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Get Your Hands on a Lenovo ThinkPad or IdeaPad for as Little as $100 at Woot

These budget-friendly laptops and Chromebooks are even more affordable right now, with discounts of up to 46% off.

Unless you’re a professional programmer or a serious artist, chances are you don’t need to spend thousands on a high-end laptop. These days, affordable models, and even some Chromebooks, have all the hardware you need for browsing, streaming and other day-to-day tasks, and you don’t need to break the bank to get your hands on one. Right now, Woot is offering up to 46% off Lenovo IdeaPad and ThinkPad laptops, and you can get your hands on one for as little as $100. This sale runs through Thursday, March 23, but Woot generally has a limited supply available, so some models may sell out before then.

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There’s a few different models available at this sale, so no matter your needs and your budget, you’ll find what you’re looking for at a discount. If you just need the most basic functions of web browsing, you can pick up this IdeaPad Chromebook for just $100, which is $50 off the usual price. It has a compact 11.6-inch HD display, 4GB of RAM, 32GB of built-in storage and uses Google’s user-friendly Chrome OS.

Or, for $70 more, you can upgrade to this IdeaPad S150. In addition to a larger 14-inch display and double the built-in storage, it operates using Windows 10 Home, so it’s compatible with a wider range of applications. And the most advanced laptop you’ll find at this sale is the ThinkPad X390, which typically lists for $850, but is currently on sale for just $600. It features a 13.3-inch full HD display, and comes equipped with an Intel Core i7 processor, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB solid-state drive. It also comes with some other helpful features like a built-in webcam and SD card reader. It operates using Windows 10 Pro, but also supports Windows 11 if you want to upgrade.

And if you don’t see what you’re looking for at this sale, you can check out our roundup of all the best laptop deals available now for even more bargains.

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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.