The Morning After: Was Black Friday 2021 quieter than usual?
As you might have suspected this Cyber Monday morning, the big stories on Engadget involve good deals or even an all-time low price on gadgets, accessories for said gadgets or services to run on them. (We’ve linked to the best deals we’ve found down below, but stock and prices may have changed since the time of writing.)
That said, according to early figures, it might have been a more muted Black Friday online than in previous years. Adobe estimates its combined Black Friday and Thanksgiving Day internet sales were less than last year, for the first time ever — even if it was only a mere dip from $9 billion in 2020 to $8.9 billion last week.
Adobe thinks the dip reflected the multitude of internet deals out there that began ahead of Black Friday — some as early as October.
— Mat Smith
Scientists used Mars’ ambient noise to map just underneath the planet’s surface
They analyzed the data collected by the seismometer installed by NASA’s InSight lander.
A team of scientists have created the first detailed image of what lies right underneath the planet’s surface, showing three billion years of its history, by listening to Martian winds.
More precisely, they analyzed the ambient …read more
