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Black Friday is becoming Black November I'm Bridget Carey this is your CNET update the day after Halloween stores are ready to push out Christmas in full force decking the aisles with merchandise but can you believe that on the first day of November we already are seen sales for Black Friday Black Friday has swallowed up all of November into a black hole of shopping madness online tech retailer Newegg is calling it Black November offering discounts on nine hundred products throughout the month Amazon launched Black Friday deals on Sunday but are these deals any good so far it's a bit average nothing too exciting in tech no matter what you get do your research before assuming Amazon has given you the best sale for example Amazon is advertising this Nikon d3300 digital SLR as a deal for about four hundred and fifty dollars a savings of two hundred bucks but guess what go on Nikon site and it's offered at the same price so that's not a deal at all and as Amazon beefs up Black Friday promotions it's also shutting down to other parts of its business Amazon is killing the daily deal site Amazon Local which was just like Groupon Amazon is also discontinuing the Amazon register it was a little $10 credit card reader that plugged into a smartphone or tablet so that small businesses can process payments it was just like square but Amazon had lower transaction fees than Square let's switch gears to Microsoft if you're a Windows user and you have not yet upgraded to Windows 10 listen closely your computer may automatically upgrade to Windows 10 without you whine it - unless you change your settings beginning next year Windows 10 will be marked as a recommended Windows Update and if your computer is set to automatically install any update that's labeled recommended you're gonna find Windows 10 on your machine you can turn off automatic updates to be in more control to do it manually and if it does happen you can revert to your old system within one month but still it's pushy and in news outside of planet Earth NASA is celebrating 15 years of humans living in space aboard the International Space Station on November 2nd in the year 2000 the first three-man crew move and some 220 people have been there since and speaking of space there's another new voyage about to take place CBS says it's working on a new Star Trek television show to premiere in 2017 set phasers to excited beam me down to planet hype this would air 50 years after the original Star Trek series boldly debuted on TV CBS is the parent company of CNET's so I had a little message for the bosses please just aim to make this more like the next generation and less like enterprise okay okay that's it for this tech news update there's more at sina.com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey Bridge one to beam up