Month: November 2022
The best Black Friday robot vacuum and smart home deals
Going from zero to a fully outfitted smart home is a huge undertaking — and it can get expensive fast. While we don’t recommend grabbing every possible smart home device in one go, Black Friday makes smartening up areas of your home a lot easier on your wallet. Every year,…
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Google and Microsoft add more renewable energy for datacenters
Audio player loading… Google and Microsoft have both invested in sizable renewable energy contracts to power their data centers. According to The Register (opens in new tab), Google has signed a 12-year 100MW corporate power purchase agreement with Scottish offshore wind development called “Moray West”, in Scotland’s relatively remote Moray…
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Everything in the Verge merch store is half off for Black Friday!
Happy holidays, sports fans. As is tradition, we’re offering our beloved Verge audience a special discount in our merch store from Black Friday through Cyber Monday. We suggest you act quickly, because a deal this good won’t last. Now through 11:59PM ET on Monday, November 28th, everything in our merch…
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Social media is still a hotbed for scams
Audio player loading… New research has claimed nearly half (47%) of social media users have fallen victim to some kind of shopping scam on social media, and they haven’t fared much better against other common frauds. A report from Atlas VPN (opens in new tab), discussing digital marketing company GoodFirms…
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The best Black Friday 2022 laptop deals we could find
It’s Black Friday, and that means lots of laptops have gone on sale with little indication as to which are actually worth your time. As always, we recommend shopping directly at retailers like Microsoft, Samsung, Dell and others if you want to spec out your next machine. But if you’re…
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The best Black Friday deals you can get at Best Buy
This is it, Black Friday. Best Buy is offering its best deals of the year, much like it has been for the past several weeks. But now that Thanksgiving is wrapped up, we took a spin through Best Buy’s catalog to see what else it might have added to the…
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