The Series 10 has the biggest display of any non-Ultra Apple Watch. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you happened to miss out on the Apple Watch Series 10’s all-time low Black Friday price, now is a good chance for redemption. The 42mm GPS model of Apple’s latest smartwatch has dropped to $329.99 (about $70 off) at Amazon when you click a coupon. The 46mm GPS Series 10 is also on sale for $359.99 ($70 off) at Amazon with a coupon and matching its lowest price. The Apple Watch Series 10 would be a great jump from older models if your last upgrade happened more than a few cycles ago, and certainly a viable alternative to the Watch Ultra 2 if you’re not interested in spending $800. Compared to the Series 9, it offers a slightly bigger wide-angle OLED display while being about 10 percent thinner and a touch lighter. It also has faster wireless charging than any Apple Watch before it (up to 80 percent in 30 minutes or eight hours of use from 15 minutes of charging). New to the Apple Watch lineup as of the Series 10 are underwater depth and water temperature sensors for tracking your aquatic activities. You can also play music over its speaker and enjoy clearer calls thanks to a voice isolation feature. Everything else will mostly feel familiar if you’re coming from a Series 9, including the new FDA-approved sleep apnea feature that debuted late into its launch. We haven’t had enough time to judge its effectiveness, but note that it uses the accelerometer instead of the blood oxygen sensors Apple was forced to remove from its watches in the US. A few more mid-week deals Looking for a different aesthetic to drive the point home in a PC gaming setup? The 8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard can certainly do the trick. You can get the NES-inspired design with a matching joystick and dual oversized super buttons for $84.99 ($15 off) at Best Buy. The tenkeyless wireless board works over Bluetooth or 2.4GHz Wi-Fi, or via USB-C. It’s nice to look at and type on with its Kailh White switches and PBT-capped keys, but the package offers nice versatility for playing retro games. You can even reconfigure every button on the keyboard and customize the super buttons with any macro you want. The Sonos Ace are very good noise-cancelling headphones on their own merit, but they’re especially intriguing for an all-time low $349 ($100), a deal Amazon, Best Buy, and Sonos are repeating from Black Friday. They look and sound the part for a premium pair of headphones, with great comfort, good audio quality, and solid ANC performance. Unfortunately, the Ace doesn’t fully blend into the wider Sonos ecosystem right now. The unique TV Audio Swap feature is iOS-only and not fully compatible across its full range of soundbars or any other Sonos speaker, for example. That said, they’re worthy of consideration at this price if you’re into the brand. Read our review. You can get the Anker PowerCore 548 Power Bank for $79.99 ($70 off) at Amazon with a coupon, which is an all-time low price. It offers two USB-C ports and two USB-A ports with up to 87W charging speeds available between them. The 192Wh (60,000mAh) capacity is enough to charge laptops, tablets, and smartphones several times over. It has an integrated retractable LED lamp with adjustable brightness and an SOS mode, which turns the light on automatically during a blackout while plugged in. It also has a carrying handle and solar inputs, making it ideal for both in-home and outdoor needs.

Photo by Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images The Onion’s acquisition of InfoWars isn’t happening — at least for now. In a ruling on Tuesday, a Texas bankruptcy judge rejected The Onion’s purchase of the conspiracy-ridden website founded by Alex Jones, according to a report from The New York Times. Last month, The Onion announced that it had purchased InfoWars during a bankruptcy auction of Jones’ assets. It had the support of the families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims, who successfully sued Jones for more than $1 billion for spreading false claims. However, Judge Christopher Lopez halted the sale shortly after the auction. As reported by The Times, Lopez disagreed with the sealed bidding process used to sell Jones’ assets, saying that the auction didn’t “maximize” the amount of money Jones’ creditors could’ve gotten from the sale of InfoWars. “It seemed doomed almost from the moment they decided to go to a sealed bid,” Judge Lopez said when handing down his decision, according to The Times. “Nobody knows what anybody else is bidding.” A statement from The Onion about InfoWars.— Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) 2024-12-11T05:14:01.469Z The Onion bid $7 million to acquire InfoWars, which included $1.75 million from its parent company Global Tetrahedron, while the remainder would come from money Sandy Hook families won from their lawsuit against Jones, The Times reports. Despite this roadblock, Global Tetrahedron still intends to pursue an acquisition of InfoWars, with the goal of replacing the site with “a relentless barrage of humor for good.” “We are deeply disappointed in today’s decision but The Onion will continue to seek a resolution that helps the Sandy Hook families receive a positive outcome for the horror they endured,” The Onion CEO Ben Collins said in a post on Bluesky. “We will also continue to seek a path toward purchasing InfoWars in the coming weeks.”

Google on Wednesday unveiled Gemini 2.0, its next-gen genAI model and its biggest AI update to date. The announcement dropped right in the middle of OpenAI's big ChatGPT Christmas-themed event, showing how incredibly competitive the AI race is. Gemini 2.0 was released about a year after Google's Gemini 1.0 announcement. Since then, Google has also unveiled Gemini 1.5, which is a big upgrade over the original release. Gemini 1.5 brought multimodal support to Google's main genAI update and a much larger context. It was Google's answer to the ChatGPT GPT-4o update. Continue reading... The post Google launches Gemini 2.0, its biggest AI upgrade to date appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Sonos has 10 Black Friday deals that are all at record-low prices Today’s deals: $20 Waterproof Bluetooth speaker, $999 M3 MacBook Air, Duracell batteries, Cosori air fryer, more Fire TV Sticks start at $15 with these unreal Cyber Monday deals Cyber Week deals: $139 AirPods 4 with ANC, $4 smart plugs, $40 Ninja blender, last-chance PS5 deals, more

On Wednesday, Google gave the generative AI chatbot its biggest upgrade yet with Gemini 2.0. While that was the company's biggest AI announcement of the day, it was far from the only one. Google also gave us a fresh look at the research prototype for its universal AI assistant, Project Astra, and hinted at a future pair of AI-powered smart glasses. During the Gemini 2.0 briefing this week, Google DeepMind product manager Bibo Xu said that “a small group will be testing Project Astra on prototype glasses, which we believe is one of the most powerful and intuitive form factors to experience this kind of AI,” The Verge reports. That group will be part of Google's Trusted Tester program, which often gives members access to prototype devices that never launch publicly. In other words, there's a chance the glasses you see in the video below will never be available to buy, but when asked about the glasses, Xu said that "for the glasses product itself, we’ll have more news coming shortly.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIIlJt8JERI Google has experimented with AR glasses in the past, from Google Glass to Google Cardboard, but it's clear that smart glasses would be a perfect home for Project Astra. Whether or not that leads to a retail product launching any time soon remains to be seen. As for Gemini 2.0, here are some of the upgrades it brought to Project Astra: Better dialogue: Project Astra now has the ability to converse in multiple languages and in mixed languages, with a better understanding of accents and uncommon words. New tool use: With Gemini 2.0, Project Astra can use Google Search, Lens and Maps, making it more useful as an assistant in your everyday life. Better memory: We’ve improved Project Astra’s ability to remember things while keeping you in control. It now has up to 10 minutes of in-session memory and can remember more conversations you had with it in the past, so it is better personalized to you. Improved latency: With new streaming capabilities and native audio understanding, the agent can understand language at about the latency of human conversation. "We’re working to bring these types of capabilities to Google products like Gemini app, our AI assistant, and to other form factors like glasses," Google says. Don't Miss: Google Search will change ‘profoundly’ in 2025, Sundar Pichai teases The post Google is hinting that its AI-powered smart glasses are coming soon appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Cyber Week deals: $329 Apple Watch S10, $50 off Microsoft Office 2024, $374 PS5 Slim, Vitamix blenders, more Black Friday blowout: Massive Apple sale, LG OLED TVs, KitchenAid mixers, Instant Pots, laptops, more Cyber Week deals: $180 iPhone SE 3, $199 Bose QC headphones, $29 Roku Stick 4K, $279 Google Nest WiFi Pro, more Best Black Friday deals 2024: Ultimate roundup

Actor Michael Cole, who famously played Pete Cochran, one of three young undercover cops in "The Mod Squad," died Tuesday at age 84, his publicist told The Hollywood Reporter.Cole, born on July 3, 1940, in Madison, Wisconsin, grew up without knowing his biological father....

A rule by the Biden administration that mandated how nursing homes must be staffed is expected to be trashed when Republicans take office next month.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Wednesday the U.S. will "react strongly" when countries try to manipulate their currencies for competitive advantage, but at the moment there is not such market intervention.

U.S. — WNBA player Caitlin Clark explained in an interview with TIME that she has been the beneficiary of white privilege, which strangely feels a lot like getting the crap kicked out of her by giant black lesbians.

"Both understood phages as medicinal agents, which the rest of the medical field viewed as nonsensical."

“What happened to Chevy’s eyes?” was the question on everyone’s lips after Chevy Chase posted a picture of himself and his granddaughter. The 81-year-old actor’s eyes were bruised, and it seemed like he suffered a face injury, which raised concerns and worries among his fans and followers. However, while the actor did not directly address his bruised eye, his representative claimed it was an injury from a minor accident. In the photo, making rounds on the internet, Chevy Chase wore a red plaid button-down shirt, red-rimmed glasses, and silver chains, sitting on a couch with his granddaughter Ivy, who was born in August to his daughter Emily. Chevy Chase smiled warmly despite the injury             View this post on Instagram                         A post shared by Chevy Chase (@chevychase)   In the viral photo, the 81-year-old appeared to be having a fun time with his granddaughter while he cheerfully embraced his role as a first-time grandfather. Although the photo was heartwarming and sentimental, it also drew attention because of the injury on his face.  Fans quickly noticed the bruises and speculated about the cause, stirring discussions across social media. Fans asked what happened to his face, they wished him well, and a few even asked if he went walking with comedian Jay Leno, who recently fell off a hill and bruised his eyes. A commenter also jokingly asked if he “Got in a fight with the mailman in Red Bud?” Chevy Chase/ImageCollect Chevy Chase representative assures he is in good health Chase’s representative addressed the concerns, explained that the bruising was from a minor accident, and reassured fans that he was in good health. The representative also joked that Chase does not like to brag but fights crime late at night. He revealed that Chase “just bumped his head in his hotel room rushing for a meeting.” Chevy Chase/ImageCollect The update provided relief, with many fans expressing their support and sending well-wishes online. Despite the injury, the actor seemed to be in good health while focusing on family and the holiday season. Next up: Pamela Anderson Earns Her First-Ever Golden Globe Nomination With ‘The Last Showgirl’ The post Fans Are Concerned After Chevy Chase Is Seen Sporting Nasty Black Eye appeared first on DoYouRemember? - The Home of Nostalgia. Author, Peace A