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The football is over, the turkey is picked clean, and the fam is heading home. Now, it’s time to shop, shop, shop, and we have the absolute best Black Friday deals of 2024 for you. The WIRED team has been diligently digging to find the bargains worth your while, and we’ll be here, working shifts for the next four days, …
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Gary Sims / Android Authority Black Friday deals are all the hype, and there is one offer you may want to look at if you want to get a competent laptop while paying as little as possible. We’ve seen the Apple MacBook Air M1 at drop-dead prices of $649, but that record-low price is now even lower at just $599. …
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Vanessa Friedman / New York Times: How Amazon Haul, a storefront for fashion, home, and other items at “ultralow prices”, reflects the “haul” shopping phenomenon popularized by YouTube and TikTok — It is the shopping phenomenon of our times, and now it’s an Amazon store.
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The football is over, the turkey is picked clean, and the fam is heading home. Now, it’s time to shop, shop, shop, and we have the absolute best Black Friday deals of 2024 for you. The WIRED team has been diligently digging to find the bargains worth your while, and we’ll be here, working shifts for the next four days, …
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Successful Web3 technical writers craft compelling and customer-oriented content by translating complex information and documentation into a simple and cohesive form. With a strong background in emerging technologies like blockchain and Web3, they have the ability to communicate brand vision to end users. This customizable hiring kit, written by Avya Chaudhary for TechRepublic Premium, provides a framework you can use …
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Australia passed a law banning children under 16 from using social media apps like TikTok and Snapchat. Whether it can be enforced remains in question.
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Regulators are demanding information from the company on its cloud computing, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity products.
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