With its pedigree in active noise-canceling headphones, it’s not surprising that Bose’s new QuietComfort 45s ($330, £320, AU$500) are excellent. But for a lot of people, the question is just how good are they compared to Bose’s slightly more expensive Noise Canceling Headphones 700 or Sony’s excellent WH-1000XM4. For better or worse, the answer isn’t …
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This story is part of Road Trip 2021, CNET’s coverage of the push and pull to manufacture more products in the USA. Asheville, North Carolina, a city of about 90,000 in the Blue Ridge Mountains, is a cultural hub, packed with dozens of art galleries and a thriving local music scene with venues that attract acts from around the world. …
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Sony’s excellent over-ear WH-1000XM4 and WF-1000XM4 earbuds are its flagship noise-canceling headphones — and they rightfully get most of the attention. But the company makes other more affordable headphones, including two new models: the C500 earbuds ($100, £89, AU$180) and WH-XB910N ($250, £179, AU$400) over-ear noise-canceling headphones. Sony C500 true wireless earbuds: $100 The C500 are Sony’s new entry-level earbuds, …
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As the PS5 and Xbox Series X near their one-year anniversaries, competition between the console kings remains fierce. While the base hardware remains the same (aside from internal cooling tweaks in some new PS5 units), new software updates have added features, like more storage options and expanded cloud gaming access. That’s of little comfort to the scores of gamers who …
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HBO Max kicked off an aggressive, half-off promotion Friday for the $15-a-month, ad-free tier of its streaming service, as it aims to woo back lost HBO members who had been paying through Amazon and were essentially disconnected en masse earlier this week. HBO pulled out of Amazon Channels Wednesday, a service of the e-commerce giant that lets people pay Amazon for multiple …
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Have you ever lost a pair of wireless earbuds (or two) right when you’ve needed them? Do you feel like headphones are too bulky and easily fall off during certain movements? I know I have, and these issues get even worse when it’s time for you to work out. I’ve been in this situation, and finding the right earphones that …
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There’s a new TV tech on the horizon, and it promises incredible picture quality and even more incredible sizes. You can buy one right now if you’ve got deep pockets. It’s called MicroLED, and it combines the best features of the current TV technologies into something new — and huge. Using millions of tiny individually addressable LEDs, MicroLED promises to …
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Pass on that Aston Martin Valhalla. Swipe left on that diamond-encrusted iPhone. Don’t bother with that, um, modest two-bedroom tract home that’s optimistically within commuting distance of San Francisco. What’s really worth your next million dollars? A television. And not just any television, but a 325-inch, 8K resolution, direct-view LED from LG. It’s similar in concept to Samsung’s The Wall …
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Netflix has so many great TV shows and movies that seemingly every time you hear about a new thing to watch, it’s on Netflix. For that reason you might be wondering how to watch the streaming service on your TV. Relax, it’s easy. Here’s what you need to know. First, the basics: You’ll need the Netflix app, and you’ll find it either …
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Here’s an inexpensive trick to keep all your gear relevant and useful. It can open up space to plug in your new gaming console, run the same signal to multiple TVs and help minimize the number of times you swap HDMI cables. If that sounds handy, you may need a HDMI switch or HDMI splitter, but which one? HDMI connections are found on every …
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