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9.3/ 10 SCORE Sony WH-1000XM6 Pros Upgraded design with more comfortable fit Improved noise canceling and sound quality New QN3 chip is seven times as powerful as QN1 chip in XM5 Excellent voice-calling performance with more mics Improved transparency mode Spatial audio with head tracking Cons $50 more than previous model No USB-C audio It’s … Read more
Earlier this year, an ill-fated lander skidded across the lunar surface and ended up lying sideways in a cold, dark crater. Intuitive Machines’ Athena lander was declared dead on arrival at the Moon. Now, the company has released a report detailing the chain of mishaps that led to its demise. Athena touched down on the Moon … Read more
Other Hearing Aids to Consider We’ve reviewed dozens of hearing aids, and many of them are good but not great. Here are alternatives to consider: GN ReSound Vivia for $5,000+: ReSound’s new Vivia line of prescription hearing aids are on par in both design (at a svelte 2.56 grams) and quality with the Starkey Edge … Read more
HBO‘s decision to change the name of its streamer from HBO Max to Max, and then back to Max again two years later, has been an almost comically ridiculous journey — but at least the company’s got a sense of humour about it. After HBO parent company Warner Bros. Discovery announced the name change on … Read more
Roblox announced on Thursday that creators can now sell physical merchandise directly within their experiences and games on the platform with the launch of new Commerce APIs. The offering provides creators with a new way to generate revenue beyond the purchases of virtual goods or one-time fees to access specific experiences. The company first began … Read more
WiiM delivered a standout product in the Amp, and it followed that up with the Ultra and the Amp Pro. Now, it’s bringing both features together into the Amp Ultra, delivering the best features of the Ultra alongside amplification. The Amp Ultra provides 100W to each channel into 8 ohms, and 200W a channel at … Read more
Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google and I have never quite seen eye to eye on design. Ever since Material Design debuted in 2014, I’ve been slowly falling out of love with Android’s default aesthetic — like watching a once-clean-cut friend develop an unhealthy obsession with novelty ties. I might be alone in this, but … Read more
Nvidia-backed CoreWeave plans to spend up to $23 billion this year on AI infrastructure and data center capacity, as it aims to meet the booming demand from clients. Reuters reports: The heavy spending plan weighed on its shares, which fell 5% after surging as much as 11% on better-than-expected revenue in its first results as … Read more
The release comes just two weeks after OpenAI made GPT-4 unavailable in ChatGPT on April 30. That earlier model, which launched in March 2023, once sparked widespread hype about AI capabilities. Compared to that hyperbolic launch, GPT-4.1’s rollout has been a fairly understated affair—probably because it’s tricky to convey the subtle differences between all of … Read more
Apple this week introduced a new feature designed to allow prospective Apple Music users to import their saved music and playlists from third-party music services to Apple Music. The feature is either in an expanded testing phase or it has started rolling out, and it is available in Australia and New Zealand according to an … Read more