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We hope everyone is enjoying their Black Friday! While some doorbusters have already sold out, there are still plenty of deals to be had for the rest of today and through the weekend. So pop some leftovers in the microwave and get to clicking, because there are no lines here and the fun’s not over…



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Many have relaxed about the Chinese stranglehold over rare earth elements, but the crisis is far from averted.



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Happy Thanksgiving! While you settle in to enjoy a festive meal and some time off, our dealhunters are working overtime to find you the best deals - stay tuned through Black Friday and Cyber Monday to see the best of the best. Our best deals today are highlighted by a 7-inch HP tablet for just fifty bucks.



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A new mathematical model could super-charge an existing fusion reactor design, allowing gigawatt fusion reactors for cost-competitive rates.



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Black Friday is almost upon us, and that means the offers have begun to pour in. T-Mobile is here with some early Black Friday savings, slashing prices on flagship smartphones like the Galaxy S5, plus the Note 3 and plenty of other great phones. All their phones are available for $0 down, and this savings takes a healthy bite out of your phone payment plan.



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NASA takes a giant leap toward more flexible long-term missions with the successful test of a 3D printer on the ISS. Future astronauts may be able to simply print replacement parts on-demand.



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With Christmas and the holiday season fast approaching, we've compiled a list of all the gadgets that we at ExtremeTech we've bought -- or are saving up to buy -- so that you, or perhaps a friend or loved one, can feel like they're living in the future, too. Without further ado, I give you ExtremeTech's 2014 Holiday Gift Guide For The Discerning Geek Who Wants To Feel Like They're Living In The Future.



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This coming March NASA will be launching the Magnetospheric Multiscale Nission (MMS), a effort ten years in the making which will hopefully answer some of the many outstanding questions we have about Earth's magnetic field. In particular, the mission will create the first detailed three-dimensional maps of a process known as magnetic reconnection -- the phenomenon we experience most directly as geomagnetic storms, solar flares, and even the aurora.



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Intel has given a full set of updates to its product roadmaps for 2015 and even into 2016 -- here's what the company is planning across its entire range of products.



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Researchers at Northwestern University have used Blu-ray discs -- of Jackie Chan's Police Story 3: Supercop, to be exact -- to increase the efficiency of solar panels by 22%.



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Intel has announced its leaping into the 3D NAND market, courtesy of its partnership with Micron. Can it steal early momentum from Samsung?



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FreedomPop continues to shake up the market with their $0 per month cell phone plans, and as Black Friday approaches, they're offering a great deal on a certified pre-owned LTE smartphone and USB modem, bundled together for just $70. As always, you never have to pay again to continue getting internet and cell service.



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A new radio design from the University of Texas may have found a way to transmit and receive data simultaneously, without the need for specialized software networks. Could this new technology transform cellular broadband and WiFi data speeds?



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Thanksgiving is a wonderful day dedicated to spending time with your friends and family, but many of us are overwhelmed by all of the stress associated with a holiday this big. Plans need to be made, dinner needs to be cooked, and everything needs to get wrapped up right before an all-out shopping bonanza. Thankfully, we have technology at our disposal that can help alleviate some of the holiday stress. In preparation for America's favorite holiday, I've come up with six ways to use gadgets and the internet to get things done more efficiently, and help us all enjoy ourselves just a little bit more.



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Yesterday morning, Italy's first female astronaut arrived at the International Space Station, carrying the first zero-g Certified Italian Espresso coffee machine. The machine, called the ISSpresso, was created by a couple of Italian companies after another Italian astronaut returned from the space station in 2012 and complained about the lack of good coffee in Earth orbit.



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Lenovo's ThinkPad Helix is a powerful convertible, designed to be ultraportable and loaded with business-ready features including Windows 8 Pro. Right now Lenovo is slashing a hefty 55% off the regular price, dropping your cost down to just $700 for this very capable laptop.



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Elon Musk has shared a number of details regarding the company's plans to recover its Falcon rockets. Next on the menu? Drone sea-going landing pads.



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A new form of Trojan has been detected in the wild, and it's one of the most capable and stealthy programs ever detected. Symantec details the new Regin malware -- and its likely ties to national governments.



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The annual Los Angeles Auto Show continues to dazzle with new car intros and concept cars.



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AT&T has made more tweaks to the Nexus 6 than anyone expected, but Motorola didn't let the carrier go nuts. This is still a Nexus in every way that matters.



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There was a lot of hype surrounding the impending launch of Valve's Steam Machine platform, but much of the excitement dissipated when the first wave of machines were delayed until 2015. Now, Alienware is going in alone, and shipping its own consolized gaming PC.



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Qualcomm is launching a new server initiative that could bring it into direct conflict with Intel in the near-term future. This could be a game changer for ARM and x86 alike.



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Amazon is developing a free, ad-supported, video streaming service to sit alongside Amazon Instant Video, multiple sources report.



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Powered by Google's lightweight Chrome OS and using the cloud to do the heavy lifting, Chrome hardware aims to deliver typical laptop/desktop performance at a much lower price. At $180 and $279 respectively, Dell's Chromebox and Chromebooks are in stock and on sale with a 30% discount today.



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AMD has published a new video showcasing its Carrizo APU -- and claims the chip is on-time and on-schedule for 2015.



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Imagine driving a mainstream Honda with the tech and safety features of $60,000 luxury cars. It’s here now at half the luxury car price. Adaptive cruise control, self-steering lane keeping, collision mitigation and pedestrian braking are all offered on the 2015 refresh of America’s best-selling SUV. The CR-V is also safer, more fuel-efficient, and the cabin is more luxurious this time around.



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YouthDigital has designed this unique class to teach students as young as eight the fundamentals of java by creating fun and engaging custom mods for Minecraft. Just in time for the holidays, they're offering an weekend sale that chops 40% off the usual price, bringing the cost down to just $149.



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Southern California Energy and AES Southland have announced a new 100MW lithium-ion battery facility to come online by 2021.



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Feeling the bass thud in your chest at a concert or at a movie theater is a vital part of the experience, and we often miss that in the home environment. So, what if you could get that same sensation while playing a PS4 game, or listening to an album on Spotify? That's exactly what the Woojer is designed to do.



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Nvidia's latest graphics driver delivers a new type of antialiasing in modern games -- Multi-Frame Anti-Aliasing, or MFAA. Does it help Assassin's Creed Unity's frame rate?



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Corning has unveiled Gorilla Glass 4, a new and improved version of the Gorilla Glass that, when it adorns the front of your new smartphone or phablet, can survive drops of 1 meter onto a rough, hard floor 80% of the time. As part of the announcement, Corning also had some things to say about sapphire glass. Read on for more details.



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For almost the entirety of Firefox's 12-year history, Mozilla -- and thus Firefox -- has been primarily funded by a lucrative deal with Google. Since 2004, Google has been paying Mozilla around $100 million per year -- or about 85% of Mozilla's total income -- to keep Google as the default search provider. Today, that finally changes: Google is out and Yahoo is in.



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Clearly, we still have a lot more to learn about the universe: The Large Hadron Collider, famed for its discovery of the Higgs boson, has discovered two new subatomic particles. Known as Xi_b'- and Xi_b*-, the two particles had previously been predicted to exist by the formidable hypothesizing powers of particle physicists, and now they have been observed and confirmed by CERN's LHCb team.



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With a Core i7 processor, 1080p touch display, dedicated graphics and a battery life of up to 10 hours, the U530 is a strong performer for everything from multimedia to gaming to traveling. Right now you can take $500 off this well spec'd config, but hurry as this deal ends today.



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High-resolution audio: It's finally hitting our smartphones and audio devices, and a number of download services are offering it, but is it ready for prime time?



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While the bread and butter of any brain interface is stimulating and recording neurons, there is much more to the brain than that. Researchers from Osaka have now perfected a way to watch neurons actually move within their element; a way at least we might say, to capture what it is they might actually be doing.



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Starting in 2015, everyone will be able to get their hands on a free, officially sanctioned SSL/TLS certificate so that HTTPS can finally be enabled everywhere. The new service -- a certificate authority (CA) called Let's Encrypt -- is led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Mozilla, and the University of Michigan, with Cisco and Akamai joining as major launch partners. If you don't know much about SSL, TLS, and HTTPS, trust me when I say that this is a very big deal.



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Philae may have gone to sleep, but the lander's scientific data is still being analyzed. Organic molecules -- the possible precursors for life -- have been detected in 67P's thin atmosphere.



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The search for dark matter may progress more quickly than expected, thanks to a new proposal to use the global network of GPS satellites to probe the nature of the universe.



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Samsung has always made a phone for every niche in the market, but now it's pulling back as profits continue to lag. Instead it will focus on few devices and a tighter supply chain.



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Looking for a well spec'd laptop for everyday use that's also portable and up for the occasional gaming session? Get all this for just $619 in the Lenovo Z40, a sweet 35% off the regular price while this limited time coupon is here.



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Intel has announced its upcoming Knights Hill Many Integrated Core product is coming on 10nm technology. The third-generation Xeon Phi should further expand the capabilities of the family with 50 or more cores and over 16GB of on-card memory.



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According to Earth's dedicated team of satellite observers, Russia is developing a satellite that can chase down other satellites. Obviously, such an ability could be used for the forces of good, such as repairing or refueling other spacecraft -- but the rest of the world is worried that Russia might be looking to blow up other satellites, or to get close enough that it can take photos of classified designs or eavesdrop on communications.



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Intel will combine its PC and mobile chip divisions, according to an email sent to employees by CEO Brian Krzanich. There's no word on how this might affect Intel's future PC and mobile products, but presumably this might be the end of either the Atom or Core line of chips -- which, to be honest, is probably a sensible move given how the latest Atom and ultra-mobile Core chips are fairly close in terms of performance and power consumption.



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What looks like Apple's iPad Mini, but has better specs, is considerably cheaper, and runs a stock version of Android 5.0 Lollipop? The new Nokia N1 tablet, apparently. At just $250 with 32GB of storage -- as opposed to the iPad Mini 3's base price of $400 for the 16GB model -- the Nokia N1 is definitely priced to sell.



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Nvidia's new GK210 powers the upcoming K80 Tesla GPU -- and this dual-chip monstrosity should be a serious HPC behemoth. Just don't expect it to hit your home PC any time soon.



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With a full array of Smart features and a crisp image, this 2014-edition Samsung HDTV is a high-quality 55-inch TV. Assuming you can spend a $300 Dell gift card (with the holidays coming up, this probably won't be a problem), you can snag it for a crazy low net cost of just $548.



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Cold hard storage capacity like that is great, but what if that kind of power could be integrated with something more alive -- something like a single cell, or for that matter, integrated into every cell. Researchers at MIT's Synthetic Biology Center have just succeeded writing multiple analog streams of real-time environmental data into the genetically transformed hardware of a distributed population of bacterial cells. Living, breathing computers like this are a tremendous advance over the simple encoding of arbitrary digital data with DNA microchips.



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Microsoft, making good on its promise to regularly push out new versions of Windows 10 Technical Preview, has released build 9879 -- and there's a surprising number of changes under the hood. Most notably, Windows 10 is now starting to look like a new (or at least different) operating system -- but there's also some nice tweaks, such as the ability to remove the new Search and Task View buttons from the taskbar, and an early look at the new 'Continuum' Start menu.



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The European Space Agency has released an amazing set of images that show Philae bouncing across the surface of comet 67P. During its initial descent, Rosetta's Philae lander failed to fire its landing harpoons -- and thus proceeded to rebound off the hard comet, travelling hundreds of meters into the air before coming back down for a second landing about two hours later. We still don't know where Philae finally landed, but the photos released by the ESA are rather extraordinary.



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