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Apple on Black Friday: which products and deals to look out for

11/16/2018, 9:15:34 PM
Find the finest Apple deals this shopping season ✔ Black Friday and Cyber Monday offer that incredibly rare opportunity – to actually find some nice deals on slashed-price Apple products ✔ So, the year-end deals season is one of the few times when iPads, MacBooks, Apple TVs and iPhone deals are attainable ✔ Here are the current top MacBook Pro 13-inch deals: Today's best Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch (2018) deals



Apple is 1/3 of the way through major remake of retail stores

11/16/2018, 11:34:53 PM
Flagship stores refocused as education first, sales second, in bid to win customers for life. ✔ Join us on a gallery of photos of Apple's Santa Monica store ✔ Microsoft comes in second with about 6,000 retail employees ✔ Customers can't miss it--the Forum is flanked by a giant video screen at the back of the store ✔ Rows of iPhones in the remodeled Apple Store in Santa Monica (Photo: Jefferson Graham)



How Apple is suddenly a player in an unlikely Hollywood realm

11/16/2018, 11:32:24 PM
With the swipe of a deal pen, Apple is suddenly in the Oscar game. And that could change everything. ✔ Lady Bird principals Saoirse Ronan, Greta Gerwig and Laurie Metcalf attend the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Jan. 21 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California ✔ With A24 movies, Apple will have a compelling palette of content to lure young subscribers to its video service



Costco Black Friday 2018 deals: $300 Dyson, $800 Surface Pro bundle and more

11/17/2018, 12:12:12 AM
One of the best Black Friday deals of 2018 deals arrives Nov. 16: a complete Surface Pro 6 package for $800. ✔ Bestblackfriday.com Costco was one of the first big retailers to reveal its Black Friday sales, and now that many of its competitors have joined the mix, it's worth revisiting ✔ But according to a preview of the company's circular published earlier this month by bestblackfriday.com, Costco has some doozies on deck ✔ Just note this deal is also available at Walmart, Target and elsewhere



Your Phone's GPS Is About to Get More Accurate

11/16/2018, 8:19:39 PM
The FCC has approved the use of the EU's Galileo system in the United States. ✔ What you may not realize is that GPS is actually an American technology owned and operated by the U.S. Air Force ✔ That means if your phone can support both, then you’ll likely start to see improved location reliability as well as improvements to your estimated time of arrival when you’re using maps ✔ The iPhone 8 and Apple handsets released after it support Galileo as do a number of phones from Huawei and Samsung, The Verge notes



Black Friday TV deals 2018: The best and the cheapest

11/17/2018, 12:01:24 AM
The lowest TV prices of the year start now. Here are our favorite deals so far. ✔ The chill is in the air, the leaves turn, the holidays beckon ✔ In other words, in the latter case you're often paying extra just for a brand name ✔ Meanwhile the better, higher-end name-brand sets we do review are also on sale, but they're not nearly as cheap as these entry-level models



This might be Google’s budget Pixel, complete with headphone jack

11/16/2018, 9:23:07 PM
Makes you wonder why it ever left ✔ Image: Rozetked Surely you remember the fateful week when Google’s big day was spoiled when Russian bloggers revealed the Pixel 3 phone to the world in all its glorious detail ✔ First off, it’s bugging me that the logo on the back of the phone looks wrong



College Sports are Yours to Watch Live Online With an ESPN+ Free Trial | Digital Trends

11/17/2018, 12:57:59 AM
It can be difficult to catch all the college games, especially for smaller conferences. Well, thanks to ESPN+ that’s no longer the case. Now, with this service (that offers a free trial), you won't need to miss any of your alma mater's games. ✔ College Football on ESPN+ ESPN+’s college football coverage will have you feeling as though you practically live on the gridiron ✔ Digital Trends may earn commission on products purchased through our links, which supports the work we do for our readers



Costco Black Friday 2018: Get huge deals through Nov. 26

11/16/2018, 10:21:25 PM
Not all of the big doorbusters are available yet, but Costco’s sale is going on. Many of the best deals are for members-only. ✔ Costco's Black Friday savings are for more than just members this year ✔ If you make a purchase by clicking one of our links, we may earn a small share of the revenue ✔ But it's still possible to take advantage of some of the deals without a membership, however it will cost you



Instagram's 'Your Activity' feature shows how often you use the app

11/16/2018, 8:11:28 PM
Instagram has begun rolling out a new dashboard that shows you how many hours you spend using Instagram each day and even set time limits so that you don't become too addicted. ✔ For Instagram, users will need to load the settings page, and then scroll down to the option marked 'Your Activity' ✔ 'We all recognise that technology is playing a greater role in our daily lives,' he said ✔ You can toggle the statistics between the last 24 hours and the last seven days



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