Amazon Prime Day may be over for 2020, but there are still a number of great deals to be had, even on audio gear. While Amazon’s own Echo Studio smart speaker is sold out, there are Atmos soundbars and some truly excellent passive loudspeakers up for grabs. The most unexpected is the JBL Bar 2.1 Deep Bass …
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15 October
Prime Day dashcam deals still available: A dual dashcam for $120 or a 4K dashcam for $170
Despite the pandemic, traffic in a lot of cities has more or less returned to normal, so we’re clearly spending a lot of time on the road. A dashcam is a handy tool for recording everything going on in front of your vehicle, whether it’s an erratic driver or a meteor shower raining fireballs from the sky. Originally on sale during …
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15 October
Best Prime Day 2020 smartwatch deals still available
Update, Oct. 15: Amazon’s Prime Day sale officially ended at midnight PT. We’re keeping track of the best Prime Day deals still available, however, and we’ve identified the best Walmart “Big Save” deals, which remain available through the end of today. Amazon Prime Day has officially ended, but some deals have remained. Rivals of the retail giant, including Best Buy, Target and Walmart, also have some …
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15 October
PS5 lets you upload voice chats to report abuse
We’ve just seen what the PS5 user interface looks like, but Sony is also adding a way to report abuse when you’re playing online on its next-gen console. You can upload a recording of your voice chat to the company for moderation, as revealed by a PS4 software update on Wednesday. “Please be aware voice chats in parties may …
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15 October
Google search lets you hum to find a song that’s stuck in your head
Google on Thursday announced a handful of new features for its search engine. One new trick lets people hum an audio recording to try to figure out the song that’s stuck in their heads. The tech giant will also let people see how busy a park, restaurant or other business is with live updates. A new augmented reality feature on …
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15 October
PlayStation 5: Sony gives us our first look at the software as launch approaches
Update, Nov. 6: Read our PS5 review. The PlayStation 5 goes on sale less than a month away on Nov. 12, but there are still plenty of things we don’t know about Sony’s next-generation game console. Among them are questions about what exactly the user interface looks like — what menus are we going to be looking at for the best …
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15 October
Zoom will work with all these new apps and services soon. Get started
Zoom on Wednesday unveiled OnZoom, a platform for posting and finding quarantine-friendly virtual events ranging from concerts to cooking and fitness classes. The video chat platform also revealed “Zapps,” or Zoom apps — that live within Zoom and let you access them directly from video chats, for easier workplace collaboration. Finally, Zoom said it would begin rolling out end-to-end encryption …
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15 October
Arcade1Up Infinity Game Table hits Kickstarter with Pandemic, Ticket to Ride and Monopoly
Update, Oct. 15: The Infinity Game Table is live now on Kickstarter and has added a detailed list of launch games, including Hasbro games like Monopoly, Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, Candy Land and Yahtzee. Kickstarter backers will also get access to popular Asmodee board games like Pandemic and Ticket to Ride. The 24-inch model is $499, while the larger 32-inch model is …
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15 October
Sony’s $5,000 eye
Glasses-free 3D isn’t a new thing, but there’s a new generation of technology that could resurrect the idea for a world full of VR and AR headsets. Sony’s Spatial Reality Display is a pro monitor designed specifically for looking at 3D objects on a desktop without a headset, and it’s arriving next month. We got an in-person demo of a …
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15 October
Xbox Series X: Full hands
Update, Nov. 5: Read our reviews of the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S. The Xbox Series X is just about a month away from general release (as is the Series S and the PS5). We’ve been testing a prototype version of the Series X for a few weeks, first looking at backwards compatibility and load times, and now looking at general impressions of …
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