Some headphone audiophiles crave extreme dynamic punch or ear-massaging bass. Others are happiest only when their music sounds fully transparent. For the latter group, the king of clarity arrived in 2015 with Shure’s KSE1500 electrostatic in-ear headphone amplifier system. The sound was revelatory, but the best stuff never comes cheap, especially in audiophile land. The KSE1500 sells …
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Here’s our full review of the Red Hydrogen One phone. “There is no way to describe or show the 4 view (4V) display other than seeing it in person. There’s just no way,” says Red founder and CEO Jim Jannard to a crowd gathered at Red Studios in Hollywood on Saturday. “We want everybody’s first experience with Hydrogen One to …
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Bad news, cord cutters: The cheapest way to watch SportsCenter just got 25 percent more expensive. For three and a half years Sling TV has let you watch 20-odd live TV channels including ESPN, AMC, TNT, CNN and Disney, without subscribing to cable, for $20 a month. It now costs $5 more. The new price for people who subscribe to …
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Amazon wants you to think of your Fire tablet as not just a tablet but a full-fledged Alexa-enabled device — or more precisely, a slimmed down Echo Show. It’s called Show Mode, and it’s coming as a free software update for current generation Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10 tablets. Like the Echo Show, the new mode serves up …
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Cheeps! I’m on vacation this week (and next), but before I left I lined up a few sweet deals to tide you over. (And as you’ve no doubt discovered by now, some of CNET’s finest will be filling in the rest of the time.) For example, the Cheapskate is no stranger to VPN deals. A VPN is one of those …
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It’s the biggest tournament for the biggest sport on Earth, and it comes around only once every four years. The 2018 FIFA World Cup will feature 32 teams and 64 games across four glorious weeks of action in Russia. In the US, Fox and FS1 will broadcast games in English, and Telemundo and NBC Universo will broadcast games in Spanish. Here’s …
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I have a strict no-everything-bagel-near-my-MacBook policy, and even then my MacBook’s butterfly switch keyboard cuts out from time to time. It’s usually the spacebar or another key along the bottom row that starts sticking and stops working. I’ve been able to return my MacBook’s keyboard to full working order by holding it up so the keyboard is nearly vertical and …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. At WWDC 2018 earlier this month, Apple unveiled its next Mac operating system, MacOS Mojave 10.14. If you’re ready to use dark mode, Stacks and the Home app on your Mac, along with the enhanced security features that Mojave will introduce, then you need …
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Stingrays are surveillance tools used by the FBI and police across the US. Sen. Ron Wyden wants to know if they’re messing with your phone calls. The Democrat from Oregon submitted a letter on Tuesday to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai, requesting information on how the phone tracking devices could interfere with calls to 911, with internet access and …
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Worried that your Twitter account isn’t safe with a password alone? Now you can lock it up with a physical security key. On Tuesday, Twitter announced that it supports security keys as a form of login verification. A security key (like the YubiKey, which Twitter confirms is compatible) is a physical device that can be plugged into your computer or …
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