TV Aerials Warrington: November 2019

Saturday, 30 November 2019

Wedding album: 'My future husband didn't know it but I got the bus just to see him'

THROUGHOUT this year we will be dipping into the wedding albums of Warrington couples who have tied the knot and finding out more about the happiest day of their life.

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Sentenced in November: 16 Warrington criminals in court

A FRAUDSTER who falsely claimed her dad had died in order to avoid paying council tax, a waiter who blinded a colleague at an Indian restaurant and a burglar who broke into his nextdoor neighour's house while he was in hospital were among the Warrington criminals brought to justice in November.

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Red logos, better food and new players - Fitzpatrick on the latest at Wolves

IT may be the off season, but there is plenty to keep the staff at Warrington Wolves busy.

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Christmas giveaway day one - Golden Square vouchers

CHRISTMAS is the time for giving.

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Wedding album: 'My future husband didn't know it but I got the bus just to see him'

Sentenced in November: 16 Warrington criminals in court

Analyzing One Million Voter Records in Manhattan

A Unique Look into the Voter Composition of Manhattan

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Velvet Dresses and Rhinestone Shoes

Lessons I’ve Learned As An Older Parent

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Apple offers three-month News+ trials through Black Friday weekend

Apple Music has long had three-month free trials, but what if you want to give News+ a similar dry run? You can -- but only if you act quickly. Apple is offering a three-month trial to News+ to American and Canadian users who sign up through Black...

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Black Voters Don’t Need Pete Buttigieg to Connect Any Dots

Why this Black and gay voter isn’t interested in his candidacy

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Are you Alone This Holiday Season?

How to get through December with less reluctance

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Twitter bans House candidate who suggested Ilhan Omar should be hanged

Twitter may be reluctant to crack down on politicians' tweets, but it still has its limits -- and one political candidate may have crossed the line. The social media giant has permanently banned Republican House candidate Danielle Stella's personal a...

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Black Friday sees record $7.4B in online sales, $2.9B spent using smartphones

Following swiftly on the heels of a Thanksgiving that broke records with $4.2 billion in online sales, Black Friday also hit a new high, although it just fell short of predictions. According to analytics from Adobe, consumers spent $7.4 billion online yesterday buying goods online via computers, tablets and smartphones. The figures were up by $1.2 billion on Black Friday 2018, but they actually fell short of Adobe’s prediction for the day, which was $7.5 billion.

Salesforce, meanwhile, said that its checks revealed $7.2 billion in sales (even further off the forecast).

Popular products included toys on the themes of Frozen 2, L.O.L Surprise, and Paw Patrol. Best selling video games included FIFA 20, Madden 20, and Nintendo Switch. And top electronics, meanwhile, included Apple Laptops, Airpods, and Samsung TVs.

A full $2.9 billion of Black Friday sales happened on smartphones. These conversions are growing faster than online shopping overall, so we are now approaching a tipping point where soon smartphones might outweigh web-based purchases through computers.

“With Christmas now rapidly approaching, consumers increasingly jumped on their phones rather than standing in line,” said Taylor Schreiner, Principal Analyst & Head of Adobe Digital Insights, in a statement. “Even when shoppers went to stores, they were now buying nearly 41% more online before going to the store to pick up. As such, mobile represents a growing opportunity for smaller businesses to extend the support they see from consumers buying locally in-store on Small Business Saturday to the rest of the holiday season. Small Business Saturday will accelerate sales for those retailers who can offer unique products or services that the retail giants can’t provide.”

Adobe Analytics tracks sales in real-time for 80 of the top 100 US retailers, covering 55 million SKUs and some 1 trillion transactions during the holiday sales period. Salesforce uses Commerce Cloud data and insights covering more than half a billion global shoppers across more than 30 countries.

One of the reasons we may be seeing slightly less fervent sales than the analysts had predicted is because the holiday sales season is starting earlier and earlier. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving when many people have days off, has for a long time been seen by retailers as the start of holiday shopping season. That has changed as retailers hope to catch more sales over a longer period of time.

As more people shop, they are also shopping for more expensive items. Adobe noted that Average Order Value was $168, a new record level yesterday for Black Friday, up 5.9% on a year ago.

Smartphone sales were up 21% over last year and those who were not buying were, as a start, browsing, with whopping 61% of all online traffic to retailers coming from smartphones, up 15.8% since last year.

As with yesterday, e-commerce “giants” with over $1 billion in sales annually were doing better than smaller sites: they had more smartphone sales, and 66% conversions on browsers on smartphones, Adobe said. They have overall also seen a 62% boost in sales this season, versus 27% for smaller retailers.

As with the Thanksgiving sales patterns — when bigger retailers also appeared to do better than their smaller counterparts — there are a couple of reasons for this. One is that the bigger sites have a wider selection of goods and can afford to take hits with deep discounts on some items, in order to lure users in to add other items to their shopping cars that are not as deeply discounted. Or, bigger online retailers can simply afford to give bigger markdowns.

The other is that the bigger stores often have more flexible delivery options. Adobe noted that those using click-and-collect orders, or buy online, pick up in store / curbside grew by 43 percent.

The story is not all rosy for big retailers, however. Edison Trends notes that some big platforms are actually seeing very mixed results this time around.

It will be interesting to see how and if patterns change for smaller retailers on Sunday, which is being dubbed “small business Sunday” to focus on buying from smaller and independent shops. Shoppers have already spent $470 million, and Adobe believes it will pass the $3 billion mark. Cyber Monday, the biggest of them all, is expected to make $9.4 billion in sales.

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Jack Merritt's father pays tribute to 'exceptional' son

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EU investigates Google data collection practices

No, European antitrust regulators still aren't done looking into Google's practices. The European Commission told Reuters in a statement that it's conducting a "preliminary investigation" into Google's data collection. While it didn't go into detai...

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Armed with a whale's tusk and a fire extinguisher: the heroes who took on the terrorist

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The Buttigieg Era: The Deep Political Philosophy of Mayor Pete

When Pete Buttigieg, aka “Mayor Pete,” launched into the national spotlight in March 2019, he was received with delight by the main stream…

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Ockam raises $3.2 million in seed funding to make it easier for developers to secure and scale their IoT apps

Ockam, a two-year-old, Bay Area-based company that’s selling tools to developers to they can establish an “architecture for trust” within their connected device applications, has raised $3.2 million in seed funding, including from Core Ventures, Okta Ventures, SGH Capital, and Future Ventures.

This serverless platform for IoT development is being led by CEO Matthew Gregory and CTO Mrinal Wadhwa, two cofounders with noteworthy backgrounds.

Before launching Ockam in the fall of 2017, Gregory was an “intrapreneur” at Microsoft, where he says he helped lead Azure’s pivot into open source software and container services. He also spent a couple of years at Salesforce as a product manager and, interestingly, spent a few years years ago as a system engineer working for Stars & Stripes, a syndicate of the yacht-racing competition America’s Cup where he tells us he led an engineering effort to build custom systems of sensors, analytics software and wireless communications tools needed to help the racing team make better decisions.

Madhwa was meanwhile the CTO of another privately held IoT company, Fybr, that promises real-time data analytics capable of decision making at the edge (versus in the cloud).

Some of what the startup is promising is that, using its technology, IoT systems developers will be able to build more scalable connected systems — as well, crucially, as more secure ones How? Partly through crytpographic keys and partly by assigning credentials to different entities, from devices to people to assets to services (among other things).

The company is one of a growing spate of companies hoping developers will increasingly turn to them instead of building out their own software infrastructure. For example, Particle, a seven-year-old, San Francisco-based platform for Internet of Things devices that has ambitions similar to those of Ockam, recently closed on $40 million in funding in a round that brought its total funding to $81 million).

Ockam has now raised $4.9 million in seed funding altogether, having raised a smaller amount of seed funding from Future Ventures back in May.

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Royal Academy of Music facing calls for investigation into 'casting couch' culture after 15 complaints of sexual harassment

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Hold your tongue and tolerate the turkey carving: Vegans offered Christmas meal advice

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Strawberry-flavored HIV medicine could save thousands of children

There are roughly 80,000 babies and toddlers who die of AIDS every year, and that's partly due to the difficulty of administering the medicine. It can be extremely difficult for a toddler to swallow a pill or a foul-tasting syrup with alcohol. Cipl...

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Best Black Friday toy deals: Where to find sales on L.O.L. Surprise! sets, Star Wars LEGOs, Xbox bundles, and more

No one tells you how hard it is to shop for The Youths™️ once you age out of the Toys 'R' Us catalog (RIP). Toy trends seem to change constantly, and if you don't know exactly what you're looking for, you risk looking like Steve Buscemi in the "how do you do, fellow kids" meme as you wander through store aisles.

We'll let you in on a couple of insider secrets: This year's hottest gifts for the kiddos in your life revolve around major movie franchises and TV shows (think Star Wars, Frozen 2, and PAW Patrol) and interactive, unboxable plush toys (think Hatchimals — yes, still — and a newcomer called L.O.L. Surprise!). Read more...

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TunnelBear discounts a year of VPN service to $50

If you're concerned about the privacy of your internet access or just want to access foreign content like you're a local, a VPN can help -- and thankfully, you might not have to pay early to use one. TunnelBear is running a Black Friday weekend sale...

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Friday, 29 November 2019

Scotland's red deer population being brought under control thanks to surge in culling

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'Cards Against Humanity' stunt has writers battling a comedy AI for their jobs

On this Black Friday, writers for Cards Against Humanity are working to prove that they are better at writing comedy than an AI, and you can watch them do it live.

This year's Cards Against Humanity publicity stunt involves a livestream that began at 11 a.m. ET and will last for a total of 16 hours. A group of card writers are collaborating to produce better and funnier cards than a machine-learning AI trained on Cards Against Humanity brainstorming documents. As new cards are created, you can see them get posted on this special Cards Against Humanity Black Friday website.

You can also watch along as the writers work and the AI chugs out card ideas here: Read more...

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Apple Black Friday deals include a $250 iPad and MacBook Pro discounts

You knew it wouldn't be Black Friday if there weren't sales for Apple gear, and there are plenty of those to go around in 2019. One of the best bargains may be Apple's 10.2-inch iPad, which is selling for $250 at Target through November 30th -- $80 o...

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Google Pixel phones are up to $350 off for Black Friday — yes, including the Pixel 4

We told you the Google Pixel 4 would be on sale for Black Friday and we weren't lying. But it's not alone in seeing discounts. The Google Pixel 3/3 XL and Google Pixel 3a XL are also on sale during this shopping holiday.

So, how much savings are we talking here? Up to $350. Google's not messing around.

Google Pixel 4 — save $200

The Pixel 4 is Google's latest iteration of the smartphone and has only been on the market since October 2019. Seeing a price drop this major on something so new is a big deal. The phone has a super impressive camera with a night mode so powerful it can capture photos of the stars. The Google Pixel 4 is normally $799, but for Black Friday it's on sale for $599. Read more...

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Elektron's Model:Samples groovebox is $100 off for the holidays

Elektron's synths, samplers, drum machines and grooveboxes are known for their top-notch sound and unique sequencing features. Once thing they're not known for, though, is being affordable. The Model:Samples is the big exception to that rule. And it'...

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Here are the best gaming deals happening on Black Friday

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Black Friday is one the best times of the year to pick up popular games, consoles, and gaming accessories at huge discounts, and it can be overwhelming keeping track of all of the deals across every retailer. That’s sort of a good problem to have; it means that there’s no shortage of deals for the Nintendo Switch, Sony PlayStation 4, and the Xbox One X and S. If you’re a PC gamer, we’ve also pulled together the best deals on PC gaming components happening before or on Black Friday.

We’d already been tracking all of the console deals by platform, but we’ve also just added a whole bunch of individual game deals for Black Friday too — so you can easily find the best deal on exactly what you’re looking for over the holidays. We’ll be...

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London Bridge attack: Urgent review of UK terror threat level after it was downgraded just three weeks ago

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Nine arrested in UK as police take down website that allowed hackers to control people's webcams

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Garmin's Forerunner 645 (a staff favorite) is 50 percent off at Amazon

As you may have heard, Team Engadget is spending some time this week perusing Black Friday deals. I was sifting through some sales today, and it turns out my favorite running watch is on sale. In fact, I'm wearing it on my wrist as I type this. At fu...

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Watch the Bon Appétit chefs compete to see who can make pizza the fastest

If you need a break from all the talk of turkey, stuffing, potatoes, and pie after Thanksgiving, the chefs over at the Bon Appétit's Test Kitchen are here to give you a much-needed break as they compete to see who can make a pizza the fastest.

Starring 10 chefs, the Pizza Making Speed Challenge is a fun little diversion for most of these people. Several of the cooks mention that they don't like doing things quickly, and Priya Krishna notes that she's never made a pizza before. Her lack of experience really shows when some errant mozzarella catches fire in her oven and Brad Leone puts it out for her with a bunch of salt. Read more...

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SAS 'could lose Brunei training base' if Corbyn becomes prime minister

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Nefertiti's bust joins the digital age

Can museums can really "own" the digitization of cultural heritage artifacts? The bust of Nefertiti shown above is a 3D rendering I created myself on 3DS Max from a digital file, obtained by artist Cosmo Wenman after three years of persistence. Now,...

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Best Black Friday vacuum deals: Shop Dyson, Shark, Bissell

There are tons of great vacuum deals going on for Black Friday, but we've deemed Macy's and Best Buy the best places to score one.

Macy's has the Dyson Big Ball multi-floor canister vacuum on sale for just $199.99 — that's $200 off the MSRP from Dyson's official site.

This vacuum is super powerful and maneuvers easily on any surface. Plus, it's a Dyson; do we really need to say more?

Best vacuum deals at Macy's

Bissell 2316 CleanView swivel pet vacuum — $78.99 (save $81)
Dyson V8 Animal cordless vacuum — $249.99 (save $230)
Dyson V11 Animal cordless vacuum — $599.99 (save $150)
Dyson Cyclone V10 cordless vacuum — $348.99 (save $276)
Dyson Ball Animal 2 upright vacuum — $299.99 (save $325)
Shark APEX UpLight Lift-Away DuoClean vacuum — $239.99 (save $135)
Shark Navigator Pet Pro vacuum — $199.99 (save $115)
Black & Decker two-in-1 cordless stick vacuum — $39.99 (save $60) Read more...

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Mixcloud data breach exposes over 20 million user records

A data breach at Mixcloud, a U.K.-based audio streaming platform, has left more than 20 million user accounts exposed after the data was put on sale on the dark web.

The data breach happened earlier in November, according to a dark web seller who supplied a portion of the data to TechCrunch, allowing us to examine and verify the authenticity of the data.

The data contained usernames, email addresses, and passwords that appear to be scrambled with the SHA-2 algorithm, making the passwords near impossible to unscramble. The data also contained account sign-up dates and the last-login date. It also included the country from which the user signed up, their internet (IP) address, and links to profile photos.

We verified a portion of the data by validating emails against the site’s sign-up feature.

The exact amount of data stolen isn’t known. The seller said there were 20 million records, but listed 21 million records on the dark web. But the data we sampled suggested there may have been as many as 22 million records.

The data was listed for sale for $4,000, or about 0.5 bitcoin. We’re not linking to the dark web listing.

Mixcloud last year secured a $11.5 million cash injection from media investment firm WndrCo, led by Hollywood media proprietor Jeffrey Katzenberg.

It’s the latest in a string of high profile data breaches in recent months. The breached data came from the same dark web seller who also alerted TechCrunch to the StockX breach earlier this year. The apparel trading company initially claimed its customer-wide password reset was for “system updates,” but later came clean, admitting it was hacked, exposing more than four million records, after TechCrunch obtained a portion of the breached data.

An email to Mixcloud’s press mailbox bounced, and its last listed public relations agency told TechCrunch it no longer represents the company. When reached, Mixcloud spokesperson Lisa Roolant did not immediately provide comment.

As a London-based company, Mixcloud falls under U.K. and European data protection rules. Companies can be fined up to 4% of their annual turnover for violations of European GDPR rules.

Corrected the fourth paragraph to clarify that emails were validated against the site’s sign-up feature, and not the password reset feature.

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Apple HomePod costs just $200 in Best Buy's Black Friday sale

If you've been curious about Apple's HomePod but felt that it was too expensive even after the April price drop, now's your time to act. Best Buy is selling the smart speaker for $200 as part of its Black Friday sale, a full $100 off the usual price...

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London Bridge attack: 'I kicked terrorist in the head,' says heroic bystander

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Woman claims restaurant review in Washington Post exposed husband's affair

The Washington Post's food critic Tom Sietsema received some unexpected feedback on one of his recent restaurant reviews.

The whole thing started during a live chat with Sietsema on the Washington Post's website about the dining scene in DC. An anonymous woman alleged that a recent restaurant review from Sietsema helped expose her husband's affair.

"Well Tom your latest review is accompanied by a picture of my husband dining with a woman who isn't me!" the woman writes.

So, this popped up on my live online food chat today. Cheaters, take heed! pic.twitter.com/1LzQ6qS7Kb

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Cards Against Humanity writers are battling an AI to keep their jobs, and you can watch

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The creators of Cards Against Humanity are back for their annual Black Friday stunt, and this one is delightfully dystopian. Starting at 11AM ET today and lasting for the next 16 hours, the human writers on the CAH team are facing off against an artificial intelligence to see who can create the most popular new pack of cards, based on how many people pay for more $5 packs. You can upvote or downvote your favorite cards for each side on CAH’s website before buying, and you can also watch the humans struggle to come up with new iterations in real time over live stream.

On the line are $5,000 bonuses for every employee if team human comes up victorious, or heartless termination in the event the AI takes the top spot. We don’t think CAH a...

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Gift Guide: For the budding video creator

Welcome to TechCrunch’s 2019 Holiday Gift Guide! Need help with gift ideas? We’re here to help! We’ll be rolling out gift guides from now through the end of December. You can find our other guides right here.

If you’re interested in cameras and taking pictures, you should definitely check out our 2019 Photography Gift Guide, but if you’re specifically looking to encourage a developing creator who wants to work with video on their preferred platform of choice, be it YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or any other, you’ve come to the right place. From smartphone accessories to get the most out of their built-in cameras, to stuff for people with more expensive dedicated camera setups, we’ve got it all.

Hex Bags camera backpacks – $190-$240

A good camera bag is a necessary accessory for anyone who is shooting with something other than their phone, and the Hex Back Loader DSLR Backpack and Hex Cinema Backpack are great options that are actually less expensive than some of the bigger brand options out there, but with modern styling that means they look less like something designed for function alone, and more like a backpack that would actually draw compliments. The Back Loader is perfect for a mirrorless kit, and should easily slide under the seat in front of you on an airplane, while the Cinema has plenty of room for larger DSLRs and lenses.

Zhiyun Weebil-S gimbal – $350

A good gimbal is a creator’s best friend, since stabilized video footage beats shaky-cam nonsense. The Zhiyun Weebill-S is a new offering from the company that basically provides the perfect blend of size, power, connectivity and control features and more. Its unique design has real advantages in the field vs. other similar gimbals, and it’s not going to break the bank, either.

Mavic Mini – $350

Mavic’s latest drone is all about distilling the consumer drone down to the basics – and it’s great. The $350 Mavic Mini is way, way cheaper than any of their fancier consumer drones, and it offers really excellent 2.7K video that looks cinematic right out of the camera. For anyone publishing on social channels who aren’t concerned about producing 4K content (no one really should be prioritizing that, really), this is the one to get, since it’s small enough it doesn’t need to be registered with the FAA to fly.

Samsung T5 – $100-$400

Samsung’s tiny, portable SSDs have a long history of delivering great reliability and performance in a form factor that’s so portable it’s easily pocketable. The drives come in sizes ranging from 500GB to 2TB, and you should be able to find them on sale in at least one of these configurations going into the holiday season, which means that you can probably find them for even less than that cost range posted above. A good SSD is a must for offloading video captured in camera on SD cards, and some of the newer cameras will let you record directly to these drives via USB-C.

Backup batteries and SD cards – Starting at around $40

These are easy gifts to get video creatives, which never go out of style and which will always be appreciated. You can never have enough spare memory cards, or enough backup batteries. Just make sure you get the right ones for whatever camera system your giftee is using: And for memory, focus on cards like the SanDisk Extreme Pro with 170MB/S transfer speeds to ensure good performance with 4K video capture.

GoPro Hero8 – $400

A GoPro is an extremely versatile piece of kit for a video creator. The ruggedness, portability, built-in stabilization and range of modes mean you can capture some amazing additional footage to compliment stuff you’re recording on your primary camera – or give you everything you need to capture a great travel vlog in the moment. The newest GoPro Hero8 has features including more advanced stabilization, compatibility with additional video accessories, digital lenses and more tat make it the best camera the company has ever made for creators.

Microphones – $25-$200

A good microphone is a necessity for making good videos, and there are a wide range of options available. To give you just a few options at very different price points, look at the Saramonic SR-XM1. It’s a generally not sold for more than $35, and is dead simple with a 3.5mm connector to plug directly into the camera port on a wide range of devices. Saramonic also makes iPhone mics with lightning connectors for similar prices. Then, at $200, the Rode Wireless Go is more expensive – but still a bargain for a totally wireless microphone system that can provide audio directly to your camera. Pair it with an optional lavalier mic and you’re going to get great results.

from TV Aerial Installation Services Warrington https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/29/gift-guide-for-the-budding-video-creator/
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Oculus Go drops to $150 on Amazon in Black Friday sale

You're looking at one of the most affordable ways to immerse yourself in stand-alone VR. Amazon is selling the 32GB Oculus Go headset for $150, down from the usual $199, as part of its Black Friday sales. There have been substantial discounts before...

from TV Aerial Installation Services Warrington https://www.engadget.com/2019/11/29/oculus-go-150-at-amazon-black-friday/
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Intel says Qualcomm’s business practices drove it out of the modem chip market

It’s not like this wasn’t among the reasons everywhere suspected when Apple suddenly announced it was buying Intel’s modem business, but now the chipmaker has filed a brief in support of the FTC in an ongoing appeal by Qualcomm of a decision made in May. That decision found in favor of the FTC’s allegations that Qualcomm’s licensing arrangements for its IP around CDMA and LTE technologies have choked out other potential competitors.

Intel, in the filing and a new blog post accompanying and explaining the filing from Intel EVP and General Counsel Steven R. Rodgers, says that “Intel suffered the brunt of Qualcomm’s anticompetitive behaviour, was denied opportunities in the modem market, was prevented from making sales to customers and was forced to sell at prices artificially skewed by Qualcomm.” It also specifically notes that it counts itself among the list of “competitors [Qualcomm] forced out of the modem chip market.”

Earlier this year, Apple and Qualcomm agreed to drop ongoing lawsuits the two sometime-partners had filed agains one another, settling a feud in the courts that had started back in 2017 when Apple accused Qualcomm of overcharging it for use of Qualcomm’s patents. The settlement included Apple paying Qualcomm sone-time sum, and the establishment of a six-year licensing agreement, as well as a supply agreement for Qualcomm chipsets to be used in Apple products.

At the same time, Intel announced it was exiting the modem business – an announcement that seemed timely, given that Apple has sought to use Intel modems in recent iPhones to bypass Qualcomm, which is an industry leader when it comes to the supply of wireless communication chips used in smartphones. Then in July, Apple announced that it was acquiring the majority of Intel’s smartphone business, which led many to speculate that eventually Apple will seek to develop its own wireless communication chips in-house in a longer-term play to reduce its reliance on Qualcomm.

Intel clearly isn’t content to just let the situation lie, and since its blog post notes that it has invested “billions” in the modem business it built and then sold to Apple, you get a clear idea of why – definitely sounds like it didn’t recoup all of its sunk costs in the Apple deal, which was worth around $1 billion all told.

from TV Aerial Installation Services Warrington https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/29/intel-says-qualcomms-business-practices-drove-it-out-of-the-modem-chip-market/
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London Bridge attack: 'I'm not surprised members of the public had to step in to do their bit'

from TV Aerial Installation Services Warrington https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/29/not-surprised-members-public-had-step-do-bit-says-father-victim/
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French hunters should take breathalyser tests, campaigners say after string of deadly accidents

from TV Aerial Installation Services Warrington https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/29/french-hunters-should-take-breathalyser-tests-campaigners-say/
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Thursday, 28 November 2019

Amazon designs faster ARM-based chips for its cloud servers

Amazon's cloud hosting business, Amazon Web Services, will soon be getting new server hardware -- an updated processor specifically designed for data centers, as reported by Reuters.

from TV Aerial Installation Services Warrington https://www.engadget.com/2019/11/28/aws-new-arm-processors/
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The best Black Friday deals so far: Sales that went live on Thanksgiving

Hope y'all are done with your stuffing and already took your post-turkey nap, because it's go-time.

Black Friday officially kicked off at 5 or 6 pm EST at most retailers, which means the last of those deals that didn't go live early are live now.

We hope you were wise enough to map out what you want to buy with the ad scans, but if you didn't, we've pulled all the best deals so that you don't have to waste time flipping through deal pages. If you see something on sale, skip the virtual bloodbath and snag yours before other customers catch wind. "Out of stock" notices on doorbusters will happen quickly: Some 4K TVs and Apple Watches at Walmart are already sold out online and are only available for in-store purchase, and the MacBook Air is in and out of stock on Amazon. Read more...

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from TV Aerial Installation Services Warrington https://mashable.com/shopping/best-black-friday-deals-2019/
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Midwife warns full extent of NHS maternity scandal in Shrewsbury and Telford may not be known

from TV Aerial Installation Services Warrington https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/29/midwife-warns-full-extent-nhs-maternity-scandal-shrewsbury-telford/
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Two thirds of motorists think smart motorways are dangerous, RAC poll finds

from TV Aerial Installation Services Warrington https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/29/two-thirds-motorists-think-smart-motorways-dangerous-rac-poll/
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Prostate cancer test carried out at home avoids physical check

from TV Aerial Installation Services Warrington https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/28/prostate-cancer-test-carried-home-avoids-physical-check/
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Here are all the best Black Friday air fryer deals live now

Best Black Friday air fryer deals live right now:

Instant Vortex 6-quart — $49 (save $50)
Ninja 4-quart Air Fryer (AF101) — $69.99 (save $60)
Ninja Foodi 8-quart pressure cooker and air fryer — $199.99 (list price $279.99)
Cuisinart Convection Toaster Air Fryer (TOA-60) — $124.99 (save $53.17 plus an extra $20.84 coupon)
Bella Pro Series 10.5-quart digital air fryer — $89.99 (list price $149.99)
Dash Compact 1.2-quart Air Fryer — $39.99 (save $60 plus an extra $10 coupon)

Last year, the Instant Pot was one of the most popular purchases in over half of the states.

This year, you probably have another trendy kitchen gadget on your list. While pressure cookers are good for speeding up home-cooked meals and mastering difficult recipes like chunky soup or rice, air fryers are a must in all households big on hosting and snacking without feeling like shit about. You'll want that over the holidays. Read more...

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Harvey Proctor 'to receive £900,000 from Metropolitan Police over its handling of VIP sex abuse probe'

from TV Aerial Installation Services Warrington https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/28/harvey-proctor-receive-900000-metropolitan-police-handling-vip/
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Grandma and stranger she accidentally texted celebrate Thanksgiving together for a fourth year

In incredibly wholesome news, the best Thanksgiving story of the decade is still going strong, and likely to do so for the foreseeable future.

While 2016 was generally an extremely cursed year, one of the few good things that came out of it was a heartwarming viral text exchange between then 17-year-old Jamal Hinton and kindly grandmother Wanda Dench. In it, Dench invited Hinton, a stranger, to join her family for Thanksgiving dinner.

Celebrating Thanksgiving together has since become an annual tradition for Hinton and Dench, who are now 20 and 62 respectively, and 2019 was no exception.

Had a blast with Jamal & family pic.twitter.com/IMmAOSSkg0

— Wanda D (@wandadench) November 29, 2019 Read more...

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Google Pixel 4 — save $200

Best vacuum deals at Macy's

Hex Bags camera backpacks – $190-$240

Zhiyun Weebil-S gimbal – $350

Mavic Mini – $350

Samsung T5 – $100-$400

Backup batteries and SD cards – Starting at around $40

GoPro Hero8 – $400

Microphones – $25-$200

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