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Save $120 on a 40-inch TCL TV, but act fast!
A 40-inch TV is an excellent size for a bedroom or smaller living room. It’s also a fantastic size option for college students living in space-starved dorms. While most TV brands have one or two of these smaller models in the lineup, one 40-inch set we’re always looking for markdowns on is the TCL 3 Series. As luck would have it, we came across a fantastic Walmart markdown not too long ago, and it’s one of the best TV deals we’ve seen this week:
For a limited time, when you order the TCL 40-inch 3 Series at Best Buy, you’ll spend $110, as opposed to the full retail price of $230.
Why you should buy the TCL 3 Series
While this isn’t a 4K TV, the TCL 3 Series is a terrific entry-level LED that you’ll be able to do a lot with. Delivering up to 1080p resolution at 60Hz, the 3 Series is perfect for watching HD movies and shows. The TV gets nice and bright, and the screen does a decent job standing up against brightly lit rooms. And while the contrast levels can lean toward lackluster, one can chalk that up to there being zero dimming zones on this set.
You’ll have two HDMI inputs to choose from and one of them is an ARC connection. This means you’ll be able to use one HDMI cable to send audio and video between the TCL 3 Series and a soundbar or AV receiver. As for streaming apps, games, and smart home controls, the 3 Series uses the Fire TV OS. The TV can even be controlled using both Alexa and Google Assistant!
It’s hard to say how long this discount is going to hang around, so now might be the best time to buy. Save $120 when you purchase the TCL 40-inch 3 Series at Best Buy. You may also want to check out these other Best Buy deals. And if you’re looking for an audio accessory, we recommend checking out these soundbar deals we found.
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How to craft cards in Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket
It’s time to catch ’em all… again! This time the Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket will let you build your old card collection all over again, but with new, shiny digital cards instead of the old cardboard ones. However, just like when you buy Pokémon cards in real life, you never know exactly what cards you’ll get in Pokémon TCG Pocket. That doesn’t mean you’re at the mercy of RNG to get your favorite Pokémon, though. There is a way to craft cards yourself, but you’ll need to navigate the game’s many currencies to do so, which is why we’re here to train you on how it all works.
How to craft cards in Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket
Making your own cards in Pokémon TCG Pocket can be done for free, but will require different amounts of grinding depending on how rare the card is you’re looking to make.
Step 1: Earn Pack Points.
Pack Points are awarded each time you rip open a pack in the game. Every booster pack you open gives you 5 Pack Points, meaning you can get 10 each day for free or 15 if you have the Premium pass.
Step 2: Select the Pack Points icon next to the booster packs to open the Pack Point Exchange.
Step 3: This will show you all the cards in that set, how many Pack Points it costs, and your current number of Pack Points.
Step 4: If you have enough Pack Points, you can exchange them for the card you want.
From lowest to highest, here is how many Pack Points each card costs based on rarity:
- 1 Diamond – 35
- 2 Diamond – 70
- 3 Diamond – 150
- 4 Diamond – 400
- 1 Star – 500
- 2 Star – 1,250
- 3 Star – 1,500
- Crown – 2,500
Keep in mind that you can only hold a total of 2,500 Pack Points at a time. If you ever hit that limit, spend them on something before opening more packs, or those extra points will go to waste.
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Hisense 85-inch QD7 TV is $400 off
Now is the time to save a big chunk of money on a brand-new TV if you’ve yet to reward yourself with a TV upgrade, and thanks to this Best Buy deal on the Hisense QD7, you can have that reward.
Normally this TV would cost you $1,199.99 if it was available at its full retail price. However, Best Buy currently has it on sale for $799.99, saving you a total of $400. This is the lowest price this TV has ever been as well, with the price sitting around $900 throughout most of this month and parts of September, August, and July.
Aside from the price, there are tons of things to love about this TV. It’s an 85-inch TV for one. Watching TV and movies on a screen that big is a whole other kind of entertainment experience that you just have to see to believe. It’s not all about the screen size though. The Hisense QD7 is also a smart TV that runs on the Google TV platform. That’ll make it really easy to find stuff to watch, because you’ll have the Play Store on the TV with access to all your favorite streaming apps like Netflix, Hulu, Max, Disney Plus, and more.
My favorite things about this TV are the Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision, as well as the Game Mode Pro, all three of which make for some really immersive entertainment. Game Mode Pro sets your TV up with a variable refresh rate of 48Hz to 144Hz so your gaming is smooth, and the Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision amp up the audio quality and picture quality to be more lifelike and vivid.
This is also a 4K TV with hands-free controls, four HDMI inputs, and a voice remote.
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Children with Android phones will be able to use Google Wallet’s tap-to-pay next year
Google Wallet for kids will roll out in 2025. “Following the positive response of tap-to-pay on Fitbit Ace LTE devices, we’re expanding tap-to-pay for kids to Google Wallet,” Google wrote in a statement to 9to5Google, which first reported on it. Parents could approve credit and debit cards added to children’s phones, and Google’s Family Link would let them view transactions and easily approve or remove cards.
The service would build on the tap-to-pay functionality in Google’s Fitbit Ace LTE kids’ activity tracker. The expansion would make the Google Wallet app available for Android phone-using children whose parents have set up Family Link and approved access.
Any of the parents’ existing payment cards in Google Wallet could be used for the kids’ spinoff. When paying, children would have to approve tap-to-pay purchases using standard authentication options (fingerprint, facial recognition, PIN or password). At launch, the service is said to support gift cards and event tickets but not online purchases, identification or health cards.
Apple already has a similar take on children’s purchases. Families in the company’s ecosystem can let their kids use Apple Pay in stores and online or send money through Messages with Apple Cash Family.
9to5Google says Google’s kids’ payments feature will roll out next year for “some Google Wallet users in several countries,” including the US. A wider rollout is expected at some point after that.
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Google’s AI system could change the way we write: InkSight turns handwritten notes digital
Google’s InkSight AI transforms handwritten notes into digital text while preserving personal writing style, bridging traditional note-taking with digital efficiency across multiple languages and complex documents.Read More
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Modash is flipping the influencer marketing script by connecting brands with the long tail of creators
Estonia-based startup Modash has raised a $12 million Series A led by henQ, a Dutch VC firm that prides itself in “funding the odd ones.” And what’s odd about Modash, according to CEO Avery Schrader, is that its team “has a really strong opinion in a space that nobody really has much faith in anymore.”
The space in question is influencer marketing. Like competitors CreatorIQ and Upfluence, Modash helps brands like Farfetch discover people who can promote their message. But instead of focusing on content creators with big followings, Modash scrapes open data to let its clients find matches among the long tail of the 250 million creators it says it lists (unless they opt out.)
This means brands are being connected with relatively niche content creators through Modash’s platform. But — the founders’ theory is — these are individuals who can pack a marketing punch as their smaller follower bases may be more engaged with, and put a higher store on, what they’re saying.
Essentially, it’s a flipping of the usual influencer marketing script which could help circumvent some of the cynicism that’s sprung up around highly paid influencers shilling products. Not having creators sign in also makes it easier to scale, in a space where pure marketplaces have struggled.
This is why Modash remains bullish on the creator economy — even as Schrader understands why others might not be. “The whole VC class has already placed one or two bets that have already gone down the drain in the space,” he told TechCrunch.
“[But] people miss the point that the creator is the atomic unit of the internet, and [creators] will just keep making stuff,” he went on, explaining why he and his team believe in the marketing power of content creators and in the market opportunity of helping them monetize.
“Whatever you immediately think of when you think ‘influencer’… I think it really has a negative connotation… Whatever you don’t consume is what you think of an influencer as, and then whatever you consume, whatever is in your own YouTube search history, that’s who we support,” he added. “It’s like the small creators doing the weirdest stuff, talking about the things they really love.”
The 26-year-old Canadian fits the bill himself; originally from Nova Scotia where he tinkered with videos and forums, he made his way to Estonia after reading that it was becoming “the Silicon Valley of Europe.” There, he soon found himself recording podcast episodes with the Baltics technorati, while trying his hand at influencer marketing for clients like Estonian scale-up Bolt.
The client side of the problem is key to Modash. The startup’s vision is that brands want an end-to-end platform that lets them source creators, but also analyze campaigns, manage payments, and more. That’s what it monetizes, with plans starting from $199 a month up to a custom enterprise tier.
With Bolt and an Estonian agency among its first clients, Tallinn proved to be a great launchpad for Modash. Whether or not the comparison with Silicon Valley stands, network effects were clearly at play and several Estonian founders became Modash’s first mentors and angels, some of whom have returned to join its latest round too.
The capital city is also where Schrader met his co-founder and CTO, Estonian software engineer Hendry Sadrak (on the right in the picture above) and the rest of their founding team. “Even today, 40% or 50% of the company is in Estonia,” said Schrader. “Lots of them from Bolt, Pipedrive, Transferwise… — the Estonian mafia.”
If Schrader sounded unsure about the exact percentage of local staffers it’s a reflection of how much the team has grown over the last few months. “We were like 25 [people] in the beginning of the year, we’re now 60, and we’ve set a cap for next year that we won’t go beyond 99, because it’s really important to keep the team as small as we can.”
Many of Modash’s new hires will focus on data engineering, as AI-enabled discovery features are a big part of its product roadmap.
In addition, the startup plans to recruit people for customer-facing roles in North America to be closer to its clients there.
Schrader himself was back in Canada when he talked to TechCrunch, and he told us he plans to spend at least half his time in the country going forward. International expansion and an increased focus on e-commerce will be the startup’s priorities leading up to its Series B round, he said.
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Google’s Pixel 9A might get a bigger display
The 6.3-inch size would make it larger than the past few generations of A-series Pixel phones, including the 8A, 7A, and 6A — all of which came with a 6.1-inch display. Along with a screen size increase, the Pixel 9A is also rumored to come with a top refresh rate of 120Hz, Google’s Tensor G4 chipset, 8GB of RAM, and up to 256GB of storage.
Renders of what appears to be the Pixel 9A suggest that Google is making some big design changes to the phone as well. The Pixel’s prominent camera bar is absent from the rear of the phone, while the two camera sensors are placed in pill-shaped housing instead. According to Android Headlines, the Pixel 9A could feature a 48-megapixel (MP) primary camera, a 13 MP ultrawide camera, and a 13 MP front-facing lens. It’s also rumored to have a 5,000mAh battery — slightly larger than the 4,492mAh battery in the Pixel 8A.
We still don’t know when Google will reveal the Pixel 9A, but Android Headlines reports that its launch will be held in March. The phone will also reportedly retain the same $499 price as the Pixel 8A.
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