Day: November 22, 2018

Black Friday 2018 Walmart deals: $99 Bose headphones, Google Home Hub, Nintendo Switch bundles and more – CNET

The store’s Black Friday sale starts online earlier than ever, with deals on game console bundles available now. …read more Source:: CNet


Best Amazon Black Friday 2018 deals now: Bose discounts, $20 Echo Dot, $25 Fire TV, $30 Roku, $30 Fire tablets, $69 Echo and much more – CNET

Amazon’s Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale is in full swing, with huge Amazon device sales — and price cuts on Bose products and more, too. …read more Source:: CNet


Thanksgiving E-commerce Spend To Top $3.5B, Mobile Accounting For One-Third of Sales

The 2018 holiday season is predicted to be a bumper year for e-commerce, helped by economic forces like lower unemployment and underlying trends like an ever-growing proportion of shoppers opting to spend their money online, and specifically on mobile devices. From a report: Thanksgiving, a day when brick-and-mortar stores tend to be closed, is a…


Watch a creepy humanoid robot head express complex emotions – CNET

Hello new nightmare fuel! Updated child android Affetto smiles and looks surprised thanks to advanced facial robotics. …read more Source:: CNet


Don’t be a Black Friday tourist, you monster – CNET

Giant Bomb’s Dan Ryckert and Alex Navarro join this week’s special episode of Nope, Sorry to help Jeff debate the merits of Black Friday and decide the absolute worst Thanksgiving side dishes. …read more Source:: CNet


Cisco snaps up Brit networking software bods Ensoft

From main customer to owner Cisco is buying UK software house Ensoft for an undisclosed sum. The Harpenden-based outfit’s speciality is software for enterprise-grade routers and networking equipment.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Tumbleweed Turbine Wins Dyson Foundation Award

Wind turbines are great when the wind flow is predictable. In urban environments, especially in cities with skyscrapers, wind patterns can be truly chaotic. What you need, then, is a wind turbine that works no matter which way the wind blows. And just such a turbine has won the global first prize James Dyson Award….


Comparison sites cry foul over Google Shopping service

Original complainants say pay-to-play remedy has left them in the cold Fourteen price comparison sites have written to the EU in Google’s longest-running competition case, asking the European Commission (PDF) to rip up the remedy it agreed with Google.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Laptop search unravels scheme to fake death for insurance cash

The first rule of death club is not to be seen alive After faking one’s own death to defraud a life insurance company, it’s best to avoid being photographed alive and well, particularly when border agents may be reviewing those photos.… …read more Source:: Register


Hands on with the Roborock C10 robot cleaner: Great cleaning for the ultra stylish home and office

If Apple made robot vacuum cleaners, they would look like the Roborock C10 …read more Source:: ZDNet