Just when you thought the high-end headphone market peaked, along comes another mind-bending ‘phone! This new one’s from Focal, France’s best-selling speaker brand, and while they’ve been making perfectly fine headphones for years, the Focal Utopia is in a very different league. The Utopia digs deeper into the sound of music than other headphones, so …
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18 June
What’s so great about high
High-resolution audio has a long history, dating back to at least 1999, with the introduction of the Super Audio CD, aka the SACD. DVD-Audio followed a year later, and a hi-res format war was waged for a few years without a clear victor. Hi-res PCM and DSD download files are now widely available, but under the radar to most music …
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18 June
Museum of Broken Relationships turns heartache into art
When Croatia-based film producer Olinka Vistica and artist Drazen Grubisic broke up after four years together, they wondered what to do with all their sentimental gifts to each other over the years — including a small, wind-up bunny they both adored. Instead of throwing out their beloved treasures and the memories attached to them, the duo decided to open the …
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18 June
DIY phone camera lenses and filters
Now playing: Watch this: Spice up your photos with these DIY lenses and filters 2:23 These DIY lenses and filters are all inexpensive and add a bit of fun to your phone photography. But if you’re looking to spend some serious cash on phone lenses, take a look at the Zeiss ExoLens for iPhone or the Olloclip for iPhone or …
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17 June
Time for the iPad to grow up
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. The thing I carry around with me almost every day in my bag is a 9.7-inch iPad Pro. I’ve had an iPad with me in some form, usually, for years. It’s redundant, probably. But it’s my security blanket. It’s small. Versatile. I can …
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17 June
Virgin, Boost Mobile nab affordable LG K3 phone
Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile on Friday launched the K3, the latest in LG’s line of affordable phones. The $80 LG K3 will hit retail stores next week. Sprint The two prepaid carriers, which are owned and run by Sprint, started selling the $80 K3 online today, with the phone hitting retail stores next week. The phone runs on Android …
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17 June
DirecTV continues 4K sports coverage with US Open
DirecTV delivered the first live 4K-resolution broadcast in the country in April with all four rounds of The Masters golf tournament. The AT&T Byron Nelson tournament and several Major League Baseball games followed that, and now the satellite TV provider is bringing the US Open to viewers in 4K. The championship started June 13 and runs through June 19. For …
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17 June
Apple reportedly disarms rifle emoji movement
There may already be a pistol emoji, but you won’t see a rifle emoji any time soon. There is already a pistol emoji. Unicode The Unicode Consortium, the technical group responsible for overseeing emoji, unanimously voted to remove the rifle from its list of new emoji candidates in 2016, BuzzFeed reported on Friday. Unicode President Mark Davis confirmed the move …
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17 June
Watch a magnet rip apart a soda can in slow motion
When science vloggers gather around an electromagnet experiment, you know something exciting is about to go down. Related stories Make slow-motion videos on a phone Watch a crazy-fast spider in slow motion Watch a match-head bomb burst into flames in slow motion In a YouTube video posted this week, we see Dianna Cowern of “Physics Girl,” Joe Hanson of “It’s …
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17 June
Cricket offers $50 to switch, tacks on another $50 lure for T
Cricket Wireless has a deal for you. Switch to the prepaid mobile carrier and Cricket will give a $50 credit. Switching from T-Mobile? That’s another $50 credit, and tack on another $35 if you bring your own (unlocked) phone to the plan. But there are some requirements. First, the offer ends July 14. Second you have to port over your …
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