Engadget

APRIL 1, 2025

Table of contents The post-CES soundbar outlook for 2025 Best soundbars for 2025 What to look for in a soundbar Other soundbars we tested Soundbar FAQs The post-CES soundbar outlook for 2025 I typically come out of CES with a pretty clear understanding of the new soundbars that are coming for the year, but that wasnt exactly the case in 2025.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Duolingo , a language learning app with over 500 million users, is working on a music app, TechCrunch has learned. The company also posted a job that was soliciting a freelance music composition and curricular consultant, but the company is no longer accepting applications for that position. Total revenue also nearly doubled at $369.5

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The Verge

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Peloton is getting into the music business. The popular fitness startup, already known for its use of popular music during its classes, announced today that it will be commissioning its own music that can only be heard from within its app. Exclusive music makes sense for Peloton.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Snap is making good on its word to bring music to Snapchat and setting itself up to compete even more so with TikTok and Instagram. The company announced today that iOS users around the world will be able to include popular music in their snaps. Snap doesn’t say how big its music catalog is other than calling it “robust and curated.”

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The Verge

JULY 16, 2020

Microsoft is planning to launch its game streaming service, currently known as Project xCloud, free to its paying Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers in September. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate combines Xbox Live access, an Xbox Game Pass subscription, and, starting in September, xCloud game streaming into a single $14.99 Project xCloud.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 17, 2021

With the introduction of macOS Catalina in 2019, Apple finally brought the reign of iTunes to an end by splitting its features into dedicated Podcasts, TV, and Music apps. There was just one problem — the new Music app isn’t really that different from iTunes , and even the new streaming elements render like web pages instead of natively.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Earlier this fall, Spotify was found to be developing a new feature that would allow its streaming app users to create playlists using AI technology and prompts. Now, that “AI playlists” feature has been spotted in the wild, as part of a test that to see how users will respond to AI-driven playlist creation.

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The Verge

MAY 6, 2021

Owners of Apple’s HomePod and HomePod mini can now connect their smart speakers directly to Deezer and make the music streaming service their default player. You can then play music from Deezer on your Apple speakers by saying “Hey Siri, play [insert cool and relevant band of choice] on Deezer.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

Today, a startup is announcing some funding as it looks to make a similar impact in the world of music. Rapchat , an app that lets people create music tracks — raps, as its name suggests, or something else — using a platform that crowdsources beats and lets people put vocals on top of them, has raised $2.3

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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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Engadget

MARCH 13, 2025

Weve tested a number of the latest gaming laptops to see which are worth your money. But over the last few years AMD has stepped up its game with its Ryzen notebook processors, which are better suited for juggling multiple tasks at once (like streaming to Twitch while blasting fools in Fortnite).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Interactive voice advertising startup Instreamatic , which can insert interactive voice ads into an audio stream, has raised $6.1 SF-HQ’d Instreamatic lets brands that advertise through streaming music apps and podcasts (for instance) have interactive voice-based dialogues with consumers. radio industry veteran.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

It’s widely known that video streaming boomed during the pandemic, as millions of people were faced by boredom during lockdowns. But an unintended consequence of this was the growing environmental impact of millions of video streams, which meant server farms needing to draw increasing amounts of power from the grid. iSIZE , U.K.

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TechNode

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Kunlun Tech recently launched Melodio, which claims to be the worlds first AI-generated music streaming platform. On Melodio, you can input prompts based on your current mood, and the system will continuously generate customized music to match the specified style. Conclusion Overall, Melodio is a promising AI music app.

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2021

Focus Sessions includes Spotify integration, allowing you to create a focus timer to work through tasks while listening to playlist of music from Spotify. Microsoft hasn’t started testing Focus Sessions in its public builds of Windows 11 yet, but from the video Panay teased it appears to be built into the operating system’s Clock app.

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The Verge

MARCH 17, 2021

Chrome’s Live Captions worked on YouTube videos, Twitch streams, podcast players, and even music streaming services like SoundCloud in early tests run by a few of us here at The Verge. Live Captions captioning audio from a podcast player.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

And although we haven't tested the latest vívoactive 5 model, we did spend some time with its predecessor and gave it a near-perfect rating. Anyone in your home can play music, stream videos, ask Alexa questions, dim the lights, adjust the temperature, and more from one place. Save $100.99 at Amazon.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Spotify is rolling out a Music Pro tier later this year that will give users access to higher-quality audio and remixing tools, according to Bloomberg. The service teased a high-fidelity streaming option way back in 2017 and had confirmed that it was working to provide users with access to lossless audio in 2021.

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The Verge

AUGUST 25, 2020

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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

For example: Imagine you’ve just had a telehealth visit, and your healthcare provider thinks it might be time for a blood test. At the moment, the company collects samples and works with Labcorp, Quest Diagnostics and Sonora Quest to process those tests. there are about 14 billion lab tests ordered every year, per the CDC.

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The Verge

JULY 19, 2021

Players can choose a difficulty level, the type of music they want to hear, and the duration of the track before starting. I only had a chance to test the game once on my bike, and personally, I found it boring and confusing to follow, especially compared to instructor-led classes. (I

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Instead, it developed AR projects and campaigns for brands, businesses, and other organizations, including Vogue, Carolina Herrera, Hermes, Louis Vuitton, H&M, Forever 21, Warner Music, LADBible (in partnership with KSI and Craig David), the British Army, TEDx, and several others.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

The deal follows Spotify’s landmark contract last month with podcast juggernaut Joe Rogan , who is moving his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience to the music streaming platform this later this year. Kim Kardashian West has entered into a deal with Spotify to produce and host a new exclusive podcast.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

pic.twitter.com/RspsLgj2Uf — Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) February 25, 2025 Video games ranging from Minecraft to Goat Simulator have become a popular way of testing agentic AI models , or AI models that can autonomously interact with a given environment. reads the AI's ersatz stream of consciousness.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

In fairness to Apple, the company hasn’t given an update on Apple Music subscribers since June 2019 , and while CEO Tim Cook did share this year that Apple News has 125 million subscribers , he chose not to disclose how many people signed up for $10 subscription version.) The company has already tested this theory. a month to $29.95

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2020

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. The detection works really well; music stops even if I say one short word. If you don’t do anything, the music will return 30 seconds after speech stops. Let’s get to the new stuff.

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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. If you just want a single speaker for enjoying music at home, it remains a decent value at less than $200. The Sonos Era 100.

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The Verge

JUNE 22, 2021

Zee5, a streaming service for South Asian content, is now widely available to all users in the US. The service will bring 130,000 hours of Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi programming to US audiences, including originals, music, Bollywood films, and health and lifestyle content, as well as more than two decades of popular TV shows.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Amazon's list of devices is ever-growing, so we've tested them to find the best Echo devices for your smart home. The Echo and Echo Dot are smart speakers that you can use for music, phone calls, calendar reminders, or news alerts. Just by shouting out, you can play music, adjust the volume, and set an alarm or timer.

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

Another feature we’ve appreciated in our testing thus far is Siri’s ability to learn which audio-listening apps you prefer for certain activities. This stops short of letting you select a new default app, like picking Spotify for all of your streaming music requests, but it’s a helpful evolution in any case.

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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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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

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. Google’s latest Chromecast offers support for 4K content, Dolby Atmos, and Dolby Vision HDR, as well as access to all the major streaming services.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Similarly, Sonos is now in the smart speaker game , bringing its rock-solid wireless streaming and class-leading audio quality to the table. Needless to say, I haven’t observed any buzz or rattling while testing the Nest Audio, even at full volume. The Nest Audio has its work cut out.

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The Verge

JANUARY 17, 2022

I put two of the newest to the test — iRobot’s Roomba j7 ($650 for the vacuum, $850 for the j7 Plus version with the auto-empty base) and Samsung’s Jet Bot AI Plus ($1,300 for the bot and base, you can’t buy it separately) — to see if they lived up to their lofty promises. In my testing, this was pretty spotty. How about that poop?

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

“Breakers” are orange sections where you’re supposed to pedal faster, while “Streams” are green sections where you stay within a specific cadence range. You can pedal along to various music genres, as well as collections of David Bowie remixes and David Guetta. Image: Peloton. Lanebreak keeps the leaderboard feature. Image: Peloton.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

He likens the distribution model of the automotive industry to how the music industry was decades ago. Then, CDs dominated music revenue but has now given way to streaming. “If you look at what the music industry looked like 10 years ago, over 50% of music revenue was CDs. Now over 80% is streaming.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

As traditional sports viewership declines among Gen Z, social media and streaming platforms are becoming the favorite destination for young sports fans. Some of the items are interactive, such as a speaker that plays music. “Sports is more than just sports to Gen Z, it is culture, music, fashion, and so much more.

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