The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

On top of that, one of those tabs was running a videoconference over WebRTC, and I was recording audio via Audio Hijack and using Bluetooth headphones. If there’s a blemish on this performance picture, it’s battery life, which just barely rises above disappointing. With all that, the fans were spinning, but nothing was chugging.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

I wish this looked like the Surface Pro X,” lamented Tom Warren in his otherwise positive review of the Surface Pro 7. Across the internet, reviewers begged Microsoft to find a way to put the Pro 7’s chips in the Pro X’s chassis. I rarely get to say this about webcams, but the Pro 8 actually delivers a good picture.

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The Verge

APRIL 6, 2021

But it’s also designed to slot into Sonos’ multiroom audio platform and showcase the versatility that comes with it. For this review, I’ll keep it simple and focus on speakers that resemble the Roam in size. Pictured from left: the UE Boom 3, Sonos Roam, and JBL Flip 5. Repeat the process, and audio moves back to the Roam.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

In our review , Chris Welch stated that “the improvements are minor but worth the extra cash.” Read our review. Read our review. In his review , Verge staffer Cameron Faulkner called the smart speaker a great sounding upgrade over the last-gen Home Mini. Read our review. Each speaker on the Creative Pebble 2.0

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The Verge

JANUARY 18, 2022

So with all the latest TVs from Samsung, LG, Sony, TCL, Hisense, and others now announced and due to ship over the next few months, it seems an opportune moment to review the features you should be looking for when TV shopping. eARC: The enhanced audio return channel is usually labeled on one of your TV’s HDMI ports.

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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. Image Credits: Tape It.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

I was able to write this entire review on the Duet, but going back to the 13-inch 3:2 screen on my personal computer felt like a whole new world. It would be nice to have at least an audio jack, though Lenovo does include a headphone dongle. The Duet has all of one USB-C port, which will be occupied whenever the device is charging.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The company says its numbers were shaped by two factors: more human review capacity and improvements in artificial intelligence, especially for non-English posts. The company also indicates it will lean on automation to address a growing amount of video and audio on its platforms, including a rumored Clubhouse competitor. million.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2021

It’s almost like the backlight itself is a lower-resolution screen behind the screen, tracking the image and making sure the black parts of the picture aren’t lit up. This review has focused a lot on the 12.9, Similarly, the dock has an audio-out so it shows up as a speaker. Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Two-way audio is enabled by four microphones above the protruding hunk of plastic that houses a projector. Also, while you can download books from the Kids Plus catalog, only picture books and graphic novels work, not chapter books. This beams a 19.2-inch Amazon Glow is very promising but feels unfinished.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Microsoft’s Surface Earbuds pictured next to Google’s Pixel Buds. The audio is about as full as it can be considering all the air these buds let in, but the Surface Earbuds don’t match the detail and richness of pricier earbuds. The Surface Audio app lets you customize the EQ for the earbuds.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

You can also have it just display art or photos (stored in Amazon Photos or Facebook, nowhere else, sadly), fulfilling its picture frame ambitions. Aesthetically, the Echo Show has a black frame with a white mat, resembling a standard picture frame. A new feature that makes this more useful is picture-in-picture.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 3, 2020

OLED panels — which made a name for themselves in high-end TVs but are growing more popular in laptops as well — can deliver a stunning picture compared to IPS LCD displays. Pictures were vibrant, blacks were deep, and colors were bright — it makes MacBook Pro screens look cheap. One thing that did surprise me was the audio.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 8, 2021

And the two products go tit for tat in their core video and audio streaming features despite the older model often being discounted; at the time of this review, the regular Fire TV Stick 4K is on sale for $33.99. In this case, “max” is actually about the smaller things.

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The Verge

MARCH 12, 2021

A recent report from MIT Technology Review highlighted how the social network’s emphasis on growth and user engagement has stopped its AI team from fully addressing how algorithms can spread misinformation and encourage political polarization. This is an extreme outcome and not an avenue of research Facebook says it’s currently exploring.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2021

However, the 2021 Apple TV 4K still doesn’t support bitstream audio passthrough, so the company hasn’t addressed all the wants of home theater enthusiasts. Thankfully, Apple has evolved and added to tvOS elsewhere in recent years with new features like multiuser support, Apple Fitness Plus , and HomePod home theater audio.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2021

Both cameras deliver a surprisingly reasonable picture. That said, the dual-camera setup is another cool-sounding feature that probably isn’t the most pragmatic: The rear camera isn’t good enough for actual photography of any kind, and the best use case is probably for snapping pictures of a whiteboard in class.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

If you’ve seen a picture, you know what that reason is: there are two screens. I don’t like to use third-party peripherals in my review process, but if I’d just purchased the Duo, I would have immediately plugged in a mouse and never looked back. Specifically, there’s the primary display, a 14-inch 1080p matte screen.

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Creative tasks, like creating music, drawing new pictures, or creating videos. In “ Large Motion Frame Interpolation ”, we demonstrated that short slow-motion videos can be created by interpolating between two pictures that were taken many seconds apart, even when there might have been significant movement in some parts of the scene.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

So far, most sleep tech I’ve tested falls into two categories: health trackers meant to track the quality of your sleep and audio-based devices meant to help you fall (and stay) asleep. Kokoon Nightbuds — a pair of earbuds that promises to do all this, with some added perks like adaptive audio and the ability to choose your own content.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Mashable's reviewer Siddhant Adlakha called it a "modern American masterpiece," and we named it one of the best films of 2024. It already nabbed the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama for Brody, and Best Director for Corbet. Read our full review of The Brutalist.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Greg here again with Week in Review , the newsletter where we quickly recap the most read TechCrunch stories from the past seven days. These tickets let current/prospective founders get into the (seriously excellent) event for just $149, and they’re letting us bump that down to $75 for Week in Review readers. audio roundup.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

There’s the Dell Optimizer program which (in theory) learns your behavior over time and tailors everything from audio quality to charging speed accordingly. The camera itself — a 3.5mm shooter that supports Windows Hello — is actually good, delivering one of the best pictures I’ve ever seen from a laptop’s webcam. Gen 1 Type-A.

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The Verge

JULY 29, 2021

Type-A Gen 1, a combo audio jack, a microSD reader, and a Kensington lock. USB-C, USB-A, audio jack, microSD on the left. It delivers a picture that’s grainy but accurate, even in low-light settings. If you’ll be making a lot of video calls, though, you should note that the audio isn’t great. Type-C Gen 1, one USB 3.1

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

And because Netflix is used by over 200 million people around the world, the lack of official support is a big deal that you should be aware of at the outset of a review for a nearly $2,000 projector from a company you might never have heard of. The audio from the Horizon Pro sounded fuller by comparison.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The display delivered a good picture with vivid colors, high contrast, and sharp details. USB-A, lock slot, audio jack on the right. Sure, reviewers felt that the Gen 8’s was a bit small. The X1 Carbon Gen 9 also has an improved Dolby Atmos audio system. Two USB-C, a USB-A, and an HDMI on the left.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The Nest Audio is a well-reviewed option from Google, and even more worth considering now on discount. First off, and leading our selection of Nest deals, is the latest Google Nest Audio smart speaker. The Nest Audio comes in chalk, charcoal, sand, sage, and sky colorways. Read our review. Read our review.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Read our review. Fujifilm’s discounted Instax Square SQ1 camera prints pictures onto Polaroid-framed film. Read our review. Apple’s third-gen AirPods are great gifts for music lovers or friends, with support for features like spatial audio, which can make listening to select content a more immersive experience.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Read our review. Read our review. That’s $30 off a staple of video/audio gear you don’t always see discounts on. Read our review. Read our review. Read our review. The Fujifilm X-T3 has been usurped by the newer X-T4 but still offers a lot for a lower price. 4 R LM OIS for $1,499 ($400 off). If that 12.9-inch

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The Verge

MARCH 28, 2021

one SD slot, one combo audio jack, and an optional Nano-SIM card slot. And the stereo speakers are fine, delivering distortion-free audio with percussion and bass that are audible but not exceptional. The webcam was fairly color-accurate and delivered a decent picture in low-light environments. Ports include two USB 3.2

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

So this review will largely focus on the new system’s performance. In addition to that processor, the 15-inch Surface Laptop 4 I reviewed comes with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. The Windows Hello webcam is fine, delivering a serviceable picture, and the dual far-field microphones had no trouble picking up my voice.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

When young (or youngish) people think of age-tech, they may picture mostly clinical solutions—telemedicine platforms, for instance. Embleema was created to make pharmaceutical studies easier by making the evidence generation and regulatory review processes faster. Growing older, however, doesn’t just have a physical component.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

one microSD slot, and one combo audio jack. Aspect ratio aside, the 1920 x 1200 display on our review unit was quite bright, maxing out at 494 nits in my testing. And I almost never get to say this, but the webcam isn’t that bad; it delivers a decent and fairly accurate picture, though there’s no privacy shutter or kill switch.

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Candid

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It wasn’t a new dance or a trending audio. After a detailed review, we identified 74 NTEE codes we felt confident using as proxies for identifying political organizations. This exploration is an early effort to identify the extent to which 501(c)(4)s engage in politics explicitly, and the picture is complicated and multifaceted.

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The Verge

AUGUST 15, 2021

inches wide, where the Gen 5’s ( much maligned by reviewers for its small size) was just four. On the other hand, the 9i has better battery life (as do many consumer convertibles at that price), exceptional audio, and some truly innovative features like a haptic touchpad and an ultrasonic fingerprint reader. No fingerprints here.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

3.5mm audio / microphone jack, two USB-C Thunderbolt 4 ports. My picture was a bit washed out with the light from my window. Of course, that doesn’t mean it delivers a great picture — my picture was a bit washed out with the light from my window, and there was still noticeable noise. It’s quite light, at just 2.49

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2021

But there’s one area where it’s far ahead of the pack — the audio. There’s actually a 14-inch laptop out there with very good audio. I’m not exaggerating when I say this is the best audio I’ve ever heard from a laptop of this size. Type-A Gen 2, two Thunderbolt 4, and an audio combo jack. Yes, you read that correctly.

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