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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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.” …
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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 …
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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 …
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Catherine Cunningham and Jim Thomas hangin’ with Toby (AUDIO) Get Out and Play Day What started out as a community softball game 11 years ago has evolved into an all day event in Eureka promoting people of all ages to GET OUT AND PLAY! Get Out & Play Day is an annual event hosted on the last Saturday …
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Gemini has made a nice quality-of-life update for Audio Overviews on Android and iOS by introducing a native, inline player. Previously, tapping on a generated Audio Overview opened the file in your browser with a long URL. You could listen in that Chrome tab or download (and use the Files app) for an unwieldy experience. Now, the Android and iOS …
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Adobe is launching new generative AI filmmaking tools that provide fun ways to create sound effects and control generated video outputs. Alongside the familiar text prompts that typically allow you to describe what Adobe’s Firefly AI models should make or edit, users can now use onomatopoeia-like voice recordings to generate custom sounds, and use reference footage to guide the movements …
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