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This is your best chance to get a deep Black Friday discount on Amazon's Fire tablets

Amazon is now offering various discounts on its Fire tablets for Black Friday, offering some of the best deals of the year.

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Amazon is offering some great deals on its Fire tablets this Black Friday, meaning you can find that perfect tablet for just about anyone you're shopping for. For a limited time, Amazon is knocking up to 50 percent off of some of its Fire tablets, making it an incredible time to shop. But make sure you purchase it quickly, as the offers are only for a limited time.

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RetroArch comes to Amazon's Appstore, bringing easy access to emulators on Fire TV

RetroArch is now available on the Amazon Appstore, allowing users to to emulate retro games on Fire TV dongles and Fire OS tablets.

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RetroArch is a popular open-source front-end for emulators. If you’re into playing retro games, RetroArch is your one-stop-shop for all your emulating needs. It is itself not an emulator but allows you to add "cores" that act as the backend to emulate several legacy consoles such as the Nintendo DS. It offers a single, consistent UI for emulating many retro consoles, saving you the trouble of installing multiple emulators and dealing with different UIs.

Charge Your Kindle Fire HD 7" Faster... Much Faster

Fast charge enables faster charging of your Kindle Fire HD 7" device. Try out this kernel with the feature enabled and say goodbye to long charge times!

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The Kindle Fire HD 7” is quite an intriguing device. Technically it uses its own operating system, "FireOS," which is essentially a skinned variant of Android 4.2.2. Of course, it was only a matter of time before fully fledged Android was ported to this device. Actually, lots of development related activity has happened since September 2012, when the device was made public.

Kindle Fire USB Debugging

Ask any Android enthusiast and they'll tell you that ADB is one of the best things since sliced bread. However, due to the vast range of Android devices available and the significant differences between them at the hardware level, using an ADB connection via USB isn't always a plug-and-play operation. You need to find the right drivers and configure them properly before you can start using ADB. If you've got any variant of Kindle Fire, you can easily configure its ADB drivers on your computer using the official guide provided by Amazon.