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Welcome to our live blog of the best Black Friday laptop deals we've found. Throughout the day (and over the weekend, leading up to Cyber Monday), we'll be checking out retailers across the internet and highlighting the top sales on all manner of laptops, from high-end Ultrabooks and gaming laptops, to affordable budget notebooks and Chromebooks. Buying a new laptop can be a stressful and confusing process at the best of times, but during Black Friday when deals are popping up all over the place, it can be even more hectic. It can be particularly difficult to tell the difference between what's a good deal, and what isn't. To make things easier, we're here to help. We'll be highlighting only the best deals we think are worth buying, and we'll give our expert buying advice and explain why these deals are so good, and what kind of use cases these laptops excel at. The best Black Friday laptop deals in the US Amazon: lowest prices for most laptops Best B

Black Friday is here and if you’ve been looking to pick up an Oculus Quest 2 then there’s never been a better time thanks to Meta’s Black Friday Oculus Quest 2 deals .  This is probably one of the year’s best Black Friday deals in general as not only can you pick up the Oculus Quest 2 at a discount – the 128GB model is down $50 / £50 to $349.99 / £349.99 , and the 256GB version is down $70 / £70 to $429.99 / £429.99 – but you get free games too. It’s not just any free games either. The free games are Resident Evil 4 VR and Beat Saber  (two of the best Oculus Quest 2 games out there). Sure, the Quest 2 was cheaper before August 2022 when its price was hiked $100 / £100 but this bundle packs in more than enough value to make this Meta’s best-ever VR deal. ( Not in the US or UK? Scroll down for the best Oculus Quest 2 deals in your region.)   Today's best Black Friday Quest 2 deals in the US Oculus Quest 2 (128 GB) Black Friday bundle: was $469.99 now $349.99 at A

Russian hackers have attacked the website of the European Union’s Parliament and managed to take it offline for several hours. Anonymous Russia, an arm of the pro-Russian hacktivist group Killnet, reportedly launched a Distributed Denial of Service ( DDoS ) attack against the website of the European Parliament. European Parliament President Roberta Metsola confirmed the incident on Twitter, adding that its, "IT experts are pushing back against it & protecting our systems." EU Parliament resolution "The availability of Europarl_EN website is currently impacted from outside due to high levels of external network traffic," Dauche was cited saying. "This traffic is related to a DDOS attack (Distributed Denial of Service) event. EP teams are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible." The attack appears to be a response to a recently-adopted European Parliament resolution declaring Russia a state sponsor of terrorism, and a state that “use

We’re likely just a few months away from the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S23 line, but as usual many of the new features and improvements might be rumored before launch, with two potential upgrades having just been leaked. First up, there’s the potential for the Samsung Galaxy S23 line to support satellite communications in some form. This comes from a report on ETNews , which states that Samsung is working with Iridium - a global satellite communications company – to provide this functionality on the Galaxy S23 line. While Iridium is capable of providing voice and data communication services, Samsung will reportedly be limiting the S23’s satellite skills to text messages and small images, due to only being able to put a small antenna in a phone. That might sound restrictive, but it should be enough to help you reach out to contacts or the emergency services in situations where there’s no cell signal. Today’s other Samsung Galaxy S23 leak relates specifically to the Samsung Gala

Right now, you can save $130 off the FEZIBO electric adjustable height standing desk at Amazon . That brings its price down to just $199.99, making it one of the cheapest standing desk deals we've seen for Black Friday. Note that you need to be an Amazon Prime member to access this price. Many of us have shifted to working from home during the last couple of years, and if your home office furniture is starting to show the strain, Black Friday 2022 is a great opportunity to upgrade and this standing desk - Amazon's best selling one - seems to be a nobrainer. An electric desk like this gives you the option to switch between sitting and standing, and pick the perfect height for comfortable working. It's controlled via a convenient keypad on the right-hand side, and you can save three presets for quick access. Oh and don't forget to check out our Black Friday office chair deals

Graphics card sales are in a major slump, at least going by the latest figures from an analyst firm which keeps regular track of the GPU world. The headline stats for Q3 2022 from Jon Peddie Research (JPR) make for pretty miserable viewing, with sales of both integrated (on processors) and discrete (standalone) GPUs falling to 75.5 million units. That’s down a towering 25.1% compared to the same quarter in the previous year (and it’s a slump of 10.5% when stacked up against the previous quarter of this year, Q2 2022). Desktop graphics card shipments dropped by 15.4% year-on-year, and the picture was worse with laptop GPUs falling by 30%, to make for the “biggest drop since the 2009 recession” as JPR observes. So, this is the worst slump in 13 years, in other words – nasty indeed. Breaking things down to individual GPU makers and overall market share, AMD was worst hit with its share of 20% of the market in Q2 2022 falling to 12% in Q3, which is an alarming drop. Nvidia also lost

An under-desk treadmill is an easy way to get those steps in while you work. While walking also had a host of healthy benefits from stress relief to losing weight. If you were thinking of buying one of the best under-desk treadmills to help you move more in 2023, it's a great way to hit your fitness or weight loss goals: after all, you don't have to do loads of intense exercise to improve your quality of life. You simply have to move more, and whether you're taking a call or at home watching Netflix, being on a walking pad or folding treadmill is an easy way to up your step count at home. The Black Friday deals are just a way for you to save money on that initial investment into your health. Of course, all treadmills are different, but most are slimline and can be placed under a stand-up desk, allowing you to walk without even leaving your desk. Some of the models below are actually folding treadmills, providing a running as well as walking workout option.  Here we