Taylor Swift’s new record contract hopefully means a better deal for Universal artists and rumours point to Samsung’s Galaxy S10 being huge and covered in cameras. We cover it all on the UK’s best tech podcast.
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Taylor Swift’s new record contract hopefully means a better deal for Universal artists and rumours point to Samsung’s Galaxy S10 being huge and covered in cameras. We cover it all on the UK’s best tech podcast.
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Black Friday might be officially over, but the deals are still rolling thanks to Cyber Week. If you’re in the market for a new desktop display, we’ve got the best ongoing Black Friday and Cyber Monday monitor deals right here.
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Canadian e-commerce company makes consumerism look cool.
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Commentary: The film is based on its creator’s story, but parts of his childhood reflect my own upbringing in Mexico City experiencing the privileges and contradictions of the middle class.
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Samsung’s latest Note has even more to reveal.
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A massive new federal report describes a country in ecological collapse and infrastructural ruin by 2100. They released it on Black Friday.
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Tons of Friday-morning updates! The big day is here, so check out the best of what you can get.
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The Swiss computer accessories maker could buy the California headset and Bluetooth earpiece maker, a report says.
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Half of my family (and half of the Internet, it seems) all has eyes and phones locked on the same Black Friday sales page right now — and, likely to the disappointment of the big retailers, it’s not any of theirs.
In the latest in a streak of wild Black Friday stunts, Cards Against Humanity (the wonderfully offensive fill-in-the-blank “party game for horrible people”) is selling a different ridiculous item for 99% off every ten minutes. It could be a life-size cut out of Orlando Bloom for 75 cents… or it could be a 1.5 carat diamond for 32 dollars.
Some of the other things they’ve put on sale this morning:
In many of these cases the items are one-of-a-kind, going to whoever managed to hit the buy button and answer a trivia question (to “prove you’re not a robot”) first.
“But wait!” you say. “How is CAH making money here?”
They’re not. From their FAQ:
Is this real?
Yes. All of these products are actually available for 99% off, and if you purchase something we will actually ship it to you.But the deals seem too good to be true!
We’ve chosen to make them true. That’s the miracle of Black Friday.Can the global financial system handle these deals?
Most economic indicators suggest “no.”Surely you must be losing a lot of money on this promotion.
Oh dear yes. This is a financial catastrophe for our company.
If it was anyone else doing this, no one would believe it — but over the top Black Friday stunts are sort of Cards Against Humanity’s MO. Part protest, part publicity stunt, and part joke, they always manage to highlight the absurdity of Black Friday while making everyone laugh.
Last year they pivoted into a potato chip company, temporarily dropping out of the game biz to instead focus on selling “Prongles”. For Black Friday of 2016, they convinced people to spend $100,000 to dig a hole so that in coming years you might think back and chuckle about that time you spent money digging a hole. In 2015, they made over $70,000 selling nothing — literally, you give them $5 for nothing (and they made it very clear it really was nothing and they weren’t going to surprise you by actually sending something.)
And to prevent anyone from walking away empty handed just because they weren’t first to click the “buy” button on Dan Aykroyd’s Cone Head from the movie “Coneheads” (another actual item they sold this morning), they’ve also got a (gasp) actual product of their own for sale starting today. Called the “Absurd Box”, its a pack of 200 new cards for $20 — which, they note, would otherwise go for $2,000.
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