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Early Prime Day deals include the Echo Show 8 for an all-time-low price
As to be expected, we’re less than a week out from October Prime Day and Amazon devices are already on sale. Among the deals is an all-time-low price on one of our top picks for the best smart displays, the Echo Show 8. The latest model is back on sale for $85, which is $65 off its normal price. Any time you can get this smart display for less than $100, it’s a good deal — but this is the best price we’ve seen, and it hasn’t been this cheap since Prime Day in July.
We consider this to be the best smart display with Alexa compatibility due to the fact that it combines a lot of handy features and is almost a goldilocks size. The Show 8 has an eight-inch 1,280 x 800 touchscreen, which is just big enough to clearly see recipes and watch videos comfortably without being too large that it would take up too much space on a countertop or side table.
The mid-sized smart display is 43 percent off for October Prime Day.
The Show 8 has an improved 13-megapixel camera with auto-framing, which will make for better video calls with friends and family. The camera can also double as a security device, allow you to check in on your home when you’re away. And when you’re not using it, or if you just prefer extra privacy, there’s a physical shutter that will cover the camera entirely.
Of course, devices like the Show 8 are designed to showcase Alexa’s talents. You can use the voice assistant through the smart display to check weather forecasts, refer to your calendar to know when your next appointment is, bring up the show you were binge-watching on Netflix and more. This model also has a built-in Zigbee smart home hub, which means you can directly connect smart home gear like smart light bulbs and plugs without the need for an extra hub. And if those IoT devices have Alexa smarts, you can use voice commands to control them as well.
If you’re looking for something a bit more nightstand-friendly, there are other Alexa smart displays on sale right now, too. The Echo Show 5 is down to $50, while the recently revived Echo Spot has dropped to $45. The former is also one of our favorites thanks to its compact design, ambient light sensor and sunrise alarm feature. The Echo Spot just came back into the lineup a few months ago, and Amazon’s billing it as a true smart alarm clock. It has a cute, circular design with a bold, half-moon shaped screen that can show the time, weather, alarms, currently playing music and more.
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Prime Day Apple deals include the M2 MacBook Air for a record low of $749
With October Prime Day approaching fast, we’re seeing new deals drop in the final hours of the lead up. One of the latest deals is on the M2-powered MacBook Air laptop, which you can snag right now for $749. That’s $250 off and a new record low on the machine we consider to be the best budget MacBook in Apple’s laptop lineup.
In our initial M2 MacBook Air review, we were impressed by the laptop’s thinner design, gorgeous 13.6-inch display, great quad-speaker setup and the M2 chip’s excellent performance. It had been our top pick for the best MacBook, period, but the new M3 model has taken that top slot. However, the M2 Air doesn’t skimp — those on a budget (or anyone simply looking to save some cash) will still get a lot of laptop and a lot of power choosing this machine.
One could argue, and our Daniel Cooper did, that the best thing about the M3 MacBook Air was the price drop given to the M2 Air after its launch. The M3 chip is pretty similar to the M2, and while there’s no doubt that those who want the latest and greatest should get an M3 machine, an M2 laptop will be more than enough for most people using it as a daily driver. And, when you consider the M2 started at $1,200 when it first came out in 2022, it makes this discount even more compelling (it only received a price drop to $1,000 after the M3’s debut).
There are other discounts on the MacBook lineup at Amazon at the moment, too. The M3 MacBook Air is $200 off and down to $899, which is only $50 more than its record-low price. The 15-inch MacBook with an M3 chip is also $200 off and on sale for $1,099.
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Fintech OpenBB aims to be more than an ‘open source Bloomberg Terminal’
Fledgling fintech startup OpenBB is revealing the next step in its plans to take on the heavyweights of the investment research world. The company is launching a new, free version of a product that will open its arsenal of data and financial tooling to more users.
OpenBB is the handiwork of software engineer Didier Lopes, who launched the Python-based platform back in 2021 as a way for amateur investors and enthusiasts to do investment research using different datasets for free, via a command line interface (CLI). The company went on to raise $8.5 million in seed funding from OSS Capital and angel investors such as Ram Shriram, an early backer of Google.
While the community-based, open-source project has amassed some 50,000 users, OpenBB has also been building an enterprise incarnation called Terminal Pro. This paid version gives teams access to an interface; pre-built database integrations; an Excel add-in; and various security and support bolt-ons that would appeal to larger businesses.
OpenBB claims some big-name customers that include shipping and logistics company Pangaea Logistics Solutions and an unnamed investment firm, which Lopes says has $6.4 billion in assets under management.
However, OpenBB is now looking to attract the kinds of customers that might otherwise be tempted to check out Bloomberg Terminal or products from upstarts like AI market intelligence startup AlphaSense, which raised at a $4 billion valuation in June 2024.
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The all-new OpenBB Terminal — not to be confused with the previous CLI-based OpenBB Terminal that the startup sunsetted in March — is a fully-fledged web app, though it strips out many of the premium features of Terminal Pro. It’s fully customizable, can run on any operating system or platform, and provides access to an AI-enabled OpenBB copilot. Like the previous OpenBB Terminal, the all-new web app is also free to use.
OpenBB Terminal is perhaps something of a middle-ground between the CLI-centricity of the open source project and the bells-and-whistles feature set of the enterprise product.
“There was a big disconnect between the open-source community that we built and the enterprise offering, because the enterprise product wasn’t accessible to everyone,” Lopes told TechCrunch in an interview.
The OpenBB Terminal serves as a single end-point for accessing financial information from some 100 data sources, spanning equity, options, forex, the macro economy and more. Users can also throw all their new data into the mix — the community has previously contributed financial datasets such as historical currency exchange rates and crypto pricing data. There are also a slew of extensions and toolkits to bring more functionality to OpenBB — such as an AI stock analysis agent.
Users are free to incorporate their own AI systems and large language models (LLMs), which might be particularly important for security and compliance use-cases. But with the OpenBB Copilot, categorized as a “compound AI system,” users can run natural-language queries about their data out of the box.
Lopes highlighted one particularly quirky use-case to demonstrate why a more flexible financial research platform might be desirable to some companies.
The case in question concerned a shipping company using OpenBB to connect their email accounts with a customized AI copilot to ask questions such as, “What vessels are currently near Rio de Janeiro?” or “What vessels are heading toward South Africa?”
But they are also looking at ways to integrate other data, to help inform decisions around prices.
“They are using AI to go through all of their emails — and that’s a lot of unstructured data that’s hard to parse,” Lopes said. “But their ultimate goal is to be able to ask questions based on their emails, but also on structured data such as oil prices, so their copilot might be able to suggest the best pricing based on all of that data.”
As with many community-driven products, OpenBB is basically using OpenBB Terminal to target individuals who may — in the long run — help drive signups for the premium enterprise incarnation.
“If you see companies like AlphaSense [and others], they have really big sales departments, it’s all very ‘outbound’,” Lopes said. “We want to go a completely different way, where we leverage product-led growth. We want to have analysts, researchers, funds, and so on using our product for free, and bringing other people from their team onto it.”
OpenBB claims a distributed workforce of 15 employees today, with Lopes keen to bring in a few more leaders — and he said he has put some offers in to some with experience at some of the biggest companies in the financial research space.
“This hiring will probably eat more into our runway, so we are likely going to raise [more funding] in the near future,” Lopes said.
The ‘Bloomberg’ factor
OpenBB has been compared to Bloomberg Terminal since its inception, and it’s easy to assume that the “BB” in its name is a nod to its big-name rival. But Lopes says it’s not.
For context, Lopes said that both he and his co-founder James Maslek had lost money betting on companies during the mid-pandemic meme stock craze, which saw stock from publicly-traded companies such as Gamestop and BlackBerry rise and fall dramatically due to social media-driven hype. And so Lopes launched GameStonk Terminal in early 2021 to aggregate financial data on publicly traded companies and competitors; SEC filings; earnings reports; and even market sentiment, conveyed through social networks such as Reddit and Twitter.
A feature article in Vice magazine at the time referred to GameStonk Terminal as a “DIY meme stock version of Bloomberg Terminal.”
While Bloomberg Terminal is indispensable for many, and has become something of a financial industry standard, it costs in the region of $25,000 per user annually. GameStonk Terminal was free, and the initial traction convinced Lopes to quit his engineering job and focus on GameStonk full-time. This involved rebranding as OpenBB in early 2022, “to show that we were serious about the company,” as Lopes wrote at the time, raising $8.5 million in seed funding.
“When we raised our seed round as an open source platform — with a command line interface offering financial data integration — it was easy for folks to characterize us as an ‘open source Bloomberg’,” Lopes said. “But the ‘BB’ in our name came from the BlackBerry ticker, where both my co-founder and I were losing money in the stock market.”
While the comparisons are understandable, OpenBB isn’t exactly a drop-in replacement for Bloomberg Terminal, simply because the startup cannot compete with the scale and magnitude of the more established product.
“If you’re looking to us as a replacement for Bloomberg Terminal, that doesn’t really work because they have so much data,” Lopes said. “There’s no other company in the world that has as much data as Bloomberg.”
Moreover, Bloomberg Terminal packs built-in chat functionality that allows users to communicate with each other in real-time, bolstering its “flywheel” effect much like a traditional social network. This is something that OpenBB could replicate, and it has been designed in such a way that would make it easy enough for the company to embrace messaging in the future, with each user on its OpenBB Hub already having their own unique profile and username.
“If we decided to have chat, we can tap into those profiles and usernames, and it wouldn’t be a big stretch from there,” Lopes said. “But it’s not yet on the roadmap.”
On the flip side, OpenBB gives users the flexibility to build out their own front-end interface, add features and extensions on top of the open source product, and customize ’til the cows come home.
While this highlights how the two products ultimately serve different purposes, even if they do overlap, there could still be legal headwinds ahead for OpenBB.
Some 18 months after rebranding, OpenBB filed to trademark its name last year, with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently publishing the application to kickstart a 30-day period where the public can raise objections to the trademark being granted. With the deadline approaching, USPTO received a request for a 90-day extension, which it granted — but what was most interesting was that the request was submitted by Bloomberg.
Lopes said that he’s not heard anything from Bloomberg directly about the potential trademark tiff, adding that he’s not worried given that the “BB” in his company name isn’t a reference to Bloomberg.
“If we were using ‘BBG,’ which is what people normally use as an abbreviation for Bloomberg, we’d understand,” Lopes said. “But ‘BB’ is a big stretch.”
So, if it’s not trying to be an ‘open source alternative to Bloomberg’, what IS it trying to be?
“Our top-line goal is to be the best AI-powered research and analytics workspace, building as much open source as possible,” Lopes said.
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How to tint your app icons in iOS 18
For several years now, it’s been possible to personalize your iPhone screen by creating your own icons, mostly by using Apple’s built-in Shortcuts app (and we have instructions for doing just that). But if you want to do a little customization in a short amount of time, a new feature in iOS 18 lets you tweak the color of your app icons in a matter of moments. Here’s how.
On your iPhone homescreen:
At the bottom of the screen, a pop-up menu will offer you several options: Light or Dark (so that the icons won’t change no matter what mode you’re in); Automatic (where the OS will decide for you when to darken or lighten the icons); and Tinted. This last option is where things get interesting.
You’ll now see two sliders: one that chooses a color for your icons and another that goes from light to dark. So, for example, if you want your icons to be tinted green, move the indicator on the top slider to green and use the bottom slider to decide how dark a green you want them to be. (You’ll see the results immediately.)
You can also use a dropper icon in the top-right corner of the pop-up menu to select a color from the wallpaper to use as an icon tint. Tap on the dropper icon, and the menu will disappear; instead, you’ll see a circle with a grid against your wallpaper. Just move the circle to the color you want your tint to be and lift your finger.
Tired of your tint? Just go back to the pop-up menu and choose Light / Dark / Automatic, and your icons will be their old familiar colors.
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