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30 Nov

Data centers in Oregon might be helping to drive an increase in cancer and miscarriages

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Morrow County, Oregon is home to mega farms and food processing plants. But it’s also home to several Amazon data centers. And now, some experts believe, that combination is leading to an alarmingly high concentration of nitrates in the drinking water that is driving up cancer and miscarriage rates in the area. Rolling Stone’s exposé details how Amazon, despite not using any dangerous nitrates to cool its data centers, is accelerating the contamination of the Lower Umatilla Basin aquifer, which residents rely on for drinking water. It’s a combination of poor wastewater management, sandy soil, and good old physics that…
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30 Nov

My favorite Cyber Monday TV deals from Samsung, Sony, and others are up to 50% off

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Black Friday might have passed, but that doesn’t mean the holiday deals are gone. You can still find low prices on excellent TVs, streaming devices, and soundbars through Cyber Monday. I’ve found the best of these deals to level up your home theater setup, and make sure that your holiday season (and every day after) is filled with the best picture and sound quality for your space. Cyber Monday usually offers great deals on products from last year, as retailers attempt to clear their inventory, but this year there’s also amazing pricing — more than I’ve seen in the past…
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30 Nov

The 201 Black Friday deals you can still get

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Black Friday is technically a thing of the past, but many of the best deals we told you about yesterday — including deep discounts on the AirPods Pro 3, the Pixel Watch 4, and the latest Kindle Paperwhite — are still kicking for now. In some cases, gadgets are out of stock at certain stores, or certain configurations are tougher to find at this point. You don’t have to worry, though, as we’ve confirmed that every deal below is both in stock and selling at a great price. Below are the results of our weeks spent sifting through deals and…
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29 Nov

Anker’s handy little 3-port charger is just 35 bucks

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Is there anything quite like the satisfying snap of folding prongs? Earlier this year, I decided to level up my travel game and invest in a charger to bring on trips, rather than raiding my desk outlets every time I packed. I needed a multitasker, something that could power my MacBook Air, charge my phone, and accommodate the random USB-A cord I always seem to need for some reason (I’m looking at you, electric toothbrush). That multitasker turned out to be Anker’s Prime 67W charger, and I haven’t looked back since. Anker Prime Charger (67W) The 67W Prime charger includes…
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The best gaming headset I tried this year is $60 off for Black Friday
29 Nov

The best gaming headset I tried this year is $60 off for Black Friday

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Earlier this year, I reviewed the Fractal Scape, a wireless gaming headset made for PC (also compatible with Switch 2) that really wowed me. Frankly, I wasn’t expecting much in this debut headset from a company known mostly for making PC cases, but it’s one of the most thoughtfully-designed models that I’ve tried recently. If you’re in the market for an elegant headset that sounds great and docks to recharge (keeping cable clutter to a minimum on your desk), I suggest checking out the Black Friday special on the Scape. The discount on these initially brought them down to $169.99,…
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29 Nov

The Fujifilm X Half is on sale for what it should have originally cost

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Fujifilm knows how to commit to a bit. | Photo: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Fujifilm’s unusual X Half elicited a lot of feelings from photographers when it came out earlier this year — from “That looks like so much fun,” to “Wait, it costs how much?“ Its $849.95 list price felt way too high for what is, by all accounts, a fun, unserious little point-and-shoot. But its $649 sale price? Much easier to stomach. The X Half comes with a 1-inch sensor, a fixed 32mm-equivalent f/2.8 lens, and a whole lot of nostalgia-inducing features, designed to make it feel…
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29 Nov

You can pick up 32GB of DDR5 RAM with a whole PC for $999 for Black Friday

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It’s nowhere close to the fastest pre-built, but it’s a good deal during a time when components aren’t as cheap as they usually are. | Image: iBuyPower If you were hoping for a huge deal on RAM during Black Friday, well, stop being silly. Depending on the RAM kit you want, buying it right now might be too costly to justify, an unfortunate trend that my colleague Sean Hollister recently pointed out. You can either wait out this period of surge pricing, or if you’re jumping into PCs for the first time and want to play games at 1080p, get…
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29 Nov

The 182 best Black Friday deals you can still shop — a ton of tech is over half off

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Now that the Thanksgiving dishes are put away and the last slice of pie is hidden in the back of the fridge, it’s time to turn your attention to the next major holiday: Black Friday. The biggest shopping day of the year has started, and as expected, there are tens of thousands of deals staring you in the face. The Verge found the ones that are actually worth considering.  Our team has spent an enormous amount of time looking through spreadsheets and e-mails to find gadgets that don’t go on sale very often, are down to their all-time low price,…
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29 Nov

These laptops are still steeply discounted for Black Friday — many are over $400 off

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Several great models are on sale, including the base 13-inch MacBook Air with the M4 chip. Aside from TVs, Black Friday is the best opportunity to save on one of the biggest tech purchases we’re all likely to make: a new laptop. A new generation of laptops is always around the corner at CES in January, but they’re still months away from release. In the here and now, you can get big discounts on excellent current-gen Windows laptops, MacBooks, and Chromebooks. There are hundreds of dollars to be saved on laptops from Apple, Microsoft, HP, Lenovo, Asus, and more. And…
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29 Nov

Ninja’s versatile Creami ice cream maker hits an all-time low for Black Friday

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Ice cream in December? Oh hell yeah. Ninja’s Creami Scoop & Swirl ice cream maker is 20 percent off for Black Friday, dropping it to a new all-time low of $279.99 at Amazon, Best Buy, and SharkNinja’s online storefront. It can make hard and soft serve ice cream, and, as my colleague Jen Tuohy found this summer, you can make some pretty fun recipes with it. Ninja Creami Scoop & Swirl Ninja’s clever 2-in-1 machine can spin up soft serve and traditional hard scoops in a few easy steps, not to mention creamy milkshakes, gelato, and frozen yogurt. Where to…
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