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Crawford, 2-time WS champ with Giants, retires

Longtime Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford announced his retirement from baseball following a 14-year career in which he won two titles in San Francisco.

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41 Pieces Of Furniture And Decor That Will Make Your House A Home

Give your home the makeover it deserves.

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Mashable

Get $75 in Amazon credit when you redeem this early Black Friday Meta Quest 3S bundle deal

GET $75: As of Nov. 27, early bird Black Friday shoppers can score $75 in store credit when they purchase a Meta Quest 3S bundle at Amazon. The bundle also includes a digital copy of Batman: Arkham Shadow and a three-month trial of Meta Quest+.

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Beats Studio Pro headphones are 54% off as part of a record-low Black Friday deal

SAVE $190: As of Nov. 27, Amazon, Best Buy, Target, and Walmart have the Beats Studio Pro on sale for just $159.99 during their Black Friday sales. That's 54% off the headphones' $349.99 MSRP and an all-time low.

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Spy on the birds in your yard with a discounted Bird Buddy feeder for Black Friday

SAVE $80: For Black Friday, you can get the Bird Buddy Original Solar Bird Feeder with Camera for $199, down from $279, a 28% discount (Amazon's listed MSRP, $239, is incorrect and you're actually getting a better deal than they're letting on).

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The Verge

Umar Shakir

FTC changes its telemarketing rules to cover growing ‘tech support scam’ calls

Illustration by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has finalized amendments to its Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR), making it easier to protect consumers who are tricked into paying scam tech support companies. The FTC could already go after these fraudster companies if they initiated calls to people — now, they can do the same thing if people call the scammers too.

Fake tech support fraud has been on the rise for many years. The “company”...

The Verge

Wes Davis

The discontinued Steam Deck LCD is on sale

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Valve has dropped the price of the 512GB Steam Deck LCD to $336.75 (about $112 off) as part of its Steam Autumn Sale. The sale runs until December 4th at 1PM ET and includes plenty of game discounts too, but Valve discontinued the 512GB Steam Deck LCD, so it might not make it to the end. (It’s already sold through the 64GB model, which was also discounted.)

It’s a shame to see the 512GB LCD model going away, even if its picture doesn’t pop the...

Fast Company

Associated Press

Some small business owners are relieved after an overtime pay rule was blocked

A federal judge in Texas blocked a new rule from the Biden administration that would have expanded access to overtime pay to millions more salaried workers across the U.S.

Small business owners have had a mostly positive reaction to a judge’s decision to strike down an overtime rule that would have qualified more workers for overtime pay.

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47 Gifts For People Who Spend All Day At Their Desks

Just a little something to help them enjoy the workday a little more.

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Wired Top Stories

Will Knight, Louise Matsakis

US to Introduce New Restrictions on China’s Access to Cutting-Edge Chips

The new limits, which are expected to be announced Monday, are intended to slow China's ability to build large and powerful AI models.

The Verge

Ash Parrish

Baldur’s Gate 3 has yet another big patch on the way

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Larian Studios isn’t done with big updates for Baldur’s Gate 3 just yet. The studio is planning yet another quality-of-life update for the game with Patch 8.

“Arriving next year, this update will introduce some of the most eagerly awaited features to BG3: cross-play, and photo mode, along with 12 new subclasses,” Larian wrote on its Steam Community page.

Cross play will introduce multiplayer capabilities between any of the game’s platforms including...

The Verge

Wes Davis

Google Chat’s new huddles make it even more like Teams and Slack

Illustration: The Verge

Google Chat is launching huddles, a Google Meet-powered addition that lets you start a quick call with your coworkers. Google said it would add huddles to Google Chat in customer preview over a year ago, but we haven’t heard about it since then. The company says the feature has started rolling out and should reach all Workspace users by January 6th.

As we noted last year, this is the same feature as Slack’s Huddles, using the same exact name. There aren’t...

The Verge

Lauren Feiner

Microsoft is being investigated by the FTC over antitrust concerns

Image: Laura Normand / The Verge

Microsoft is being investigated by the Federal Trade Commission in a wide-ranging antitrust probe, making it the fifth Big Tech company to fall under such scrutiny in several years.

The agency is looking into Microsoft’s cloud and software licensing business, cybersecurity services, and AI offerings. Bloomberg first reported the news and The Verge confirmed the investigation with a person familiar with the matter, granted anonymity to speak to a...

ESPN.com

Nick Wagoner

49ers LB Warner playing with fractured ankle

49ers linebacker Fred Warner revealed for the first time Wednesday that he's been playing through a fractured bone in his ankle that he suffered in a Sept. 29 win against the Patriots.

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Ramona Shelburne

Leaks, team meetings, losses: The factors driving the Sixers' dreadful start

What began with the most exciting offseason of the Joel Embiid era in Philly has devolved into chaos -- with no easy answers in sight.

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40 Gifts For Almost Everyone — And I Mean Almost Everyone — On Your List

Friends, family, acquaintances, strangers, and people you haven't even met yet but may need to buy a gift — we've found something for all of 'em.

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Wired Top Stories

Ryan Waniata

The Apple AirPods Pro Are The Cheapest We've Ever Seen

We just found the best Black Friday deal on the best earbuds for iPhone owners.

Mashable

Spotify Wrapped 2024 date: When it comes out, how to view yours

Spotify users look forward to their Wrapped all year long. And for those who can hardly wait, don't fret: Spotify Wrapped 2024 is nearly here.

What is Spotify Wrapped?

Started in 2016, Spotify Wrapped is exactly what it sounds like: your year in Spotify, neatly wrapped up in a colorful — and uniquely shareable — interactive experience.

Spotify combs through your data and tells you your top artists, songs, albums, and more. For instance, you might find out you were in the Top 1 percent of...

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OpenAI Sora leak: What it was and what it wasn’t.

A group of artists that were early testers for OpenAI's Sora leaked access to the AI video generator on Tuesday. But let's get the facts straight so the story isn't oversimplified.

OpenAI has since shut down access to Sora for all early testers. But for about three hours, the public could test out Sora for themselves. According to a statement shared with the demo hosted on Hugging Face, the artists released access to Sora as a protest against "art washing," which they believe they were "lured...

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Bluesky has growing pains. Heres what it can learn from X/Twitter

File this under nice problems to have: Bluesky is growing like gangbusters. But hiding beneath that nice problem is a whole viper pit of nasty ones, as any study of Twitter history will tell you.

The Twitter-like social media underdog (or, given its logo, under-butterfly) zipped past the 20 million-user mark last week, with more than a quarter of those users arriving after the U.S. election. An election in which the owner of Twitter/X put his giant thumb on the scale for Donald Trump and...

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