The Verge

APRIL 18, 2022

In a new update , Telegram announced it’s letting users set any sound as their notification tone. You can use short audio files uploaded from your phone and save voice messages as notification tones from a chat. Telegram says it currently supports audio files and voice messages under 300KB and less than five seconds long.

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The Verge

JUNE 15, 2021

It’s the $199 picture frame / wall art speaker that The Verge exclusively reported on earlier this year and Ikea later prematurely posted on its website. The “picture frame with Wi-Fi speaker” will be available for purchase starting on July 15th. Cord management is built into the frame’s design.

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The Verge

JANUARY 6, 2021

And like TCL and LG before it, the company is moving to a more precise backlighting system that uses Mini LED technology for improved contrast and greater picture quality than its previous full-array local dimming systems — and Samsung’s premium QLED LCD TVs were already impressive. More sizes of MicroLED.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

Sonos Roam 2 Opens in a new window Credit: Sonos Sonos Roam 2 $139 at Amazon $179 Save $40 Get Deal Mashable's Alex Perry called the first rendition of the Sonos Roam speaker "an endearing and great-sounding portable speaker that you can use in just about any way you want," and gave it the coveted Mashable Choice award. That's 36% in savings.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Listen to the audio versionread by Melody herselfin the Next Big Idea App. These pithy one-liners sound good but tend to be oversimplified and fall apart the minute things get complicated or dont go as planned. Packed with actionable scripts and expert insights, this book is a must-read for anyone ready to take control of their career.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Snapchat helped pioneer the use of lenses on faces in photos and videos to turn ordinary picture messages into fantastical creations where humans can look like, say, cats, and even cats can wear festival-chic flower crowns. Now it sounds like the company might be turning its attention… to sound.

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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

JANUARY 18, 2022

Dolby Atmos: An immersive surround sound format that goes beyond previous experiences by introducing height channels, which make audio more three-dimensional. Atmos home theater systems and soundbars often include up-firing speakers to make some on-screen action sound like it’s happening overhead. The “definition” of HDMI 2.1

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

Using his philosophical skillset, Julian sketches a picture of how all the elements of food consumption and production fit together. Listen to the audio versionread by Julian himselfin the Next Big Idea App. He is a regular columnist for The Guardian , Prospect magazine, Financial Times , and The Wall Street Journal.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

Playing audio from your phone can be a struggle, too. The USB-C passthrough port on the controller unfortunately doesn’t support audio, and the clever vent built to let sound from your phone’s bottom-firing speakers is only useful if your phone has speakers located there. That works, though there was a slight delay.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2021

and “audio-visual diarization” (remembering who said what when). Facebook’s first pair of commercial AR glasses can only record and share videos and pictures — not analyze it. Audio-visual diarization : Who said what when (e.g., there’s possibilities down the road that we’d be leveraging this kind of research”.

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The Verge

AUGUST 21, 2020

The Galaxy S20 series (pictured) released earlier this year. The enhanced Pro Video Mode gives you more control over which mic you record sound with. The notes app is also getting updated, and can now sync audio recordings with written notes. Photo by Brennan King / The Verge.

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Digital Trends

JULY 20, 2022

HDMI and optical are the two go-to connections for modern picture standards and surround sound, but is there any difference between both wires? Let's find out.

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The Verge

APRIL 19, 2021

Facebook is going all in on audio. Most notably, Facebook is indeed launching a competitor to the buzzy social audio app Clubhouse with a feature called Live Audio Rooms, which will be available this summer. To get people to join, Facebook says it’s introducing an Audio Creator Fund to “support emerging audio creators.”

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Siri has gotten a makeover for both systems; it has a new icon that will pop up at the bottom of the iOS interface (rather than overtaking your entire screen) and can now send audio messages (rather than just dictated text messages). Elsewhere, Apple is adding system-wide picture-in-picture functionality to iOS videos and FaceTime calls.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2021

The ridiculous sounds of social sites Using a screen reader to navigate Instagram, as some people with low vision do, is a strange patchwork of sounds. I think that’s one big misconception: ‘Oh, well, they don’t care about pictures.’ But I didn’t know that because there’s no audio indication.”. “A

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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. Its volume more than fills a room, and it sounds great in all orientations with booming bass.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

The Chroma team had a range of ideas but ultimately landed on audiovisual technologies and their intersection with music and sound. As Stone explains, the idea was about changing the nature of music and sound and making it a more interactive and immersive experience. Anywhere there’s great sound and visuals,” he added.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

From the pictures published by Golem.de, we can see the streaming box has a typical array of ports, including an HDMI port, Optical Audio out, USB-C, USB-A, and wired Ethernet. However, between this and Google’s recently released Chromecast with Google TV , it sounds like the operating system could be getting a new lease on life.

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The Verge

APRIL 22, 2022

Pictures of the leaked models in their carrying case show a design that ditches the collapsible folding of the XM4 that tucked one cup inside the other. Still, in these pictures, it seems doubtful they’ll take up much more space on a desk, stand, or in your bag. Image: TechnikNews. hours via USB-C, about 30 minutes longer than the XM4.

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

In his review , Verge staffer Cameron Faulkner called the smart speaker a great sounding upgrade over the last-gen Home Mini. These mini speakers from Creative are an awesome solution for beefing up your desktop audio without sacrificing space. Each speaker on the Creative Pebble 2.0 measures just 4.4

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

But basically, the important things are: how easy it is to set up, audio, image quality, and price. And as for content, every projector I tested has an HDMI input, internal speakers, and also an audio output, so I was easily able to stream things by plugging in my Roku stick. there’s a lot.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

They have the same set of Apple-friendly features noted above, but add stronger ANC, a more secure fit, fuller sound (thanks to that in-ear design), an hour or two of extra battery life and onboard volume controls. The 1TB model is on sale today, not the 512GB model pictured here.) The Samsung Evo Select. The Sonos Era 100.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

I love seeing this $72 off deal on Sony’s WH-1000XM4 headphones (pictured above). This model of headphones released for $350 in August , improving on the excellent audio quality, sound-dampening noise cancellation, and long battery life of the XM3 from 2018.

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The Verge

JULY 27, 2020

These specs make it sound like a very similar phone, but what they don’t tell you is that in person the Nord feels like a lower tier device. That sounds like a negative, but I really like the simplicity of the Nord’s design. It’s a shame that the phone’s audio quality doesn’t keep up.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The Omni series is the higher-end of the two, and beyond offering better picture quality, its other key selling point is hands-free voice control. The Fire TV Omni sets also include picture-in-picture for checking your smart home cameras, and you’ll see your Ring doorbell feed whenever someone is at the door. Image: Amazon.

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As for what the phone looks like, Google itself has revealed a side profile of the device (see the picture at the top of this post). A new Nest smart speaker: “Nest Audio”. The device could support touch controls, according to a photo taken by a reddit user who says they actually bought the Nest Audio from Walmart.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

It must be extracted from the people building your company (sounds painful, I know). Make liberal use of a whiteboard (take pictures of the board as you go) and encourage note-taking. You might even consider making an audio recording of the session to reference later. A true ethos can’t be prescribed or copied.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

And as soon as I started listening to it, it was so visual and so powerful that I thought, wouldn’t it be interesting to try to illuminate her narrative with some ambient sound, as we call it. And I didn’t add sounds to the white people’s perspective, for the most part. And so, you know, that’s what I did.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Of course, in its most rudimentary form, a podcast is simply a digital audio recording delivered to listeners who can hear it at their convenience. He did this assuring us that he would edit the resulting podcast into something that made us sound smart. That's because some stories tell themselves.

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The Verge

APRIL 6, 2021

The tiny, lightweight speaker has a ton of functionality, but don’t expect sound quality miracles The Sonos Roam is the most focused, calculated product from Sonos yet. But it’s also designed to slot into Sonos’ multiroom audio platform and showcase the versatility that comes with it. Now onto the main agenda: sound quality.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2021

A cornucopia of audio tech spread across two desks Podcasting can be a fun and incredibly creative field — but also a very demanding one. Andrew Marino is The Verge ’s senior audio director, and is responsible for producing almost everything you hear in our podcasts. I am an audio engineer / creator living in Brooklyn, NY.

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The Verge

JANUARY 12, 2021

Arlo doesn’t have a price, release date, or even a picture of the new doorbell, which got me to thinking: why does it need to be any different than the doorbells that Arlo (and Google’s Nest and Amazon’s Ring, etc.) It could play an audio message like “We’re ringing the doorbell for you, please wait a moment,” too.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The new Symfonisk has a more traditional design, fixes the original’s frustratingly limited bulb compatibility, and has a revamped speaker architecture that does a better job spreading sound throughout a room. Like other modern Sonos speakers, the lamp supports Apple’s AirPlay 2, so it’s easy to play audio on it from an iPhone, iPad, or Mac.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Dating app Hinge is adding new audio features, letting users answer the “getting to know you” prompts on their profile using audio clips and exchange voice notes in chat. For many people, the sound of someone’s voice can be an important part of attraction, and exchanging voice notes is a more expressive way to communicate.

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