Knock, Knock: The Ring Doorbell 4K Pro Just Rang In at a New Low Price
Ring Doorbell 4K Pro is $180 on Amazon (down from $250), with the Prime-member price applying to both the wired and battery-powered versions.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
CNET
Ring Doorbell 4K Pro is $180 on Amazon (down from $250), with the Prime-member price applying to both the wired and battery-powered versions.
Aug 17, 2026 ·CNET
Discounted TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass pricing ends Friday, August 21 at 11:59 p.m. PT, after which you can no longer save up to $300 on a pass (or get larger group discounts).
Aug 17, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
The Glorious GMMK 3 65-percent mechanical keyboard is available for $34.99 at Woot (usually $139.99) using coupon code WOOTGAMING, and first-time Woot customers get an extra $5 off with the same code.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
The Verge
Spotify launched “Playlist Notes,” letting listeners add notes to songs, podcast episodes, and audiobooks in playlists they own or collaborate on, with notes visible to anyone who can view the playlist.
Aug 17, 2026 ·TechCrunch
The 6-outlet Tapo P316M Wi‑Fi smart power strip is 16% off on Amazon, dropping to $42 (from $50), about $2 above its all-time low.
Aug 17, 2026 ·CNET
Acura’s Nexera Vision concept introduces an “phantom lighting” headlight/taillight signature that Acura says will appear on future models starting with the upcoming 2025 RDX Hybrid.
Aug 17, 2026 ·CNET
Dartwords is a new daily word game launching on the web where each day’s secret word can be found in 10 guesses using conversational, Clippy-like clues from a character named Darty.
Aug 17, 2026 ·The Verge
Humanoid robots are still early-stage prototypes and “humanoid theater,” and their biggest gap is merging physical dexterity with general-purpose intelligence driven by training data and large language models (with many still likely relying on remote human operation).
Aug 17, 2026 ·CNET
Petlibro said a cache issue disabled service on Wednesday night, with a solution implemented at 11:43 pm PT and service reactivated, while it continued operating in a crisis setting until performance returned to pre-failure levels the next morning.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Reddit will begin testing “video Reddit” this Monday—an initial version that turns select English-language Reddit posts into audio narration and video posts across select communities, letting users choose to “read” or “play.”
Aug 17, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Orders of the Apple MacBook Neo from Best Buy include a free $25 Starbucks gift card, along with three free months of Apple Music and Apple Arcade plus Apple News Plus (two months) and Apple TV (one month).
Aug 17, 2026 ·CNET
Sonos’ iOS app update adds Live Activities lock-screen controls that let you adjust volume and switch songs for currently playing music, but only after unlocking with Face ID or a passcode.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
Engadget
Curved TVs are effectively dead, with Samsung giving up on the idea by 2020, while the curved-screen concept lives on in curved gaming monitors that offer more extreme curvature than TVs.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Engadget
Duolingo says a study of rising eighth graders found scores improved 14% after about five minutes a day using Duolingo Math features over four weeks, and 88% of students reported feeling more confident doing math.
Aug 17, 2026 ·CNET
Rental arbitrage lets entrepreneurs sign long-term leases and legally sublet the same properties on short-term-rental platforms like Airbnb, earning money from the “spread” between fixed rent and guest revenue (minus operating costs, platform fees, and cleaning).
Aug 17, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Ultra HD Blu-ray can support maximum video rates of 108 Mbps on 66GB discs and 128 Mbps on 100GB discs, giving it more picture data than mainstream 4K streaming when bitrates are constrained by network stability and compression limits.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Engadget
Keeper’s 50% off deal cuts its Personal plan from $4.30 to $2.15 a month and its Family plan (up to five users) from $9.20 to $4.60 a month.
Aug 17, 2026 ·CNET
Walmart discounts include an HP OmniBook 5 laptop for $749 (down from $1,469), with battery life lasting more than 28 hours in CNET tests.
Aug 17, 2026 ·CNET
YouTube will count a view as soon as a video starts playing starting August 24, aligning view counts with the system used for Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts.
Aug 17, 2026 ·The Verge
You can run Debian on an old Android handset by installing Termux plus proot-distro, then using `proot-distro login debian` after `proot-distro install debian`.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
ZDNet
