The Sonos One may be the hottest smart speaker right now, but if you have an existing Sonos system you don’t need to spend $200 to control your system with your voice. Now anyone with a Sonos and an Amazon Echo can control their music collection by simply speaking into thin air. “Alexa, play The …

Until recently you had two options when buying a new sound system — a fully fledged stereo or AV system with separate amplification and masses of wires or a convenient but sonically-limited sound bar. Klipsch’s R-15PM powered speaker tried — pretty successfully — to offer the convenience of a sound bar and the sonic advantages of stereo speakers. Klipsch has followed …

Facebook users around the world experienced an outage of the social network Wednesday, which appears to be continuing for many. “Earlier today, a networking issue caused some people to have trouble accessing Facebook services,” a company representative said. “We quickly investigated and started restoring access within about an hour, and we have nearly fixed the issue for everyone. We’re sorry …

A dedicated Taylor Swift social network called The Swift Life is the next project from the maker of the Kim Kardashian: Hollywood app, Glu Mobile. The app is due in “late 2017” and will let fans “connect with Taylor and each other through message boards, quizzes, etc” TechCrunch reports. According to the promotional video above, the app looks similar to …

Google has announced its premium smart speaker, the $399 Google Home Max, which combines Wi-Fi streaming with the Google Assistant in a larger form factor than the company’s first model. Now playing: Watch this: Google debuts Home Max with Smart Sound 2:08 While the Google Home Mini appears to be modeled after the Echo Dot, the Max seems to be …

AT&T has announced its Unlimited Choice customers will receive free HBO as part of their plan beginning Friday, Sept. 15. Under the changes customers get unlimited data, talk, text and HBO for $60 a month, or $40 per line on four lines or more. Previously you would need to be subscribed to Unlimited Plus to receive the service. AT&T Unlimited …

Speaker brand Elac, which has received numerous awards for its passive loudspeakers, says it could release a high-end soundbar by the middle of 2018. Christopher Walker, vice president of product development at Elac America, said that the company was interested in soundbars as it was a growing category. Elac designer Andrew Jones produced one of CNET’s favorite sound bars, the …

Pioneer and Onkyo have announced two new smart speakers with a different spin — they combine multiroom streaming audio with Amazon‘s Alexa assistant. Prices will start at $250. Ever since the first smart speaker, the Amazon Echo, was released almost three years ago this category has primarily been more concerned about the “smarts” than the speaker. The Echo, the Google …

Speaker brand Jamo is set to make a comeback with a new range of eye-catching, budget sound bars and speakers called the Studio series. The range, due in October, features luxurious-looking tweed grills that make them look more like furniture than budget speakers. The sound bars come in a choice of light or dark gray, while the speakers have three …

Goodbye Yellow Glass Dome! Bowers & Wilkins is clearing out its iconic kevlar drivers, the same material used in bullet-proof vests, in favor of the silvery “Continuum” material it developed in-house.  The process began with the 800 series last year and continues with the 700 S2 series, available starting today. The series begins at $1,250 (£800 in the UK and …