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If you’re willing to spend more than $100, great headphones abound. Once Apple breached the wireless earbud dam with its initial AirPod model, excellent-sounding buds with noise-canceling, great mics, and high-fidelity sound have flooded the market. Put a list of name brands on a board, throw a dart, and buy the pair it makes that’s … Read more

It isn’t even Halloween yet, but the jingling bells of Christmas are already beginning to ring. Netflix has released the official trailer for holiday-themed rom-com Meet Me Next Christmas, promising more of those cheesy seasonal love stories we’ve come to expect from this time of year — this time with a musical guest. Meet Me Next Christmas follows Layla (Christina Milian), a woman … Read more

Payouts from Juul’s $300 million class action settlement are finally getting distributed — and some people are getting a lot more money than they expected. Judging by the comments on some of these posts, it appears people who submitted receipts for their Juul pods or pens may have gotten bigger payouts, and with some users … Read more

In a pitch to investors last spring, Anthropic said it intended to build AI to power virtual assistants that could perform research, answer emails, and handle other back-office jobs on their own. The company referred to this as a “next-gen algorithm for AI self-teaching” — one it believed that could, if all goes according to … Read more

What you need to know The Find My Device app (version 3.1.173-1) is letting you log in using biometrics, making access faster and more secure on Android. Previously, users could only log in with their Google account password, so this is a big improvement for quick access. With the new biometric login, the ‘Don’t ask … Read more

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google is rolling out Gemini extensions for Google Calendar, Keep, and Tasks. With these new extensions, users can add and edit calendar events, create notes and lists in Keep, and add tasks and reminders in Tasks. These extensions will be available to Google Workspace subscribers with a Gemini add-on. … Read more

Session, a small but increasingly popular encrypted messaging app, is moving its operations outside of Australia after the country’s federal law enforcement agency visited an employee’s residence and asked them questions about the app and a particular user. 404 Media reports: Now Session will be maintained by an entity in Switzerland. The move signals the … Read more

I’m worried about AI. I’m not worried about it taking my job. I believe AI is a genuine productivity tool. By which I mean it can make developers produce more. Learn faster. Dig deeper. See farther. The question is whether those developers are producing something good or not. The difference … Read more

Apple’s new hearing health features for AirPods Pro 2 launching with iOS 18.1 next week will initially be available only in the United States and Canada, according to Apple’s website. The limitation affects all of the new hearing capabilities, including the hearing test feature, hearing aid functionality, and enhanced hearing protection. These features require the … Read more

Wiim has partnered with Swedish audio company Audio Pro to release the first two wireless speakers that have Wiim OS (the company’s multiroom audio streaming software) built-in. The 50-watt Audio Pro A10 MKII Wiim Edition ($229) and 80-watt C10 MKII Wiim Edition ($339) are essentially identical to the non-Wiim versions that Audio Pro already sells, … Read more