What is a down payment?
A down payment is the portion of a home’s purchase price a buyer pays at closing, creating initial home equity (e.g., a 10% down payment on a $400,000 home is $40,000 with a $360,000 mortgage).
Aug 20, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance

A down payment is the portion of a home’s purchase price a buyer pays at closing, creating initial home equity (e.g., a 10% down payment on a $400,000 home is $40,000 with a $360,000 mortgage).
Aug 20, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance

The US now accounts for 15 of the world’s 20 largest hyperscale datacenter markets, and Northern Virginia alone hosts nearly 12% of global hyperscale capacity.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
The Register
A security researcher enrolled a Linux machine into Apple’s Find My network and then retrieved live “people-location” data that Apple normally shares only with Apple devices for a specific Apple account that had location sharing enabled.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
The Register
Aristotle Small Cap Equity Fund exited its Verra Mobility (VRRM) position after the loss of a significant customer contract materially changed its investment thesis and reduced confidence in Verra Mobility’s long-term earnings and growth outlook.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance

Aristotle Small Cap Equity Fund exited Byline Bancorp (NYSE:BY) during Q2 2026 after the stock appreciated to the fund’s valuation target and its risk/reward improved less than other opportunities.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance

Aristotle Small Cap Equity Fund liquidated its Americold Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:COLD) position due to deteriorating fundamentals.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance

Aristotle Small Cap Equity Fund opened a position in UMB Financial Corporation (NYSE:UMBF) in Q2 2026, saying the regional bank’s fee-based revenue, disciplined underwriting, and strong capital position make it well positioned for long-term earnings growth as loan growth improves and fee income expands.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance

Google is adding a chat interface to let you describe—in natural language—which topics or links to show or skip in your Android Discover feed, with changes updating immediately and remembered afterward.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
ZDNet

Aristotle Small Cap Equity Fund initiated a position in IPG Photonics (IPG) in Q2 2026, citing opportunities tied to advanced manufacturing and factory automation, reshoring, electrification, and semiconductor investment.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance

Aristotle Small Cap Equity Fund said AI fears about Huron Consulting Group Inc. (NASDAQ: HURN) were “overly pessimistic,” despite Huron “handily” beating analyst expectations and then seeing shares sell off on AI-cannibalization sentiment.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance

Meta is rolling out its experimental vibe-coding gaming app Pocket to everyone in the U.S., letting people generate small interactive games from AI prompts and publish them to a feed as “gizmos.”
Aug 20, 2026 ·
TechCrunch

The Roborock Q7 M5+ pairs LiDAR mapping with 10,000Pa HyperForce suction and a 2.7-liter auto-empty dock bag rated for up to seven weeks of debris before you need to empty it, making it a dependable budget/midrange robot vacuum for frequent runs.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
ZDNet

Inertia Enterprises says it cut fuel-pellet manufacturing time from several days to about 2–3 hours per pellet by reducing crystal growth to roughly 30 minutes (down from up to a week at the National Ignition Facility).
Aug 20, 2026 ·
TechCrunch

Patreon is rolling out 30 new or revamped creator features, including iOS Clips that turn creator videos into short downloadable shares (and Quips) and a revamped discovery algorithm that compares posts by topic, craft, style, and theme to better surface smaller creators.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
TechCrunch

TechCrunch’s 2026 Startup Battlefield 200 names 200 early-stage startups across categories including AI, climate, health, fintech, robotics, and consumer, and the top 20 finalists will be revealed live on October 13 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
TechCrunch

Google added a new “Preferred Sources” button that lets readers add a publisher to Google Search and immediately return them to the publisher’s page, with that site appearing more often in Google Search (including Top Stories, AI Overviews, and AI Mode).
Aug 20, 2026 ·
Engadget

Google will add a Strength Training feature to the Pixel Watch 5 that generates custom strength workouts on the watch, shows sets/reps/weight without needing a phone, and initiates rest timers between exercises like Fitbod.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
ZDNet

Robotaxi Tracker data says all 170 Tesla Robotaxi rides in Austin from the past two weeks were unsupervised, spanning 54 different vehicles.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
Engadget

Greg Brockman has expanded control of OpenAI’s day-to-day operations and now oversees product strategy and the company’s entire “scaling” arm as OpenAI prepares for an IPO, with his comments replacing CEO Sam Altman’s in at least one recent press release quote.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
The Verge

The U.S. Department of Energy awarded $500 million in grants to seven companies building domestic critical-minerals projects spanning lithium extraction, cobalt refining, and battery recycling, signaling Washington’s focus on processing bottlenecks in the battery supply chain.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
