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Samsung Accidentally Confirms 5G-Ready Galaxy Tab S6

5G tablets are on the way, and Samsung's Galaxy Tab S6 could be repackaged as one of the first. The South Korean company accidentally listed the 5G-ready model on its website. Now, it's only a matter of time before the Galaxy Tab S6 5G goes official.




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The Latest iPad Mini Is Back at Its Lowest Amazon Price Ever

The 2019 iPad mini with Wi-Fi and 256GB of storage normally sells for $549, but is available on Amazon right now for just $519. That's the lowest it's ever been on the site.




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The 2018 Apple iPad Is More Than $200 Off at Walmart

The sixth-generation 9.7-inch iPad with 128GB of storage and cellular connectivity would normally set you back $559, but is currently marked down to just $349.




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Latest 11-Inch iPad Pro With Cellular Gets $199 Discount

The latest iPad Pro featuring 1TB of storage and cellular connectivity is on sale at Amazon for just $1,299.99. Models with less storage and just Wi-Fi are also marked down.




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Snag the 2019 Apple iPad Air for Just $459

The 64GB Wi-Fi model is currently on sale for $459 at Walmart (down from $499.99).




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Amazon Fire Kids Edition Tablets Are Back at Cyber Monday Prices

For a limited time, the 7-inch Fire 7 Kids Edition is $40 off while the 8- and 10-inch models are both $50 off. These tablets make a great gift for 3-to-12-year olds.




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Deals: Roomba 675, Fire HD 8 at Black Friday Prices, More

The popular Roomba 675 is just $199 today, the 8-inch Amazon Fire HD 8 is only $50, and the 2TB Crucial MX500 2.5-inch SSD is back on sale for $200.




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Deals: 10.2-Inch iPad, 65-Inch Vizio 4K TV, Amazon Echo Buds

The 10.2-inch Apple iPad with 128GB of storage is $100 off, a 65-inch Vizio 4K TV is $500 off and includes a $250 Dell gift card, and you can score the first discount on Echo Buds.




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Dell Latitude 7220 Rugged Extreme Tablet

Dell's Latitude 7220 Rugged Extreme Tablet lives up to its name by laughing at drops, splashes, and temperatures that would blow the average slate to smithereens. It's ideal for first responders and factory floors.




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iPad Air (2019), iPad Mini 5 Join Apple's Refurbished Lineup

Grab a refurbished third-generation iPad Air or fifth-generation iPad Mini from Apple to save big while getting nearly the same experience new tablets offer.




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Microsoft Cancels Surface Hub 2X Upgrade Cartridge

The cartridge was meant to upgrade the processor and GPU in the Surface Hub 2S so as to allow rotation and multiple hubs to work together.




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Deal Alert: The Latest Apple iPads Are Up to $150 Off

scrolling through Amazon in the same way has turned up some great deals on iPads. Right now the latest models are available at all-new low prices.




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The Best Kids' Tablets for 2020

Can't get your hands on your own iPad? Kids love tablets, but which is the right one for them? Check out our top picks to keep your kids educated and entertained.




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The Best Tablets for 2020

Tablets are great for playing games, reading, homework, keeping kids entertained in the back seat of the car, and a whole lot more. Whether you're looking for an Android or Apple slate, here's what to consider, along with reviews of the best tablets we've tested.




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Unspun: the political diary

Strife of Brian




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Tom Gordon: Nicola Sturgeon should end her insulting referendum sham

IT’S strange the different things people took away from Theresa May’s teary goodbye in Downing Street yesterday.




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FMQs sketch: Pick a policy, blame a Tory

LIKE Nicola Sturgeon, I blame the Tories. Not, like her, for everything everywhere, but for an off-key outing at FMQs.




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Unspun: The Political diary

Flat out




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FMQs sketch: Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right

THE last day of term before recess saw MSPs attempt more jokes than usual at FMQs, some of them even bordering on approaching the mildly funny. Heady days.




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Unspun: the political diary

Rocket man




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Tom Gordon: Citizens Assembly backlash is of the SNP’s making

WELL that didn’t take long. Scotland’s latest experiment in direct democracy was all but killed off this week, barely two months after Nicola Sturgeon announced it.




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Unspun: the political diary

Obi-Moran Kenobi




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FMQs sketch: Carlaw Crash

WHAT a difference a Prime Minister makes. There used to be a time, back before it wasn’t an obstacle to promotion, that Jackson Carlaw was aghast at the idea of a no-deal Brexit.




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Unspun: the political diary

Uniformly bad




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David Torrance: Why Sturgeon's next deputy leader won't change a thing

The American politician John Nance Garner is better remembered for something he said rather than anything he did as Franklin Roosevelt’s vice-president.




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David Torrance: The SNP's independence proposition resembles another Brexit-like leap into the unknown

In “Painting Nationalism Red?”, an engaging new pamphlet published by Democratic Left Scotland, the journalist Neal Ascherson pays tribute to Tom Nairn as Scotland’s “pre-eminent political intellectual”.




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David Torrance: 'The SNP don’t really want to make nice with wicked Tories in London'

Shortly before the second general election of 1974, the late John P Mackintosh attempted to explain the rise of the Scottish National Party to a predominantly left-wing (and English) audience in an essay for the New Statesman.




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David Torrance: How Gibraltar learned to stop fearing Brexit

A few days after a majority of Britons backed Brexit in June 2016, this newspaper reported that Nicola Sturgeon had been in talks with London Mayor Sadiq Khan and the Chief Minister of Gibraltar, Fabian Picardo.




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David Torrance: Why playing the history card could be key to Labour's resurgence

The Scottish Labour Party, I think it’s fair to say, hasn’t had a good decade.




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David Torrance: How Brexit vote has left the SNP making the same historical error

“Scotland”, declared a young Alex Salmond in May 1975, “knows from bitter experience what treatment is in store for a powerless region of a common market.”




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David Torrance: Standing up for Scotland may be an impossible task for Ruth Davidson

In his new book, “The End of British Party Politics?”, the political scientist Roger Awan-Scully captures the paradox of last year’s general election in Scotland.




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David Torrance: Sturgeon faces some hard choices at home when selling Scotland abroad

The sight of Scottish ministers boarding flights to far-flung destinations in order to “sell Scotland to the world” has been a familiar one for more than half a century.




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David Torrance: Airstrikes in Syria are far from ideal, but it’s better than nothing

Today in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister will explain her decision to authorise airstrikes against Syria alongside France and the United States.




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David Torrance: The rise of political tribalism has little to do with policy and everything to do with identity

A couple of weeks ago, I attended an “in conversation” event with the American sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild at Harvard University.




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Belle Robertson endures in game of great longevity

Belle Robertson has played just one round of golf this year. She’ll double that tally with another today.




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Liam Johnston accepts the new reality for tour pros stuck at home

What do professional golfers do in this coronavirus-induced hiatus?




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Scottish golf courses urged to close as coronavirus takes hold

Scotland’s golf courses have been urged to close in the wake of the Government’s latest measures to combat the coronavirus.




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Link up with an Open champion aids Clare-Marie Macaulay's golf drive

In this country, where the dank, grim days of winter are as short as a resigned sigh, the onset of some decent, dry spring weather doesn’t half raise the morale. Well, it would if the coronavirus wasn’t lurking all over the parish.




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If the 2020 golf season is a wipe out, there are things we won't miss

THERE will be many of us who embrace technology with all the ham-fisted ineptitude of a fumbling, muttering old colonel trying to unravel the stubborn, sticky wrapping of a barley sugar.




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Golf clubs need members 'more than ever' in coronavirus crisis

It wasn’t that long ago that health experts were championing golf as a soothing, morale-boosting haven away from the ravaging rigours of the coronavirus.




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Back in the Sporting Day: 1970, Billy Casper wins the Masters

It was 50 years ago this week that one of the greatest golfers ever to grace the greens set out on his quest to win his first US Masters championship.




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Golf and coronavirus: Why Covid-19 may be the final straw for outdated clubs

To say that amateur golf in Scotland has been slow to adapt to change is putting it kindly. But where the rise of the nomads, the Equality Act, the credit crunch and repeated faltering reform efforts have failed, perhaps Covid-19 will finally be the shock that thrusts the sector into a meaningful if seriously belated overhaul.




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The Open 2020 golf championship cancelled due to coronavirus crisis

THE Open Championship will not take place at all this year.




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Golfers warned to respect lockdown restrictions as government confirms no date has been set to reopen courses

Scottish Golf today revealed that no date has been set for the sport in this country to restart and stressed that lockdown restrictions will remain in place for the foreseeable future.




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Drink with Gerard Richardson: The magic of malbec

IF you’re under 40, or as I like to call it these days, "pre-arthritis", you probably won’t remember the dark days of malbec when you had a 50-50 chance of opening something that would be as rough as sandpaper.




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Scotch Whisky Association's Karen Betts: Three reasons Scotch is the 'lifeblood of communities'

Chief executive of the Scotch Whisky Association Karen Betts explains why she thinks the Scottish 'water of life' is so special.




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Drink with Gerard Richardson: Viva Italia

IF you’re anything like me, these weird alcohol-free January fads are to be avoided so let's raise a glass to a guilt-free month and kick it off with a look at something clean and refreshing to wash the season of excess away.




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Drink with Gerard Richardson: Rose wines for your Valentine

IT only seems like yesterday that we were in the season to be jolly and, all of a sudden, romance is in the air. Before we know it, we’ll all be rolling eggs down a hill but, in the meantime, I guess we should take a look at rose, the wines of love.




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Gerard Richardson: South African surprise led to discovery

ONE of the trying things about being a drinks columnist is the number of wines I have to taste in order to write this Shakespearian text for you guys. Products have to be really special to stand out from the crowd and, thankfully, they occasionally still do.




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Andy Bell: Six Nations, we'll drink to that

With the Six Nations rugby in full flow (come on, Scotland – I’m forever the optimist) now is a great time to look at amazing beverages from all the nations competing.