AirTags and cheap gaming laptops headline our favorite deals this week
You can grab a four-pack of AirTags for just $64.99 right now. Apple’s AirTags have become one of my essentials while traveling, namely because they let me check whether my luggage is in the right place instead of panicking at the baggage claim. And right now, you can get a four-pack of AirTags at Amazon and Walmart for $64.99 ($35 off), which is just a few cents short of the bundle’s all-time low. The sleek Bluetooth trackers let you check their location using Apple’s Find My app. If the item is out of Bluetooth range, you can flag the AirTag as lost, and you’ll receive an update on its location whenever it’s near an iPhone or iPad. You can also share the location of an AirTag with up to five other people or select airlines if your bag doesn’t arrive at the terminal or you need someone to grab it ASAP. If you have an iPhone 15...
You can grab a four-pack of AirTags for just $64.99 right now. Apple’s AirTags have become one of my essentials while traveling, namely because they let me check whether my luggage is in the right place instead of panicking at the baggage claim. And right now, you can get a four-pack of AirTags at Amazon and Walmart for $64.99 ($35 off), which is just a few cents short of the bundle’s all-time low.The sleek Bluetooth trackers let you check their location using Apple’s Find My app. If the item is out of Bluetooth range, you can flag the AirTag as lost, and you’ll receive an update on its location whenever it’s near an iPhone or iPad. You can also share the location of an AirTag with up to five other people or select airlines if your bag doesn’t arrive at the terminal or you need someone to grab it ASAP.If you have an iPhone 15 or newer model, you can also leverage ultra wideband tech to enable “precision finding,” which will show you the distance and direction to your AirTag. What’s more, each location tracker uses replaceable batteries and carries an IP67 rating, meaning it can withstand immersion in up to a meter of water for half an hour.
Read our original AirTag review.
Apple AirTags
Where to Buy:
$99 $64.99 at Amazon (four-pack)
$99 $64.99 at Walmart (four-pack)
There’s no shortage of great gaming laptops out there, but it’s hard to argue against the value of Lenovo’s Legion 5 — especially given it’s currently on sale for $1,049 ($501 off) at Walmart, which is about $100 short of its recent Prime Day low. The Legion 5 features a 15.1-inch 2,560 x 1,600 OLED screen with a 165Hz refresh rate, an AMD Ryzen 7 260 processor, 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD, and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 GPU. That’s a lot of power for a gaming laptop in this price range, and you can upgrade its storage (up to 2TB) and RAM (up to 32GB) yourself to improve its performance down the line.If you want a more capable machine out of the box, you can also pick up the step-up configuration with 1TB of storage and an Intel Core i7 14700HX processor for $1,199 ($300 off) at Walmart. Both models are equipped with a backlit RGB keyboard, three USB-A ports, two USB-C ports, an HDMI port, an ethernet port, and a power adapter port.
Lenovo Legion 5 gaming laptop
Where to Buy:
$1549.99 $1049 at Walmart (AMD model)
$1499.99 $1199 at Walmart (Intel model)
If you want to cut the cord (and binge-watch your favorite shows and movies), Hulu is offering a three-month subscription to Hulu with Live TV for $64.99 ($25 off) through November 5th at 6PM ET. The ongoing promo is limited to new and former subscribers, though, specifically those who haven’t had an active subscription in more than a month.Hulu with Live TV lets you stream more than 95 channels, including Comedy Central, VH1, and Adult Swim. A subscription also provides access to Hulu and Disney Plus (with ads), along with both ESPN Select and ESPN Unlimited. The trio of streaming services lets you watch live sports and download new shows and movies, including Andor, Abbot Elementary, The Lowdown, Alien Earth, Stay, and Tempest. Just keep in mind that your subscription will automatically renew at the then-current price after three months, unless you cancel it beforehand.
Hulu with Live TV
Hulu (with Live TV) lets you stream over 90 channels with unlimited DVR. The subscription also comes with (ad-supported) Disney Plus and Hulu subscriptions, plus ESPN Select and Unlimited.
Where to Buy:
$89.99 $64.99 at Hulu (per month)
More standouts from this week
Summer might be over, but you can still grab JBL’s Charge 6 at Walmart starting at $153.99 ($46 off). The waterproof Bluetooth speaker features an upgraded woofer, up to 28 hours of continuous playback, and an IP68 rating, meaning it can withstand immersion in more than three feet of water for over 30 minutes. The Charge 6 also supports JBL’s AI Sound Boost feature — which a***yzes your audio to avoid distortion at higher volumes — as well as lossless audio from streaming services like Apple Music and Spotify (finally), so long as you connect using a USB-C cable.
CMF’s Buds 2A were already a solid pair of budget earbuds, but they’re even more so today, now that they’re on sale at Amazon for Prime members for a mere $29 ($20 off). The inexpensive in-ears feature noise cancellation, a sweat-proof IP54 rating, and multipoint Bluetooth support, not to mention up to five hours of playback with ANC enabled or eight hours with it off. You can also tweak their sound, adjust ANC levels, and locate them via Nothing’s app, which is a welcome surprise for a pair of $30 earbuds.
If you want to beef up your home security system, Ring’s Battery Doorbell Plus is down to a new low of $79.99 ($70 off) at Amazon and Best Buy. Our favorite battery-powered buzzer can record sharp 1536p video, capture an entire person from top to bottom, and features removable batteries for easy charging. It also lasts about two months on a single charge with HDR and snapshot capture enabled, and with a Ring Home subscription ($4.99 a month / $49.99 a year), can provide up to 180 days of history.
Home a**istant on bare metal works great — until it becomes your entire home’s infrastructure
Before combining everything onto a few Proxmox-powered cluster nodes, I ran dedicated hardware for specific packages, be it Home Assistant and Frigate. The former was running on a compact mini PC, and by compact, I mean ridiculously small. It had an Intel chip, barely any RAM, and almost no storage,...
Before combining everything onto a few Proxmox-powered cluster nodes, I ran dedicated hardware for specific packages, be it Home Assistant and Frigate. The former was running on a compact mini PC, and by compact, I mean ridiculously small. It had an Intel chip, barely any RAM, and almost no storage, making it perfect for running the smart home ... or so I thought. Though I enjoyed having no layers, no extra software, and no hypervisor at the time, I eventually outgrew the system it ran on. Bare metal can prove useful for many deployments, and it's never really the wrong choice to make for Home Assistant.
Emily Brown Houston
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‘Fuck you, Bambu’: How one private message could change the face of 3D printing
Bambu Lab makes the best, most accessible 3D printers yet, but that reputation is suddenly under siege. It all started when Paweł Jarczak received a private message from the company on Reddit asking him to delete his code. Now the 3D printing community is lining up behind Jarczak to fund...
Bambu Lab makes the best, most accessible 3D printers yet, but that reputation is suddenly under siege. It all started when Paweł Jarczak received a private message from the company on Reddit asking him to delete his code. Now the 3D printing community is lining up behind Jarczak to fund a war against Bambu - and the future of 3D printers could be at stake.Jarczak is a developer who shared a way to let people remote control their Bambu printers without using Bambu software. But Bambu wanted to lock down its system, despite relying on open-source code. That provoked a furious coalition of open-source advocates and YouTubers to respond."I' …Read the full story at The Verge.
John Doe New York
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Roku is offering up to 90% off streaming subscriptions, but you only have until Sunday
You know, there's always a big rush from retail companies to meet the demands of popular retail days like Black Friday. But what if a company just made up a day and then began celebrating it with deals? I mean, nothing's stopping a business from announcing that today's a special...
You know, there's always a big rush from retail companies to meet the demands of popular retail days like Black Friday. But what if a company just made up a day and then began celebrating it with deals? I mean, nothing's stopping a business from announcing that today's a special kind of day and then offering discounts because of it.
John Doe New York
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I ditched Docker Desktop for native containers and everything is better
I adore Docker and its containerization ecosystem as much as the next tinkerer. Between its simple commands, Compose functionality, and massive community support, Docker is easy to pick up for beginners and reliable enough to serve veteran project-building enthusiasts. But as someone who started with Docker and moved on to...
I adore Docker and its containerization ecosystem as much as the next tinkerer. Between its simple commands, Compose functionality, and massive community support, Docker is easy to pick up for beginners and reliable enough to serve veteran project-building enthusiasts. But as someone who started with Docker and moved on to other container runtimes over the course of my DIY project-building journey, I have to admit that it has certain quirks that make it a bit of a hassle for advanced container-hosting tasks.
Clara Gutiérrez Spain
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Meta lays off thousands of employees to offset AI investments
Meta says it needs to “offset the other investments we're making.” | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Meta has reportedly notified thousands of employees that they've been laid off as the company attempts to compensate for its hefty AI investments. In an email from Meta management shared...
Meta says it needs to “offset the other investments we're making.” | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Meta has reportedly notified thousands of employees that they've been laid off as the company attempts to compensate for its hefty AI investments. In an email from Meta management shared by Business Insider, impacted staffers were told that the planned headcount reduction was part of the company's "continued effort to run the company more efficiently and to allow us to offset the other investments we're making."Reports of an upcoming wave of layoffs started circulating in March, though at that time Meta was believed to be cutting up to 20 percent of its total company headcount. According to a recent memo shared in May, the layoffs are now …Read the full story at The Verge.
Jane Smith Los Angeles
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You, too, can build this ESP32 ePaper device that tells your fortune
If you want to get started with both the ESP32 and ePaper displays, what better way to get accustomed to both than by a small, simple, yet endlessly fun little project? If you're on the hunt for something to make that doesn't take a ton of effort and gives you...
If you want to get started with both the ESP32 and ePaper displays, what better way to get accustomed to both than by a small, simple, yet endlessly fun little project? If you're on the hunt for something to make that doesn't take a ton of effort and gives you something cool to talk about, then this ESP32 fortune teller may just be what you're looking for. It has a ton of pre-made fortunes loaded on it, works offline, and best of all, it comes with additional features that elevate it past being just a novelty.
Sophia Wilson Atlanta
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Outlook is Microsoft’s neglected masterpiece
There was a time when Microsoft Outlook was the undisputed king of Windows productivity — a fast, feature-packed native application that handled massive enterprise workflows without breaking a sweat.
There was a time when Microsoft Outlook was the undisputed king of Windows productivity — a fast, feature-packed native application that handled massive enterprise workflows without breaking a sweat.
William Garcia Boston
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In SpaceX’s IPO, Elon Musk is a risk factor
The SpaceX IPO is here, and it's more than just an historic public offering that could make Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. It also reveals more ways in which Elon Musk's companies interact and overlap with each other, shuffling money around in ways that are often difficult to keep...
The SpaceX IPO is here, and it's more than just an historic public offering that could make Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. It also reveals more ways in which Elon Musk's companies interact and overlap with each other, shuffling money around in ways that are often difficult to keep track of. This is evident in ways that are both obvious and less so. A CTRL-F search for "Tesla" yields 87 results, xAI is mentioned 356 times, and X 267 times. Even the Boring Company (7 times) and Neuralink (3) get a few mentions. Throughout its 330 pages of rocket launches and interplanetary wishes, you can trace the network of ways in which Musk's …Read the full story at The Verge.
Michael Johnson Chicago
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I spent weeks chasing a DisplayPort problem that HDMI solved in seconds
DisplayPort has largely been the primary cable PC enthusiasts reach for, and for good reason. It has better bandwidth than the HDMI of its era, native VRR before HDMI caught up, and there's no royalty funny business or weird treatment of Linux drivers. When I upgraded from my 1440p IPS...
DisplayPort has largely been the primary cable PC enthusiasts reach for, and for good reason. It has better bandwidth than the HDMI of its era, native VRR before HDMI caught up, and there's no royalty funny business or weird treatment of Linux drivers. When I upgraded from my 1440p IPS display to a 4K OLED, I reached for DisplayPort once more. I plugged it in, set my refresh rate on the "Gaming Mode" of my Samsung Odyssey G8 to 240Hz, and thought that'd be the end of it. Then I experienced weird static lines in the display and periodic black screens that weren't frequent enough to be very concerning, but just enough for me to search for a fix. After chasing ghosts of panel problems, cable replacements and entire GPU swaps, I found that the DisplayPort implementation itself wasn't up to snuff, and switching to HDMI was the only fix.
Daniel Martinez Dallas
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The Flipper One is finally official, but Flipper isn’t selling it yet — they’re asking for help to build it
The Flipper Zero spent the past five years becoming the kind of device that people either own and love or have a strong opinion about despite never having touched one. It packaged NFC, sub-GHz radio, infrared, RFID, and a handful of hardware interfaces into a pocket-sized microcontroller toy that became...
The Flipper Zero spent the past five years becoming the kind of device that people either own and love or have a strong opinion about despite never having touched one. It packaged NFC, sub-GHz radio, infrared, RFID, and a handful of hardware interfaces into a pocket-sized microcontroller toy that became unexpectedly serious in the hands of researchers, hobbyists, and the occasional teenager. It was hugely popular, and the company says that it generated over $150 million in sales with more than a million devices sold.
Yuridia Melgar Mexico
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Someone built a fully motorized Lego WALL-E controlled by a PS4 controller, complete with a built-in taser
One of the coolest things people who build stuff can do is bring something from fiction into reality. We've seen plenty of Pip-Boys and even a fully 3D-printed wearable suit of Doomguy's armor that used in-game assets for extra accuracy. One recurring trend is when people remake robots from movies...
One of the coolest things people who build stuff can do is bring something from fiction into reality. We've seen plenty of Pip-Boys and even a fully 3D-printed wearable suit of Doomguy's armor that used in-game assets for extra accuracy. One recurring trend is when people remake robots from movies and books, because tinkering and robotics often go hand-in-hand.
Jane Smith Los Angeles
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AMD just dropped a compact AI workstation that makes discrete GPUs look outdated for running LLMs
AMD has announced the availability of the Ryzen AI Halo developer platform, powered by AI Max 300-series processors. This range of mini PCs isn't going to win awards for gaming prowess, nor are they designed as low-cost options for attaching behind workstation monitors.
AMD has announced the availability of the Ryzen AI Halo developer platform, powered by AI Max 300-series processors. This range of mini PCs isn't going to win awards for gaming prowess, nor are they designed as low-cost options for attaching behind workstation monitors.
