The Morning After: It’s Black Friday!

Black Friday is finally upon us, willing us to purchase some much-needed tech with some degree of a discount. Our has been collecting the best deals available, so you can save a bundle in the run-up to the holidays. And while there have been some tasty deals in the last few days, the real blockbusters have now dropped.

That includes , with a decent chunk sliced off the price of a Sony has also knocked . Not to mention, you can grab the brand-new .

There are plenty more where that came from, which is why we have the Black Friday hub. So go and get all the biggest and best deals without having to lift a finger.

— Dan Cooper

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Oh, thank [your deity of choice].

Voice messages: You either love them or feel you’re being forced to listen to the world’s least engaging podcast. Someone at WhatsApp must feel similarly given the platform has now added a way to transcribe the voice messages you receive. The feature is rolling out globally in the coming weeks, with more languages incoming.

Did it promote its own products ahead of its competitors?

Amazon may face an EU antitrust investigation next year, with regulators . The continent has stringent rules around big tech platforms that act as both the marketplace and a player in the same space. If found to have given its own gear preferential treatment, the fines under the Digital Markets Act can be hefty.

OpenAI blamed a glitch.

The New York Times and OpenAI are battling it out in court, with the former accusing the latter of plagiarism. . But after 150 hours of research, some of that data was erased, which OpenAI blamed on a glitch.

It’s the first country outside the US to approve trials.

Canada has given its blessing for Neuralink to conduct human trials of its brain implant in the country. . It’s asking for volunteers with quadriplegia caused either by a spinal cord injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Remember the Rabbit R1?

The Rabbit R1 was a neat-looking pocketable AI doodad that sadly didn’t really do enough to justify buying one. . The latest is Teach Mode, which lets users automate tasks on any website, which is nice.