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The Frame TV is one of a million products on sale for Cyber Monday this year. If you’re interested in the best tech on sale today, see our best Cyber Monday tech deals page for a broader view of all the best discounts you can get right now. Prices are accurate as of the time of writing, but you can expect them to fluctuate and inventory to sell out, so you may not want to hesitate if you see a sale that grabs you.

Cyber Monday is your chance at redemption if you missed Black Friday deals, with sales from Best Buy, Home Depot, and other retailers all offering record-low prices on many tech products. For those shopping around for a new TV, Samsung’s new 55-inch The Frame from 2024 has a great deal: It’s on sale for $897.99 (originally $1,497.99) after a 40% discount, the lowest price it has been according to price tracking tools and still matching the Black Friday discount. The 75-inch The Frame is also 40% off, currently $1,797.99 (originally $2,997.99).

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Samsung’s The Frame smart TVs have come a long way since their 2017 release. Launched to appeal to the crowd that wants a big TV but doesn’t want that TV to dominate their decor, one of the newer features, released last year, introduced an anti-reflection matte display that took the “framed artwork” aspect to new levels—and with 4K picture quality. As the name implies, the allure of this TV is that it can double as a digital art frame, with its anti-glare matte display and customizable frame.

I first saw the 2022 version up close when it was released, admittedly having been fooled by my brother into thinking it was an actual painting (it really does look like one). The matte screen does a good job of making the TV seem like a painting, and it’s great for bright rooms that might otherwise get a lot of glare from the screen. This version had an “average” review from PCMag due mainly to poor contrast and its price. However, the new 2024 version is the latest generation of this series and has notable improvements.

You’ll get an improved refresh rate of 120Hz, the same QLED display, and 4K resolution with a Quantum 4K processor. You can buy frames separately to your taste, and even design them with a Harry Potter theme, like this guy did on TikTok.

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My favorite duffel bag is on a Cyber Monday sale, and if you didn’t snag one last time it was discounted, take another look, because this is one of the best (and most affordable!) gym bags out there. I’m talking about the Adidas Defender. It comes in different sizes; I own the Small, which is on sale for just $26.99 in black today. Prices vary by color, but you can also get the Medium for $26.50 in black, or the Large for $38.50 in red, to name a few.

adidas Defender 4 Medium Duffel Bag, Black/Silver Metallic, One Size

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I’m not kidding when I say it’s my favorite gym bag. I bought mine five years ago, almost to the day. I’ve used it almost daily since then, and it still looks brand new. (Minus the purple ink that I spilled in one of the inside pockets, but I was able to get almost all of it out.)

This is my regular duty gym bag, and here’s what I normally carry in it: 

• A pair of Nike Romaleo 3 weightlifting shoes in the side pocket with the mesh panel

• A wealth of snacks and electrolytes in the other side pocket, including a sack of fun-size sour patch to share with my friends.

• Small items like my inhaler, lip balm, and a phone charging cable in the little front zipper pocket

• A leather belt (Pioneer Cut 3” suede single-prong), which I keep in the main compartment, curled around all the rest of my stuff

• Also in the main compartment, inside the belt: two pairs of knee sleeves, two pairs of knee wraps, a resistance band for my shoulder warmup routine, a water bottle, a training journal, and probably a dozen other things I’ve forgotten about, but they are in there when I need them, if I can find them, probably. (UPDATE: I found a long-lost phone battery in the bottom of my bag today. Water bottle is missing, though. Watch this space for more as this story develops.)

And this is the small bag! There’s even enough room to add a lunchbox and/or a packing cube with a change of clothes for when I go to competitions. The only place it feels cramped is in the shoe compartment: If I had bigger feet, I’d probably appreciate the Medium bag.

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The Medium is also a handy size for non-gym purposes. Our managing editor, Meghan Walbert, snagged two Mediums for her teenager sons the last time these duffels were on sale. When I asked her today how they’re holding up, she sent a picture of them packed for a holiday road trip, with the note, “They’re great!”

I’ll add that if you want to use these duffels as a travel bag, you may want to pick up some packing cubes to use with them. May I suggest a two-pack of the U+U clean/dirty packing cubes that are also on sale today? Each one has a zipper on the back to put your dirty laundry in for the trip home (so the two-pack will give two people each room for their clean and dirty clothes—or one person can have a cube for their gym bag and a cube for their suitcase, which is how I use them.) 

Here are those links again: 

• Adidas Defender duffel bag in Small (38 liter) ($26.99 in black, normally $40)

• Adidas Defender duffel bag in Medium (66 liters), ($26.50 in black, normally $45)

• Adidas Defender duffel bag in Large (110 liters) ($38.50 in red, normally $55). 

These prices are for the classic black version with white logo, but there’s a whole rainbow of colors available. (Though prices vary by color.)

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The Oura ring is a great fitness tracker for minimalists. It picks up on your sleep, HRV, skin temperature and more while you sleep, and its app tells you how recovered and ready you are each day. Today, the gen 3 ring is at its lowest price yet, as little as $221 for some styles.

Oura Ring Gen3 Horizon – Silver – Size 8 – Smart Ring – Size First with Oura Sizing Kit – Sleep Tracking Wearable – Heart Rate – Fitness Tracker – 5-7 Days Battery Life

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To understand what you’re getting, I’ll break down Oura’s product offerings: 

• The gen 3 ring, released in 2021, comes in a Horizon style (smooth) and a Heritage style (with a flat area on top of the ring). It’s available in whole sizes 6 to 13. 

• The gen 4 ring, released in 2024, comes in one shape, a smooth one. It’s available in more sizes: whole sizes 4 to 15. 

The newer ring’s inner surface doesn’t have the sensor bumps that the gen 3 has, and the company says its sensors are slightly more accurate. But to be honest, both rings have similar functionality. As a gen 3 owner myself, I have zero jealousy of people who own a gen 4. 

Oura has been running a sale on the gen 3 for a little while now, but today the price of some models has dropped even further. Here’s what I’m seeing in the Horizon style on Amazon: 

• Silver: $235 for sizes 9 and 11, $249 for the rest (normally $299)

• Black: all $249 (normally $299)

• Brushed titanium: $261 for size 10, $279 for the others (normally $349)

• Gold: $335 for sizes 8, 9, and 10; $349 for the rest (normally $449)

• Rose gold: $321 for size 9, $335 for size 10, $349 for the rest (normally $449)

• Stealth (matte black): $267 for size 13, $270 for size 11, $279 for the rest (normally $349)

And in Heritage with the flat top: 

• Silver: $221 for size 10, $230 for size 13, $249 for the rest (normally $299)

• Black: $221 for size 9, $230 for size 11, $249 for the rest (normally $299)

• Brushed titanium: not in stock

• Gold: $349 for all (normally $449)

• Rose gold: not in stock

• Stealth (matte black): $279 for all (normally $349)

These prices are all subject to change, of course, and some styles aren’t available in all sizes. These are the older models, after all, and Oura seems eager to clear out old stock. The gen 4 Oura ring is not on sale for Cyber Monday (and wasn’t for Black Friday, either). It runs $50 more than the regular price of the gen 3 rings for each color, so $349 for black and silver, $499 for gold and rose gold, and so on.

By the way, if you want something to track your workouts and not just your sleep, Oura may not be the ring for you. You probably want either a Garmin or a Whoop band to give you the best sleep data and track your workouts; I recently refereed a showdown between the Oura ring and the Whoop band. The Whoop band won, partly on activity tracking and partly on price. (Oura and Whoop both have subscription fees; check that link for a breakdown of the numbers.) And if I’m starting to convince you, I’ll add that Whoop is also running a Cyber Monday deal.

All that said, the Oura ring is an excellent sleep tracker to pair with a fitness watch, or to keep tabs on your health without worrying about activity tracking at all. If the $5.99/month subscription fee doesn’t bother you, go ahead and grab the ring. 

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The M2 MacBook Air is one of a million products on sale for Black Friday this year. If you’re interested in the best tech on sale today, see our best Black Friday tech deals page for a broader view of all the best discounts you can get right now. Prices are accurate as of the time of writing, but you can expect them to fluctuate and inventory to sell out, so you may not want to hesitate if you see a sale that grabs you.

Apple makes some of the best laptops for the general public, and the MacBook Air series has consistently been one of its most popular. The 16 GB RAM version of the M2 MacBook Air is on sale or $749 for Black Friday (originally $999) on Amazon, the lowest price it has been according to price-tracking tools. It’s available in space gray, midnight, silver, and starlight colors.

16GB RAM Apple 2022 MacBook Air Laptop with M2 chip

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This 16GB RAM version had dropped to $799 earlier this month and was an incredible value back then. Now with its current Black Friday deal, it drops another $50, making it the same price as the 8GB RAM version (before its $50 on-page coupon). Even with that $50 discount, having twice the RAM is a better deal and will make your laptop last much longer. Just earlier this year in April, the cost to double your RAM to 16GB was $200. As Tech Editor Jake Peterson explains, this could be the last laptop you ever buy.

The M2 MacBook Air came out in 2022, and judging from how Apple still backs up the M1, you can expect many years of support for the M2. The M2 comes with a 13.6-inch screen with 2560 by 1664 resolution screen and a battery life of about 17 hours, according to CNET’s review.

If you already have an M1, here are the difference between the M1 and M2 to help you decide if the upgrade is worth it for you. If you’re comparing the M2 and the M3, you can see our full breakdown comparing the two.

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The PlayStation VR2 is one of a million products on sale for Black Friday this year. If you’re interested in the best tech on sale today, see our best Black Friday tech deals page for a broader view of all the best discounts you can get right now. Prices are accurate as of the time of writing, but you can expect them to fluctuate and inventory to sell out, so you may not want to hesitate if you see a sale that grabs you.

I loved the original PlayStation VR. I picked one up during the peak of the pandemic (my first foray into VR gaming), and I was blown away. Instead of spending my nights inside my apartment’s small living room, I was walking through villages in Skyrim, exploring planets in No Man’s Sky, and platforming through creative terrains in Astro Bot Rescue Mission.

I was such a fan of the original that I argued it was a better VR headset buy in 2021 than an Oculus Quest—a stance many VR fans vehemently disagreed with. Three years later, however, the OG PS VR’s drawbacks are more pronounced than ever: The OLED display is lower resolution than modern headsets (960×1080), and the headset requires a complicated array of devices and cables (including a camera) to set up. (To that point, I haven’t set up the headset since my last move.) But more than that, the controllers are simply not VR controllers: While VR headsets have had finger-tracking controllers with joysticks for years, PS VR simply used the same Move controllers that have been available since the PS3.

The PS VR2, however, released in February of 2023, addresses these issues: The OLED HDR display is much higher resolution (2000×2040), quadrupling the megapixels per eye compared to the original; there’s some passthrough here, so you can actually see your immediate surroundings without having to take the headset off; the tracking is better, despite requiring no outside camera or peripherals; and the controllers are honest-to-goodness VR controllers, complete with finger tracking and joy sticks. And if you get tired of Sony’s VR games, you can connect the PS VR2 to your PC as if it were any other VR headset.

PlayStation VR2 Headset With ‘Horizon Call of The Mountain’

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Sony’s second-gen PlayStation VR still wasn’t perfect: Besides having a smaller library than some other VR headsets, the PS VR2 was and is expensive, retailing for $549.99. When you consider that you also need a PS5 in order to run this thing (it’s not compatible with any PS4 console), it’s a pricey setup. That’s why I haven’t bought one yet, even if its plug-and-play approach would make getting back into VR easy.

But you’ve read the headline: It’s Black Friday season, and the PS VR2 is on sale. Sony announced a series of PlayStation Black Friday deals on Wednesday, running from Nov. 22 through Dec. 2. As part of that announcement, Sony revealed PS VR2 will be discounted as much as 40%. The math is a bit off, since you can actually snag a PS VR2 at 42% off: Right now, you can get the Horizon Call of The Mountain PS VR2 bundle for $349, down from $599.99. The standalone PS VR2 (no game included) is also $349, down from $549.99. All things considered, you’re better off getting the Horizon bundle, since the prices are identical. That said, people are likely going to think similarly, so this bundle could sell quicker than the headset-only offer. I’ve seen the bundle unavailable once, but it’s back right now, so act fast if you want one.

I scroll through my Bluesky and Mastodon feeds every day and I sometimes grow tired of reading other people’s musings and opinions on everything. Some days, I just want to catch up on just the useful links in my timeline and Sill is a new tool that lets me do just that—you can think of Sill as an RSS feed just for the links in your Mastodon and Bluesky timelines. This is a lot like what Nuzzel used to be for links on Twitter (now X), before the service was acquired by the social network and integrated into the Twitter app.

Why you should try Sill

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Sill offers you an easy way to catch up with news, blog posts, and interesting links shared to your timeline. This means that you can steer clear of angry posts, all the chatter around big news events, memes, and other distractions. As long as you follow useful accounts that share great links, Sill’s a useful tool to catch up with what’s going on. Remember that the quality of your Sill feed depends on accounts you follow and the links they share, but the service has good filters to help you tailor your feed.

Setting up your Sill account

This service requires you to create an account and link it your Mastodon and Bluesky accounts. Once you do that, you’ll be able to quickly see all the links on your Sill feed. The initial set up process was quite smooth for me, but Sill does ask you to turn off the “Group boost in timelines” preference in Mastodon for best results. This is required if you want to know how many people shared a particular link, which allows you to zero in on trending links on any given day.

Using filters to improve your experience

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Sill allows you to use filters to tailor your feed to your tastes. You can ask the service to hide links from reposts, which means that it’ll only show the links posted directly. You can also set up your feed to show posts from the last 24 hours, 12 hours, six hours, or three hours. If you follow a lot of accounts and are only interested in the most recent links, then three hours is ideal, but for most people, the sweet spot is going to be either 12 or 24 hours.

You can sort posts by popularity or recency, depending on how you want to see your feed. I prefer to see the most recent posts first, but you can try both options to see which one is ideal for you. Lastly, you can choose to filter out posts from Mastodon or Bluesky, or choose to see links from both sites. I also like Sill’s mute filters. You’ll find a mute button below each link, which lets you hide that particular link from your feed, or hide all links from that website. You may even visit the moderation page to mute individual keywords, which is another nice touch to keep your feed clean.

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The Fram TV is one of a million products on sale for Black Friday this year. If you’re interested in the best tech on sale today, see our best Black Friday tech deals page for a broader view of all the best discounts you can get right now. Prices are accurate as of the time of writing, but you can expect them to fluctuate and inventory to sell out, so you may not want to hesitate if you see a sale that grabs you.

Black Friday is here, with sales from Amazon, Walmart, Target, and Home Depot all offering record-low prices on many tech products. For those shopping around for a new TV, Samsung’s new 55-inch The Frame from 2024 has a great deal: It’s on sale for $897.99 (originally $1,497.99) after a 40% discount, the lowest price it has been according to price tracking tools. The 75-inch The Frame is also 40% off, currently $1,797.99 (originally $2,997.99).

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Samsung’s The Frame smart TVs have come a long way since their 2017 release. Launched to appeal to the crowd that wants a big TV but doesn’t want that TV to dominate their decor, one of the newer features, released last year, introduced an anti-reflection matte display that took the “framed artwork” aspect to new levels—and with 4K picture quality. As the name implies, the allure of this TV is that it can double as a digital art frame, with its anti-glare matte display and customizable frame.

I first saw the 2022 version up close when it was released, admittedly having been fooled by my brother into thinking it was an actual painting (it really does look like one). The matte screen does a good job of making the TV seem like a painting, and it’s great for bright rooms that might otherwise get a lot of glare from the screen. This version had an “average” review from PCMag due mainly to poor contrast and its price. However, the new 2024 version is the latest generation of this series and has notable improvements.

You’ll get an improved refresh rate of 120Hz, the same QLED display, and 4K resolution with a Quantum 4K processor. You can buy frames separately to your taste, and even design them with a Harry Potter theme, like this guy did on TikTok.

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There isn’t a week that goes by without a big box arriving on my doorstep with another stick or robot vacuum to test, but after a year, I’m still using the Samsung Bespoke stick vacuum. During Black Friday, it’s 28% off, bringing its price down to $499.99 (originally $799.99).

SAMSUNG BESPOKE Jet Cordless Vacuum w/ Clean Station

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My home is a fantastic testing ground for these machines, with every kind of surface possible, tons of obstacles, and a dog who somehow carries pounds of dirt and dust into the house every day. The Samsung Bespoke Jet Vacuum, a stick vacuum I didn’t expect to think much of, is the vacuum I use every day.

The vacuum comes with a stand that turns it into a modern sculpture, so there’s no hiding it away. But that’s OK, because that base is also a self-emptying dock. It turns out that once you have a self-emptying dock for your vacuum, you will realize how insulting it is that we’ve been touching all that debris and dust when we manually empty our vacuums.

The stick extends long enough to be comfortable at almost any height, whether you’re 5 or 6 feet tall. It comes with a crevice tool and a soft tool, which is my favorite. It’s perfect for your laptop keyboard, books, sculptures and anything else you don’t want to damage.

The rollers on the main brush don’t get clogged easily and I can’t remember having to take the vacuum apart, ever. It sucks up dog toy floof, dust, and everything else in the way. It gets my rugs clean (like really clean) from dirty, dusty pawprints, and it gets into the corners on tile as well as hardwoods.

As much as I like my Dyson, the Samsung is half the weight. That makes a difference on a daily basis. Also, my Dyson hates microdust—it’s the one thing that clogs the Dyson. My Samsung has no problem with it. The choice is clear for me.