Mashable Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

All of the available colors are discounted as well, so you can save on the black, white smoke, lunar blue, and the 60th anniversary diamond edition models. The sound quality is just as nice as well, so you can be happily immersed in the sweet sounds of your favorite music, audiobooks, or podcasts.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Like the prolific jazz trumpeter and composer, researchers have been generating AI models at a feverish pace, exploring new architectures and use cases. In a 2021 paper, researchers reported that foundation models are finding a wide array of uses. Earlier neural networks were narrowly tuned for specific tasks. See chart below.)

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

From flagship models to budget buds, we picked out the best noise-cancelling headphones of 2025. And you can always blast your music loud enough to drown out nearby conversations and street noise. Bose and Sony are both top names when it comes to any type of audio, but especially when it comes to noise cancellation.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 25, 2025

Announced at the CES trade show in January, NVIDIA NIM provides prepackaged, state-of-the-art AI models optimized for the NVIDIA RTX platform, including the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series and, now, the new NVIDIA Blackwell RTX PRO GPUs. 8B-instruct Image Generation: Flux.dev Audio: Riva Parakeet-ctc-0.6B-asr

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 22, 2023

Posted by Zalán Borsos, Research Software Engineer, and Marco Tagliasacchi, Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google Research The recent progress in generative AI unlocked the possibility of creating new content in several different domains, including text, vision and audio. In the case of audio, neural audio codecs (e.g.,

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Creative tasks, like creating music, drawing new pictures, or creating videos. I will begin with a discussion of language, computer vision, multi-modal models, and generative machine learning models. We want to build more capable machines that partner with people to accomplish a huge variety of tasks. All kinds of tasks.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The new Nest Audio sits between the Nest Mini and Home Max in price, size, and output. Despite that lower price, the Nest Audio is an improvement over the Google Home in nearly every way. Similarly, Sonos is now in the smart speaker game , bringing its rock-solid wireless streaming and class-leading audio quality to the table.

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The Verge

MAY 17, 2021

Streaming music might be entering a new era of hi-fi audio , but Apple’s AirPods Max aren’t technically ready to go along for the ride. The company has confirmed to The Verge that its premium noise-canceling headphones do not natively support playback of lossless music files. Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge. Almost certainly.

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Engadget

MARCH 17, 2025

It's also worth noting that this is the updated model with USB-C charging , rather than the old Lightning port that Apple has phased out. 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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

A new music platform, Uppbeat , aims to make it easier for YouTubers and other content creators to find quality free music to use in their videos. based co-founders of another music-licensing company, Music Vine , which has been operating for about six years. That led to deciding to build Uppbeat,” he says.

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Engadget

MARCH 13, 2025

." The sound is better-than-ever, thanks to new drivers, amplifiers, transducers and audio algorithms. This is also thanks to that H2 chip, which allows the AirPods Pro to cancel twice as much noise as the first-gen model. The battery life is just average, but the charging case helps keep the music going.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

London and Barcelona based audio-as-a-service SaaS startup Aflorithmic has scooped up $1.3 “Text in beautiful audio out” is its pithy slogan. Its business thesis is that demand for audio far outstrips the ability of studio-produced human-spoken voiceovers to deliver.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Earlier this year, Apple officially discontinued Music Memos, an iPhone app that allowed musicians to quickly record audio and develop new song ideas. Walther had previously spent three and a half years at Spotify, following its 2017 acquisition of the audio detection startup Sonalytic , which he had co-founded.

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

On Monday, I had a chance to talk with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the company’s plans to build new audio products over the next few months. If you missed the conversation, you can find the audio here on Soundcloud. Think TikTok, but for audio; Soundbites will let you change your sound via filters and other effects.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

“Quality of sound is still important in music,” Lamar said in a quote provided to TechCrunch. All of the problems entailed tracking payments, being credited, the antiquated business model of file transfers and essentially just helping an independent audio engineer sustain and create a business for themselves.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

based music platform Uppbeat has been developing a service that makes it easier for content creators to find quality free music to use in their videos published to platforms like YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, and others. based co-founders of another music-licensing company, Music Vine. million GBP ($6.15

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The Verge

JANUARY 2, 2022

The second-generation AirPods Pro may support Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC), and could even come with a case that makes a sound to help you find it, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo in a note to investors seen by AppleInsider and 9to5Mac.

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Digital Trends

MAY 28, 2021

Tivoli Audio's first attempt to convert their famous Model One tabletop radio into a streaming music speaker didn't go well. Is the second time a charm?

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

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. 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.

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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. To generate ad scripts, Adthos leverages OpenAI’s recently released GPT-4 text-producing model. “The ones that don’t will be the ones losing jobs.”

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

From premium options like the AirPods Pro 2, which combine sleek design with impressive active noise cancellation, to models that prioritize exceptional sound quality, theres a pair of Bluetooth earbuds for everyone. Some earbuds even offer app settings to tweak the audio profiles or firmware updates to improve performance over time.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

Apple launches a new service : Sarah writes that Apple is launching a music streaming service focused exclusively on classical music. Beyond that, Discord is updating its moderation tool to harness the power of large language models and rolling out AI-generated conversation summaries.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Audio startup Syng has been building on quite a bit more hype than the average fresh hardware startup, largely because of the team behind it. The company has now raised $50 million to date to build out an audio hardware startup with a hefty focus on design and advanced tech. Image Credits: Syng.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Highnote launched to the public today, allowing musicians, podcasters, and other creators to collaborate on audio files by recording voice notes directly over a track, making timestamped reactions, and creating polls to get opinions. Highnote also announced its pre-seed funding round of $1.7 Highnote changes that.”.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Today, the company is giving it a refresh: it just announced a “late 2020” model of its 13-inch rig. Finally, Razer says you’ll see an upgrade in audio quality. The previous Blade Stealth 13 has decent audio, but I found that it lacked strong bass in our testing. or to create your own. Image: Razer.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

It's compatible with any vehicle model operating on 12-24V, and easily mounts to the dash or the windshield with no professional tools required. 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. 10.26" HD touchscreen.

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Unagi, maker of Iggy Pop’s favorite electric scooters , is releasing its second model called “The Eleven.” (Yes, As such, the company is taking everything that was cool and stylish about the Model One scooters , and dialing it up to, well, eleven. Compared to the Model One, the Eleven has a host of new, high-tech features.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Tesla’s new holiday update will finally give people the ability to use a new Boombox mode, which can broadcast custom audio on the outside of the car (hence the name). Being able to upload five tracks also means people can drive their Tesla vehicles around town with whatever audio they want, apparently.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

If you don't need new headphones, we're also seeing discounts on Peacock and Apple Music subscriptions, our favorite robot vacuum and microSD card for those on a budget, Sonos speakers and more. The 1TB model is on sale today, not the 512GB model pictured here.) The Samsung Evo Select. Also at Samsung and B&H.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As you can imagine, the people here at The Verge spend a lot of time listening to a variety of digital sounds — whether it’s online meetings, music, podcasts, videos, or sound checks of their own multimedia productions. AudioQuest’s Dragonfly portable digital-to-analog converter (DAC) brings higher-quality audio to your devices.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Mark Cuban is getting in on the audio and podcasting hype. The app idea is similar to the buzzy live audio startup Clubhouse, except with the ability to natively record conversations. His co-founder status on Fireside brings him back into the audio space. She hasn’t listed Fireside on her LinkedIn yet. billion in 1999 to Yahoo.

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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.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Apple has announced a new version of its HomePod smart speaker, the $99 HomePod mini — a smaller version of the speaker that shrinks down the original model into a more compact size. Multiple HomePod mini speakers can also play music in sync, and “intelligently” create stereo pairing when placed in the same room.

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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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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The Tivoli Model One Digital Gen 2. Photo: Tivoli Audio. Tivoli has announced updated versions of its Model One Digital and Music System Home speakers, with the company taking the retro-inspired designs and adding Chromecast and AirPlay 2 support. Photo: Tivoli Audio. The Tivoli Music System Home Gen 2.

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

On Wednesday, Qualcomm and Tencent Music announced a collaboration to introduce Snapdragon Premium Sound Quality. Specifically, it enhances the speed and efficiency of audio encoding, audio decoding, and audio detail restoration. Qualcomm China, in Chinese ]

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