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Cyber Monday deals are already here, earlier than ever before

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BEST TV DEAL: Amazon 65-inch Omni 4K Fire TV(opens in a new tab) -- $749.99 $1,099.99 BEST STREAMING DEAL: Hulu (With Ads)(opens in a new tab) -- $1.99/month for your first 12 months (save $72) BEST ROBOT VACUUM DEAL: iRobot Roomba j7(opens in a new tab) -- $349 $599.99 (save $250.99) BEST KITCHEN DEAL: Le Creuset Enameled Cast Iron Signature Deep Round Oven (5.25-quart)(opens in a new tab) -- $199.95 $249.95 BEST AIR FRYER DEAL: The Ninja Foodi 4-in-1 air fryer(opens in a new tab) features dual baskets and is $100 cheaper than an almost-identical model on Ninja's website -- $99 BEST HEADPHONES DEAL: Beats Studio Buds(opens in a new tab) -- $89.95 $149.95 BEST MACBOOK DEAL: The MacBook Air (M2, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD)(opens in a new tab) updates Apple's most portable laptop in almost every way, and it's back down to its lowest price ever -- $1,049 $1,199 at Amazon and Best Buy(opens in a new tab) (save $150) BEST IPAD DEAL: The 2021 iPad Mini (WiFi, 64GB)(opens in a new tab) brings portability and power in one small package -- $399.99 $499 at Amazon (save $99.01) For better or for worse, Black Friday and Cyber Monday look a lot different now than they did pre-pandemic. This year, we've unlocked a new thing to navigate as we shop for the holidays: inflation. But if there's anything retailers have learned since the pandemic, it's how to provide cushion for shoppers who are budgeting extra hard during these tight times. Mostly, that looks like stretching Black Friday deals across the entire month of November -- and in some cases, a little bit of October, too. For Cyber Monday, some retailers are releasing deals as early as Black Friday. Below, you'll find a complete list of all the holiday doorbusters that are live right now (with sales grouped by retailer, category, and brand).


Shop the best Black Friday deals under $50

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If you're shopping for yourself or checking off a holiday wishlist, these Black Friday deals under $50 can help you get it done without breaking the bank. There are popular kitchen gadgets and cookware deals, plenty of toys on sale, and even a streaming discount that'll make binge-watching your favorite shows next year a more budget-friendly experience. Check out our top picks for Black Friday deals under $50 and keep more cash in your pocket this holiday. A smart speaker with bonafide benefits, like high-quality sound, voice recognition, and hands-free Alexa control, the Amazon Echo (4th Gen) can make all your smart home dreams come true. It's easy to set up and can control compatible lights, locks, and sensors, acting as a smart hub.


7 ridiculously large sex toys to help you go big in the bedroom

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This post is part of Mashable's Masturbation Week. May is National Masturbation Month, so we're celebrating by exploring the many facets of self-love. Size matters -- at least when it comes to sex toys. If you're looking to treat yourself in the bedroom there are millions of sex toys to choose from, but one of the greatest things about masturbating is you're totally in control. You decide how to pleasure yourself, which means you have the option to go big -- like, really really big -- if you so choose.


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It's 2017 so of course the phrase, "a robot cut through a wall to pass the Olympic torch on to its creator" is a real sentence to describe a real thing that actually happened. On Monday, "Hubo," a robot created at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, passed the Olympic flame through a hole it cut in a wall to its creator, Professor Oh Jun-Ho. The passing of the torch was a part of the 101-day Olympic torch relay as the 2018 Winter Olympics fast approaches. The hole-cutting party trick was the same task Hubo performed in 2015 to win the DARPA Robotics Challenge. So a congratulations is in order to "Hubo" for carrying the Olympic flame and also to humanity for having handed fire to a robot and lived to tell the tale.


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Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission. If you've ever trained a puppy before, you know just how valuable food rewards can be. After little Sparky realizes that the act of rolling over instantly earns him a mouthful of peanut butter, he starts performing the trick with increased enthusiasm and speed. This type of behavioral psychology -- getting something to act a certain way so that it maximizes its rewards -- has inspired a new approach to artificial intelligence called reinforcement learning. Named one of the 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2017 by the MIT Technology Review, this revolutionary kind of machine learning allows computers to learn new things without human intervention through the mere act of experimenting.


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Waymo's autonomous cars have steadily rolled through test routes in multiple states over the past few years, and now the company claims it has passed a new milestone: 4 million self-driven miles logged on public roads. That makes the Waymo fleet the most experienced autonomous car platform currently on the road, according to the company, which says the average American driver would take 300 years to hit the same mark. While the number is arbitrary to a degree, the progress it represents is essential to Waymo's mission to create truly driverless cars. The AI behind the platform needs to be trained in real-world situations to understand how to react to every potential condition it might face, so the more test miles it logs, the better. The Google spinoff says its fleet of test vehicles drove the last million miles in just six months, a rapid improvement from the 18 months it took to accumulate the first million (from the first public test).


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When you're selling an accessory to a microphone made by a company that wants access to customers' homes and an electronic eye in their bedrooms, maybe think long and hard about what name you give it. Or don't, and just call the damn thing "DOX." That appears to have been the approach of electronics manufacturer Ninety7, which this fall introduced the newest addition to its lineup -- a battery pack for the Amazon Echo Dot. Unfortunately, whoever decided on the name appears to not have done a simple Google search first. If they had, it would have revealed all the unflattering connotations that come along with the three-letter moniker.


This store with nothing for sale wants to help you take control of your online privacy

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There's a lot of high-brow, abstract talk about privacy and personal data. SEE ALSO: Moscow's facial recognition CCTV network is the biggest example of surveillance society yet But when it comes to our personal experience with it, all we usually get is a long, boring, overlooked list of conditions that nobody reads before signing up to Facebook or other social media giants. Do we truly understand what part of our digital footprint is owned by these companies? That's why the Glass Room, which just opened in central London, is important. At first sight, it's just another all-white, sleek, shiny, minimalist pop-up tech store, with massive windows overlooking central London and interactive handsets methodically placed in tactical positions.


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Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission. It's time to give that ol' brain of yours a thorough dusting-off, so to speak: Through the Full Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Diploma Course, you might be able to hack your way to an improved way of thinking. NLP, in case you haven't heard, is a set of rules and techniques designed to help you shape your personal psychology and achieve self-actualization. Some see it as pseudo-science, while others swear by it. Either way, the idea is that you can train your brain to eliminate phobias, tweak bad habits, and even gain a deeper understanding of others' body language -- skills that are beneficial in the workplace, your social life, and beyond.


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Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs will develop a futuristic, billion-dollar community along a sizable swathe of Toronto's waterfront. On Wednesday, the City of Toronto and Sidewalk Labs -- which is the urban innovation arm of Google's parent company Alphabet -- announced a partnership to radically re-imagine 800 acres of the city's largely vacant, post-industrial Eastern Waterfront, and turn it into a tech-integrated neighborhood called Quayside. SEE ALSO: Balloons may be Puerto Rico's best chance for communication Sidewalk Labs released a 196-page document brimming with the company's extensive ideas, including high-speed ferries, parks that can be adapted to the seasons, and robotic waste removal vehicles. Sidewalk Lab's plan to fuse smart urban planning with technology is still just a visionary document, but if realized, would likely benefit both the company and Toronto. Sidewalk Labs doesn't get any ownership of the neighborhood, but gets a massive slab of land to deploy its innovative urban experiment.