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Blink's battery-powered outdoor security camera, which the company says can run for up to two years on a single charge, is currently being sold at a discounted price. The deal was highlighted by ZDNET as part of its ongoing coverage of notable tech discounts and product recommendations.
Amazon has increased prices across much of its hardware lineup, including Echo speakers, Kindle e-readers, Fire TV Stick devices, and eero mesh routers, with some products jumping by $30-50. Ring devices were reportedly excluded from the increases. An Amazon spokesperson attributed the changes to rising memory and storage component costs that the company said it could no longer absorb.
Harvard researchers studying ribosomal RNA in the California two-spot octopus discovered an unprecedented gap that splits a normally single RNA fragment into two pieces, a feature not seen in any other animal studied so far. This structural quirk, published in Current Biology, appears to help ribosomes assemble proteins with unusual precision, and so far turns up only in octopus lineages with enlarged nervous systems capable of complex behavior.
At Hot Chips 2026, SK hynix's Jaesik Lee said hybrid bonding won't be ready in time for HBM4E and will instead debut with HBM5, as current HBM4 packages are already constrained by a 775-micron thickness ceiling matching standard logic wafers. To keep scaling within that limit, 16-Hi HBM4 stacks now use dies thinned to about 50 microns with half the interlayer gap of 12-Hi designs, while SK hynix continues using its existing MR-MUF bonding method through upcoming Nvidia Rubin-generation products.
Microsoft has introduced a referral scheme that gives Edge users 500 Microsoft Rewards points—about $0.45—for each friend who installs Edge Mobile and searches with it on two separate days within a 14-day window. Monthly earnings are capped at 7,500 points, roughly $6.82 in Xbox or Microsoft gift card value. The program applies to Edge on Android and iOS and had earlier surfaced in a Canary test build before rolling out broadly.
Autostep, a San Francisco startup building a desktop app that identifies repetitive, costly tasks inside companies and recommends fixes via AI agents or process changes, is expanding its team. The company is recruiting AI and fullstack engineers along with a Chief of Staff as it scales its product. Autostep is part of Y Combinator's current batch and has backing from Neo and executives tied to companies like Cognition, Vanta, and OneTrust.
A blogger added four Intel I226-V 2.5GbE network cards to a GMKtec NucBox G9 mini PC being used as a home router, expanding its networking capability beyond the stock configuration. The modification includes a 3D-printed enclosure addition, with design files released so others can replicate the upgrade themselves.
Google is rolling out version 2.0.0.965719431 of its Magnifier accessibility app with a new icon featuring a blue-to-purple gradient magnifying glass on a filled background, replacing the older blue design. However, the update appears to have broken the app's themed icon feature, showing a blank colored circle instead of the monochrome logo that normally matches a phone's Material You color scheme.
SteelSeries' Arctis Nova 3P gaming headset, a top pick recommended by WIRED, is currently discounted across several color options, with prices ranging from $90 down to $60 for the aqua version sold through Woot. The headset works across PC, consoles, phones, and Nintendo Switch, though buyers should note Xbox and PlayStation versions aren't fully cross-compatible.
At Hot Chips 2026, IBM revealed a next-generation processor built on a 2nm node with 11 cores, each running at a 5.7 GHz base clock. The chip's key innovation is a core that can natively execute both z/Architecture and AArch64 instructions, switching between them within nanoseconds, a result of IBM's April partnership with Arm.
Apple has released beta 7 for iPadOS 27, tvOS 27, visionOS 27 and related software as it nears the end of its testing cycle. The update is focused mainly on bug fixes and stability rather than new features, with public launches expected in mid-September.
Apple has pushed out RC 2 builds for macOS Tahoe 26.7 (build 25G224) and macOS Sequoia 15.8 (build 24H20) to developers, alongside the seventh developer beta of macOS 27 Golden Gate. The update follows last week's first release candidate, which leaked footage and details about upcoming AirPods with cameras using Visual Intelligence.