The holiday season is upon us and that means you’ll be looking for things to do with your friends and family. Sure, you could sit around and binge something, but it’s always nice to get out of the house and do something. Something like going to the movies! Yes, despite what some recent grosses might suggest, movie…
Turns out there are lots of tech devices you can buy for under $50 — and Black Friday means some items above that threshold have now dropped comfortably within reach. These accessories and gadgets make great stocking stuffers too. We’ve tested plenty of these small and useful devices and found a slew of them seeing sizable discounts with sales at Amazon, Target and Best Buy. Cables, portable chargers, controllers, smart home displays and more are all on sale. Here are the best Black Friday tech deals under $50.
Your Black Friday Shopping Guide: See all of Yahoo’s Black Friday coverage, here. Follow Engadget for Black Friday tech deals. Learn about Black Friday trends on In The Know. Hear from Autoblog’s experts on the best Black Friday deals for your car, garage, and home, and find Black Friday sales to shop on AOL, handpicked just for you.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/the-29-best-black-friday-tech-deals-under-50-including-the-echo-dot-with-a-free-smart-bulb-200502037.html?src=rss
Chinese smartphone brand Honor has unveiled its new Honor 100 series, introducing Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 chipset. Among the models released are the Honor 100, a mid-range smartphone, and the flagship Honor 100 Pro.
The Honor 100 features Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 processor and is equipped with a custom-made RF chip C1, designed to enhance call quality even in areas with weak signal reception. The phone boasts a 6.7-inch OLED display with an under-display fingerprint sensor and a 50-megapixel selfie camera.
Honor 100 (White) and Honor 100 Pro (Purple).
Its dual-camera setup on the back includes a 50-megapixel Sony IMX906 sensor with optical image stabilization (OIS) and a 12-megapixel ultrawide camera. The device runs on a substantial 5,000 mAh battery and comes with MagicOS 7.2 based on Android 13. The Honor 100 is available in China in four colors – black, blue, purple, and white – at a price of $350 for the 12/256GB model.
The Honor 100 Pro, positioned as the flagship model, is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor and offers storage options of 12/256GB or 16/1TB. It features a larger 6.78-inch OLED display and a triple-camera setup, including a 50-megapixel main sensor, a 12-megapixel ultrawide camera, and a 32-megapixel telephoto shooter.
Image: HONOR
The phone houses a 5,000 mAh battery with support for 100W fast charging and 66W wireless charging. The Honor 100 Pro is priced at $480 for the 12/256GB model and $620 for the 16/1TB variant and is available in the same color options as the Honor 100.
Both models offer competitive specifications in their respective segments, catering to different consumer preferences in terms of performance and features. For more info on the devices, check out the HONOR online store at https://www.hihonor.com/cn/.
Honor Unveils 100 Series with Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 Chipset
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Americans tossed 292.4 million tons of trash into landfills in 2018, or about 5 pounds of garbage per person per day. Once in a landfill, much of that trash undergoes some wild chemistry, often polluting the surrounding area. But amid all the stinking refuse is potentially valuable material, and some environmentalists…
Amazon has discounted nearly all of their own devices for Black Friday. And that includes their top-selling smart speaker, the Echo Dot. It’s down to $23, which is 54 percent off the $50 list price and matches the lowest it ever sold for, back in October during the company’s second Prime Day of the year. It’s dipped down to $35 throughout 2023, so this is still a significant discount over its typical sale price. We named the Echo Dot our favorite smart speaker under $50 — and now you can get two for that price.
The Echo Dot is a little bigger than a baseball, but emits surprisingly full sound for its size. The spherical design is an upgrade from the previous generation’s puck shape, and now allows for higher-end components that make for pretty great audio. Of course, the real perk is Alexa’s help. You can use the assistant to control your smart home devices, tell you the weather, remind you to pick up the kid from school or a friend from the airport, and play you a happy song on a rainy day.
Other Amazon speakers are on sale too, including the standard Echo. It’s down to $55, which is a 45 percent discount and about $5 more than the all-time low it hit last Black Friday. This one happens to be our favorite smart speaker under $100, again beating out its direct competitors from Apple and Google thanks to its superior (and just louder) sound. And again, Alexa is baked right in.
But if audio quality (plus smarts) is what you want, you’ll likely want to opt for the Echo Studio. It’s now down to $155 instead of $200 after a 23 percent discount that brings it back to its lowest price ever, from last year’s holiday shopping sale. The speaker packs high audio quality into its 7.7 pound body, emitting excellent sound that led us to declare this “the best-sounding speaker Amazon has built.”
Your Black Friday Shopping Guide: See all of Yahoo’s Black Friday coverage, here. Follow Engadget for Black Friday tech deals. Learn about Black Friday trends on In The Know. Hear from Autoblog’s experts on the best Black Friday deals for your car, garage, and home, and find Black Friday sales to shop on AOL, handpicked just for you.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/the-echo-dot-is-back-down-to-its-lowest-price-ever-in-this-amazon-black-friday-deal-140041159.html?src=rss
Chinese smartphone brand Honor has unveiled its new Honor 100 series, introducing Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 chipset. Among the models released are the Honor 100, a mid-range smartphone, and the flagship Honor 100 Pro.
The Honor 100 features Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 processor and is equipped with a custom-made RF chip C1, designed to enhance call quality even in areas with weak signal reception. The phone boasts a 6.7-inch OLED display with an under-display fingerprint sensor and a 50-megapixel selfie camera.
Honor 100 (White) and Honor 100 Pro (Purple).
Its dual-camera setup on the back includes a 50-megapixel Sony IMX906 sensor with optical image stabilization (OIS) and a 12-megapixel ultrawide camera. The device runs on a substantial 5,000 mAh battery and comes with MagicOS 7.2 based on Android 13. The Honor 100 is available in China in four colors – black, blue, purple, and white – at a price of $350 for the 12/256GB model.
The Honor 100 Pro, positioned as the flagship model, is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor and offers storage options of 12/256GB or 16/1TB. It features a larger 6.78-inch OLED display and a triple-camera setup, including a 50-megapixel main sensor, a 12-megapixel ultrawide camera, and a 32-megapixel telephoto shooter.
Image: HONOR
The phone houses a 5,000 mAh battery with support for 100W fast charging and 66W wireless charging. The Honor 100 Pro is priced at $480 for the 12/256GB model and $620 for the 16/1TB variant and is available in the same color options as the Honor 100.
Both models offer competitive specifications in their respective segments, catering to different consumer preferences in terms of performance and features. For more info on the devices, check out the HONOR online store at https://www.hihonor.com/cn/.
Honor Unveils 100 Series with Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 Chipset
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Astronomers at the Telescope Array experiment in Utah have detected an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) with a record-breaking energy level of 244 EeV, marking the most energetic cosmic ray since 1991. The particle, named Amaterasu (after the Shinto sun goddess), was identified through a complex trajectory analysis, leading researchers to an empty area of space known as the “Local Void.”
Cosmic rays are highly energetic subatomic particles that travel near the speed of light through space. They consist of atomic nuclei, primarily protons or clusters of protons and neutrons. The 1991 discovery of the “Oh-My-God” particle, with an energy level of 320 EeV, challenged prevailing theories about the theoretical limit of cosmic ray energy proposed in 1965.
The recent detection poses challenges in explaining the source of such ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. Potential sources include cosmic-scale explosions, such as black hole events or active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with supermassive black holes at their centers. However, the trajectories of UHECRs are influenced by magnetic fields, making it challenging to pinpoint their origin in the sky accurately.
The Telescope Array, consisting of over 500 surface detectors in Utah, has picked up more than 30 UHECRs since its inception. The latest discovery raises questions about the conventional explanations for cosmic ray origins. Researchers are exploring various theories, from defects in the structure of spacetime to colliding cosmic strings.
Illustration of ultra-high-energy cosmic ray astronomy to clarify extremely energetic phenomena. (Image: Osaka Metropolitan Univ./L-INSIGHT/Kyoto Univ./Ryuunosuke Takeshige/CC BY-NC-SA)
The ongoing expansion of the Telescope Array, adding 500 new scintillator detectors, aims to increase the detection area to 1,100 square miles. This expansion could lead to more frequent detections of UHECRs, providing further insights into these mysterious and ultra-energetic cosmic phenomena. The current mystery surrounding the origin of Amaterasu and similar particles highlights the need for continued research and exploration in the field of astrophysics.
Amaterasu: Astronomers Detect Record-Breaking Cosmic Ray
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At this point in time, you probably have a ton of passwords to keep track of across a vast number of websites, apps and services. One way to keep them safe and organized, and to prevent losing access to your accounts, is to use a password manager. For Black Friday this year, 1Password is giving you the chance to purchase an individual or a family subscription for 50 percent off their normal prices, as long as you’re a new subscriber. The manager’s individual account normally costs $35.88 a year, while its family account is typically priced at $59.88, so expect to pay half those amounts, respectively.
Both subscription tiers come with access to the service’s mobile and desktop passwords, as well as its browser extensions. You can save not just log in credentials with 1Password, but also addresses and credit card details, and you can hide select vaults when you switch on Travel mode. 1Password will allow you to temporarily share logins with anybody, as well, even if they’re not a user. But if you purchase a family subscription, you can share the account between five people who can create an unlimited number of shared vaults. Each member can also help another recover their access in case they get locked out.
It’s worth noting that 1Password recently went beyond well, passwords, and rolled out support for passkeys to desktop and mobile users. That means you’ll be able to sync your passkeys across devices and across platforms, so you can log in to your accounts without having to resort to using your credentials. This special Black Friday discount will be available from November 24 to November 27 only.
Your Black Friday Shopping Guide: See all of Yahoo’s Black Friday coverage, here. Follow Engadget for Black Friday tech deals. Learn about Black Friday trends on In The Know. Hear from Autoblog’s experts on the best Black Friday deals for your car, garage, and home, and find Black Friday sales to shop on AOL, handpicked just for you.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/1password-black-friday-deal-save-50-percent-on-the-password-managers-individual-and-family-plans-173051507.html?src=rss
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