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There’s no shortage of excellent true wireless earbuds you can buy, but Apple’s AirPods Pro and Sony’s WF-1000XM4 are among the cream of the crop. Sony’s earbuds are only a bit more expensive at $280 (£250, AU$450) compared to $250 (£249, AU$249) for the AirPods Pro, so the decision really comes down to what phone …

Veteran streaming service Netflix is expanding into video games and plans to offer ad-free games for mobile devices with no extra cost to subscribers as early as next year. Netflix’s plans to enter the gaming world won’t be the first, but it could shake up the industry for other competing services and subscriptions as well.  The streaming market is thoroughly saturated: These …

Where many other companies are focused on releasing Android phones with the biggest and most impressive-sounding specs, Google has carved out a niche showing how to use software to make the hardware more useful. In many ways, the Pixel 4 was the first phone to offer a number of features you couldn’t get anywhere else at the time. And the …

With the Galaxy A52 5G, Samsung found an appealing balance between price, features and making smart compromises. It’s the latest good sub-$500 5G phone and joins the nearly half a dozen phones from Motorola, OnePlus and TCL. The Galaxy A52 5G costs $500 or £399 (it isn’t sold in Australia but that converts to AU$740). That’s at the higher end …

Google’s new Samsung-codesigned version of Wear OS is officially called Wear OS 3, and it’ll be on Samsung’s next-gen Galaxy Watch soon. But for many watch owners it won’t arrive until 2022. Or, you won’t be able to get the new software at all. The latest news comes from a new update from Google, which will make watches eligible for …

Google Maps is adding transit crowd predictions covering 10,000 transit systems in 100 countries, making it easier for you to tell how busy your train or subway line will be, even down to each car.  The transit predictions are based on AI technology, user feedback and location trends over time, the search giant said Wednesday. And in New York and …

Honeywell and Google have detailed dueling demonstrations of logical qubits, a technology that can correct errors in potentially powerful but notoriously finicky quantum computers. In a research paper released Wednesday, Honeywell said it had ganged together multiple physical qubits — the storage and processing units of quantum computers — so that they could withstand disturbances from outside forces like vibration and …

Zoom is bringing third-party apps and virtual business events to the video chat platform, with the goal of making it easier for people to work and socialize within the service that skyrocketed in popularity during the pandemic as many people reenter a hybrid world and workplace.  First unveiled in October 2020, Zoom Apps — launching Wednesday — allows you to …

More than a year after the launch of its predecessor, Huawei’s next-gen flagship phone, the P50 series, is set to be unveiled at a launch event on July 29, the company announced on Tuesday on various social media channels. The series will mark the beginning of “a new era of mobile imaging,” Richard Yu, head of Huawei’s consumer business group, …

Google has a new bundle for those shopping for its Chromecast with Google TV. It’s a new streamer and three months of ad-free HBO Max for $65.  The deal, which starts at noon ET and is available on the US Google Store until Dec. 31, 2022. With the Chromecast with Google TV normally running $50 and three months of ad-free …