Author: Report Wire

Black Friday has come and gone, but that doesn’t mean you’ve missed your chance to save. While many of our holiday purchases are being placed online due to the pandemic, Cyber Monday still has a few deals of its own, particularly on affordable laptops. You don’t have to wait until Monday, though. A number of Black Friday deals are still live, with more to come this week.Acer designed this Intel Celeron-based Chromebook to be a convertible laptop, which means the display can rotate around 180 degrees to be used as a tablet. The system also has 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM to…

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The Cyber Monday smartwatch deals have landed a day early this year. Wearable buyers can pick up deals on the Apple Watch Series 3 and Galaxy Watch 3, alongside discounts on FitBit and Garmin devices too. The best straight-cash discounts can be found at the major retailers like Target, Walmart, Best Buy, Amazon, and B&H. If you have old tech to sell then Samsung is a good place to look because of its generous trade-in prices. If you’re adamant about buying directly from Apple, then you can get $50 store credit—and no money off—with Apple Watch purchases, but this is far from the best…

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Nokia 5.4 may be soon be launched with a hole-punch display, as per a media report. Without naming the processor, the report claims that this mid-range smartphone from Nokia will come equipped with a faster SoC as compared to its predecessor. It goes on to say that the phone will be offered in two variants: 4GB of RAM and 128GB storage, and 4GB of RAM and 64GB storage option. In a related development, the 4GB of RAM and 128GB storage variant has been spotted on two Australian retailer platforms. According to a report by Nokiapoweruser, the alleged Nokia 5.4 mid-range smartphone will…

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Moto G 5G launches on November 30 in India. The new Motorola device will be unveiled at 12 pm and will be available via Flipkart. Moto G 5G is the first smartphone in India to feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G processor, which sits below the Snapdragon 765G chip. Moto G 5G launch in India Motorola has confirmed that the Moto G 5G launch will be hosted at 12 pm today in India. The 5G smartphone will be available for purchase via Flipkart soon after the launch. Motorola has launched the Moto G 5G in select international markets for EUR 299.99 (roughly…

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Canada has announced an extension of restrictions on international travel in an effort to prevent the further spread of the novel coronavirus amid an ongoing second wave of the pandemic in the country. In a statement issued on Sunday, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair announced that travel restrictions on US citizens would be extended until December 21, and curbs on people arriving from other countries would be extended until January 21, 2021, Xinhua news agency reported. The restrictions, which were brought forward on March 16, ban most foreign nationals from entering Canada for non-essential travel. There…

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Avolcano in Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province erupted on Sunday, spewing ash and smoke as high as four kilometers into the sky and forcing more than 2,700 residents to seek refuge, the country’s disaster mitigation agency said. Indonesia has nearly 130 active volcanoes, more than any other country, and while many show high levels of activity it can be weeks or even months before an eruption. Raditya Jati, a spokesman for the agency, said in a statement that the eruption from the Mt. Ile Lewotolok volcano, about 2,600 kilometers east of Indonesia’s capital of Jakarta, had caused panic among those…

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US President-elect Joe Biden on Sunday announced an all-female senior White House communications team, in what his office called a first in the country’s history. Among those named was Jen Psaki, who will serve in the highly visible role of White House press secretary. Psaki, 41, has held a number of senior positions, including White House communications director for the Barack Obama-Biden administration. Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have sought to emphasize diversity in their appointments and nominations so far ahead of their January 20 swearing-in. “I am proud to announce today the first senior White House communications team…

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In the first TV interview since losing his re-election bid, President Donald Trump indicated Sunday that he will never concede to Joe Biden and abandon his conspiracy theory about mass ballot fraud.”It’s not like you’re gonna change my mind. My mind will not change in six months,” Trump told Fox News interviewer Maria Bartiromo.”This election was rigged. This election was a total fraud,” he claimed, again without backing this up. “We won the election easily.”The 45-minute interview, Trump’s first on television since the November 3 election, was mostly a monologue of evidence-free claims concerning election fraud, virtually unchallenged by Bartiromo. Despite Trump’s unprecedented attack on…

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Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday Canberra is seeking an apology from Beijing about a Tweet containing a false image of an Australian soldier holding the knife to the throat of an Afghan child. Morrison said Australia was seeking the removal of the “truly repugnant” image posted on Monday by Zhao Lijian, a spokesman at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “It is utterly outrageous and cannot be justified on any basis… The Chinese government should be utterly ashamed of this post. It diminishes them in the world’s eyes,” Morrison told media at a press briefing. He said countries…

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Indian-American Neera Tanden may be chosen for the top position in the White House responsible for managing the administration’s budget as she is likely to be US President-elect Joe Biden’s choice for the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, local media reports suggested. If the reports are confirmed by the United States Senate, the 50-year-old, who is currently the chief executive of the left-leaning Center for American Progress, would be the first woman of colour to head the Office of Management and Budget. According to The Wall Street Journal, Tanden’s nomination is a part of Biden’s plan to…

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