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Fake or Safe? How to Ensure Your Solar Eclipse Glasses Are Real

Phony eclipse glasses are hitting the market, but there are ways to weed out these bad apples and guarantee a safe viewing experience.

Saga‘s Creators Open Up About the Comic’s Return, and Prioritizing Their Lives Over Work

After a three-year hiatus, writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Fiona Staples will debut a new installment in January.

Crypto.com Buys Naming Rights to L.A.’s Staples Center

Retail giant Staples originally bought the naming rights in 1999.

8 Technologies That Prove What Divides Us Is Smaller Than What Binds Us

Beyond hype and dissent sit gadgets we can all rally around.

Don’t Laminate Your Covid-19 Vax Card

You’re fully vaccinated and you’ve got a little paper card to prove it. So what to do with this precious evidence of immunity? Tempting as it might be to laminate the card for posterity and protection, you probably shouldn’t—it may need an update soon. There are ongoing discussions, both in the U.S. and abroad, about…

1.16 Million Payment Cards Breached in Staples Hack

In case anybody still believed we were doing ok on cybersecurity, Staples just announced that malware deployed at 115 of its stores nationwide gave hackers access to some 1.16 million customers’ payment cards. Check here to see if your store was hit. If news of a Staples hack sounds familiar, that’s because it is. Back…

This Table Isn’t Complete Until You Decorate It With—Staples?

As the number of documents you actually need to print diminishes year by year, you’re probably finding that you don’t use office accessories as quickly. Like staples, which are all but useless without stacks of paper to bind. But designer Nilly Mozer has come up with another way to use them up: A lovely clear…

Staples and Radio Shack have decided to remove Amazon Lockers from their stores because they’ve realized that helping customers shop elsewhere isn’t a good idea. [Bloomberg]

Staples executives have announced that the company will start selling Apple products in the US.

Surface Will Be Available at Best Buy and Staples This Week

One of the big obstacles preventing Microsoft’s Surface from being successful has been the fact that it’s only available direct from Microsoft. Not any more: by the end of the week, the tablet should be available from Staples and Best Buy. https://gizmodo.com/7-ways-to-save-the-microsoft-surface-5967456 ZDNet initially reported the news, which has now been confirmed by the websites…

Staples Is Getting Amazon Lockers

Amazon lockers are a great new idea, allowing people to pick up their parcels when it suits them. Now, Amazon has announced that it’s rolling out the scheme across the Staples chain, too. Reuters reports that the office supply stores will be the latest string of locations to feature Amazon’s ultra-convenient pick-up system. When we…

Why “Five or Six” New Kindle Fires Is Really Just Two Kindle Fires

There’s a Reuters report out there this morning saying there will be “five or six” new Kindle Fire models, according Demos Parneros, president of U.S. Retail for Staples. That doesn’t mean what you think it means, exactly. Whatever you think of Mr. Parneros’s credibility, here’s why that number is dumb: It’s almost definitely based on…

All the Black Friday Deals

It’s the biggest shopping day of the year. There are tons of deals—and not-really-deals—out there. So we combed through every one we could find, and ranked them all. Here’s your Ultimate Black Friday guide: happy hunting. Deals are grouped by category, just like our daily Dealzmodo lists. So you’ll find ebook readers like the Kindle…

Snag a TouchPad For As Little As $345 This Weekend

Good news for webOS customers who waited to buy a TouchPad. With some couponing and savvy shopping, you could buy the 16GB TouchPad for as low as $345 this weekend. That’s $155 off the original launch price of $500. Anyone with a Staples nearby can visit their local store with this $100 off in-store coupon…

Stampler: The Stapler and the Stamp Had an Adorable Baby

Attaching pieces of paper together is pretty humdrum as far as office activities go, but what if your every staple could be magically transformed into a day-brightening Smiley Face stamp? For £12.00, that’s just what the Stampler, an ingenious new stapler and stamp hybrid, will do! Well, that’s what it hopes to do. Actually, since…

Rumor: 10-Inch HTC Tablet Coming?

A Staples training document has appeared, showing that oft-mentioned 8.9-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab, as well as 10-inch tablets from Acer, Toshiba and HTC. As HTC’s only shown a 7-inch Flyer tablet previously, we’re quite intrigued by this mention. [Droid-Life]

Staples Lands Wifi-Only Xoom for $600. Arrives March 27, Claims Purported Print Ad

Office supply chain Staples is the latest big box store to land the Motorola Xoom. They’re only advertising the wifi version for now, but at $600 it’s one of the cheaper price points listed to date. The ad suggests a March 27 arrival date. [Droid Life via Engadget]

Staples Black Friday Ad Leaks, Some Decent Deals to Be Had

The Staples Black Friday ad has leaked, and while there are some good deals here, I’m not sure I’d stay up all night for any of them. But hey, a 1TB external HDD for $70 is a pretty good deal… Here’s the full list of tech stuff on sale. Doorbusters marked with a *. Cell…

Staples City Is—as You Would Expect—a City Made of Staples

Nothing ever gets lost in Staples City. Until Office Godzilla destroys it. Peter Root, the artist, describes his work: Low-Rise is a precarious assemblage of thousands of free-standing stacks of staples densely tessellated to create a city-like mosaic. Like a city, the staples are subject to the elements, on a micro scale. The slightest breath…

2009 CES Press Room Display Mirrors Financial Apocalypse

2008: Verizon’s cookie lady hands out baked treats as readily as Washington Mutual doled out housing loans. 2009: Need to shred your deed and get outta town? Staples says: Easy.