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Black Friday is a battlefield, y'all. Tablets, smart home assistants, and all the other Amazon devices we've been drooling over all year are finally marked down. Here's what you need to know: If you've been wanting to get your hands on an Echo Dot, snag one at their lowest price ever for just $29.99. Save on the bigger Echo products as well — grab the classic Echo for $20 off at just $79.99 and the Echo Plus for $30 off at $119.99.

Multiple Uber riders in Singapore are reporting being charged for rides halfway across the world that they never took, with charges of up to $2,949 (S$4,000). One Uber rider says she was charged some $958 (S$1,300) for up to 30 rides she did not take. "I logged in to check my bank account and realised all my money was being used for Uber transactions," Jenna Lim told Mashable. "I called the bank immediately and cancelled my card. Uber [later] called me and.

The internet can be a disturbing, sad place. It takes a special kind of hero to remind us that its darkest corners can also be filled with joy. That hero is @dril, an embodiment of so-called "weird Twitter" who has — like some kind of joke-slinging caped crusader — remained an anonymous beacon of shining light. Anonymous until yesterday, that is. That's right, someone went ahead and doxxed him, and the internet is really bummed about it.

Elon Musk says Tesla's new Semi trucks are BAMFs. Yes, for those of you at home, that's the widely known acronym for "Bad Ass Mother F***er." Musk playfully threw out the acronym as a "scientific term" Tesla's development team used as they designed the new big rigs. The name sounds ridiculous — but the specs, if they wind up being legit, are actually pretty impressive. Musk claims the Semi can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in just five seconds, well faster than traditional diesel trucks.

Elon Musk crashed his own party at Tesla's Semi event with a surprise staged to the Beastie Boys banger: Tesla's making a brand-new Roadster. Arriving in 2020, and, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said, designed to “give a hardcore smack-down to gasoline cars,” the new all-electric Roadster will have world-record-beating specs. It was Musk's first "one more thing moment," former Apple CEO Steve Jobs' famous mantra that made Apple's hardware reveal events such electrifying events.

Tesla has unrelentingly hit back at a class-action complaint which labeled the carmaker's factories a "hotbed for racist behavior." In a statement titled "Hotbed of Misinformation" issued on its website Wednesday, Tesla said it is "absolutely against any form of discrimination, harassment, or unfair treatment of any kind." The plaintiff is former employee Marcus Vaughn, who claimed he was routinely called the "n-word" by supervisors while working at Tesla.

If you're heading home for the holiday, you probably want to know exactly how much your cab ride is going to be from the airport to your home. At long last, Uber is going to make it happen. Starting today, when you reserve an Uber more than an hour before your pickup time, you'll lock in the cost of the ride. This means that after you schedule your Uber, a window will pop up confirming that your ride is scheduled, and your fare has been set.

Ok "notch"-haters of the world, you win: Apple has approved an app to get rid of the dreaded notch on the iPhone X. Spotted by The Verge, Axiem Systems' "Notch Remover" app will transform the notch — that pesky rounded black cutout at the top of the iPhone X screen — into a more palatable straight bar that runs across the top of the device. With the app, that bar will appear on the iPhone X's home and lock screens. The app works by masking the notch, not getting rid of it entirely.

Reddit is about to make one of its biggest changes yet. The site will soon launch a new instant messaging feature called Reddit Chat. Unlike Reddit's current private messaging system, Reddit Chat will allow individual users and groups to connect instantaneously much like the chat features on Facebook or other social networks. With Reddit Chat, which will eventually replace the old PM system entirely, users will be able to swap messages, links to posts, and send stickers in real time.