Tag Archives: audio

The Labor Day holiday is in full swing, and most of the biggest online retailers are celebrating the holiday with some notable discounts. Some of the best Labor Day deals include huge discounts on wireless earbuds and headphones. But you need to be quick becayse we don’t expect some of these deals to last for long. If the following deals aren’t …

I must confess: I listen to music on my Bose soundbar. If you know anything about audio gear, I guarantee you read that sentence and winced. Then, you hear Bose and you think hi-fi, right? You think luxurious, premium brand, with cool tech and even cooler listening. Well, most people do, but I know it’s a stretch to generalize. Most …

Facebook Tweet Email Link The unexpected release of audio from Erik Menendez’s tightly controlled parole hearing last week nearly derailed Friday’s proceedings for his brother, Lyle, and infuriated his family members – who raised questions about the recording’s impact on the outcome and how it was released. The tumultuous session concluded with a California parole board denying parole for Lyle, …

TL;DR Google’s new Pixel Buds 2a lack Bluetooth audio sharing, highlighting a confusing and inconsistent implementation of the Auracast feature across Pixel devices. The feature is mysteriously disabled on the Pixel Buds Pro 2 when paired with a Pixel phone and artificially blocked on budget A-series phones. This haphazard approach hinders the adoption of the universal Auracast standard, which could …

Access to the parole hearings this week for brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez was tightly controlled by state prison officials, but despite the efforts to limit outside interference and drama, the unexpected release of an audio recording nearly derailed Friday’s proceeding. The disclosure of an audio recording of Erik’s parole hearing, held Thursday, tossed his older brother Lyle’s hearing into …

As previewed earlier this year, Gemini in Google Docs will now let you “create audio versions of your documents.”  On the web, go to the Tools menu for a new “Audio” option in-between Voice typing and Gemini. Tapping “Listen to this tab” will open a pill-shaped player, with the duration noted. You can move this floating window anywhere on the …

This article was produced with support from WIRED. A couple of years ago, a curious, then-16-year-old hacker named Reynaldo Vasquez-Garcia was on his laptop at his Portland-area high school, seeing what computer systems he could connect to via the Wifi—“using the school network as a lab,” as he puts it—when he spotted a handful of mysterious devices with the identifier “IPVideo Corporation.” …

To hack the Halo 3C, they found that if they could connect to one over the network it was installed on, they could brute-force guess its password with virtually no rate limitations due to a flaw in how it tried to throttle those guesses. “It’s trivially possible to guess passwords as quickly as the thing can respond to you,” says …

Marriage Story, Noah Baumbach’s drama starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver as a divorcing couple engaged in a raging custody battle, won universal acclaim from critics and numerous awards, including six Oscar nominations and one win, for Laura Dern’s barnstorming attorney. But perhaps the highest honour has just been revealed by the Wall Street Journal, which reports that audio of …

Amazon to Cut Wondery Staff, Reorganize Audio Business  Bloomberg Amazon (AMZN) Shutters Its Wondery Podcast Studio and Lays Off Staff  TipRanks Amazon lays off over 100 employees in Wondery unit as part of audio business restructuring  CNBC Memo: Amazon breaks up its podcast studio and lays off over 100  Business Insider Amazon Reorganizes Audio Divisions, Shrinking Wondery Studio And Laying Off 100-Plus Staffers  Deadline Source …