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Donald Trump left the White House nearly four years ago. Given his self-confidence, I suspect he is now thinking: “What could be so different? I’ve got this.” Well, I just traveled from a reporting trip in Tel Aviv, Israel, to a conference in the United Arab Emirates to a deep dive with Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence team in London, and I think the president-elect would be wise to remember a famous aphorism: There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen. What I saw and heard exposed me to three giant, shifting tectonic plates that will have profound implications for the new administration. The most significant geopolitical event. In just the last two months, the Israeli military has inflicted a defeat on Iran that approaches its 1967 Six-Day War defeat of Egypt, Syria and Jordan. Full stop. Let’s review: Over the past few decades, Iran built a formidable threat network that seemed to put Israel into an octopuslike grip. It became widely accepted that Israel was deterred from striking at Iran’s nuclear facilities because Iran had armed the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon with enough precision rockets to destroy Israel’s ports, airports, high-tech factories, air bases and infrastructure. Not so fast. It turned out that Mossad and Israel’s cyber Unit 8200 had been forging what became one of the country’s greatest intelligence successes ever. They planted explosive devices in the pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah’s military commanders, developed human and technological tracking capabilities to find Hezbollah’s top leaders, painstakingly identified storage facilities in Lebanon and Syria for Hezbollah’s most lethal precision rockets and then systematically took many of them out by air in October. The result is that Hezbollah looks likely to accept a 60-day cease-fire with Israel in Lebanon negotiated by U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein. This is a big deal. It means that, even if just for 60 days, Hezbollah and, by extension, Iran have decided to delink themselves from Hamas in the Gaza Strip and stop the firing from Lebanon for the first time since Oct. 8, 2023, the day after Hamas invaded Israel. We will see if it lasts, but if it does, it will increase the pressure on Hamas to agree to a cease-fire and hostage release with Israel, more on Israel’s terms. There is a reason for this. Hezbollah’s mother ship has suffered a real blow. According to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s April strike on Iran eliminated one of four Russian-supplied S-300 surface-to-air missile defense batteries around Tehran, and Israel destroyed the remaining three batteries on Oct. 26. Israel also damaged Iran’s ballistic missile production capabilities and its ability to produce the solid fuel used in long-range ballistic missiles. In addition, according to Axios, Israel’s Oct. 26 strike on Iran, which was a response to an earlier Iranian attack on Israel, also destroyed equipment used to create the explosives that surround uranium in a nuclear device, setting back Iran’s efforts in nuclear weapons research. A senior Israeli defense official told me that the Oct. 26 attack on Iran “was lethal, precise and a surprise.” And up to now, the Iranians “don’t know technologically how we hit them. So they are at the most vulnerable point they have been in this generation: Hamas is not there for them, Hezbollah is not there for them, their air defenses are not there anymore, their ability to retaliate is sharply diminished, and they are worried about Trump.” Which means that Iran is either riper than ever for negotiations to curb its nuclear program or riper than ever for an attack by Israel or the Trump administration — or both — to destroy those nuclear facilities. Either way, Trump will face choices he did not have four years ago. It is not only a new Iran, but also a new Israel. There were legitimate reasons President Joe Biden denounced the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrants against Netanyahu and his former defense minister Yoav Gallant, accusing them of war crimes in Gaza against a Hamas enemy that deliberately embedded itself among civilians. This same court never issued an arrest warrant for President Bashar Assad of Syria, whose army killed hundreds of thousands of his own people. The ICC said Syria is not a member. But neither is Israel. It is also odd that the ICC issued a warrant only for the Hamas leader Mohammed Deif, who is widely believed to be dead, and not for the very much alive Muhammad Sinwar (the younger brother of the late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar), who is now reportedly running Hamas in Gaza and was a commander in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. But while the ICC warrants are questionable, they were also avoidable. The strategy that Netanyahu has imposed on his military is one of the ugliest in Israel’s history: Go into Gaza, destroy as much of Hamas as you can, don’t be too worried about civilian casualties, then leave the remnants of Hamas in charge to loot food convoys and intimidate the local population — then rinse and repeat. Why is he doing this? Because Netanyahu is being directed by the far-right Jewish supremacists he needs to stay in power and possibly out of prison on charges of corruption. And the stated goal of those Jewish supremacists is to extend Israeli settlements from the West Bank right through Gaza. They oppose any scenario in which the Palestinian Authority is gradually installed in Gaza as part of an Arab peacekeeping force to replace Hamas. They fear the Palestinian Authority might then become a legitimate partner for a two-state solution. When you fight a war with this many civilian casualties for a year and offer no vision of peace with the other side, you invite the ICC. Attention, President-elect Trump: Netanyahu will tell you that Israel is defending the free world in defeating the dark forces of Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran. There is truth in that. But there is also truth in the fact that he is doing it to defend a Jewish supremacist apartheid vision in the West Bank and Gaza. It’s a dirty business. If you just unquestionably wrap your arms around him, you will get yourself and America dirty, too. You will also ensure that your Jewish grandchildren will one day learn what it is to be Jewish in a world where the Jewish state is a pariah. Artificial general intelligence is probably coming on Trump’s watch. Polymathic artificial general intelligence, or AGI, was still largely in the realm of science fiction when Trump left office four years ago. It is fast becoming nonfiction. And ASI — artificial super intelligence — may be one day as well. AGI means machines will be endowed with intelligence as good as the smartest human in any field, but because of its capabilities to integrate learning across many fields, it will probably become better than any average doctor, lawyer or computer programmer. ASI is a computer brain that can exceed what any human can do in any field and then, with its polymathic ability, it could produce insights far beyond anything humans could do or even imagine. It might even invent its own language we don’t understand. How we adapt to AGI was not part of the 2024 presidential campaign. I predict it will be a central theme of the 2028 election. Between now and then, every leader in the world — but particularly the presidents of America and China, the two AI superpowers — will be judged by how well they enable their countries to get the best and cushion the worst from the coming AI storm. President-elect Trump, if you think blue-collar workers without college degrees are facing challenges today, wait until four years from now. But that’s not Trump’s only challenge. If these AI powers fall into the wrong hands or are used by existing powers in the wrong ways, we could be dealing with possibly civilizational extinction events. History will not look kindly on you, President-elect Trump, if you choose to prioritize the price of toys for American tots over an agreement with China on the behavior of AI bots. — Thomas Friedman is a columnist with The New York Times.Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Review in Progress
Utah Hockey Club walks to arena after bus gets stuck in Toronto trafficJapan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba indicated Tuesday that his ruling party would endorse members implicated in a slush fund scandal for next year's House of Councillors election, provided they explain themselves in parliament. The scandal, involving some Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers failing to properly report income from fundraising parties, eroded public trust in politics, leading the ruling coalition to lose its majority in the House of Representatives in the Oct 27 election. While Ishiba has remained in power, he faces significant challenges, as he must seek opposition support to pass budgets and bills while unifying and rebuilding the party ahead of the upper house election scheduled for the summer of 2025. Ishiba's remarks came as 27 members who belonged to a powerful faction previously led by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have expressed willingness to testify before the upper house ethics committee over the scandal, signaling a shift in their stance. Of that total, 15 members will draw particular attention, as the others are not up for reelection this time. In Japan, half of the 248-member upper house is replaced every three years and the chamber is currently controlled by the ruling coalition. To decide whether to endorse scandal-hit members in the October election, the LDP considered factors such as whether they had fulfilled their accountability by attending the political ethics committee, or the types of intraparty punishments they had received. Party heavyweights with close ties to Abe, including former education minister Koichi Hagiuda and industry minister Yasutoshi Nishimura, ran as independents but joined the LDP-related group in the lower house after the election. Opposition lawmakers are expected to intensify their criticism of Ishiba during the current extraordinary Diet session, which will end later this month, and the regular session from January. Yuichiro Tamaki, leader of the Democratic Party for the People, said at a press conference, "Even if the lawmakers in question attend the political ethics committee, this does not mean everything will be fine afterward." The LDP and Komeito have been exploring policy cooperation with Tamaki's party.
Utah Hockey Club walks to arena after bus gets stuck in Toronto trafficKANSAS CITY, Mo. — There seemed to be little joy in another last-second win for the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday. Patrick Mahomes looked stoic after fill-in kicker Spencer Shrader's field goal beat Carolina 30-27. Travis Kelce, Chris Jones and the rest of the Chiefs merely joined him in walking from the sideline to midfield for handshakes, then headed back to the locker room, a scene completely different from the jubilation they exhibited at the end of so many other nail-biters. Might be that they're getting sick of the stress at the end of games; Kansas City has won 12 straight games decided by seven points or fewer, the longest streak in NFL history, and has won five games decided on the final play this season. Then again, it might be that the Chiefs felt as if they should have beaten the Panthers by a much wider margin. They committed 10 penalties for 91 yards. Their secondary struggled against Carolina quarterback Bryce Young, a one-time bust who has started to play better of late. And their offensive tackles were routinely beaten with Mahomes sacked five times. "You always want to have some blowouts. You want to be a little calmer in the fourth quarter," said Mahomes, who had one of his best games despite the protection problems, throwing for 269 yards and three touchdowns without an interception. "It can be a good thing as you get to the playoffs and later in the season," Mahomes added, "just knowing you've been in those moments before, and knowing how to kind of attack it play by play — not making it too big of a moment. I will say this more than anybody, I would love to win a game not by the very last play." The Chiefs (10-1) nevertheless remained a game ahead of Buffalo in the race for the No. 1 seed in the AFC heading into Friday's game against the Raiders. But there is no margin for error with the Bills now holding the tiebreaker over them. "It's all about getting better. That's the best thing about playing in the NFL," Mahomes said. "We've got to just go back, learn from (Carolina), and know we have a short week against a hungry football team in the Raiders that's coming to our house." What's working The Chiefs' tight ends have taken advantage of deep shell coverages played by opposing defenses by getting open underneath, especially Noah Gray, who had his second straight two-touchdown day against the Panthers. He finished with four catches for a team-best 66 yards, while Kelce was right behind with six catches for 62 yards. What needs help The Chiefs have had problems at tackle all season. Wanya Morris struggled again on the left side and veteran Jawaan Taylor was not much better on the right, and they're a big reason why Mahomes has been sacked 15 times over the past four games. Stock up Just a few weeks ago, Shrader was on the Jets practice squad, hoping for a chance to kick in another regular-season game. Now, with Harrison Butker on injured reserve, he is making the most of that chance in Kansas City. The undrafted rookie is 3 for 3 on field goals, including that 31-yard game-winner against Carolina, and perfect on six extra-point attempts. Stock down Just about everyone in the Kansas City secondary struggled against Carolina, whether it was cornerbacks Nazeeh Johnson and Chamarri Conner or safeties Bryan Cook and Justin Reid. Young shredded them for 263 yards passing and a touchdown. Injuries The Chiefs could have running back Isiah Pacheco and pass rusher Charles Omenihu back this week. Both have been practicing the past couple of weeks and were close to playing against Carolina. Pacheco is returning from an ankle injury sustained in Week 2 while Omenihu has not played since tearing his ACL in the playoffs last season. Key number 5 — Kansas City improved to 5-0 against the NFC this season, making it 26-6 against the AFC's rival conference since Mahomes became the franchise's regular starter for the 2018 season. Next steps The Chiefs have won seven of their past eight against Las Vegas heading into Friday's game, though they no doubt remember the Raiders' previous trip to Arrowhead Stadium. Las Vegas pulled the upset on Christmas Day last season.
Jae Crowder is officially back in the league. The veteran forward officially struck a deal to join the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday, the team announced. Terms of that contract are not yet known, though the Kings put him to work right away. Crowder was in the starting lineup for Sacramento in their game against the Minnesota Timberwolves at the Target Center on Monday night. welcome to the 916, 🤝 — Sacramento Kings (@SacramentoKings) Crowder, 34, spent the last two seasons with the Milwaukee Bucks. The 13-year veteran, who was first selected in the second round of the 2012 draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers, will join his ninth team in the league once his deal with the Kings is official. He averaged 6.2 points and 3.2 rebounds per game last season in Milwaukee. Crowder helped lead both the Miami Heat and the Phoenix Suns to the NBA Finals in back-to-back years, though he’s yet to win a championship. Crowder became a free agent this past offseason, and he worked out with the Kings over the summer, though he was unable to strike a deal to land with any team. The Kings are dealing with significant injuries, and have lost seven of their last 10 games entering Wednesday’s contest in Minnesota. Forward Trey Lyles is out for at least three weeks with a right calf strain, which he sustained in Monday’s loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder. DeMar DeRozan will also miss Wednesday’s game with lower back muscle inflammation, though it’s unknown how long he’ll be sidelined. Third-year coach on Tuesday after he chased down an official in their loss to the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday, too. Though it’s unclear what his role will be with the franchise just yet, Crowder should be able to provide some much-needed depth in the frontcourt behind Keegan Murray and Domantas Sabonis at least in the near future. We’ll see if he’s the missing piece to lift the Kings out of their slump.
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It is fair to say that ( ) doesn't get anywhere near as much attention as the likes of ( ) or ( ). But that doesn't mean that this ASX 300 stock isn't a high-quality option with a bright future. Just ask the team at Goldman Sachs, which is tipping the billing and customer care solution provider's shares as a buy right now. What is the broker saying about the ASX 300 tech stock? Goldman was pleased with Hansen's annual general meeting update, which saw management reiterate its belief that it can continue to grow its revenue organically by 5% to 7% each year for the foreseeable future. It said: HSN's AGM update highlighted mgmt's view that +5-7% organic revenue growth is sustainable, driven by structural digital transformation tailwinds across both verticals. Per our analysis, HSN's FY25E guidance implies that sales in the core business (ex Powercloud) are accelerating to ~8% y/y in FY25E, following a trend that started in FY20A of consistent improvements in organic growth. HSN is in late-stage discussions for several large-sized contracts (some >A$30mn in TCV), which may be incremental to the +5-7% range in FY25E (and/or support an increase to the revenue growth guidance in future years). The broker also sees the recently acquired Powercloud business as a significant driver of growth in the future. Goldman believes that once its cost outs are complete, it will hit an earnings inflection. Goldman adds: Bringing forward profitability to 2H25E (vs 4Q25E) and providing detail around cost-out execution (incl. reducing headcount from 390 to 140) increases our confidence in HSN's ability to bring Powercloud's margins toward ~30% (FY27 GSe), particularly given headcount was ~50 before Powercloud's global expansion (i.e. further room to cut costs). HSN's stated ~A$27mn of annualised cost-out to date is almost 50% of Powercloud's pre-acquisition cost base and in our view implies Powercloud should be entering FY26E generating ~A$10-15mn of annualised EBITDA – a key pillar of HSN inflecting from +7% EBITDA growth in FY25E to +24% in FY26E (we sit +6% vs FY26E VA Cons.). Big returns Goldman thinks that the ASX 300 tech stock is being undervalued by the market. It explains: We believe FY26E is the appropriate year to capitalise into valuation as Powercloud moves into profitability. On this basis, HSN is trading on 9.4x EV/EBITDA (vs ~11x historical average), and is on 0.7x growth-adjusted vs 1.5x AU Tech peers. In light of this, the broker has retained its buy rating with an improved price target of $6.35. Based on its current share price of $5.57, this implies potential upside of 14% for investors. In addition, a 1.8% dividend yield is expected in FY 2025.Pulse Biosciences, Inc. Announces Planned Redemption of Warrants
The weather outlook is fairly mild for Butte and surrounding areas this Thanksgiving week, and though a little snow is possible in parts of Montana, no big snowmakers are expected. “We are not looking at any big, impactful weather for the next few days, potentially through the entire weekend,” Brian Conlan, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Missoula, said Monday. The weather pattern will remain active but not very intense over the next several days, with a few weaker systems moving through that could bring a little light snow to the region, mainly north of I-90 and east of the Great Divide. A little snow is possible in Drummond and Missoula, for example, Tuesday and again Wednesday night into Thursday. But it doesn’t look like there will be enough moisture to produce a lot of snow. “It’s going to be those subtle little waves coming through,” Conlan said. “It could put down half an inch, make the roads slick in the morning.” The chances of even that in Butte and Anaconda seem slim. There is a 30% chance of snow in Anaconda on Tuesday with little or no accumulation expected, with mostly sunny skies on Wednesday and partly sunny skies through the weekend. In Butte, there’s a 20% chance of snow Tuesday before 11 a.m. then partly sunny skies expected each day through Sunday. It will be on the cold side, with highs in the mid- to upper-30s in Anaconda the rest of this week. The high in Butte is forecast at 37 for Tuesday with highs in the low 30s the rest of the week. It may be on the chillier side this holiday week but should remain mostly snow free, according to the National Weather Service. Significant mountain snow is possible in parts of Colorado and Utah this week, and Denver might get an inch or so Tuesday night but it should be clear Thanksgiving Day thought he weekend. If you’re flying from Butte to Salt Lake City — the only destination for commercial flights until Denver gets added in January — you should see rain on Tuesday and possibly snow Tuesday night into Wednesday, but little or no accumulation. Highs Friday through Sunday in Salt Lake will be in the 40s. There probably won’t be a lot of moisture in Butte and other parts of Montana thorough at least Dec. 5 or Dec. 6, Conlan said. There is still a greater than 50% chance of a La Niña weather pattern developing over the tropical Pacific Ocean starting in December, Conlan said, “but that means there’s a 40 to 50% chance that it stays neutral the entire winter. A La Niña pattern typically brings colder and wetter weather to the northern Rockies, including Montana. Mike Smith is a reporter at the Montana Standard with an emphasis on government and politics. Get the daily forecast and severe weather alerts in your inbox! Government and Politics Reporter {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items.Stocks shook off a choppy start to finish higher Monday, as Wall Street kicked off a holiday-shortened week. The S&P 500 ended 0.7% higher after having been down 0.5% in the early going. The Dow Jones Industrial Average also recovered from an early slide to eke out a 0.2% gain. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite rose 1%. Gains in technology and communications stocks accounted for much of the gains, outweighing losses in consumer goods companies and elsewhere in the market. Semiconductor giant Nvidia, whose enormous valuation gives it an outsize influence on indexes, rose 3.7%. Broadcom climbed 5.5% to also help support the broader market. Walmart fell 2% and PepsiCo slid 1%. Japanese automakers Honda and Nissan said they are talking about combining in a deal that might also include Mitsubishi Motors. U.S.-listed shares in Honda jumped 12.7%, while Nissan ended flat. Eli Lilly rose 3.7% after announcing that regulators approved Zepbound as the first and only prescription medicine for adults with sleep apnea. Department store Nordstrom fell 1.5% after it agreed to be taken private by Nordstrom family members and a Mexican retail group in a $6.25 billion deal. All told, the S&P 500 rose 43.22 points to 5,974.07. The Dow gained 66.69 points to 42,906.95. The Nasdaq rose 192.29 points to 19,764.89. Traders got a look at a new snapshot of U.S. consumer confidence Monday. The Conference Board said that consumer confidence slipped in December. Its consumer confidence index fell back to 104.7 from 112.8 in November. Wall Street was expecting a reading of 113.8. The unexpectedly weak consumer confidence update follows several generally strong economic reports last week. One report showed the overall economy grew at a 3.1% annualized rate during the summer, faster than earlier thought. The latest report on unemployment benefit applications showed that the job market remains solid. A report on Friday said a measure of inflation the Federal Reserve likes to use was slightly lower last month than economists expected. Worries about inflation edging higher again had been weighing on Wall Street and the Fed. The central bank just delivered its third cut to interest rates this year, but inflation has been hovering stubbornly above its target of 2%. It has signaled that it could deliver fewer cuts to interest rates next year than it earlier anticipated because of concerns over inflation. Expectations for more interest rate cuts have helped drive a roughly 25% gain for the S&P 500 in 2024. That drive included 57 all-time highs this year. Inflation concerns have added to uncertainties heading into 2025, which include the labor market's path ahead and shifting economic policies under an incoming President Donald Trump. "Put simply, much of the strong market performance prior to last week was driven by expectations that a best-case scenario was the base case for 2025," said Brent Schutte, chief investment officer at Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company Treasury yields rose in the bond market. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4.59% from 4.53% late Friday. European markets closed mostly lower, while markets in Asia gained ground. Wall Street has several other economic reports to look forward to this week. On Tuesday, the U.S. will release its November report for sales of newly constructed homes. A weekly update on unemployment benefits is expected on Thursday. Markets in the U.S. will close at 1 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday for Christmas Eve and will remain closed on Wednesday for Christmas.
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After weeks of previews and early offers, the Black Friday deals are finally in full swing. That means it's one of the best times of the year to upgrade your phone. And if you're looking to get your hands on a sleek Apple iPhone , there are tons of deals out there that can help you get your hands on one for less. Whether you're in the market for the flashy iPhone 16 Pro Max or the budget-friendly iPhone SE , you'll find some incredible savings in our roundup of the season's best savings below. Just be sure to read the fine print closely. Buying a new iPhone on Black Friday isn't always as straightforward as making some other big-ticket purchases, like TVs or laptops . Many Black Friday phone deals require you to meet certain conditions, such as trading in an older device, opening a new line or paying through a monthly installment plan. These deals can be worthwhile if you meet the criteria, with some carriers essentially offering iPhones for free under the right conditions. To help you make the most of these savings, we've rounded up the best deals out there on both current and previous-gen iPhones below. iPhone 16 Black Friday deals Apple isn't known for offering direct discounts very often, but you can still save up to $650 with an eligible trade-in at Apple. That includes devices from Apple, Samsung, Google and others. You'll want to trade in a member of the iPhone 15 series to get the best discount. Walmart is offering up to $1,100 off when you buy an iPhone 16 Pro and up to $930 off the iPhone 16 with an eligible trade-in or activation of a new line of service on a qualifying plan. Final prices will differ depending on which model you choose, as well as which carrier you opt for. More iPhone 16 deals iPhone SE (2022) Black Friday deals Apple is also offering up to $650 off the budget-friendly iPhone SE with an eligible trade-in. With a $429 starting price, that means you could get your hands on this model for free. If your trade-in value exceeds the cost, you'll get the remaining balance back in the form of an Apple gift card. Buy an iPhone SE at full retail price and move your number over to Metro's unlimited plan and you'll get $430 off, making the phone absolutely free. If you don't have an existing number to switch over, you can still save $150 with a new line on a Metro Flex Plus plan. Note : Because Metro is owned by T-Mobile, this offer isn't available to those switching their number from an existing T-Mobile plan. More iPhone SE (2022) deals Previous-gen iPhone Black Friday deals You can buy an iPhone 15 from Verizon today and save up to $1,100 when you activate a new line of service on an Unlimited Welcome, Plus or Ultimate plan, making your new handset completely free. It's getting pretty tough to find the iPhone 14 in stock, but Verizon still has this 2022 Apple phone available and you can get your hands on one for free right now. The carrier is offering up to $730 off the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus when you activate a new line on an Unlimited Welcome, Plus or Ultimate plan. The savings are distributed as bill credits over 36 months. More previous-gen iPhone deals Which iPhone is best? There are quite a few different iPhones on the shelf right now, which can make choosing the right one a little overwhelming. The iPhone 15 is still a great model and the iPhone 16 is our top pick for most people. However, if you need something with some serious hardware, you'll probably want to upgrade to the iPhone 16 Pro or Pro Max . Those on a budget will probably want to grab the third-gen iPhone SE , which normally starts at just $429. However, if you have specific priorities, like a big screen or an advanced camera system, you may want to opt for a high-end model from an older generation, like the iPhone 15 Pro Max , which will help you save some cash without sacrificing too much by way of performance. Where is the best place to buy an iPhone on Black Friday? Deciding whether you should purchase your new Apple phone through a retailer or directly from your carrier will depend on your situation. If you're creating a new line or account, you'll probably want to purchase your iPhone through a major carrier like AT&T, Verizon or T-Mobile , where you can score hundreds in savings -- though you'll be locked into a multiyear contract. If you'd rather not get locked into a service plan, you'll probably want to opt for a prepaid deal from a retailer like Walmart . You'll have to pay for everything upfront, but you will also be free to cancel service at any time. And if you'd rather skip the headache of choosing a service plan altogether, you can pick up an unlocked model from Apple or places like Best Buy , which are both offering some solid Apple Black Friday deals right now.