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You folks out there who have been waiting for a good deal before picking up Amazon’s Kindle Scribe, the company’s first Kindle with stylus support, now may be your time. The device has dropped to an all-time low price of $240. That’s 29 percent off the regular price for the base model with the Basic Pen and 16 GB of storage. In addition, there’s an option you can plump for that includes three months of Kindle Unlimited. That bundle costs the same price, but remember to cancel Kindle Unlimited before the three months are up if you don’t want to keep using it (the service typically costs $12 per month).

One important thing to bear in mind here is that Amazon Prime Day is slated to take place in July. That mega sale always includes steep discounts on Amazon’s own products. While $240 is the best offer we’ve seen for the Kindle Scribe, there’s the possibility that the price will drop even lower for a couple of days in July.

That said, a discount of $100 is nothing to sniff at for our pick for the best e-reader E Ink tablet around. The 10.2-inch touchscreen has auto-adjusting front lights to make it easy to use in a variety of lighting conditions. The stylus and tablet combine to deliver a low-latency writing experience, which makes writing on the device by hand feel more natural. You can create multiple notebooks too, adding pages as you see fit.

The Kindle Scribe’s battery can power the device for months between charges as E Ink screens are incredibly efficient. You can, of course, read e-books from Amazon and Amazon Unlimited. You can also listen to audiobooks thanks to Audible and Bluetooth support.

On the downside, we found it somewhat frustrating that it’s not possible to write notes in the margins of most books. For the time being, that function is limited to a selection that’s made up of journals and puzzle books such as crosswords and sudoku ones. In fiction and non-fiction books, you’ll need to hold the stylus against the screen to highlight a word or phrase and add notes there. If that’s not an issue for you, we reckon you can’t go too far wrong with the Kindle Scribe.

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The Anker 334 MagGo magnetic power bank is on sale via Amazon for just $31. That’s a discount of over 20 percent and a record low price for this particular model. The sale even applies to all of the available color options, five in all, which is something of a rarity.

Let’s go over some of the features. This device boasts a 10,000mAh capacity, which should allow for around 20 extra hours of smartphone use. It charges wirelessly with 10N of magnetic force and can both juice up your phone and charge itself simultaneously, when plugged into some power.

It’s also pretty small, easily fitting into a pocket or bag, and downright cute. The varied color options help with that. There are integrated temperature sensors to prevent overheating and handy LED lights on the exterior to let you know when it’s charging.

This is, more or less, an entry-level power bank, so it doesn’t have some of the high-tech bells and whistles of its more expensive cousins. It can’t charge multiple items at once, like some of the 3-in-1 products out there, and takes around four hours to fully charge a modern smartphone. Still, it is an Anker product, and the company makes good chargers and power banks.

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The European Union is going impose additional tariffs of up to 38 percent on Chinese-made electric vehicles in an effort to protect the region’s manufacturers from unfair competition, according to The New York Times and the Financial Times. The European Commission has already warned Chinese carmakers about the additional taxes, which will go on top of the existing 10 percent tariff on their EVs and will be different for each manufacturer. BYD’s and Geely’s vehicles will be hit by tariffs between 17.4 and 20 percent, while SAIC will face an additional 38 percent in taxes. 

Rates for other carmakers vary, depending on whether they’ve cooperated with an ongoing EU investigation into the Chinese government’s subsidies for its EV manufacturers. Because of those subsidies, China-made EVs can be sold at much lower prices than their European competitors’. The Chinese carmakers that have cooperated with the probe will be subjected to an additional tariff of 21 percent, while those who didn’t will get an extra 38 percent. The Financial Times says European Commission’s Margaritis Schinas has reached out to Chinese authorities to “explore possible ways to resolve” the issue. The new tariffs will be enforced on July 4 if they fail to reach an agreement. 

While the EU said that it’s introducing additional taxes on Chinese EVs to protect the bloc’s manufacturers, some authorities and European automakers oppose the move out of concern that it could lead to retaliation from China. They’re specifically worried that China’s response would make EVs more expensive in general, which in turn could drive away customers, especially those who are still not wholly convinced that they should switch to electric. 

The EU’s announcement comes a month after the US quadrupled the import tariff for Chinese EVs. It was part of a bigger move by the US government to quash China’s influence on its economy, along with imposing additional taxes on Chinese-made semiconductors, solar cells, batteries and medical products. 

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