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Netflix is beginning to roll out support for Apple’s spatial audio feature on iPhone and iPad, the streaming giant said to 9to5Mac on Wednesday. You may have it already — some users on Reddit are reporting that it’s working for them. You may have it already — some users on Reddit are reporting that it’s working for them.
pic.twitter.com/XTLulM3EAy DLLN (@DLLNBRAND) March 12, 2025 The issue primarily impacts older Chromecasts and the Chromecast Audio device and prevents them from casting. Impacted units include the 2nd-gen Chromecast from 2015 and the Chromecast Audio. Google was fairly vague in its wording here, but at least we know a fix is coming.
Medium announced today its third and final acquisition of the year: Knowable , an audio-based learning platform featuring podcast-like courses from experts like Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and food journalist Mark Bittman. ” Image Credits: Knowable.
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Reddit user GreedyPaint recently embarked on such a journey and in the process, managed to cram an entire feature-length film (90 minutes) onto a single 1.44MB floppy drive, complete with audio. Let that sink in for a moment.
If you’ve scrolled through Reddit’s app recently, you might have spotted a live stream of someone playing music, making art, or just talking to the camera. Those broadcasts come from Reddit’s own live-streaming service, the Reddit Public Access Network (RPAN) , which just celebrated its first anniversary last week.
The key fob’s remote start functionality is tied to the audio package that comes with the car. Buyers are offered a free trial of Remote Connect, but the length of that trial depends on the audio package that’s included with the vehicle.
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A Reddit user extracted the audio from the trailer and converted it to an MP3. A spectrogram of the audio showed text that read, "WHATEVER HEART THIS TOWN HAD HAS NOW STOPPED."
After more than a year of iOS exclusivity, social audio platform Clubhouse is releasing its Android app. It will be available in beta on Google’s mobile OS today in the US, allowing users to sign up and participate in its audio-only chat rooms.
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.
Sonos’ latest update contains big news for surround sound fans: the addition of DTS audio support for its home theater speakers. For those unfamiliar with the technical nightmare that is home cinema audio, DTS is a rival surround sound format to Dolby Digital. badge appears when compatible audio is being played.
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Facebook’s Clubhouse competitor, Live Audio Rooms , is making its way stateside. Twitter Spaces, Twitter’s live audio feature, includes captions, but Clubhouse still does not. Audio rooms may or may not be a feature with real staying power, but Facebook seems intent on investing broadly in the space.
Image: Reddit. Reddit Talk, the platform’s audio-only chatrooms, now support recordings. As outlined in a post on Reddit’s blog , this means you can now listen to previous talks as well as use playback tools that let you jump to certain timestamps, pause / unpause recordings, and fast-forward or rewind them.
Posters on Reddit have seen problems with Apple Music missing lyric information, Dolby Atmos , and lossless audio from songs where it should have those features, while some report they’re unable to play music even if it’s downloaded to their local storage for offline listening.
China is an ideal starting point both for the cheaper engineering talents and the explosive growth of unstructured data — anything from molecular structure, people’s shopping behavior, audio information to video content.
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Twitter is launching Communities, its rival to Facebook Groups and Reddit, for tweeting with others who share specific interests. Communities is the latest in a string of big product bets from Twitter over the last year, including its audio chat feature Spaces, paywalled tweets, and push into newsletter hosting.
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It usually involves lots of Twitch streams, lots of digging around Reddit threads and lots of poring over patch notes. Their desktop client presents you with information it thinks can help, post-game analysis on your strategies, plus in-game audio cues for the things you might not be great at tracking yet. In my chat with him, SenpAI.GG
With the pre-seed funding, led by Alexis Ohanian’s fresh early stage venture firm Seven Seven Six, which the Reddit co-founder announced in June. Unlike Clubhouse, which Gecaj calls a “huge inspiration, Zebra is social audio designed for your inner circle.
A source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch that the venture will focus on audio-related hardware — at least to begin with. Pei remains tight-lipped on what this new venture would be about, or what it is even called, but said he would talk more about it early next year.
Reddit user u/fuzztub07 , who was lucky enough to buy the device from Walmart, has posted a video of the operating system in action. 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.
As part of a new deal with Twitter — which will see the social network continue to run game highlight videos — the NFL has agreed to host 20 live audio rooms throughout the 2021 season. Those will include “current NFL players and other NFL talent” as hosts discussing the season’s matchups.
The Reddit community r/WallStreetBets has turned to Discord in recent weeks to organize and communicate in real time, as it seeks to force hedge funds into losing millions of dollars on their bets against struggling retail companies like GameStop and AMC. audio meme.
For this week’s deep dive Natasha and Alex and Danny and Chris dove into the world of audio. So from the biggest companies to niche startups, we compiled all the recent audio news into a single show for all our delectation. Reddit is also building a Clubhouse-like service , and Alex is excited about it.
The survey, shared by a Sonos customer on Reddit , describes an on-device voice control system that would improve user privacy by not routing questions and commands through the cloud. Sonos claims Google stole some of its multiroom audio tech during a Google Music partnership in 2013.
The screenshot doesn’t show any indication of how podcasts could be displayed on the platform or if it’ll somehow incorporate Spaces, the platform’s audio-only chatrooms. Twitter began branching out to audio when it first launched Spaces in 2020 and dove even deeper into the medium with its acquisition of social podcast platform Breaker.
Other participants in the round include DCM (Kyle Liu), Bling Capital (Ben Ling), and Precursor Ventures (Charles Hudson), as well as angels including Ancestry CEO Deborah Liu, Giphy founder Alex Chung, and Twitter VP of Engineering Nick Caldwell, formerly of Reddit. So the team pivoted and rebranded their app as Honeycomb this past fall.
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Fixes for audio playback disconnecting with certain Bluetooth devices. Improvements to Bluetooth audio quality for certain codecs. Those fixes were eventually bundled with the January update , though you can still find people on Reddit saying their fully updated Pixel 6 gets terrible reception.
Google is changing its Play Store policy to clamp down on a workaround that call recording apps were using, potentially closing the final loophole that allowed these apps to exist ( via NLL-Apps on Reddit ). Here are the new guidelines: The Accessibility API is not designed and cannot be requested for remote call audio recording.
Google DeepMind broke through with a family of natively multi-modal models called Gemini that understand imagery and audio as well as they do language. is the first mass market AI model that is natively multimodal, meaning that it can process and generate images, video, audio, and computer code the same way it does text. Gemini 2.0
It plans to give group moderators adjustable tools for proactively weeding out bad messages through Hive, an automated content moderation platform that Reddit also uses. Group chats that aren’t invite-only will be reviewed by IRL staff before they are promoted on the app’s explore page.
Sendbird , a popular provider of chat, video and other interactive services to the likes of Reddit, Hinge, Paytm, Delivery Hero and hundreds of others by way of a few lines of code, has closed a round of $100 million, money that it plans to use to continue expanding the functionalities of its platform to meet our changing interactive times.
Their easy-to-use dials let you adjust volume and tweak the game / chat audio mix to your liking. I’ve noted this before in previous deal posts this SSD has appeared in, but folks on Reddit claim that this drive lacks DRAM cache, meaning it might struggle with maintaining speed while transferring large files.
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Type-A Gen 1 ports (one on each side, which is really handy for charging and connecting accessories), as well as a microSD reader, an audio combo jack, and a lock slot. Second, audio. But most of the services I use daily (Slack, Twitter, Gmail, Reddit, etc.) Type-C Gen 1 ports and two USB 3.1 God, I love a good keyboard.
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