For all the readers living in the United States, Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you get all the food, drink and of course plenty of Black Friday shopping after!

Today and for the next 48 hours, we’ll be scouring the internet for the best Black Friday deals on technology, computer hardware, and other generally awesome deals you may want to check out. We’ll keep this post updated with all the latest deals, so check back often!

 

CPCR Black Friday Picks Laptops MSI GL62M 7RDX-NE1050i5 15.6″ (Core i5 7300HQ, GTX 1050, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD) – $599 After $50 Rebate MSI GS73VR STEALTH PRO-060 17.3″ (Core i7-7700HQ GTX 1070 8G MAX Q [...]

ASUS has been hosting Zenvolution events all around the world showing off their latest line of Zen products and for North America, ASUS recently held their “Zenvolution” event in New York City where they displayed a whole host of new products including the ZenBook 3 ultraportable, ZenFone 3 smartphone. ZenWatch 3 smartwatch, Transformer 3 Pro Tablet, Transformer 3 Mini, and ZenPad 3S 10.

 

ZenBook 3

As computers have always been ASUS’s bread and butter, the ZenBook 3 is arguably the coolest new product. While the general design of the ZenBook hasn’t changed over the years, ASUS has made some internal upgrades that make it [...]

 

As expected, Google launched a whole host of new hardware today at their Made by Google event in San Francisco, California.

 

Google Pixel and Pixel XL

We’ve seen seeing quite a few leaks for the past couple days on Google’s new smartphones, the Pixel and Pixel XL. These phones will be replacing Google’s Nexus lineup of smartphones and will be Google’s first smartphone that will be fully Google branded although previous rumors have pegged HTC as the actual manufacturer. Whether HTC is just providing Google with manufacturing only or if they have anything to do with the design we’re not sure, but HTC [...]

Google is gearing up to launch a slew of products today including the new Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones as well as the new Google Daydream VR headset.

Google first unveiled the Daydream VR headset back in May at their Google I/O developer conference. The headset is designed to work with Daydream optimized smartphones which slot into the headset to allow users to experience VR similar to Samsung’s Gear VR which works with Samsung’s flagship smartphones. According to a new article from Variety, the Daydream headset could be sold for as little as $79 which undercuts Samsung’s Gear VR headset which retails for $99.99.

As always, we’ll [...]

According to a new report from Business Insider, Apple’s smartwatch may be starting to lose steam.

In an investor’s note from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple’s smartwatch business may see a 15%-25% decline from 2015 as the introduction of the Series 2 Apple Watch and price cuts on the Series 1 Apple Watch does little to improve sales. Revised shipment numbers are down from an estimated 10-10.5 million units to 8.5-9 million units. In 2015, Apple shipped a total of 10.4 million units.

Kuo believes that there are 4 major reasons that the Apple Watch is tanking. These include a lack of killer applications, inadequate battery life, [...]

Samsung appears to be quite confident about their new Gear S3 smartwatch. According to a report from ETnews, sales targets for the upcoming Gear S3 smartwatch has now been increased to 5 million units per year, which is a 61.3% increase compared to current overall shipments of Samsung smartwatches and bands which was estimated at 3.1 million units by market research firm, IDC.

The Samsung Gear S3, which was first announced at IFA 2016 is not only Samsung’s latest smartwatch, but is also the most advanced smartwatch they’ve made to date. The new smartwatch will come in two varieties, the Samsung Gear S3 Classic and the Samsung Gear S3 [...]

Highly popular social media app Snapchat recently re-branded themselves as Snap and their latest product may explain why.

According to a recent announcement, Snap unveiled Spectacles which is a pair of well, spectacles with a built in camera that can be used with the Snapchat app to easily allow users to create first person Snaps. In order to do this, Snap Spectacles features an onboard videocamera equipped with a 115 degree lens mounted near your right eye. In order to record, simply tap a button near your left eye to start a 10-second Snap. As you’re recording, a yellow ring of lights near your left eye will let others know that you’re Snapping. Then [...]

Fitbit, one of the most popular wearable device makers on the planet, recently released the Fitbit Charge 2 fitness wristband which is the successor to the wildly popular Fitbit Charge HR.

The new Fitbit Charge 2 now sports an OLED display that’s 4x larger than the Charge HR, sports their PurePulse Heart Rate sensor and contains up to 5 days worth of battery life depending on usage. The Fitbit Charge 2 also features connected GPS functionality to utilize the GPS on your phone for better tracking of your outdoor workouts.

The Fitbit Charge 2 will MSRP for $149.95 and is available in black, plum, blue or teal. One feature of the Fitbit Charge 2 is [...]

Toshiba recently introduced a new NAND family designed for embedded applications. The new NAND will be applied to consumer and industrial applications such as flat screen TVs, printers, wearables, and robots.

The new Toshiba NAND family offers a superior alternative to the NOR Memory typically used in embedded applications. SLC NAND memory is more cost effective, more reliable, and offer higher densities per package. These features are critical to store the increasingly complex software designed for today’s embedded devices.

The new NAND family can be controlled with just 6-pins, making it a suitable candidate for the Serial Peripheral Interface(SPI). [...]

According to a new blog post from Cadence, one of TSMC’s primary semiconductor design partners,  the shift to 16nm FinFET+ from 28nm could bring a whopping 40% increase in performance at similar power consumption levels or a 50% power reduction at similar performance levels.

The post also states that 16nm FinFET+ is now approaching 20nm SoC yields and has offered a much better maturity than any preceding TSMC process. Volume production should start in the third quarter of this year. It’s been known that TSMC’s 16nm FinFET+ has been in production since early this year, but now we have a more accurate idea of when it will be fully matured for the [...]