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Get the Kyy 15″ portable monitor for 48% off on day one of Prime Day
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Originally $136, this portable monitor is now $70 for Prime members. To ensure the greatest savings, make sure you add the available $10 coupon before checkout.
The Kyy 15″ portable monitor delivers stunning visuals. It has an advanced IPS screen with a 178-degree wide viewing angle and HDR, as well as surprisingly bright colors. Its eye-care features, including blue light reduction and flicker-free technology, are a great addition to its list of perks too.
Its ultra-slim profile, measuring just 0.3 inches and weighing a mere 1.7 pounds, makes it great for taking along with you to work on the go, but it also makes a good addition to your home setup as well, especially if you want a permanent second screen for your laptop.
The monitor comes with a scratch-proof smart cover made of PU leather, which not only protects the display but also doubles as a stand with two grooves for adjustable viewing angles. It can be used in both landscape and portrait modes, and its built-in speakers, and user-friendly menu control wheel sweeten the deal.
Save 32% on Apple AirPods Pro (2nd Generation)
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Apple’s best sounding wireless earbuds are currently the AirPods Pro (2nd Generation). Amazon has dropped the price on the Apple AirPods Pro (2nd Generation) for Amazon Prime Day, they’re on sale for $169, which is a 32% price drop from their usual $249 price.
Our top pick in our 2024 Apple AirPods buyer’s guide, these Apple earbuds include spatial audio with dynamic head tracking, and impeccable noise-canceling technology. Featured in our six best wireless earbuds with spatial audio in 2024 roundup, this iteration of Apple’s popular AirPods Pro offer touch controls on the stems, and you can choose between a USB Type-C or Lightning-compatible charging case.
These earbuds can be used for anything from a sweat session at the gym, to completely immersive music, TV and movie audio experiences.
Woah: Save 71% on the Bissell SpinWave Hard Floor Expert Pet Robot
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If you’re in search of shiny floors, the Bissell SpinWave Hard Floor Expert Pet Robot is for you. While many robot vacuums clean hard wood floors, this model comes with a special solution to add shine to your floors. You can save 71% on this Amazon Prime Day deal, which cuts the price to $118.
It uses a two-tank cleaning system to both vacuum and mop your floors. Its dry vacuum cleaning mode uses dual spinning edge brushes and a rotating brush roll with suction up to 1500 Pa, so you can sweep up debris before deploying the mop. The mop portion uses rotating, replaceable mop pads to clean tile, linoleum and sealed hard floors.
While there are few smart components to this mop and vacuum hybrid, it does feature a soft surface avoidance feature that keeps it from bumping into chairs, tables and other obstacles.
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There’s still time to become a mega-millionaire for Christmas, but lady luck will have to be on your side.
No one matched Mega Millions‘ all six winning numbers last Tuesday, and the jackpot now stands at $862 million ahead of Friday night’s drawing.
The jackpot has been rolling since it was last won at $810 million in Texas on Sept. 10.
If there is a sole winner, they have a choice between an annuity, with an initial payment and then 29 annual payments, or a one-time lump sum payment. Most winners choose a cash payout.
For Friday night’s drawing, that would be an estimated $392.1 million before taxes.
If won at that level, it would be the largest prize ever won in December and the seventh largest in Mega Millions history.
According to Mega Millions, 13 jackpots have been won during December since the game began in 2002. Three were won in the days after Christmas, while the other 10 were won before Christmas. There has never been a jackpot win on Christmas Day, although over the years drawings have been conducted on Christmas six times – in 2007, 2009, 2012, 2015, 2018 and 2020.
Mega Millions drawings are held on Tuesday and Friday, tickets cost $2. The odds of winning the jackpot are about 1 in 303 million.
The IRS said Friday it is sending a total of $2.4 billion in “special payments” to 1 million people, part of an effort to ensure that Americans who didn’t receive all of their federal stimulus checks during the pandemic will get the money in their bank accounts.
The payments will vary by person, with a maximum amount of $1,400 per recipient, the agency said in a statement.
“To minimize headaches and get this money to eligible taxpayers, we’re making these payments automatic, meaning these people will not be required to go through the extensive process of filing an amended return to receive it,” IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said in a statement.
Who will get a payment from the IRS?
The tax agency said it’s disbursing the funds after reviewing internal data that showed many people had filed tax returns but yet didn’t claim what is known as the “recovery rebate credit” in 2021.
That credit was designed for people who didn’t get all or some of the stimulus checks when they were issued during the pandemic. Lawmakers authorized three stimulus payments, with two sent in 2020 and a third in 2021.
Most taxpayers who were eligible for the stimulus payments have already received them directly, or later through the recovery rebate credit.
Do you need to apply for the IRS payment?
No. The IRS said it’s sending the payments automatically to about 1 million people who filed tax returns and who qualified for the recovery rebate credit yet didn’t claim it. The agency will send a letter to recipients to let them know they will receive the payment.
When will the IRS send the payments?
The tax agency said the checks will be sent in December, with most of the payments arriving by late January 2025.
The money will either be automatically direct deposited to the recipient’s bank account or will arrive in the mail via a paper check.
