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Black Friday is upon us once again, and the internets awash with gonzo deals on the worlds most sought after tech. Naturally, youre too busy living your actual life to check if the deals on offer are as good as theyre made out to be. Thats why Engadget employs a crack team of spreadsheet nerds to comb through whats hot and whats not. If youre in the market for a new device, keep your eyes on our guide of the real deals. For instance, a big chunk of change has been knocked off the M3 MacBook Airs to clear room for the M4s. Given the M3 was already a superlative-exhausting piece of equipment, that you can now snag one for as little as $899 is staggering. If I was in the US and in the market for a new machine, Id have whipped my credit card out before writing this newsletter. Im asking the universe for Fujifilm to offer an even tastier discount for the X-T50 in the coming days. Dan Cooper Get this delivered daily direct to your inbox. Subscribe right here! News in Brief iFixits PS5 Pro teardown reveals an easily replaceable CMOS batteryFinally. It might be time to say goodbye to Apples lightning to 3.5mm jack adapterGiven how many iPhones still use lightning, it seems premature. Apples next AirTag is coming in 2025 with privacy improvementsItll be harder to tamper with too. El Capitan ranked the most powerful supercomputer in the worldItll help manage the nuclear stockpile. Trump names commission member Brendan Carr as FCC chair Hes a co-author of Project 2025. FCC President-elect Trump has named Brendan Carr as incoming head of the Federal Communications Commission. Carr is a Trump man through and through, having previously served as an aide to Ajit Pai, and Trump appointed him to the FCC board in his first tenure. He also drafted the FCC portion of the infamous Project 2025 manifesto, is against Net Neutrality and pushes the myth Big Tech suppresses conservative speech. All in all, a swell guy. Continue Reading. Americas news influencers skew conservative, Pew report finds Shocker. If anyone still believes the myth social media platforms suppress conservative speech, then this latest Pew report will probably be dismissed as fake news. The thinktank has researched the state of news influencers who have stepped in to fill the void vacated by traditional news media. It found the most popular names online are more likely to skew right than left, and that a concerning number of people would rather get their news from individuals over publications with commitments to things like fact checking and proving what they claim. Continue Reading. Two Baltic Sea communications cables have been knocked offline Initial reports suspect sabotage. A crucial but unseen part of our internet infrastructure is the network of undersea cables that carries data between countries. Two of those, one between Lithuania and Sweden and one between Finland and Germany, were cut during the weekend. Officials havent yet made their findings public, but the hints are of sabotage by a hostile foreign power. Continue Reading. Roblox restricts DMs for kids under 13 and beefs up parental controls in safety push A story from the pages of What, you werent doing that already!? magazine. Roblox Roblox is adding new restrictions to younger childrens accounts to beef up its nonexistent safety credentials. This includes plans to limit users under the age of 13 sending private messages to other users without parental permission. The company has also announced parents will be able to monitor their kids Roblox use from their phones. Continue Reading. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/general/the-morning-after-get-ready-for-black-friday-121500820.html?src=rss
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If your Instagram recommendations have been feeling a little stale, youll soon have a way to make the apps algorithm forget everything it thinks it knows about you. Meta is testing a new feature that will allow users to reset the algorithmic suggestions that power the apps feed, Reels and Explore section. The company described the feature as a test, but said the update will soon roll out globally. With the change, users will be able to reset suggested content from the content preferences section in Instagrams settings. This will, according to Meta, allow you to start fresh and provide an opportunity to re-tune the apps suggestions. But while this may help you get an Instagram feed that better reflects your current interests, Meta notes that doing this kind of reset doesnt delete any of your data from the app or change how the company serves you ads. (Instagram has a separate setting to personalize ad preferences.) Meta is framing the change as part of its push to bring new safety features to teens, even though the feature will be available to all users. We want to give teens new ways to shape their Instagram experience, so it can continue to reflect their passions and interests as they evolve, the company wrote in a blog post. The service has previously faced criticism over its recommendations, which EU regulators have suggested could encourage addictive behavior. The company notes that it has other teen-specific features meant to prevent its younger users from seeing inappropriate content. It recently introduced teen accounts, which have stricter privacy settings, and attempts to block certain types of harmful content from appearing in their feeds.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/instagram-will-let-you-reset-your-recommendations-120022492.html?src=rss
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It has long been possible to listen to music from within Opera's browser. If you go down its sidebar, you'll see a player icon where you can choose from Apple Music, Spotify and Deezer and then log into any of them with your account details. But now Opera has teamed up with Spotify and has made the music streaming service the default option on the company's flagship browser with generative AI features, Opera One. After logging into your account and activating the player, you'll be able to detach it from the sidebar and move it around the screen to a place that wouldn't interrupt your workflow. The player will float inside the browser and will not disappear if you tab away. It also automatically fades out the audio that's currently playing when you join meetings and calls. Your songs will remain paused for the duration of the call or meeting and will resume as soon as it's over. Perhaps the best thing about the companies' teamup, if you live in a certain location at least, is that you can get Spotify Premium for free if you don't have a subscription yet. If you're in Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, the Philippines, Poland, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, the UK, the US or Vietnam, you can redeem two to three months of Spotify Premium at no cost from within the browser's sidebar. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/computing/spotify-is-now-the-default-music-player-in-the-opera-one-browser-090024069.html?src=rss
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