One bundle

Console + free game + extra controller + free headset

This is the return of Walmart’s “build a bundle” deal from Black Friday. 

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Nintendo Switch bundle

Console + free game + free accessory

As with the Xbox bundle, this is less about a deep discount, and more about getting a bunch of extras thrown in.

Read the Nintendo Switch review.

 

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Samsung Chromebook 3: $209

This basic 11.6-inch Chromebook is a perfect, cheap secondary laptop for browsing the web.

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Best Buy’s blowout is right now. Here are our favorite deals. 

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Apple MacBook Pro

The 13-inch, gray is $1,350, $150 off

Best Buy has a number of MacBook Pro models marked down, but most are on the larger 15-inch MacBook Pros than the more utilitarian 13-inch model. The discount on this newly updated 13-inch MacBook Pro is the best of the bunch.

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12-inch Apple MacBook: $1312

Save $288

The remaining stock of the 12-inch MacBook is priced to move.

$1,312 at Best Buy

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Vizio E-Series 70-inch Class 4K Smart TV

Save $250 and get a $50 gift card with purchase

The Vizio E-Series class 4K smart TV has a 70-inch screen, a 4K Ultra HDR resolution and 120HZ refresh rate. 

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Shark ION robot vacuum cleaner

Save $170

The vacuum is Wi-Fi-enabled and can be paired with your Alexa devices. 

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eBay’s shopping extravaganza has started, with free shipping included and no membership required. Here are our favorite deals.

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Google Home Hub: $50

You have been holding for a Google Home device, everyone seems to have it on sale, including eBay. And we like this price.

Read the Google Home Hub review.

 

$50 at eBay

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Bose QuietComfort 35 Series wireless headphones: $199

Save $150

Go wired or wireless with the Bose QuietComfort 35 Series. 

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Anti-Trump brothers Ed and Brian Krassenstein were permanently banned from Twitter for operating multiple fake accounts and purchasing bots with those accounts. The Daily Beast first reported the news late Thursday.

“The Twitter Rules apply to everyone. Operating multiple fake accounts and purchasing account interactions are strictly prohibited,” a Twitter spokesperson said in an emailed statement. “Engaging in these behaviors will result in permanent suspension from the service.” 

The brothers deny breaking any rules. On Sunday, Ed Krassenstein posted a “Challenge to Twitter” on his Facebook. He said Twitter hasn’t released any details about why the brothers were banned and challenged the social media site to release the accounts in question. 

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“If Twitter believes we violated the rules, they should release the details and evidence that proves so rather than allowing the media to defame us and accuse us of these allegations without any evidence or proof,” Krassenstein said in the post. 

Twitter did not immediately respond to request for comment about the challenge.

The brothers say they had extra accounts to keep track of death threats and for their businesses, and that no account was used for manipulative purposes.

“Twitter claims that we manipulated our interactions through the purchase of fake accounts and fake interactions,” the Krassenstein brothers said in an open letter. “We have never once acquired anything for the purpose of increasing our Twitter presence.”

After being banned, both Brian and Ed spoke out on Facebook.

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Before being banned, the brothers, together, had more than 1.6 million followers. They would use their large followings to quickly respond to tweets from President Donald Trump. When CNET staffers searched the Krassenstein brothers Twitter accounts, both appeared to be suspended. 

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The Anti-Defamation League has added the “Pepe the Frog” meme, a cartoon image of a frog’s face, to its database of online hate symbols, which includes symbols such as the swastika.

The civil rights organization noted Tuesday that the symbol, also known as the “Sad Frog” meme, did not originally have anti-Semitic connotations. But images of the frog wearing a Hitler-like mustache, a yarmulke or a Klan hood have proliferated in recent weeks on Facebook, Twitter and other online venues to promote racist, anti-Semitic or other bigoted ideas.

“Once again, racists and haters have taken a popular Internet meme and twisted it for their own purposes of spreading bigotry and harassing users,” Jonathan A. Greenblatt, the ADL’s CEO, said in a statement.

The addition of Pepe to the database comes a few months after the group added the echo symbol, denoted by triple parentheses, to its database. The symbol — with a name inserted into triple parentheses like so: (((NAME))) — has become popular with white supremacists and anti-Semites to single out Jews on Twitter and other social-media sites.

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The Anti-Defamation League has added the echo symbol, denoted by triple parentheses, to its database of online hate symbols.

The civil rights organization said the symbol — with a name inserted into triple parentheses as such (((NAME))) — has become popular with white supremacists and anti-Semites to single out Jews on Twitter and other social media sites. The symbol originated in an anti-Semitic podcast in 2014, but its use has grown in recent weeks as part of pattern of harassment directed at a group of journalists.

“The echo symbol is the online equivalent of tagging a building with anti-Semitic graffiti or taunting someone verbally,” Jonathan A. Greenblatt, the ADL’s chief executive, said in a statement.

The ADL’s move comes a few days after Google pulled a controversial browser extension called “Coincidence Detector” that was used to identify and track Jewish people online. The app was shut down Thursday after Google determined that it violated prohibitions against speech that promotes hate or incites violence.

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What good is a gun when you’re knee-deep in animated corpses and out of ammo?

You need a Swiss Army Machete, a zombie defense multitool. It gives you a blade for head-whacking action, an ax to remove grasping hands and an auger just because it looks like a giant corkscrew. Those zombies won’t stand a chance against your mighty arsenal of outrageousness.

Instructables user seamster shared a 14-step project on the how-to site showing the world how to create the ultimate in flexible anti-zombie weaponry. This is no pocket-sized gadget. It takes two hands to heft it. While that may reduce the effectiveness during a zombie-horde invasion, it will certainly look cool.

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Here’s the complete list of installed tools: pipe wrench, machete, ax, adjustable wrench, auger bit, steel pipe. The case is made from wood painted in the classic Swiss Army knife bright-red color. Tools are held in place with wood hinges and bolts. A lot of duct tape is involved.

“In preparation for the forthcoming zombie invasion I decided to gather up the gnarliest, zombie-weaponiest tools I had and store them in one convenient and accessible location,” seamster writes.

The massive multitool looks like it should have a movie cameo in Bruce Campbell’s hands. It probably wouldn’t pass muster in “The Walking Dead” universe, but if it doesn’t impress your fellow survivors, nothing will.

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Australia’s Communications Alliance has released the final version of an industry code targeted at tackling piracy in Australia, officially putting ‘three strikes’ warning notices on the table for Internet users.

A draft version of the code was released in February, and the final document has now been filed with the Australian Communications and Media Authority, which will consider registering as a binding agreement applying to roughly 70 of Australia’s largest ISPs.

Under the Copyright Notice Scheme code [PDF], residential Internet users that are found pirating content will be subject to a series of “escalating” warning notices from rights holders, sent via ISPs. The notices will warn users that they are infringing copyright, and that they will face legal action if they get three strikes recorded against their IP address — that is, if they receive an Education, Warning and Final notice — within a 12 month period.

Communications Alliance, the body representing Australia’s telecommunications and Internet service providers, received more than 370 submissions from the public after the draft code was released. After this consultation, Comms Alliance has removed a proposed fee structure that would have seen consumers paying AU$25 in order to challenge an infringement notice and have it reviewed.

Comms Alliance has also committed to providing “stronger consumer representation on the Copyright Information Panel” which will oversee the notice scheme and accompanying information website.

According to Communications Alliance, the three-strikes Copyright Notice Scheme is designed to change consumers’ behaviour and “help steer them toward lawful sources of content.” To this end, the scheme will establish a website with information about “matters relating to the legal access to content” though it is unclear what this will entail.

Rights holders from the music, film and television industries previously banded together to develop a Digital Content Guide to offer consumers information on legal content, though this site is little more than a website directory. Users cannot search the guide for specific content titles, there is no pricing information and headings such as “Movies & TV” lead to a page of service provider logos for the likes of Foxtel, Netflix and catch-up TV, each linking to external landing pages.

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While Comms Alliance says there are no “explicit sanctions against Internet users” set out in the code, it does allow for a “‘facilitated preliminary discovery’ process through which ISPs can assist Rights Holders who may decide to take legal action against persistent infringers.”

The release of the code comes just one day after a game-changing judgement was handed down in the Federal Court in the case between iiNet and Dallas Buyers Club, covering a similar “preliminary discovery” process. In this case, Dallas Buyers Club LLC petitioned the court to gain access to iiNet customer details matching IP addresses allegedly associated with copyright infringement. The Federal Court found in favour of the rights holders, requiring iiNet to pass on customer details.

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However, consumer groups are now concerned that the new copyright code will streamline this preliminary discovery process and reduce it to a simple “rubber stamp” on rights holders’ applications to access Internet users’ information.

“The Code sets up a system that will force Internet Service Providers to hand over customer details to rights holders, who will have free rein to use this information to launch court action,” said Choice Campaigns Manager Erin Turner.

“There will be no one checking to make sure rights holders aren’t seeking to intimidate and bully Australians who may have done nothing wrong. This Code could be amended to better balance the rights of both copyright owners and consumers, by simply refusing to allow rights holders who send these ‘pay-up-or-else’ letters from participating.”

Similarly, the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network raised concerns that, after the Dallas Buyers Club judgement, the Copyright Code could “streamline speculative invoicing.”

The practice of speculative invoicing is well established in other regions such as the United States, where individuals accused of copyright infringement can be sent letters by rights holders seeking significant damages for financial losses caused by piracy, or the option to pay a fee to settle out of court.

“The Dallas Buyers Club Federal Court decision is worrying because in the future Australian consumers may be sent threatening letters shaking them down for money or face the threat of legal action,” said the CEO of ACCAN, Teresa Corbin.

To prevent this, ACCAN has proposed that any rights holder found engaging in the process of speculative invoicing be “barred” from sending three-strikes notices under the industry scheme.

The release of the final code comes at the request of the Federal Government, which announced a crack down on copyright infringement in late 2014. Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Attorney-General George Brandis issued an ultimatum for the industry to develop an anti-piracy code by today, while also announcing that the Government would introduce site-blocking legislation to block overseas websites deemed to be facilitating piracy.

The legislation was tabled in Parliament in late March.

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