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Artie Beaty/ZDNET With Cyber Week in the rearview and the winter holidays on the horizon, many retailers like Best Buy, Walmart, and Amazon are amping up the savings with serious sales as we inch closer to the end of the month.  But no matter the time of year, ZDNET’s team of expert product testers and editors search through all of the best products and deals coming and going to help you find the best value…

Kerry Wan/ZDNET If you’ve been looking for a sweet deal on an iPad, we got you covered. Apple’s flagship tablets rarely see sales, but with Black Friday behind us and the holidays fast approaching, Walmart has one of the best deals on the 10th-generation iPad we’ve seen all year.  The 10th Gen, released in 2022, is Apple’s base-model iPad. It boasts substantial upgrades, like symmetrical bezels, a larger 10.9-inch display, Magic Keyboard Folio support, and the…

NurPhoto / Contributor / Getty Images With the holiday season upon us, many companies are finding ways to take advantage through deals, promotions, or other campaigns. OpenAI has found a way to participate with its “12 days of OpenAI” event series. On Wednesday, OpenAI announced via an X post that starting on Dec. 5, the company would host 12 days of live streams and release “a bunch of new things, big and small,” according to…

ZDNET’s key takeaways The Tineco Pure One Station 5 vacuum cleaner is available for $459. It’s a powerful cordless vacuum with a self-emptying base station, perfect for pet owners and parents. Some parts can be finicky, like lining up the floor brush on the base station, or its accessories getting stuck and not easily detaching. Since I began testing the Tineco Pure One Station 5, I’ve reached for it for everyday messes over any other…

Tablets have come a long way since the first iPad was released in 2010. Once designed simply for watching videos and playing games, they have, for many, become a full-fledged computer replacement, allowing them to get real work done in a more portable device. A good tablet should have a long battery life, a respectable selection of apps and services, and more functionality than just a screen to watch YouTube videos.  Also: The best cheap…

ZDNET’s key takeaways Lenovo’s sixth-generation ThinkPad T14s is on sale now, starting at $1,505. It’s is a powerful workhorse thanks to the new AMD Ryzen AI chipset and support for the speedy Wi-Fi 7 standard. Its display, on the other hand, isn’t all that impressive considering its price tag. Whenever Lenovo isn’t pushing the boundaries of laptop design, the brand is creating high-quality personal work computers like the new ThinkPad T14s Gen 6. On the surface…

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Better online security, privacy tools, and strong encryption protocols are just some of the promises made by today’s top virtual private network (VPN) providers — so how do you choose the right one? At the heart of the service, you need robust encryption, backed up by a server network that offers locations suitable for how you want to use your VPN — whether it is at home, while traveling, or to access particular…

gremlin/Getty Images Artificial intelligence (AI) recruiting tools keep coming, but can they help freelancers navigate a competitive job market?  On Wednesday, the freelancing platform Fiverr released Dynamic Matching, an AI-enhanced tool that it says “transforms how businesses can find and hire freelancers.” Both an AI writing aid and a talent search tool, the feature helps businesses perfect their project briefs, recommends ideal candidates, and shares the brief with them. If businesses prefer to look for candidates themselves,…

ZDNET’s key takeaways At $10, the Lerobo Apple Watch band comes in 25 different colorways and four different sizes. The Apple Watch band actually fits my small wrist and makes me want to wear the smartwatch more. I have nothing bad to say about this watch band so far. My wrists are dainty and small. I turn sideways, and they disappear.  Also: I finally found a leather watch band for my Apple Watch Jokes about…