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If you have no clue what your mom wants this holiday, let alone your cousins that you haven’t seen in forever, we’re here to help. It just so happens that now through Dec. 12, Lenovo has some really sweet deals on gear that anyone on your list would be stoked to unwrap. Whether it’s RGB headphones for your gamer nephew or a s ...

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We gathered the best deals we could find on Dec. 7 all in one place — here are some of our top picks:BEST AMAZON DEVICE DEAL: Amazon Fire TV 75-inch Omni Series 4K UHD Smart TV — $549.99 $1,099.99 (save $550)BEST APPLE DEAL: Apple Watch Series 7 (41mm, GPS + cellular) — $339 $499 (save $160)BEST STREAMING DEAL: Paramount ...

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Get 10% back: As of Dec. 7, get up to 10% back in Best Buy eGift cards with the purchase of select Apple gift cards. That's up to $20 back with a purchase of a $200 Apple gift card.It's gifting season, and we all have those friends and loved ones who feel impossible to shop for. But gift cards and eGift cards make it a little easier to please the d ...

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If that eerie dance scene didn’t get your attention, the makers behind M3GAN have given us even more of our future favorite, nightmare doll in the horror movie’s latest trailer.Following the loss of her parents, nine-year-old Cady (Violet McGraw) finds a new friend in M3gan, an android toy created by her aunt Gemma (Allison Williams). T ...

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Bring the café home with a Nespresso coffee and espresso machine, which let you whip up restaurant-quality coffee drinks right from your kitchen. Here are the best deals at Amazon:OUR TOP PICK: The Nespresso Vertuo Next is a compact, one-touch machine that delivers delicious drinks and savory crema that tastes just like your favorite coffee ...

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Still looking for the perfect gift for the kids in your life? As of Dec. 7, here are our picks for the best toy deals at Walmart: BEST BARBIE DEAL: The Barbie Dream Camper playset features seven play areas, a sheet of bumper stickers, and 60 accessories — $64 $99.99 (save $35.99) BEST ACTION FIGURE DEAL: The Batmobeast vehicle and action ...

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You can save up to $300 on these Dec. 7 early holiday TV deals at Walmart.OVERALL BEST DEAL: The Sony 75" BRAVIA XR Full Array 4K Ultra HD LED TV is great for viewing in large spaces and getting a top-notch gaming experience— $1298 $1598 (Save $300)BEST VIZIO TV DEAL: If you're looking for great performance at the price of a mid-range TV, the ...

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SAVE 50%: As of Dec 7, JBL is having a 50% off sale of their bestselling earbuds and headphones on Amazon. See our favorite picks here:BEST SPLURGE HEADPHONES: JBL Live 660NC - Wireless Over-Ear Noise Cancelling Headphones — $99.95 $199.95 (save $100)BEST BUDGET HEADPHONES: JBL Tune 510BT: Wireless On-Ear Headphones — $24.95 $49.95 (sav ...

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ChatGPT from OpenAI took the world by storm last week, and users are still learning how to break it in exciting new ways to produce responses its creators never intended, including turning it into an all-purpose crystal ball. ChatGPT has been called "scary good" by Elon Musk, a man who is famously scared of AI, but one way it's decidedly not scary ...

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ICYMI: Amazon's 15 Days of Gift Card Deals started Dec. 7, giving you between $7.50 and $10 in bounce-back credits when you add the gift card to your cart and enter the required promo code at checkout. Here's everything you need to know about the sale.'Tis the season of Amazon sales, and if you're looking to give your friends and relatives a little ...

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Oscar nominee Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air) returns to the big screen, this time starring as Alice in the psychological thriller Alice, Darling.From director Mary Nighy, the tense trailer features a nervous Alice trapped between a rock and a hard place: Lying to her abusive boyfriend, Simon, or skipping out on a dear friend's birthday getaway. Choo ...

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SAVE $601.99: Go big this holiday season with the Vizio 75-inch M-Series 4K QLED smart TV for $698 at Amazon and Walmart. As of Dec. 7, this is the lowest price this 2022 model has seen.If a brand-new TV is on your holiday wishlist, you're in luck. Whether you need the best TV for streaming or gaming, there are plenty of options as the shopping sea ...

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The latest rideable luggage from Airwheel lets you cruise around at running speed, with a host of new tech features that let you charge your devices, and even take the battery with you for safety or swapping. You can even get the suitcase in a transparent color options, to show everyone what you've got packed. The case comes with smart anti-theft t ...

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SAVE $47.49: As of Dec. 7, the T3 AireBrush Duo Hot Air Blow Dry Brush is on sale at Best Buy for $142.50. That's a savings of 25%.The holiday season often calls for sprucing up your look. Whether the dry air affects your hair type, or you're just ready for a change, a dependable hair tool is a great weapon in your style arsenal. As of Dec. 7, the ...

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There are few things in this life that we can consistently count on. Maggie Nelson's writing will always move us, my mom's pancake recipe will always slap, and Meta will always try to take users from other platforms by morphing their own.On Wednesday, just weeks after Elon Musk "let that sink in" to the Twitter headquarters, social media consultant ...

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BUNDLE UP AND SAVE: The Western Digital December sale is live until Dec. 11, with bundle deals on memory cards, SSDs, wireless chargers, and more.Christmas is all about giving, and that even extends to the biggest of brands. And if you're shopping for memory cards, SSDs, wireless chargers, and other storage solutions, it doesn't get much bigger tha ...

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It's Thursday, and you can pass a fraction of the endless hours til Friday with a fresh Wordle. We're here to help you with some subtle clues and the word of the day itself. A friendly reminder, in case you missed the recent rule change: The New York Times has added a new word list and updated the rules, so now plurals ending in S or ES will never ...

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TL;DR: The Unlimited Lifetime Learning Subscription Bundle (including Rosetta Stone) is on sale for £124.28, saving you 91% on list price.A new language you start learning today could be a doorway to fulfilling work opportunities or exciting places to travel. A new skill you start practicing could very well turn into a valuable side hustle. T ...

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If Quordle is a little too challenging today, you've come to the right place for hints. There aren't just hints here, but the whole Quordle solution. Scroll to the bottom of this page, and there it is. But are you sure you need all four answers? Maybe you just need a strategy guide. Either way, scroll down, and you'll get what you need. What is Quo ...

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Elon Musk's Twitter still appears to be struggling with how to turn its subscription service, Twitter Blue, into a money maker. According to The Information, the company now plans to charge $7 for Twitter Blue if users pay for it through the web, and $11 if they pay for it through its iPhone app. This is probably a way to compensate for Apple's 30% ...

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What a year for Twitter, huh? The end of 2022 was a pretty awful time on the ol' microblogging website, with Elon Musk's takeover and subsequent shitstorm of idiocy, disorganization, and outright strangeness. There is, frankly, too much to recap fully but, in short, Musk brought the worst people back on the platform, fired the majority of Twitter's ...

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"I'M A STTT-AAAA-UUUU-RRRR," Pearl (Mia Goth) bellows as she crumbles to her knees in a blood red dress. Tears blubber out of her incessantly, and her crippling desperation comes forth with each thundering scream. Every ragged breath provides us a wildly uncomfortable, weirdly pitiful performance in Pearl — one that’ll have you thi ...

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TL;DR: Through Dec. 8, you can get the Angle Pro Knife Sharpener with Angle Gauge for just $59.99 instead of $199 — that's a 69 % discount.Even the best knives will get dull eventually. If you’re a home chef or need a gift for one, a high-quality knife sharpener could make cooking fun again. The Angle Pro is a multi-step knife sharpener ...

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TL;DR: Through Dec. 8, you can get the Be Warm Heated Vest with Hoodie for just $49.99 instead of $149.99 — that's a 66% discount.The chilly winter days are coming, but that’s no reason not to plan some fun outdoor activities. Whether you’re looking forward to a tour of your neighborhood’s decorations or are planning to hit ...

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TL;DR: As of Dec. 8, you can get wines from Naked Wines for $50 off $84.99 on your first order — which equates to six curated bottles for $34.99, with shipping included.Many of us aren’t quite sure what the best deals are when ordering a bottle or glass of wine at a restaurant or shop. While wine can provide a delicious and exciting exp ...

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TL;DR: As of Dec. 8, you can get the Two Million Dollar Puzzle for just $14.99. You can also get a two-pack for $29.98 or a four-pack for $55.96.The holidays are a great time for some family fun, and it’d probably be pretty fun to win a million dollars. MSCHF’s Two Million Dollar Puzzle combines a challenging puzzle with the possibility ...

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If you, like me, pine for the wholesome magic of flirting your way around a film-postered, carpeted video store, showing off your pompously studious knowledge of movies with unsolicited mini reviews amid the impossible task of handpicking just one cinematic endeavour for a perfect night in, then you fell hard for Jack Black in The Holiday. With jus ...

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Artificial Intelligence is trendy, baby!Between AI self-portraits created by Lensa and Open AI's release of ChatGPT, chances are you've seen a lot of AI-generated images and text on your feeds this week. And it doesn't seem to be slowing down anytime soon. In fact, on Dec. 5, ChatGPT surpassed 1 million users. Tweet may have been delet ...

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Before a single second of the Netflix series Harry and Meghan aired, without even Netflix's most favored entertainment journalists seeing it in advance, critics could be found ripping the royal pair's show apart. "He's monetizing his mother," Daily Mail consultant editor Andrew Pierce said of Prince Harry in a viral clip from the UK show Good ...

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If you're one of the many people who loves Succession's Cousin Greg despite his faults, then you might want to look away now.The first images have been released from Susanna Fogel's adaptation of Cat Person, the viral New Yorker short story written by Kristen Roupenian in 2017 — and actor Nicholas Braun's transformation into the story's creep ...

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Shower sex looks famously awesome in movies. People are wet, covered in soap, and never fail to make steamy hand and butt prints on the glass. Yet in practice, shower sex isn’t all that simple. Water doesn’t make for a great lube and soap getting into the wrong places can be a one-way ticket to a yeast infection. There is a tr ...

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If you loved Final Fantasy VII Remake back in 2020 and have been suffering through the long wait for part two like the rest of us, Square Enix has a little something to whet your whistle.Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion (hereafter referred to as Crisis Core because that title is ridiculous) launches on every current console and PC on Dec. 13. ...

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The primary purpose of the selfie has always been to show yourself at your best. In fact, this definition could extend to Instagram as a whole, at least in its early years. Taking a photo, especially of yourself, and posting it to social media is something people have generally done when A. They look good or B. They're doing something they think ma ...

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The annual Reddit Recap dropped Thursday morning and the year went...well...kind of how you'd expect. For instance, the subreddit r/ukraine exploded in popularity, up 76,000 percent according to Reddit, sparked by Russia's invasion of the country and the ensuing war. It racked up 1.8 billion views. But the most viewed subreddit was an old stalwart: ...

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Are you hooked on ChatGPT? Are you, like so many others, testing the limits of what an artificial intelligence can do by giving OpenAI's chatbot increasingly difficult tasks, only to (well, sometimes) be increasingly amazed at how well it can understand you?If you own a Mac computer, it's now easier than ever to communicate with ChatGPT, directly f ...

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What: Harry and MeghanWhere to watch: NetflixPremiere Date: Dec. 8 (Volume I) and Dec. 15 (Volume II)It's one of the most talked about releases of the year and it's only just landed. Netflix's Harry and Meghan documentary, steered by the couple themselves as part of their major streaming deal, is here, to be released in two highly anticipated volum ...

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The stop-motion masterpiece, "Mad God", took Phil Tippett 30 years to make. The legendary cinematic artist takes us through the process of making the film, creating some of the most beloved Star Wars characters, how he got to work on (and win the Academy Award for) Jurassic Park, and what inspired him to become an artist. "Mad God" is now availabl ...

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SAVE $650: As of Dec. 8, the MSI Katana Gaming Notebook is on sale for $1,249 at Walmart, down from $1,899. That's a savings of 34%Dedicated gamers have a special relationship with their setup. Gaming is highly demanding on any computers or laptops used in the process, and gamers have to trust that their equipment will be up to the task. The hobby ...

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SAVE $10: As of Dec. 8, the LEGO Icons Orchid building set for adults is available on Amazon for $39.99. That's a savings of 20%.Gifting during the holidays can be a stressful task, but a good bet for a memorable present is something that combines play with quality time. And this gorgeous LEGO set for adults ticks all the boxes.The LEGO Icons Orchi ...

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Save $350: As of Dec. 8, the Samsung Jet 75 Cordless Stick Vacuum is on sale for $299.99 at Samsung. That's a savings of 54%.Let's face it: vacuuming can be a drag — especially if you have to lug around a heavy vacuum with a pesky cord that can't reach that corner you've been dying to clean. Banish the vacuuming blues and get your hands on a ...

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There is truly no better entertainment than putting a bunch of rich people on an island and watching things spiral out of control. Brandon Cronenberg's latest film Infinity Pool is set in an isolated island where all crime is punishable by death — unless you’re rich enough to make a clone of yourself to stand in for your execution. ...

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Anyone who grew up in a Christian household knows two truths: One, you can learn a lot about biblical themes from a talking cucumber. And two, no holiday season is complete without an Advent calendar.A religious custom that stems from 19th-century Lutherans in Germany, Advent calendars traditionally mark each day of (you guessed it) Advent —& ...

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The first on-screen adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's work should be cause for celebration. A titan of science fiction and the first writer in the genre to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, Butler conjured up all-too prescient dystopias (see: Parable of the Sower), centuries-spanning sci-fi epics (see: the Patternist series), and brand-new takes on v ...

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Google Chrome is about to become less of a memory hog.The popular web browser is getting a pair of new features to help keep your computer running smoothly even when you have a ton of tabs open or your battery is low. Over the next few weeks, Chrome users globally will get access to two new tools: Memory Saver and Energy Saver. SEE ALSO: ...

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Tired of ransacking your house to find those pesky lost items? These Tile and Tile Pro trackers are on sale now at Amazon: OUR TOP PICK: The Tile Mate (2022) is a general-purpose tracker that can be attached to keychains or lanyards with impressive range and a loud speaker — $17.99 $24.99 (save $7)BEST ON-THE-GO PICK: The Tile Sticker (2022) ...

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We gathered the best deals we could find on Dec. 8 — here are some of our top picks:BEST TV DEAL: Insignia 24-inch F20 Series LED Full HD Smart Fire TV — $99.99 $189.99 (save $90) + free Echo Dot (third generation), 3-month Apple TV+ subscription, and 30-day fuboTV Pro trialBEST STREAMING DEAL: Paramount+ Essential — $24 ...

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SAVE $50: As of Dec. 8, the onn. 24-inch Roku Smart TV is on sale for $88 at Walmart. That's a savings of 36%. Televisions used to be humble boxes with limited options, but that's changed a lot over the past several decades. TV manufacturers have come up with innovative ways to help us get access to tons of entertainment goodies, but they don't alw ...

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SAVE $1020: As of Dec. 8, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4 is available for $899.99 at Samsung after trading in an eligible smartphone. That's a discount of 53%. If you purchase the Galaxy Z Fold4 without a trade-in, the price is $1499.99, which is still a $420 discount off the original price of $1919.99. That's a discount of almost 22%.Flagship phones c ...

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Need to wrap up your holiday shopping quickly? We've pulled our top picks from the sale as of Dec. 8: BEST TV DEAL: The Samsung 55-inch QN90B Neo QLED 4K Smart TV is a great deal for people watching the big game and big gamers alike— $1,299.99 $1,699.99 (save $400) + a free Xbox controller and three months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate BEST PHON ...

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It's heating up in Taormina as only one episode remains of Sicilian satire-meets-mystery The White Lotus Season 2. We've gripped many a tense cocktail with our bounty of morally bankrupt hotel guests (let's face it, they're all terrible in their own unique way), knowing peril is on the horizon for several of them. After the series' uneasy penultima ...

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SAVE $52.99: As of Dec. 8, you can get six months of Showtime for just $3.99 per month, rather than the usual $10.99. Plus, you'll get the first 30 days for free, ultimately saving you $52.99 on seven months of streaming fees.Showtime might not have as vast of a catalog as Netflix or Hulu, but its originals are well worth a monthly fee for streamin ...

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Morocco will take on Portugal in a quarterfinal FIFA World Cup clash at the Al Thumama Stadium.Both the Atlas Lions and the Portuguese will be hoping to progress to the semi-finals with a win at the 40,000-seat venue in Doha.Morocco reached the quarterfinals by beating Spain in their Round of 16 clash.Meanwhile, Portugal head into this game after s ...

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England will take on France in a quarterfinal FIFA World Cup clash at the Al Bayt Stadium.Both the Three Lions and the reigning champions will be hoping to progress to the semi-finals with a win at the 60,000-seat venue in Al Khor.England reached the quarterfinals by beating Senegal in their Round of 16 clash.Meanwhile, France head into this game a ...

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Like most people their age, the members of P1Harmony are Extremely Online™. So online, in fact, that by the time we sit down for our early afternoon chat in a boutique hotel near the Flatiron area of Manhattan, they’ve already spent a collective 12 hours online, watching YouTube videos and scrolling through their FYPs on TikTok. In an i ...

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In a shocking turn of events, the U.S. government might actually enforce antitrust laws.The Federal Trade Commission issued a press release on Thursday confirming that it is suing to block Microsoft’s blockbuster $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The government agency justified its legal challenge by arguing that allowing the de ...

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Have your posts on Instagram gotten fewer engagements than you're used to? Are you convinced you're experiencing an ever-feared shadow ban? Instagram will now let you know if your posts aren't being recommended to other users, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Wednesday (Dec. 7).Creators and businesses are able to see if their posts are bein ...

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Sony's new Mocopi trackers can change the way you interact with virtual reality. Previous headsets and controllers gave your upper body representation in the virtual world, but with Meta announcing the addition of legs to their Metaverse, Sony's trackers will actually give them something to represent. Mocopi accessories strap to your arms and legs, ...

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Instagram thinks 2023 will be the year of the social media side hustle, especially for Gen Z. According to Instagram's 2023 trend report, nearly two thirds of Gen Z plan to use social media to make money in 2023. Instagram partnered with WGSN to survey 1,200 social media users, ranging from 16 to 24, on variety of topics, including their financial ...

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You'll get one more chance to hear Kevin Conroy as Batman.At The Game Awards 2022 Edition, host Geoff Keighley introduced a trailer for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. In the trailer, the familiar cast of villains, scoundrels, and misfits exchange some banter while out on a mission before encountering the Dark Knight himself, Batman. It's n ...

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One of our favorite Jedi is back.Cal Kestis, the hero of 2019's surprisingly great Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, is back in a sequel that's looking real fresh. The Dark Souls-ish take on Star Wars is getting a sequel in March called Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. This trailer from The Game Awards showcases a ton of gameplay, including Cal riding on a bi ...

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