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Kerry Wan/ZDNET Google today announced a new Certified Refurbished Program, which lists older Pixel phone models at an “up to” 40% discount. The catalog includes ZDNET-recommended picks like the Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, and Pixel 7 Pro, and I’m seeing devices sell for as little as $249. Also: Best Google Pixel phones of 2024: Expert […]
Probably not too many people around the world celebrated November 1st, 2023, but on this momentous date FreeBSD celebrated its 30th birthday. As the first original fork of the first complete and open source Unix operating system (386BSD) it continues the legacy that the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) began in 1978 until its final release […]
Furious protesters in a popular Spanish city are demanding access to affordable housing and an end to the touristification of their city. A rally attended by tens of thousands of people was held a week ago in Valencia under the slogan “Valencia is drowning” (València s’ofega). Organisers want the city to be declared a stressed […]
As the West howled its outrage, Russia retaliated, closing its airspace to most Western airlines. Instead of traversing Russian airspace on a direct flight across Russia, Finnair was forced to reroute its China flights across Turkey and Kazakhstan. What had been an 8½ hour flight became an 11½ hour flight, which massively increased fuel costs, […]
Welcome to The Best of Book Riot, our round-up of what’s on offer across our site, newsletters, podcasts, and social channels. Not everything is for everyone, but there is something for everyone. Here is what readers were most interested in the week that was. Kiss Me, Wait: 5 of the Most Anticipated Romance Novels of […]
Sometimes it feels like there hasn’t been a time in my life when I didn’t know the name of DayZ. The groundbreaking survival zombie sim was everywhere when it was an Arma 2 mod, and now it’s breaking even more ground with the release of its latest expansion, Frostline. Despite being long in the tooth, […]
Gaming seems destined for an all-digital future, but even as players overwhelmingly buy games digitally, they still appear to be opting for consoles with disc drives over ones without them. According to recent data on the current state of the console race, digital-only PlayStation 5s appear to be the least popular hardware this generation. The […]
He is a familiar face to residents of a neighbourhood just west of Roncesvalles Avenue. Each weekday, James Makusa can be seen helping kids and parents on their way to and from school. In his reflective yellow vest, and with a broad smile on his face, Makusa greets many of the kids by […]
Welcome to your weekend highlight reel! Here are some of Book Riot’s most popular stories of the week. It’s October, which means it’s Halloween month! This is the time of year when I try to read as many horror and horror-adjacent books as I can — exactly the books I avoid the rest of the […]
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