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The holiday shopping season will be here before we know it, and you may already be looking to find the best deals on gifts and gadgets that won’t empty your wallet. If you want to stick to a strict budget this year, don’t worry — you can find some very useful tech products and other gadgets for under $25 that make great gifts, even before the Black Friday shopping weekend begins. Also: Black Friday 2024: Everything…

Holiday shopping season will be here before we know it. Whether you’re looking to score deals on around-the-house must-haves or gifts for friends and family, this is typically the best time of year to score deals on everything you may be looking for. Also: Black Friday 2024: Everything to know If one of those gifts you have in mind (for yourself or a loved one) is a Kindle, Black Friday is the time to buy…

Matthew Miller/ZDNET ZDNET’s key takeaways The 47mm Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra is on sale on Amazon for $491 ahead of Black Friday. It’s a stylish-looking smartwatch with a slew of safety features and a long-lasting battery. However, it’s only available in a single size (47mm, to be exact), meaning it may not be a good fit for folks with smaller wrists. Samsung’s Galaxy Watch Ultra is the company’s top-of-the-line wearable, sporting a tough exterior, an…

Jack Wallen/ZDNET ZDNET’s key takeaways The Ridge Bolt Pen‘s starting price of $59 is less than when I bought it, but it’s still a fantastic gift for the writer in your life. It features a grippy design that makes handling a breeze, and the ink moves smoothly across paper. Of course, the one and only caveat with the pen is its price, but I’ve found it to be well worth it. I understand that everyone’s…

Gone are the days of huge PC towers taking up desk space to achieve powerful performance. Computers with abundant power can now be condensed into a slim laptop with a lower price tag than some high-end models. Many of the best laptops under $1,000 are lightweight and offer lightning-fast speeds, highly detailed graphics, and up to 1TB of storage space to meet your creative or professional needs. Also: The best laptops of 2024: Expert tested and…

ZDNET’s key takeaways The Coros Pace Pro is available now in Black, Grey, and Blue for $349 The watch provides flagship features at an affordable price with a brilliant 1,500-nit AMOLED, light weight, long battery life, and a fast processor The plastic band hardware feels cheap, subscription music is not supported, and there are limited wellness metrics. In 2018, Coros launched the Pace GPS sports watch and set the bar for long battery life and…

Stack Social/ZDNET Project management is key for companies, no matter the size, but can be a challenge. Software solutions can help maximize precision and efficiency. Two popular options are Microsoft Project Professional 2024 and Microsoft Visio Professional 2024 for Windows — both of which are currently on major discount through Stack Social. Microsoft Project Professional is a user-friendly option for managing projects from start to finish, and includes pre-built templates, timesheet submissions, and visual representations…

fatmawati lauda/Getty Images My current Linux desktop has one main drive housing the OS and four other drives where I store different data. I have a drive for music, one for video, one for documents, and one for virtual machines. Each secondary drive was purchased new, so they had to be formatted before use. Because my desktop machine has a GUI, I could have used the GNOME Disks tool and formatted those drives without opening…