It’s Black Friday, and here are the best shopping deals we could find

Beat the crowds with our list of cool stuff to buy—updated throughout the weekend.

The leaves have turned, the turkey has been eaten, the parades are over, and the football has been watched—the only thing left to do is to try to hide from increasingly uncomfortable family conversations by going out and shopping for things! It's the holiday tradition that not only makes us feel good, but also (apocryphally) drags the balance sheets of businesses the world over into profitability—hence "Black Friday!"

Our partners in the e-commerce side of the business have spent days assembling massive lists for you all to peruse—lists of home deals, and video game deals, and all kinds of other things. Does that special someone in your life need, like, a security camera? Or a tablet? Or, uh—(checks list)—some board games? We've got all those things and more!

A couple of quick notes: First, we're going to be updating this list throughout the weekend as things change, so if you don't see anything that tickles your fancy right now, check back in a few hours! Additionally, although we're making every effort to keep our prices accurate, deals are constantly shifting around and an item's actual price might have drifted from what we list. Caveat emptor and all that.

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Vintage digicams aren’t just a fad. They’re an artistic statement.

In the age of AI images, some photographers are embracing the quirky flaws of vintage digital cameras.

Today’s young adults grew up in a time when their childhoods were documented with smartphone cameras instead of dedicated digital or film cameras. It’s not surprising that, perhaps as a reaction to the ubiquity of the phone, some young creative photographers are leaving their handsets in their pockets in favor of compact point-and-shoot digital cameras—the very type that camera manufacturers are actively discontinuing.

Much of the buzz among this creative class has centered around premium, chic models like the Fujifilm X100 and Ricoh GR, or for the self-anointed “digicam girlies” on TikTok, zoom point-and-shoots like the Canon PowerShot G7 and Sony RX100 models, which can be great for selfies.

But other shutterbugs are reaching back into the past 20 years or more to add a vintage “Y2K aesthetic” to their work. The MySpace look is strong with a lot of photographers shooting with authentic early-2000s “digicams,” aiming their cameras—flashes a-blazing—at their friends and capturing washed-out, low-resolution, grainy photos that look a whole lot like 2003.

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Tele Columbus: Abschaltung des Koaxialkabels nicht so dringend

Koaxial sei dem klassischen DSL-Produkt immer noch ein bisschen überlegen, erklärt der Netzbetreiber. Perspektivisch will Tele Columbus das Kabelnetz aber auch abschalten. (Tele Columbus, DSL)

Koaxial sei dem klassischen DSL-Produkt immer noch ein bisschen überlegen, erklärt der Netzbetreiber. Perspektivisch will Tele Columbus das Kabelnetz aber auch abschalten. (Tele Columbus, DSL)