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This is where we’ll be curating all our favourite Black Friday and Cyber Monday tech deals during this November, with none of the bottom-bucket trash that you get on some other sites. Black Friday 2025 takes place on Friday 28 November, the day after Thanksgiving. Black Friday and the days that come after it have become the biggest shopping event of the year, with many discounted prices on some of the hottest tech and gadgets. Cyber Monday falls on the following Monday – so 1 December. It’s essentially just an extension of the Black Friday event with more deals and…

A year after Remarkable introduced its Paper Pro digital notebook with an 11.8-inch color E Ink screen, the company is following up with a smaller version that prioritizes portability. The new Remarkable Paper Pro Move feels like what you’d be left with if you were to snap last year’s Paper Pro in half over your knee. With a 7.3-inch screen, it’s closer in size to a thin paperback novel you can easily slip into a pocket, but since the Paper Pro Move is as tall as the Paper Pro is wide, when turned sideways it provides a similar amount of…

Looking for a new portable speaker? There are tons of options to pick from, although I can’t say that all are particularly portable. I wouldn’t want to chuck lots of the options in my backpack all day. But JBL’s latest release is focused on being portable. The JBL Grip is the brand’s latest attempt to convince us that small really can mean mighty – and honestly, I’m inclined to believe it. In fact, this speaker is the same size as a can of beer, but packs a whole lot of punch. JBL knows this speaker is small, but it can…

I’ve tested quite a few 4K TVs, and LG makes some of my favourites. The picture quality that the brand offers is unmatched by competitors. In fact, this year’s LG G5 is the best and brightest OLED I’ve ever tested. OLED TVs have always delivered perfect blacks and top-tier contrast, so are the one to buy – but they can be pricey. That’s why there’s never been a better time to by an LG OLED, including the C5. Right now, the 77in model is over $1000 off and down to its lowest price ever. On Amazon US, you can bag the…

Samsung may be partly to blame for unleashing the party speaker upon the world — its Giga line launched over a decade ago — but in recent years its entrants to the field have been strangely restrained, with only small light strips along the sides. Not so with its two new Sound Towers, which add LED lights that would be impossible to miss.The Sound Tower ST50F and ST40F both feature a large LED “racetrack-style” light strip across the front, along with other lights around the tweeters, the edge of the body, the base, and even the underside of the handle.…

SIMs – the tiny plastic cards you’ve got to shove into a tray to make things work – have been around almost since the first portable phones. They let your device to connect to mobile networks for texting, calling, or accessing data on the go. But recently the phone world has become obsessed with non-physical electronic SIMs, known as the eSIM. Yourupcoming phone might not even have a SIM tray any more. US versions of Apple’s iPhone 14 and later don’t have physical SIM cards, opting for two eSIM support (dual eSIM) instead. Yet global models sold in the UK,…

Unfortunately for stateside readers, Acer has no current plans to ship its Amadana branded products below in the US. The 27-inch 27ART0 P1 desktop monitor — whose display is just 8mm thick — and the 16-inch, 1.4-pound 16APM1QJ portable monitor, are headed to EMEA regions in Q1 for €169 and €119 respectively.They’re not heavy on tech, anyhow: they’re 1080p IPS screens, at just 250 nits of brightness, and only the desktop monitor reaches 144Hz. The portable panel, with USB-C and mini-HDMI input, is limited to 60Hz, though both monitors offer variable refresh rate.But the Acer CE270U Z, below and atop…

Imagine this: your alarm goes off, you reach for your phone, and instead of the usual flood of emails, calendar reminders and photos, you’re greeted with a message that your account has been locked. No Gmail. No iCloud. No Google Docs, Drive, Maps history, or that two-factor authentication app you cleverly installed on the same account. Suddenly, you’re completely locked out of your digital life. It’s not an abstract problem. Accounts get locked every day, sometimes by hackers, sometimes by accident, and sometimes because a computer somewhere thought you looked suspicious. The real question is: what would you actually do?…

Acer is announcing a new Swift Air 16 at IFA 2025, and it’s an absolute featherweight of a 16-inch laptop. Weighing in at 2.18 pounds / 0.99kg with an IPS display or 2.43 pounds / 1.1kg with its optional OLED, the Swift Air is lighter than even a 13-inch MacBook Air. It also packs more ports than the MacBook, and will start at a lower price of €999 when it launches in November. (North American availability and pricing is still TBD.)It kind of boggles my mind that the Swift Air 16 fits this much screen into such a light package,…

Acer’s new Chromebook Plus Spin 514, announced at IFA 2025 in Berlin, is the company’s first laptop to use the Arm-based MediaTek Kompanio Ultra 910 processor. That chip was used in the Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 that launched earlier this summer, and it was key to delivering excellent performance and marathon battery life in that fanless laptop. I dubbed the Lenovo “the new king of Chromebooks,” and this $699.99 Acer, launching this month, seems poised to be a solid alternative — especially if you prefer a touchscreen convertible and don’t mind hearing a fan on occasion.Acer sent me the new…

Have you ever looked at your pizza oven and wished it was just a little bit smarter? Ooni has, and so its new Volt 2 comes loaded with “Pizza Intelligence,” an adaptive heating system designed to deliver a more even and consistent cooking temperature.The Volt 2 is an indoor oven, able to cook pizzas up to 13 inches in diameter, but it’s still small enough to fit on a countertop — though we’ve found other indoor pizza ovens too smoky to really use inside. Pizza Intelligence is new to the Volt 2 and uses sensor data to adjust the top…

Here’s where it gets potentially confusing: Microsoft doesn’t own Crystal Dynamics — that studio belongs to the Embracer Group, which has had many troubles of its own. So Embracer was trying to cut a deal with yet another publisher, the giant Take-Two, to buy, fund, and publish the game. But, Schreier reports:the talks collapsed at least in part because the companies involved were unable to come to terms over long-term ownership of the Perfect Dark franchise, said the people, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about sensitive negotiations.When that deal fell through, it reportedly led to…