T-Mobile users can start trying out SpaceX’s satellite service next week

T-Mobile users can start trying out SpaceX’s satellite service next week

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR SpaceX will start beta testing its Direct-to-Cell service on January 27, 2025. The test is expected to run until July 26, 2025. Sign-ups to join the beta started last month. It’s been almost three years since SpaceX and T-Mobile announced a partnership that would bring satellite coverage to regular … Read more

Sony To End Blu-ray Media Production After 18 Years

Sony To End Blu-ray Media Production After 18 Years

Sony will cease production of recordable Blu-ray discs at its last factory in February, ending an 18-year manufacturing run amid declining demand for physical media. The Japanese electronics giant will also halt production of MiniDiscs and MiniDV cassettes. The company had already stopped making consumer recordable Blu-ray and optical disks in mid-2024, maintaining production only … Read more

Quantum Error Correction Update 2024 – O’Reilly

Quantum Error Correction Update 2024 – O’Reilly

Making quantum computers is really very difficult. The quantum bits, or qubits, are made up of superconducting circuits operating at thousands of a Kelvin above absolute zero, or individual atoms, or photons. Aside from the challenges of engineering at those extremes, there is the whole matter of the rest of the universe having a very … Read more

Unreleased Sony WH-1000XM6 Headphones Appear in FCC Filing

Unreleased Sony WH-1000XM6 Headphones Appear in FCC Filing

Sony could be close to launching the successor model to its popular WH-1000XM5 over-ear noise-canceling headphones, if a new FCC filing is anything to go by. The company’s WH-1000XM5 cans, which we compared to Apple’s AirPods Max back in May 2022, are considered by many to offer some of the best noise-canceling in the business, … Read more

A familiar Samsung app has been replaced on the Galaxy S25

A familiar Samsung app has been replaced on the Galaxy S25

After you’ve unwrapped and set up your new Galaxy S25, you may notice an app previously always installed on Samsung phones has disappeared. Samsung has stopped pre-installing its own Samsung Messages app, and handed cellular messaging duties solely over to Google. On the Galaxy S25, Google Messages is the only pre-installed, and therefore default, messaging … Read more

SoundPeats PearlClip Pro Review: Affordable, Comfortable, and Fine

SoundPeats PearlClip Pro Review: Affordable, Comfortable, and Fine

Summary With an MSRP of $70, PearlClip Pro wireless open-ear earbuds are a bit more affordable (and comfortable) than similar designs. The earbuds look sleek, sound good, and have excellent battery life. Tap controls can be inconsistent, the app and sound modes don’t improve much, and the microphone quality isn’t great. SoundPeats PearlClip Pro open-ear … Read more

Could Self-Driving Buses Bring Vehicle Autonomy Home?

Could Self-Driving Buses Bring Vehicle Autonomy Home?

In the race to develop autonomous vehicle technology, some companies are steering away from robotaxis to explore a different avenue: driverless buses. With an anticipated shortage of qualified bus drivers looming and concerns growing about the relative inefficiency of robotaxis, companies are opting to equip city buses with advanced levels of autonomy. This a far … Read more