This story is part of Amazon Prime Day, CNET’s guide to everything you need to know and how to find the best deals. Amazon Prime Day 2021 may be over for another year but there are still plenty of deals on entertainment gear, including streaming devices, TVs and soundbars. A soundbar or surround-sound system can bring theater-like performance to …
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Facebook said Monday it’s rolling out a live audio tool that will be available first to public figures and select groups in the US, taking on rivals Clubhouse, Twitter and Spotify. The world’s largest social network, like other tech companies, has been investing more in audio features after the medium grew in popularity following the launch of invite-only audio app …
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Feeling splurgy? Maybe it’s time to indulge yourself in the premium headphones you’ve always wanted. Bose makes some of the best — and some of CNET’s favorites — and right now there’s a notable deal on an oldie-but-goodie. (Really an oldie-but-greatie.) Read more: Best Prime Day headphones deals so far: Amazon’s new Echo Buds $40 off, discounts on Anker and Jabra noise …
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Spotify’s audio chat app Greenroom has arrived. Greenroom was originally an app called Locker Room, which Spotify acquired in March. It’s live Wednesday, the company said in a statement. The service will offer live audio conversations in virtual rooms that people can host or participate in. “The Greenroom offering will continue to evolve as we learn more about what creators and …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple has announced new features coming to its high-end earbuds and headphones, including Conversation Boost and improved tracking via the Find My network. The company revealed the new features during its annual WWDC keynote. AirPods Pro and AirPods Max users will soon be able …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple has announced that as part of the update to iOS 15, FaceTime will offer spatial audio to make people’s voices appear to come from their position on screen, during its annual WWDC keynote. The feature is designed to make FaceTime “more natural, …
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Recent 8K-compatible AV receivers from Yamaha, Denon and Marantz will need additional hardware fixes for a bug preventing them from displaying highest-quality video. Currently these models are unable to display video with a 4K resolution and 120Hz frame rate. Yamaha has announced that owners of its early 8K receivers, including the V6A, will need to replace an internal HDMI mainboard if they …
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On Thursday, Jeremy Browning, a Twitter product manager, gave the public a behind-the-scenes look at a new feature the company built for live audio chats. Not everyone, though, could understand what he was saying. Fittingly, Browning hosted the conversation on Spaces, Twitter’s live audio product. The audio chat tool has live captioning, a feature meant to help deaf or hard …
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Part of SteelSeries new Prime line of esports-targeted gaming accessories, which also launches with a new trio of mice, the $100 (£100, AU$120) Arctis Prime gaming headset definitely achieves one of the company’s design goals: “no bells and whistles that can get in the way.” Sporting the Arctis line’s design and invoking the revered “Arctis Pro sound signature,” the Prime is …
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Forget Bluetooth dongles. The wave of the future is Wi-Fi music, and in the absence of Google’s discontinued Chromecast Audio we look instead to Belkin’s new Apple AirPlay 2 add-on, the $100 Soundform Connect. Like the Chromecast Audio, the Soundform Connect is designed to connect any system with an aux or optical digital input to Wi-Fi. AirPlay 2 is a multiroom …
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