The Echo Dot drops to a record low of $23 in an Amazon Black Friday deal

Amazon is selling the diminutive Echo Dot smart speaker for just $23 as part of an

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                        Apple will start supporting RCS in 2024

The green bubble-blue bubble divide may be getting smaller soon. 9to5Mac is reporting that Apple has confirmed it will support the RCS messaging standard that it's long eschewed. That's not to say that messages from Android devices will no longer appear green on Apple's iMessage app. It does mean that texts from iPhones to non-iOS devices will support the newer R

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                        An email vulnerability let hackers steal data from governments around the world

Google's Threat Analysis Group revealed on Thursday that it discovered and worked to help patch an email server flaw used to st

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                        The 34 Black Friday deals worth shopping for right now from Amazon, Walmart, Target and others

"Black Friday" has really become a misnomer in recent years. What was once one day with truly limited-time offers has expanded into a month-long sales marathon that can feel more exhausting than exciting. It's happening again in 2023:

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                        Microsoft Black Friday deals discount the Surface Pro 9 by up to $800

Microsoft is offering a steep, and relatively rare, discount on the Surface Pro 9 hybrid tablet as part of a

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                        The best gifts for book lovers in 2023

If there’s a book lover on your holiday list, consider yourself lucky. There’s a huge range of gifts you can give them — and you don’t even need to know what’s next up on their to-be-read list. I’m a former bookseller with an abiding fiction habit who now tests book-related (and other) tech. Andrew Tarantola is Engadget’s resident book expert who produces our Hitting the Books colum

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                        Google's AI-powered search tool can help tackle your holiday shopping

Google is scaling up Search Generative Experience (SGE) for holiday shopping. The company announced Thursday that its AI-powered search bot can now spit out gift ideas, photorealistic images of product types and virtual try-ons of men’s tops.

Google SGE launched in May, offering AI-driven answers and sugges

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                        The Morning After: The best early Black Friday deals for 2023

November 24 might be a few days away yet, but that hasn’t stopped swathes of the industry from posting their deals early. Engadget’s crack team of coupon-heads has pored over countless listings to find you some absolutely jaw-dropping bargains. That includes hefty bits of cash knocked of

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                        The FCC will crack down on ISPs to address 'digital discrimination' in poorer areas

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is keeping a close eye on internet providers to make sure they provide Americans with equal access to broadband services regardless of customers' "income level, race, ethnicity, color, religion or national origin." Two years after the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law became official, the FCC

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