February, 2018

• 24 February

  How to stop worrying about speaker impedance

  

  I wouldn’t blame you if you assumed an 8 ohm speaker is always 8 ohms, but it’s not. Far from it, an 8 ohm rated speaker is actually 8 ohms only a small percentage of the time because the speaker’s impedance varies, depending on the frequencies the speaker is playing at any given moment. Sometimes …

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• 24 February

  Galaxy S9: Launch, release date, price, specs and more

  

  The Galaxy S9 looks like this, according to these renders +19 more See all photos The big day is upon us. This Sunday, February 25, at 6 p.m. Barcelona time — that’s noon ET and 9 a.m. PT — Samsung lifts the curtain on the next generation of its flagship smartphone. On the eve of Mobile World Congress, we’ll finally get …

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• 24 February

  Qualcomm’s prototype soundbar uses phone tech to aim audio at your ears

  

  In a sound isolation room deep within Qualcomm’s testing labs in San Diego, California, six journalists snapped into blue, antistatic smocks watched a video play on an ordinary TV screen. The 5-foot-long sound bar piping out the music and dialogue, however, was anything but ordinary. Stretching 5 feet (about 1.5m) from side to side, Qualcomm’s prototype sound bar will perfect …

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• 24 February

  The LG V30S ThinQ phone is the V30 with Ai and a memory boost

  

  LG is out with a new smartphone. Sort of. Ahead of the Mobile World Congress 2018 trade show, the company on Saturday unveiled the V30S ThinQ, a version of last year’s flagship V30 with slightly better specs and a focus on artificial intelligence. (Because who isn’t talking about AI nowadays?) The V30S represents LG’s new strategy of quickly releasing minor …

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• 24 February

  Did Samsung just accidentally release a Galaxy S9 launch video?

  

  Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. But not the smartphone of the future? Slashleaks; YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET When you’re launching a phone, creating mystery is important. Yes, it seems that leakers get hold of most developments early these days.  But when it comes to Sunday’s scheduled launch of the …

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• 24 February

  Samsung to unwrap the Galaxy S9, SpaceX launches internet satellites

  

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• 24 February

  How to buy bright LED light bulbs that don’t suck

  

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• 23 February

  Infowars YouTube account has one ‘strike’ toward a ban

  

  Alex Jones, the media personality behind the site InfoWars, has been put on notice about a potential ban from YouTube, according to a report.  The Alex Jones Channel, Infowars’ biggest YouTube account with 2.2 million subscribers, has received one strike under a “three strikes” policy for video violating the service’s content standards, CNN reported Friday, citing an unnamed source with …

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• 23 February

  Here’s the trick to add an AirDrop folder to your Mac’s Dock

  

  AirDrop is the fastest and easiest way to shuttle files and photos between iPhones ($285 at Amazon) and Macs. I use it to send screenshots from my iPhone to my Mac. I use it less frequently to send files from my Mac to my iPhone or another Mac, and each time I do, I dig around for it before giving …

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• 23 February

  Apple’s wireless AirPower mat could debut next month

  

  You may have another way to charge your Apple things soon. Apple’s newest iPhones support the wireless Qi charging standard, but Apple has another proprietary spin on contactless charging on the way, called AirPower. Announced and briefly seen at last year’s September iPhone event, the AirPower mat could debut next month, according to a new rumor via 9to5Mac, originally posted …

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