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Whether you're celebrating a birthday, anniversary or a promotions, you could need a gift for a variety of occasions. If you're looking for a perfect present that'll cost less than $100, and branches out from the typical scarf, coffee mug or gift card, you'll find tons of ideas below. There are gifts under $100 for every type of personality, including picks for music lovers, tech-heads and even some items that can help soothe aching muscles.

Each product has been either comprehensively reviewed or personally tested to bring you the best tech gifts for $100 or less. And if you need more gift ideas before you check out the contents of your online cart, here are some more gifts for under $100 that we love, as well as great gift ideas for $50 or less if you're looking to spread some joy on a budget.

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GoPro makes vlogging with its camera a little easier with the Hero 10 Black Creator Edition. The setup packages the great little Hero 10 Black camera, released in September, and three accessories, including a brand new handgrip that's both a backup battery and remote control.

Again, at the center of the Creator Edition is the Hero 10 Black, GoPro's current top camera. Its features include video capture at up to 5.3K at 60 frames per second or 4K at 120fps for slow-motion and a ton of other shooting options for photos and time-lapses, and it has incredible image stabilization. And the camera, which has screens on the front and rear, is rugged, too, and waterproof down to 33 feet without a housing. 

Read more: GoPro Hero 10 Black Review: Pushing Boundaries Once Again

But the camera is just the camera and it's really the accessories that make the Creator Edition worth considering. In the package with the camera are two of GoPro's Mods, the Light Mod and Media Mod, and the new Volta mount.  

The Media Mod is a camera housing that adds a micro-HDMI output, a 3.5mm mic jack and a USB-C pass-through for charging. It also has a directional mic built in with a removable foam windscreen as well as two cold-shoe mounts. 

The included Light Mod slots into one of those shoes. It's a compact LED light with four levels of brightness, including an overdrive mode to get up to 200 lumens for 30 seconds of brighter light. There's also a strobe setting so you can use it as a safety light. It's bright enough to light your face at arm's length. It's also waterproof.

Both of these Mod add-ons have been available for some time, but the Creator Edition bundles them with the camera and the new Volta mount. The Volta combines a handgrip with a Bluetooth remote control and battery pack. A coiled USB-C cable plugs into the Media Mod and GoPro said it can power the camera and Mods for up to 4 hours recording in 4K at 30fps. I tested it and landed at 4 hours, 3 minutes, so this is spot-on. Without the Mods, it can run the camera at 5.3K at 30fps for 4 hours.

The Volta can also power the camera on and off, switch shooting modes and start and stop recordings, snap photos or start a timelapse. And since it's a wireless connection, you can use it with the camera mounted somewhere else. The cable on the Volta is just for power, so it needs the Bluetooth connection to control the camera, but it's easy to do and quick to connect. When the cable is not connected to the camera, there's no option to remove it or secure it to the Volta so it just sort of sticks out.

The Volta has built-in legs that flip down so you can use it as a tripod and the top mount swivels all the way around to put the camera in the best position for shooting. It also has a set of pop-out mounting fingers so you can quickly attach it to another mount like a suction cup or chest mount, letting you still take advantage of the extra battery life. It's too bad the Volta doesn't extend at all, but it does have a tripod mount in the bottom so putting it on a selfie stick is easy enough if a little more reach is needed. 

One thing worth noting is that although the individual parts are weather-resistant or waterproof, once the Volta is connected to the Media Mod, they're no longer weather-tight. Standing around in the snow or rain while you vlog isn't something you'll want to do with them.

Now, as you might expect, since the package includes the Hero 10 Black, this is not going to be cheap. The Hero 10 Black Creator Edition is $785, £760 and AU$1,205. For GoPro service subscribers, the bundle is $582, which actually isn't bad. The best deal is going to be for new subscribers, which brings the total price down to $532. Also, if you already have the Media and Light Mods or simply want the Volta alone, its price is $130.

The big game kicks off on Feb. 7 at 6:30 p.m. ET. Sure, we're skipping the get-togethers this year due to the pandemic, but that doesn't mean we won't still eat socially unacceptable quantities of Buffalo chicken dip and loudly cheer on our respective teams. 

Here's a roundup of our favorite devices for enjoying football's biggest night from home this year. It includes everything from color-changing lights to show off your team's colors to the tastiest air fryer chicken wings. 

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We also have you covered if you don't want to mess with air fryers, beer dispensers and Instant Pots this game day. Here's a list of great food and beverage delivery services for game day and beyond: Plan for the big game: Order your party staples online. Follow along with the rest of our big game coverage, including how to stream it live and much, much more.

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My favorite overall fitness tracker is the Fitbit Charge 5. But priced at $150 (£169, AU$270), it may not be the best option for your budget. If you're looking for a solid fitness tracker on the cheap, let me introduce you to the $60 Xiaomi Mi Band 7. It has a big color screen, sleep tracking, blood oxygen monitoring and 24/7 heart rate monitoring just like Fitbit's tracker. At less than half the price, can it possibly match-up to the Charge 5? Surprisingly, in many ways it does.

I love to find cheaper alternatives to big-name products and even have an entire YouTube series dedicated to the cause. The new Mi Band 7 is a viable competitor to more expensive smartwatches and trackers from brands like Fitbit and Amazon, as long as you don't need certain health features. Even though it's not as accurate as the Charge 5, it's packed with plenty of workout tracking options and connectivity features to suit most people's needs.

Watch my full comparison in the video on this page or read on for the cheat sheet.

A big, bright screen makes the Mi Band 7 feel premium for its price

Put these two trackers side by side, and you'll notice both of them have color touchscreens. But the Mi Band 7 edges out the Charge 5 with its larger 1.62-inch screen. This means you can fit slightly more text on the screen without needing to scroll, which is helpful for reading message notifications or viewing workout stats. Both screens have an always-on setting, so you don't need to raise your wrist to see the time. I find them both easy to see in broad daylight... as long as I remember to turn up the screen brightness to max on the Mi Band 7.

Navigation is easy on both, but I prefer the Charge 5 for usability overall since I can double-tap on any screen to get straight back to the clock face. With the Mi Band 7, I sometimes need to swipe back several pages to get back to the start.

Comfort is highly subjective, but the Mi Band 7's slimmer design makes it more suitable for smaller wrists.

Fitbit is better if you want accurate heart rate tracking

I test all trackers against a chest strap, which is considered the gold standard for consumer heart rate tracking. The Charge 5 does a great job of matching the strap after a minute or two of embarking on a cardio-based workout like a jog or run. But the Mi Band's heart rate readings lag behind the strap significantly when doing the same exercise. I noticed this on a hike while walking up a steep incline, during which both Fitbit and the strap reflected my heart rate at around 130 beats per minute. The Mi Band remained a more subdued 95 bpm.

The Charge 5 is better at accurately capturing heart rate during vigorous exercise and workouts that involve arm movements, like dancing, running or walking. But for more stationary exercises like spin bike rides, the Mi Band 7 did just fine.

That said, the Mi Band 7 has a ridiculous number of available workout types: 120 in total. That's not a typo. The Charge 5 only has 20 workout options, with six slots on the device itself which you can customize manually in the app. 

More importantly, the Charge 5 is the only one of these trackers that has built-in GPS. This means you can leave your phone at home and still accurately track distance and route information. The Mi Band 7 only has connected GPS, which is probably my biggest disappointment with its fitness tracking features overall.

Sleep tracking is also better on the Fitbit Charge 5, as I found it more accurately reflected my awake time during the night. I also felt the Charge 5's sleep score was more in-tune with how I felt in the morning compared to the super-high score I'd get from the Mi Band 7. After 14 days of tracking your sleep in a month, Fitbit Premium subscribers get a sleep profile with deeper insights, and a so-called sleep animal that reflects your sleep style.

You'll need to toggle on the advanced tracking option in the iOS or Android app to get more in-depth sleep tracking on the Mi Band 7 since it's not on by default. The Charge 5 also comes with a Food and Drug Administration-cleared electrocardiogram app to detect signs of atrial fibrillation, unlike the Mi Band 7. Both also can track blood oxygen at night, but the Mi Band can also take spot readings on demand or track continuously throughout the day.

For smart features, the Mi Band 7 wins hands-down

You can set alarms and timers and view phone notifications on both the Charge 5 and Mi Band 7. When paired with an Android phone you can also send and customize quick text responses on both. But only the Mi Band 7 has music playback controls for your phone and a calendar app to see your agenda. 

The Mi Band 7 has way more watch faces to choose from, including third-party options. It also has a find my phone feature, a camera remote and a flashlight. The Charge 5 is more limited with only 24 watch faces, but Fitbit did just add a find my phone feature in the latest update in July 2022. It also has Fitbit Pay for NFC payments from your wrist, whereas international version of the Mi Band 7 that I have doesn't include NFC.

Battery life is also another win for the Mi Band 7, but it's not as long-lasting as previous models like the Mi Band 6. In my testing with daily workouts, sleep tracking and the always-on display turned off, I get four days from the Charge 5 and seven days from the Mi Band 7.

Tracking steps and sleep doesn't have to dent your wallet

The Charge 5 is the best overall tracker if it fits in your budget. It has comprehensive sleep tracking, great heart rate accuracy during cardio-based workouts and provides valuable insights into your overall wellbeing. There's a reason why it earned an Editor's Choice award in 2021.

But at less than half the price, I am pleasantly surprised by the Mi Band 7, and it's now my favorite budget-friendly alternative. The battery lasts longer than the Charge 5's and it has a staggering array of workout tracking options. Plus it's more of a smartwatch alternative than Fitbit's tracker if you want a more comprehensive second screen for your phone.

New home sales dropped sharply in April, missing economists' expectations and signaling that the US housing boom seen during the pandemic may be coming to an end.

Sales of new homes fell 16.6% in April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 591,000, the lowest level since April 2020, according to the US Commerce Department. Slowing sales are a result of rising interest rates and high home prices pushing buyers out of the market. The average interest rate for a conventional 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is hovering around 5.5%, up from around just 3% at the beginning of this year, making monthly mortgage payments more unaffordable for buyers. 

This is the fourth consecutive month of declining new home sales and the biggest monthly drop in nine years. 

"Mortgage rates have quickly gone from being a massive tailwind to the housing market to a massive headwind," Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics, told Bloomberg. "The higher rates are conflating with the extraordinarily high house prices and crushing affordability."

The median sales price for a new home in April of this year was $450,600, a 19.6% increase from a year ago, the Commerce Department said.

Messaging app Telegram and newly released Telegram X are back in the App Store after being pulled by Apple, reports ZDNet. 

The apps disappeared at midnight CET, and soon afterward Telegram CEO Pavel Durov tweeted that Apple had removed them because of "inappropriate content," adding, "Once we have protections in place we expect the apps to be back on the App Store." 

Durov later tweeted confirmation of the apps' return.  

Telegram X is a faster alternative to Telegram and includes themes and more efficient battery use. Both Telegram and Telegram X remained available on Google Play.

Telegram's developers say the apps are more secure than other messaging systems because their secret chats use end-to-end encryption, don't leave a trace on servers, block forwarding and support self-destructing messages.

But the apps have also been the target of criticism for allegedly allowing terrorists to communicate. UK Prime Minister Theresa May said in a speech last week that "smaller platforms can quickly become home to criminals and terrorists. We have seen that happen with Telegram. And we need to see more co-operation from smaller platforms like this."

For its part, Telegram says on its website, "While we do block terrorist (e.g. ISIS-related) bots and channels, we will not block anybody who peacefully expresses alternative opinions."  

Apple didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. 

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The Academy Awards, celebrating the best in movies, are Sunday, but on Saturday, the worst of movies was honored at the Golden Raspberry Awards, aka the Razzies. It was a royal night, with a musical about Princess Diana and a comedy starring LeBron "King James" James, scooping up plenty of the unwanted awards.

Diana: The Musical, based on the life of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, won a number of awards, including worst picture, for what the awards called "the all-singing, all-dancing, all-awful Diana: The Musical." Jeanna De Waal, who plays Diana, won for worst actress, and director Christopher Ashley won for worst director. Actress Judy Kaye, who plays Queen Elizabeth II and author Barbara Cartland, Diana's step-grandmother, won for worst supporting actress. The film also won for worst screenplay.

Basketball star LeBron James, who stars with the Looney Tunes cartoon characters in Space Jam: A New Legacy,  won worst actor, with the awards ceremony citing Gizmodo calling his performance "one huge airball." James and "any (Warner Bros.) product" won for worst screen couple, and Space Jam: A New Legacy won for the year's worst remake, rip-off or sequel.

Jared Leto won the worst supporting actor award for his role in House of Gucci.

Two actors who later made big news also received awards. Will Smith received the Razzie Redeemer award for going from Razzie-worthy performances to his Oscar-nominated role as Richard Williams, father of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams, in King Richard. (Smith later was the talk of the Oscars, not only for winning best actor, but also for hitting comedian Chris Rock after Rock made a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.)

The Razzies created a special category for worst performance by Bruce Willis in a 2021 movie and awarded it to Willis for Cosmic Sin. But then after Willis' family announced he was retiring from acting due to the communication disorder aphasia, the Razzies group rescinded the award.

"If someone's medical condition is a factor in their decision-making and/or their performance, we acknowledge that it is not appropriate to give them a Razzie," the group said in a statement.

The Razzies also formally withdrew another nomination, given in 1980 to Shelley Duvall for her role in The Shining. Maureen Murphy, one of the founders of the Razzies, said in an interview that she regretted Duvall's nomination due to how she was treated by director Stanley Kubrick.

"We have since discovered that Duvall's performance was impacted by Stanley Kubrick's treatment of her throughout the production," the Razzies co-founders said, according to CBS. "We would like to take this opportunity to rescind her 1980 nomination as well."

Disney's Pixar has restored a same-sex kiss to its Buzz Lightyear origin story after employees protested the removal of gay storylines from Pixar films, a report Friday said. The kiss will appear in Lightyear when it hits screens June 17, according to Variety, which cited an unnamed source.

Though characters in the Toy Story spinoff include two women who are in a relationship, the studio cut a kiss between them from the film, Variety reported. The kiss was subsequently reinstated after employee protest amid the backlash against Disney leadership not immediately condemning the so-called Don't Say Gay bill in Florida. The legislation bans sexual orientation or gender identity from being discussed in classrooms.

Despite former Disney CEO Bob Iger condemning the bill back in February, current CEO Bob Chapek held back on fully condemning it until after it was passed by both houses of the Texas legislature. Instead of making a corporate statement against the bill prior to it passing the legislature, Chapek had said, "I believe the best way for our company to bring about lasting change is through the inspiring content we produce."

However, a letter sent by Pixar employees to Disney leadership last week reportedly said openly gay storylines and moments have been cut from Pixar films by Disney.

"We at Pixar have personally witnessed beautiful stories, full of diverse characters, come back from Disney corporate reviews shaved down to crumbs of what they once were," the letter said. "Nearly every moment of overtly gay affection is cut at Disney's behest, regardless of when there is protest from both the creative teams and executive leadership at Pixar."

Pixar's 2020 film Onward featured the studio's first openly gay character, but the moment passed quickly and didn't feature her and her partner on screen together. Pixar also released a SparkShorts animated short called Out about a gay couple in 2020.

After backlash from within the company, Chapek wrote a letter to employees last week saying: "It is clear that this is not just an issue about a bill in Florida, but instead yet another challenge to basic human rights. You needed me to be a stronger ally in the fight for equal rights and I let you down. I am sorry." Chapek added that Disney would increase support for advocacy groups combating similar laws in other states.

Despite Chapek's eventual condemnation and apology, some LGBTQ Disney employees and allies staged walkouts this week, including at Pixar on Friday. The walkouts are scheduled to continue next week, culminating in a full walkout on Tuesday.

"The recent statements and lack of action by TWDC [The Walt Disney Company] leadership regarding the 'Don't Say Gay or Trans' bill have utterly failed to match the magnitude of the threat to LGBTQIA+ safety represented by this legislation," some Disney employees said. 

According to Politico, Disney donated $50,000 to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who's expected to sign the bill into law, during the 2020 election cycle. The news outlet said Disney also gave $913,000 to the Republican Party of Florida, $586,000 to Republican Senate campaigns and $313,000 to the Florida Democratic Party. Disney has now ceased political donations in Florida as it reviews the activity in the wake of employee protest.

Disney didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

We've tested a lot of Dell laptops over the years and there's no doubt that its current crop is some of the best laptops it's ever made. Whether you're looking for a small, lightweight laptop, a stylish two-in-one, a budget-friendly model for creatives and creators or a powerful gaming laptop, there's something for everyone. Many of the best Dell laptops have features to improve remote or hybrid work or school such as improved webcams and microphones, better audio quality, longer battery lives and faster charging and the fastest Wi-Fi 6 wireless.

Like other PC makers such as HP, Lenovo, Acer and Asus, Dell is in the midst of updating the processors in its laptops and two-in-ones. That means Intel-based models are moving from 11th-gen to 12th-gen CPUs while AMD Ryzen systems are switching from 5000-series chips to 6000-series. If you're looking for laptop deals, look for older models of the best Dell laptops. However, we've seen big performance improvements with the new processors. An updated model might cost a little more but will add to the overall longevity.