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Save Up to $900 With B&H’s Limited-Time MacBook Pro Special Offers

With several recent Apple laptops discounted by $100 or more, now’s the time to upgrade.

With solid build quality and years of software updates, Apple’s laptops offer great longevity. But if you’ve been holding on to an aging MacBook for a little too long, now might be the time to pull the trigger on an upgrade, with as much as $900 off recent MacBook Pro models at B&H. These limited-time discounts apply to several different configurations and display sizes, so you can find one to meet your budget with prices from $1,199.

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The most affordable model in the sale is Apple’s M1-powered MacBook Pro. This machine, released in 2020, offers a 13-inch Retina display and efficient M1 processor, which has an eight-core CPU, an eight-core GPU and a 16-core Neural Engine. Despite being an entry-level pro machine, it’s equipped with key features like two USB-C/Thunderbolt 4 ports, Wi-Fi 6 and Apple’s Touch Bar control strip. It’s seeing a $100 discount on the model with a 256GB solid-state drive and 8GB of RAM, or you can take $500 off the higher-spec 1TB/16GB configuration.

If you want a little extra power or a larger display, you can step up to the 14-inch MacBook Pro models from $1,699. These 2021 machines feature Apple’s fancy Retina XDR display with mini-LED technology, as well as more powerful M1 Pro or M1 Max chips. These upgraded chips offer more cores dedicated to graphics processing than the base M1 (with 14, 16 or 32 GPU cores) making them ideal for multimedia workflows. Essential ports like USB-C/Thunderbolt 4, HDMI, MagSafe and even an SD card slot are all on board too. A variety of configurations are on sale with discounts running from $300 to $900.

At the top end, the 16-inch MacBook Pro offers the biggest display of the bunch, as well as the best battery life, for those who need to take a whole workstation on the go. Prices start at $2,999, which is $300 less than usual, with discounts running as high as $600 for those who need the bigger 2021 machine.

Though all of the laptops on sale at B&H are now previous-gen models and have been supplanted on our list of Best MacBooks by the 2022 versions, they’re still worth considering if you prefer to save a chunk of cash rather than have the very latest model. If these older MacBook Pro models aren’t for you, be sure to check out our Best MacBook deals roundup for more promotions.

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Ultrahuman Ring Pro Brings Better Battery Life, More Action and Analysis

The company’s new flagship smart ring stores more data, too. But that doesn’t really help Americans.

Sick of your smart ring’s battery not holding up? Ultrahuman’s new $479 Ring Pro smart ring, unveiled on Friday, offers up to 15 days of battery life on a single charge. The Ring Pro joins the company’s $349 Ring Air, which boosts health tracking, thanks to longer battery life, increased data storage, improved speed and accuracy and a new heart-rate sensing architecture. The ring works in conjunction with the latest Pro charging case.

Ultrahuman also launched its Jade AI, which can act as an agent based on analysis of current and historical health data. Jade can synthesize data from across the company’s products and is compatible with its Rings.

«With industry-leading hardware paired with Jade biointelligence AI, users can now take real-time actionable interventions towards their health than ever before,» said Mohit Kumar, CEO of Ultrahuman.

No US sales

That hardware isn’t available in the US, though, thanks to the ongoing ban on Ultrahuman’s Rings sales here, stemming from a patent dispute with its competitor, Oura Ring. It’s available for preorder now everywhere else and is slated to ship in March. Jade’s available globally.

Ultrahuman says the Ring Pro boosts battery life to about 15 days in Chill mode — up to 12 days in Turbo — compared to a maximum of six days for the Air. The Pro charger’s battery stores enough for another 45 days, which you top off with Qi-compatible wireless charging. In addition, the case incorporates locator technology via the app and a speaker, as well as usability features such as haptic notifications and a power LED.

The ring can also retain up to 250 days of data versus less than a week for the cheaper model. Ultrahuman redesigned the heart-rate sensor for better signal quality. An upgraded processor improves the accuracy of the local machine learning and overall speed.

It’s offered in gold, silver, black and titanium finishes, with available sizes ranging from 5 to 14.

Jade’s Deep Research Mode is the cross-ecosystem analysis feature, which aggregates data from Ring and Blood Vision and the company’s subscription services, Home and M1 CGM, to provide historical trends, offer current recommendations and flag potential issues, as well as trigger activities such as A-fib detection. Ultrahuman plans to expand its capabilities to include health-adjacent activities, such as ordering food.

Some new apps are also available for the company’s PowerPlug add-on platform, including capabilities such as tracking GLP-1 effects, snoring and respiratory analysis and migraine management tools.

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Spotify Expands Into Audiobook Rankings With Weekly Charts

The feature is available to both free users and Premium subscribers. Wuthering Heights is reaching the heights on both the US and UK charts.

If you’re a Spotify user, you may be familiar with features like the year-end summary Wrapped, as well as your daily usage stats. Now, the service has a new popularity chart tracking audiobooks.

Spotify’s audiobook charts are now available to free and Premium users within the service’s Audiobooks hub. While only Premium users receive 15 hours of audiobook listening per month, the company offers a larger selection of titles you can buy.

US charts and UK charts are both available now.

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Spotify says that the audiobook charts will help customers discover new and popular titles in real time.

«As we’ve proven with Music and Podcasts Charts, when content is easier to access, discover, and enjoy, the demand grows,» said Duncan Bruce, Spotify’s director of audiobook partnerships and licensing, in a statement on Friday.

Spotify launched audiobooks in 2022, and has since added features such as the AI catchup tool Recaps and PageMatch, which lets you swap more easily between a printed book and the audio version.

Spotify Premium currently costs $13 a month and includes more than 100 million songs, as well as audiobooks. Spotify Premium is currently CNET’s Editors’ Choice for best music streaming service.

The current US audiobooks chart lists Emily Brontë’s romantic classic Wuthering Heights as the top listen, followed by James Clear’s self-help book Atomic Habits and Freida McFadden’s psychological thriller The Housemaid. Audiobook popularity is also broken down by genre, with charts for romance, mystery and thriller books, self-help, science fiction and fantasy, biography and memoir, business and careers, teen and young adult, religion and spirituality, history, and parenting and relationships.

Powered by its blockbuster movie adaptation starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, Wuthering Heights also leads the overall chart for the UK.