This blog is a follow up to last weekend’s blog. This time, I’ll compare the sound of four headphones: two sets of low- and high-impedance Beyerdynamic DT 880 Edition and DT 990 Edition models. All four headphones each sell for the exact same price, $299 in the US. £299 in the UK, and AU$395 in …
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Enlarge Image Fonesalesman Congratulations to Ricardo H. of Austin, Texas, for winning a pair of Grain Audio solid-wood over-ear headphones in last week’s giveaway, and to Jaron H. of Tallahassee, Florida, for winning a pack of Tile Bluetooth trackers the week before that. This time around, we have a table. But it’s not just any table. It’s a wireless charging …
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Apple reopens its campus store to the public on Saturday. James Martin/CNET CUPERTINO, California — The store at Apple’s headquarters is back in business. After shutting it for renovations this summer, the consumer-electronics giant is reopening the shop at 1 Infinite Loop. The store is a popular tourist attraction, offering T-shirts, gadgets and novelties. For years, visitors from around the …
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Google hasn’t updated Chromecast in more than two years. Google It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Google may reveal a new version of its Chromecast streaming-media device at an event in San Francisco on September 29, making it the third tech giant to refresh its connected-TV product ahead of the holiday shopping season. The plans were reported by …
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Enlarge Image Jason Cipriani/CNET When Apple launched “Hey Siri” with iOS 8, you could wake your iOS device with the simple command as long as your iOS device was connected to power. The feature, as useful as it is, had a big problem: It wasn’t loyal to only your voice; anyone within earshot could give the command and interact with …
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Sarah Tew/CNET Apple’s new iPhone and iPad software comes with better battery life and a new Siri interface. It might also come with bugs. Apple customers are reporting on Twitter and other online forums that apps on their mobile devices are crashing when they update the operating system to iOS 9. iOS 9, the latest version of Apple’s software for …
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CNET New Nexus phones could be just around the corner: Google on Friday sent out invitations to a press event to be held Tuesday, September 29, in San Francisco. Though Google hasn’t offered any clues as to what’s in store, people familiar with the company’s plans told CNET that we can expect two versions of the Nexus smartphone: a large …
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Enlarge ImageKeep your drinks and space pirates cold with this Han Solo mini-fridge. Wal-Mart Unlike Darth Vader, most of us don’t have access to a carbonite freezing-chamber to keep our drinks and space pirates ice cold. But if you happen to preorder Star Wars Battlefront from Wal-Mart, for an extra $60 (about £39, AU$83) you can also get your hands …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Yesterday, Amazon took the wraps off a $50 tablet , the simply named Fire. As you might expect, I’m a little excited. Okay, a lot excited. Not because I need another tablet — …
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The first Android 6.0 Marshmallow devices are expected this month. CNET With all that we know — or think we know — about the upcoming Nexus smartphones, one detail has proven somewhat elusive: their names. According to “sources” close to tech site Droid Life, the LG model will be called the Nexus 5X, with Huawei’s handset arriving as the Nexus …
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