Engadget

APRIL 8, 2025

You dont need a set of AirPods to get wireless audio from your iPhone, iPad or Mac, but Apples earbuds and headphones offer a lot of convenient integrations with its other products that you wont find anywhere else. This more expensive version adds Adaptive Audio, Transparency mode, Conversation Awareness and a wireless charging case.

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The Verge

AUGUST 24, 2021

Google-owned YouTube is starting to crack down on Discord music bots. The search giant has sent a cease and desist to the owners of the popular Groovy Bot, which lets Discord users play music from YouTube videos and is installed on more than 16 million Discord servers. Groovy has been a huge part of my life over the past five years.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Apple threw its best H2 chip inside, giving them punchier bass, clearer calls, and that fancy Personalized Spatial Audio thing that makes it feel like the music is swirling around your head. And let’s not forget about Adaptive Audio, which is like having a superpower that makes loud crowds magically disappear.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

But these headphones come with Bose Immersive Audio, which is basically spatial audio that doesn’t feel like a gimmick. CustomTune tech calibrates the sound specifically to your ears, which sounds like sci-fi but in reality just means your music slaps even harder. I tried to be chill about this price drop. I really did.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2021

At launch, it’s a very hit or miss experience Late on Monday night, Apple flipped the switch on two new features for its Apple Music subscription service : immersive Dolby Atmos spatial audio and lossless-quality streaming. Eddy Cue is Apple’s senior vice president of services and the person who oversees Apple Music.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

SEE ALSO: The 8 best earbuds to buy in 2025 from Bose, Sony, and more These earbuds are perfect for those who like to be a bit more aware of their surroundings while listening to music, podcasts, and more, rather than be tuned out with noise-cancelation. Looking for more headphone and earbud deals to check out right now?

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

These use Apple’s H2 chip, which unlocks Adaptive Audio—a feature that smartly blends noise cancellation and transparency mode based on what’s happening around you. The audio quality is also better than I expected for the non-Pro line. It’s one of those “I didn’t know I needed this” things.

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The Verge

JULY 16, 2021

Forget long Clubhouse convos, these founders see voice notes as the future “So I’ve identified a few metrics and KPIs that I’m going to start tracking in order to better my overall life experience,” Farbod Nowzad says, seemingly seriously, into his phone microphone. More people chime in, all in audio clips under 90 seconds.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

SEE ALSO: The 2024 MacBook Air is at its lowest-ever price in Amazon's Big Spring Sale Other than a great price, the Beats Solo 4 boast a battery life of up to 50 hours and a super-quick 10-minute charge time. The Solo 4 also introduces new, personalized Spatial Audio with head tracking. Don't miss out on this great Spring Sale deal.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2021

Razer is tonight formally announcing its Anzu “smart” glasses, which follow Bose, Amazon, and other companies by integrating audio speakers directly into the glasses temples. Battery life is rated at “up to five hours.” hours for its Tenor audio sunglasses. Image: Razer. You can place an order beginning today. Image: Razer.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The new Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) update is out, and as per usual it includes a bunch of changes and fixes that will make your streaming life just a little bit better. This release adds a second audio track when streaming to Twitch which will be saved to the VOD instead of the stream audio.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Calls are clearer thanks to voice isolation, and music sounds richer without having to mess with EQ settings. I’m into Personalized Spatial Audio too. The AirPods 4 have Apple’s H2 chip, which is the same one in the Pro model, and that brings serious upgrades to clarity and performance.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Image by Audio-Technica. Audio-Technica’s new pair of wireless earbuds (ATH-CKS50TW) cost $200 and stand out by claiming to have impressive battery life, offering up to 20 hours of audio playback and 15 hours when using the buds’ active noise cancellation feature. Image by Audio-Technica. Image by Audio-Technica.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

Startup Adthos this week launched a platform that uses AI to generate scripts for audio ads — and even add voiceovers, sound effects and music. “We use real-life voice actors for the training of synthetic voices. As generative AI proliferates, it’s beginning to reach the ads we hear on podcasts and the radio.

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Engadget

MARCH 17, 2025

In our testing, the AirPods Max met Apple's promise of a 20-hour battery life with both ANC and spatial audio switched on. There's no support for high-res music streaming services either. We enjoyed the simple control system, which uses an Apple Watch-style rotating crown.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

This tool turns your smartphone or desktop computer into an audio recorder that allows you to easily share audio messages and podasts with your supporters. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

So you can run, walk, or do any activity with accompanying music, but you can still hear what is going on around you in the outside world. They use incredible 9th-generation bone conduction technology to deliver high-quality audio while keeping your ears open to your surroundings.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

With up to 40 hours of battery life, they're built to bring your music with you. This soundbar hits with 9 channels and a subwoofer, for multi-directional audio that's thrown around the room to envelop and immerse you. Touting "JBL Pure Bass," these headphones prioritize a full-bodied sound profile. and save $10. Save $400.95

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

Get Deal Not all gaming audio accessories have to be bulky over-ear headsets. These buds offer active noise cancellation and 360 spatial audio, and you can use them on both PlayStation 5 and PC. These buds also last quite a while, with 12 hours of battery life and 24 hours with their included charging case. Save $31.99

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Engadget

MARCH 13, 2025

" The sound is better-than-ever, thanks to new drivers, amplifiers, transducers and audio algorithms. The battery life is just average, but the charging case helps keep the music going. We heaped a fair amount of praise on these earbuds in our official review , calling them "a worthwhile update."

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

. “I have been thinking about music since my time at TikTok, and I was really thinking about building something on my own, but then it took me another year to finally have the guts to do it,” said Henriquez. “Then when the pandemic started, I think so many people were thinking about like, ‘What am I doing with my life?’

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Quips about putting radio on the internet aside, the persistent popularity of podcasting and the cockamamie climb of Clubhouse shows that audio-based platforms will continue to echo around the upper echelons of the ecosystem for a while yet. “When it came down to the dating apps, it was never something I could get into. .

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 25, 2025

8B-instruct Image Generation: Flux.dev Audio: Riva Parakeet-ctc-0.6B-asr The PDF to podcast AI Blueprint will transform documents into audio content so users can learn on the go. G-Assist is built on NVIDIA ACE the same AI technology suite game developers use to breathe life into non-player characters.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

These compact devices also now offer features that rival traditional, over-ear headphones, which can make them the go-to choice for music lovers, commuters, gym-goers and many in between. And remember: audio companies arent perfect, so despite lots of research, the earbud shape they decided on may not fit you well.

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The Verge

JUNE 26, 2020

Astell & Kern says its latest audio player is the first in the world to come with DACs from two separate manufacturers, letting you switch between them to customize the sound to your wired headphones. After picking a DAC, the sound can be customized further with a series of audio filters. Image: Astell & Kern.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Anyway, in between mashed potato servings, I did my best to “log off” and not think about audio — no offense — so instead, I binged the entire new season of Selling Sunset and played many crosswords. EXCLUSIVE: Hinge makes viral audio happen, despite many other apps trying. I’m back for you now, though, and we have a big issue ahead.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 24, 2020

The concept is relatively simple: they’re a pair of eyeglasses with tiny little speakers and microphones embedded in the stems so you can listen to music and command Alexa. The Echo Frames have sold me on the concept of having discreet, personal audio available at all times. Echo Frames audio and battery life.

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The Verge

MAY 22, 2020

But the Surface Headphones fell short when it came to battery life and sound quality. Except for the dials along the perimeter, the entire surface area of either ear cup can be tapped to pause or play music, skip tracks, and answer calls. Microsoft has boosted battery life to 20 hours with noise cancellation enabled.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

This touchscreen car display gives your car a new lease on life Let the ESSGOO Portable Wireless CarPlay and Android Auto car display bring your car's entertainment system into 2025. Enjoy a wireless, hands-free experience on the road as you navigate your favorite apps, go-to navigation helper, or music streaming services from the display.

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Ars Technica

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

This feature can identify background music from the lock screen, but unlike some similar song identifiers , it works even without an Internet connection. First introduced in 2017 , Now Playing uses a cache of thousands of audio fingerprints to identify songs you might encounter in your daily grind. Sadly, it has been broken for months.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

There’s just something about them that instantly transports one back to the late ‘90s / early ‘00s, when user interfaces were truly customizable, and your music collection was an endless and engrossing battle against garbled filenames like LINKIN_PORK-IN%THE%END(HQ).mp3. Spotify, compared to Winamp, seems passive. (And But was it worth it?

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2020

Everything else is very similar or unchanged from last time around: the design is nearly identical, battery life still tops out at 30 hours, and the buttons and controls all work the same way. And aside from a few tweaks Sony made to how it upscales music, the 1000XM4s sound just like their predecessors — a very good thing, trust me.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Sure, you can drink at home with some music on, but that doesn’t replicate the feeling of being out at a bar among friends and total strangers. Anyway, head to I Miss My Bar , where, unlike real life, you can choose just how loud everyone is talking. As it turns out, nothing can, other than. well, being at a bar. You know the smell.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Anker is joining in on the trend of glasses that pull double duty as music listening devices. There are two speakers on each temple, and in most cases outside, most people won’t notice your glasses are playing music. Battery life is estimated at up to 5.5 Image: Anker. Today the company’s Soundcore brand announced the $199.99

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Amazon Music. Amazon Music first put podcasts on its platform last year, and now it’s launching its first feature built around them. For now, the transcripts are only coming to certain Amazon Music and Wondery shows, along with partner programs that have worked with Amazon on the feature, like This American Life and Crime Junkie.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Save $24 Get Deal Why we like it Not just for music, when connected to a Samsung phone, these earbuds translate. The QN90D provides up to 144Hz screen refresh times that will ace competitive play and bring contemporary titles to life in gorgeously fluid motion. at Amazon $99.99

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

A great deal if you're looking to upgrade your audio game for under $150. As a nice bonus, your purchase also comes with Apple Fitness+ for free for three months if you're a new subscriber and up to three months of Apple Music for free if you're a new or returning subscriber. at Best Buy $199.99 Save $70.00

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