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20 Best Early Black Friday Deals: Robot Vacuums, iPads, Instant Pots
Walmart has an Instant Pot for $50 and a Ninja Foodi for $150 off
UPDATE: Nov. 11, 2022, 3:30 p.m. EST This story has been updated with the latest multicooker deals from Instant Brands, Ninja, and more ahead of Black Friday.
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BEST INSTANT POT DEAL: The classic 7-in-1 Instant Pot Duo (6-quart) does the basics like pressure cooking, sautéing, and cooking rice, plus it has a yogurt-making function — $50
$81.99(save $31.99)
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BEST NINJA FOODI DEAL: The Ninja Foodi 14-in-1 (6.5-quart) has a Smart Lid that air fries, steams, and pressure cooks under the same roof — $129.99
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BEST BUDGET MULTICOOKER DEAL: The Insignia Multi-Function Pressure Cooker (8-quart) is a huge-capacity cooker for over 50% off — $39.99
$119.99(save $80)
Black Friday kitchen deals wouldn’t be the same without the Instant Pot and Ninja Foodi duking it out to be the season’s most sought-after countertop steal.
The demand for these two gadgets all but guarantees that the big doorbusters from each brand will sell out. (It doesn’t mean they won’t return later in the season, but no promises.) We’ve already seen it happen with Walmart’s $119 deal on the 13-in-1 Foodi, which is already out of stock after being on sale for a day or two.
We’ll keep you posted on any new price drops and availability changes from early Black Friday events across the internet. We’re specifically on the lookout for a discount on the WiFi-enabled Instant Pot Pro Plus, which has only dropped by $50 a few times in the past.
All newly added deals have been marked with a ✨, and any multicookers marked with a ⚡️ are already at their Black Friday price, as confirmed by select retailers’ early Black Friday sales. Anything with a strikeout was either sold out or no longer available at the sale price at the time of writing, but check back often — we’re updating this page constantly.
Instant Pot deals
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Our pick: Instant Pot Duo 7-in-1 (6-quart)
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Why we like it
If Instant Pots in the 10-or-more functions realm seem like overkill, the 7-in-1 Instant Pot Duo is a classic choice — especially at just $50. It acts as a pressure cooker, rice cooker, slow cooker, yogurt maker, steamer, sauté pan, and food warmer, all of which can be customized through 13 one-touch programs for more specific menu items like rice or stew.
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Instant Pot Duo Crisp 9-in-1 (6-quart) (old version) — $104
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Instant Pot Duo Plus V5 9-in-1 (6-quart) — $109.95
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Instant Pot Pro 10-in-1 (6-quart) — $149.95
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Instant Pot Duo Crisp 9-in-1 with Ultimate Lid (6.5-quart) (new version) — $160.99
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Instant Pot Pro Crisp 11-in-1 (8-quart) — $174.99
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Instant Pot 8-piece accessory set: 2 pans, 2 wire racks, 2 silicone lids, removable divider, and removable base — $37.13
$49.99(save $12.86)
Ninja deals
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Our pick: Ninja Foodi 14-in-1 Pressure Cooker Steam Fryer with SmartLid (6.5-quart)
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Why we like it
Walmart has silently dropped one of the newest Foodi models, the 6.5-quart OL501, to $129 — a genuinely unbelievable $150 off its usual $279.99 and $30 cheaper than the sale price Amazon is offering for the same model. The 6.5-quart Foodi is spacious enough for cooking two layers at once with a separation rack and crisp basket included. A whopping 14 functions in total span techniques from sous vide to yogurt making to dough proofing.
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Ninja Foodi 10-in-1 Pressure Cooker and Air Fryer (6-quart) (old model) — $119.99
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Ninja Foodi XL 14-in-1 Pressure Cooker and Air Fryer (8-quart) — $249.99
$329.99(save $80)
Multicooker deals from Insignia, Crock-Pot, more
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Our pick: Insignia Multi-Function Pressure Cooker (8-quart)
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Why we like it
At more than 50% off, you could buy a handful of these 8-quart Insignia multicookers for the price of one Instant Pot of the same capacity. The Insignia model doesn’t make yogurt like most Instant Pots, but its selection of 12 presets does include searing, sautéing, and making cake.
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Insignia Multi-Function Pressure Cooker (6-quart) — $29.99
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Nuwave Duet Pressure Cooker and Air Fryer Combo (6-quart) — $106
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CHEF iQ Pressure Cooker with built-in scale (6-quart) — $129.99
$229.99(save $100) ⚡️
Bayonetta 3 review: An instant classic that feels like a proper old-school, content-packed Nintendo adventure
Mario, Kirby, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Samus Aran, Bayonetta. The witch has made it to the upper echelons of the Nintendo elite with Bayonetta 3, and any doubt about her status as mascot character for the House of Mario has been dissolved in a cauldron, fizzing with demon blood, keratin, and rocket fuel. With the chant of an incantation and the click of a delicately gloved finger, Bayonetta 3 secures the Umbran Witch as a Nintendo icon – maybe even usurping some of the more… family-friendly… faces in the roster in the process. Bayonetta 3, Switch owners, is essential.
And it starts not with a bang, but with a whimper. The introduction to the game is slow and irritating; making you trudge, as Bayonetta, through a world that’s being torn apart by some unknowable entity of chaos. You can’t run, you can’t jump, you can’t fight – you just stumble around as the life gets sucked out of this world you once called home. A ragtag band of heroes lays dead around you, and you’re forced to watch as a spunky young upstart of a witch tears through the barriers of reality, desperate to save… something.
Welcome to Bayonetta 3, one of the most pleasingly nonsense games you’ll have the pleasure of playing this year. Hell, maybe even this generation. That languid intro seems intentionally placed to show you just how fast and furious the actual game is. Once you’ve cleared the prologue and the stakes (read: the multiverse) have been made clear, you cut to your hair-powered, sassy witch, mincing down the streets of LA like a femdom en route to a gala. The proverbial shit hits the metaphorical fan, and it’s time to fight – and right away, PlatinumGames shows you that it’s back in gear and ready for business.
Meta is killing off its Instant Articles format for news stories
Meta will end support for Instant Articles by mid-April, the company confirmed to Engadget. It introduced the format to Facebook in 2015 to help news articles load quickly on mobile devices. However, the company is said to be restructuring and directing more resources into its core products — including video-focused features like Reels.
“Currently less than 3% of what people around the world see in Facebook’s Feed are posts with links to news articles,” a Meta spokesperson told Engadget. “And as we said earlier this year, as a business it doesn’t make sense to over invest in areas that don’t align with user preferences.” The company pointed out that its users are spending more time watching videos, especially short-form ones, and that they want to see less news and political content on Facebook.
Axios, which first reported the news, noted that Meta has been reducing its investment in news content, such as by ending the payments it gives to US publishers for including their articles on the News tab. The company also said last week that it will shutter the Bulletin newsletter platform by early 2023.
The mid-April timeline for winding down Instant Articles support will give publishers six months to reassess their Facebook strategies. After that, when you tap a link to a news article on Facebook’s mobile apps, you’ll be taken to publishers’ own websites.
Meta noted that since it debuted Instant Articles, the mobile web experience has broadly improved due to faster internet speeds and more powerful devices. As such, it suggested that these upgrades have rendered Instant Articles unnecessary for many people who access text-based stories. However, you may soon find that some articles take longer to appear on your screen, depending on the page load of publishers’ websites.
Google effectively made a similar switch last year when it no longer made its AMP format worthwhile for news publishers. The company said it would stop prioritizing news articles that use the format in its search rankings.
Instagram app rendered unusable for some by instant crash bug
If you had been using Instagram’s Android app in the past hour or so, you might have noticed that an error had been causing it to crash seconds after launching, rendering it almost unusable. You weren’t alone: users from multiple regions flooded Twitter with complaints about this phenomenon. According to Downdetector, this bug first appeared around 12:44PM EDT today (September 23rd) — roughly matching the time when this author also started scratching head over the seemingly random crashes. At the time of writing this article, there were still fresh tweets grumbling about this issue.
User reports indicate Instagram is having problems since 12:44 PM EDT. https://t.co/lXKoHvl1HO RT if you’re also having problems #Instagramdown
— Downdetector (@downdetector) September 22, 2022
A Meta representative confirmed to famed software engineer Jane Wong that the company is aware of the outage and it’s working to restore service “as quickly as possible.” While this bug appeared to be exclusive to Instagram’s Android app, Wong told Engadget that the iOS counterpart was also loading very slowly for her, indicating a backend issue.
Instagram partial outage confirmed via Meta comms @alexvoica: https://t.co/USJ51gtVwS
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) September 22, 2022
At present, users who are able to open the app have noted limited functionality, including an inability to access Reels or DMs. We’ll be monitoring the situation as service gradually resumes, and will update if Meta provides additional details on what went wrong.
Update 9/22/22 2:29PM EDT: Meta says Instagram is back to normal as of 2:25PM EDT, though it stopped short at sharing what went wrong. We will share more if we hear back.
And we’re back! We resolved the issue that caused today’s outage, and apologize for any inconvenience. https://t.co/2Av4sC4C5B
— Instagram Comms (@InstagramComms) September 22, 2022
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I’m a fashion expert – how to get an ‘instant boob job’ with just three strips of beauty tape
A FASHIONISTA has shown fans how to get an “instant boob job” with just three strips of beauty tape.
Maddie Thomas revealed the hack in a video which has racked up tens of thousands of views on TikTok.
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She captioned her clip: “How to use boob tape for strapless tops or bandeaus using Spidertech beauty tape!”
In the clip, she explains how to get an “automatic boob job” with the help of just three pieces of body tape.
She says: “Using 3 strips of tape, lift breast and pull across tightly.
“Extend farther and use more strips for larger boobs.”
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Online audiences can see the spectacular difference the tape working and how the tape impact the appearance.
The video has been viewed more than 168,000 and garnered over 60 comments, with many social media users praising her advice.
One person wrote: “Thank you I’ve been wondering how to tape this is amazing.”
Another said: “This seems so much simpler than the complicated methods some other gals use with triangles and split tape, thank you!!”
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Someone else said: “omg thank you! I’ve been looking how to do this for my wedding in a month!”
Her post follows another fashion influencer who was delighted to discover a social media trend looked great on her frame – except with a specific style that was a total bust.
“Okay, so I’m a little late to this trend,” Ali Cortese said by way of introduction. The TikTok star has 658k followers on the platform, where she posts candid fashion advice and clothing hacks.
In one recent video, Cortese tried out a tank top trend that converts a standard shirt into a cropped, fitted look.
“I’ve been seeing all these girls do this trend where you take a tank top, you twist it, and you turn it into a whole different top,” Cortese explained.
To recreate the look, Cortese put on a spaghetti-strap tank top over her bra.
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She engaged in a bit of fashion wizardry: sliding one strap down her arm, she tucked it into the torso of the shirt and pulled it underneath, looping the fabric over itself as she pulled the strap back out.
After a little off-camera adjusting to make sure the shirt lined up on her back and bust, Cortese revealed the completed look – and her delighted surprise.