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I’ve seen some large in-ear headphones before, but Audeze’s new iSine Series in-ears take the cake. The reason they’re so big is they incorporate the company’s planar-magnetic drivers (30mm), which tend to sound very coherent and spacious, with low distortion, and until now have only been found in models that have full-size earcups. If “planar magnetic drivers” sounds Greek to …

TomTom is doubling down on fitness. The navigation company on Thursday introduced its first dedicated fitness tracker, the TomTom Touch. It’s a slim band with a touchscreen display and five days of battery life that can measure steps, distance, calories burned, sleep and heart rate. The tracker can also display notifications when connected to an iPhone or Android smartphone, and …

Now playing: Watch this: Apple unveils iOS 10, packs it with new features 3:43 Ever wondered how much time you spend in Facebook or Snapchat on a daily basis? What about over the course of a week? Well, now you can find out for sure. With just a few taps you can view on-screen time — a metric that equates …

Plex wants to be the Swiss Army Knife of cable TV cord-cutting, and today the versatile software incorporates another new tool. Plex users can now use the pre-existing HDHomeRun, a $90 external box that connects to an over-the-air TV antenna, to schedule recordings of TV shows, record and watch them on any Plex-capable device, from computers to phones to game …

Today’s lesson in digital media: Don’t play around with YouTubers and their payday. Social media was in a frenzy Thursday about apparent changes to how YouTube handles commercials on clips deemed unfriendly to advertising. YouTubers and their fans were incensed, but Google’s massive video site said it was simply trying to be more transparent. A hashtag about the uproar, #YouTubeIsOverParty, …

Did someone you know recently share a video of a hawk dropping a giant snake on a family barbecue? It’s a pretty jolting half-minute of video. The bird soars over a river, lands briefly to pick something up, takes off again, circles and then dives right at the camera, flinging the snake like a toddler pushing a bowl of Honey …

You already could make video calls using Facebook Messenger, but now the app packs a new, lighter-weight mechanism called instant video for chatting with your contacts. With Facebook Messenger’s instant video, you don’t start an instant video chat as you would a regular video chat in the app. Instead, you can fire one up while in the middle of a …

Sony has revealed its latest high-end personal listening range, the Signature Series, and it includes a headphone, two Walkmans and a headphone amp. But with prices up to $3,200, and finished with a good dollop of Björk-level oddness, this line is for serious music fans only. Sony’s new MDR-Z1R flagship Likely of most interest to people like you and me …

Feeling guilty that Brave blocks ads on websites you actually might want to support? A new version of the web browser lets you contribute money directly. Brave 0.11.6 lets you contribute monthly to sites you visit with a feature called Brave Payments now in beta testing. About $5 a month is about enough to replace lost revenue from advertising, said …