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The holidays are over and all those great Nintendo Switch games you got aren’t going to back themselves up. Fortunately, a well-timed sale has you covered, with SanDisk’s 1TB microSD currently on sale for $90 from $150 — a solid 40 percent discount. It’s designed specifically for the Nintendo Switch and features a Legend of Zelda design. 

SanDisk’s 1TB microSD is Nintendo Switch system’s official licensed microSD card, meaning you don’t have to worry about any issues with compatibility. It offers write speeds of up to 90MB per second and read speeds up to 100MB per second. The Nintendo Switch only comes with 32GB of storage (part of which the system uses), so an extra 1TB can go a long way toward saving all your gaming data. 

If you’re in need of a whole lot more storage, Western Digital’s 4TB SN850X NVMe Internal Gaming SSD is also on sale. The Windows computer drive is currently down to $230 from $286 — a 19 percent discount. The WD_Black SSD offers speeds up to 7,300MB per second while regularly monitoring the drive’s health. It also controls your RGB style and uses tools like predictive loading. Keep in mind this deal is available on the model without heatsink. 

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Detroit became the league’s first team to lose 27 straight games in a season, falling 118-112 to the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday night.

Amazon has started notifying Prime Video subscribers that they have to pay extra if they don’t want their viewing experience interrupted by commercials. In an email the company has sent to customers, it said that it will start showing “limited advertisements” with its service’s movies and shows starting on January 29. Those who want to keep their accounts ad-free will have to pay an extra fee of $3 a month on top of their Prime subscription or their standalone $9-a-month Prime Video membership. 

The company first announced that it was going to serve ads with its content — and that the initial regions to be affected are the US, UK, Germany and Canada — back in September. Customers in France, Italy, Spain, Mexico and Australia will have to make the decision whether to endure the advertisements it serves or pay extra by late next year. Amazon mentioned back then that it’s aiming to “have meaningfully fewer ads than linear TV and other streaming TV providers.” While “meaningfully fewer” is pretty vague, Variety said at the time that four minutes per hour seemed to be the lowest amount of ad time for a streaming platform. 

Amazon reiterated that goal in the email it sent to subscribers. It also explained that introducing ads to its service and charging more for an ad-free viewing experience will help it invest “in compelling content and keep increasing that investment over a long period of time.” The company told subscribers that they’ll automatically start seeing ads by the end of January and linked to a website where they can pay for ad-free viewing. In an information page about the change, Amazon clarified that it will not be showing ads with rented or purchased content. It also said that Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Guam, the Mariana Islands and American Samoa are excluded from the rollout for now. 

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Well, that’s one way to see your investment pay off. In 2014, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, suffered a notorious hack that stole 850,000 Bitcoins from the platform. Victims are finally starting to get their money back on Tuesday, nearly 10 years later. However, some are reporting Mt. Gox…

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Detroit became the league’s first team to lose 27 straight games in a season, falling 118-112 to the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday night.