Sling TV has unveiled a slick new interface for its live TV streaming service, which includes a new DVR menu option and a smart search feature. In my hands-on experience with the new menus, I liked it much better than the current version. It’s sleeker-looking, more modern and best of all, easier to use. The …
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Microsoft has launched its playbook for hybrid work, outlining how it believes the office of the near future will be able to incorporate in-person and remote employees with help from devices such as smart cameras. “In this new era of hybrid work, we will no longer rely solely on shared physical location,” writes Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in a post Friday …
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Forget Bluetooth dongles. The wave of the future is Wi-Fi music, and in the absence of Google’s discontinued Chromecast Audio we look instead to Belkin’s new Apple AirPlay 2 add-on, the $100 Soundform Connect. Like the Chromecast Audio, the Soundform Connect is designed to connect any system with an aux or optical digital input to Wi-Fi. AirPlay 2 is a multiroom …
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Twitter is preparing to launch its Ticketed Spaces feature in the next couple of weeks, the company announced Friday, enabling people to host live, paid shows on the platform. The recently launched Twitter Spaces is a competitor to the popular audio meetup app Clubhouse, which lets people visit virtual rooms and listen to and participate in conversations. Twitter rolled out the feature …
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Yamaha has announced three new high-end receivers in its Aventage range, the RX-A4A, RX-A6A and RX-A8A, which the company says will not be affected by a bug preventing certain 4K signals from displaying. Prices start at $1,300. Yamaha says the 4K/120Hz issue that affected the earlier RX-V6 won’t affect the new Aventage receivers due to their updated hardware (more on …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. LG has announced pricing and availability on its suite of soundbars, some of which include support for Dolby Atmos, starting with the 2.1-channel SP2 for $179. The company has announced that four models are available now — the SP9YA ($999), SP8YA ($799), …
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Apple’s popular AirDrop feature for sharing files may be vulnerable to hacking attempts, according to security researchers at a German university. In a post published Friday, researchers at Technische Universitat Darmstadt said that a nearby stranger could discover the phone number and email of an AirDrop user because of a privacy gap in the feature. The issue, reported earlier by Gizmodo, apparently …
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Roku has rebranded its existing Smart Soundbar as the Streambar Pro for the same $180 price, but it now includes an upgraded voice remote. The Streambar Pro is a hybrid device: a 4K HDR streamer, similar to the Streaming Stick Plus, built into a soundbar. The improved remote comes with Roku headphones for private listening, one of our favorite features …
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Apple is rumored to be working on two new smart home products — an Apple TV streaming device built into a speaker and a smart speaker with a screen — according to a Bloomberg report Monday. While fans have been hoping for a new Apple TV for three years, the new speaker would be a separate product — an “Apple TV set-top box …
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Cambridge Audio has a history of doing things its own way — Bluetooth turntables, anyone? — so its new high-end streaming amp’s quirks are perfectly on-brand. The Cambridge Audio Evo offers wooden trim, a “dual concentric dial” and a higher-power version aimed directly at the competition: the Naim Uniti Atom and the NAD M10. There are two Evo models with …
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