John Routledge - Technoshia

18 Sep

Bose’s latest soundbar can use the Ultra Open Earbuds as rear speakers

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Bose has a new soundbar for the fall shopping season, and it includes a few neat tricks for owners of the company’s clip-on earbuds. The Bose Smart Soundbar is a “small, sleek” model with AI Dialogue Mode and a Personal Surround feature for owners of the Ultra Open Earbuds.The Bose Smart Soundbar has five transducers, including two side-firing (racetrack-shaped) ones,…

18 Sep

Bose’s new noise-canceling QuietComfort Earbuds are more affordable at $179

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So far, Bose has delivered two versions of its "regular" QuietComfort Earbuds: one in 2020 and another in 2022. The company followed up last year with the QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds, debuting its take on spatial audio that doesn't rely on carefully recorded content. Now, Bose is jumping back to that "regular" model with a new version of the QuietComfort Earbuds.…

18 Sep

HTC Vive’s Focus Vision is a $999 stab at high-end VR and mixed reality

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HTC Vive is following up its intriguing, yet expensive, XR Elite headset with something that's still quite pricey, the $999 Focus Vision. Built on the same platform as the standalone Vive Focus 3, the upgraded model adds a slew of new features like built-in eye tracking, 16MP stereo color front-facing cameras for mixed reality and automatic IPD adjustment (which makes…

18 Sep

Apple reveals how it’s made the iPhone 16 series (much) easier to repair

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Apple has slowly been making its devices easier to fix, but the iPhone 15 fell short in a couple of key areas, according to the repairability site iFixit. Namely, the battery was hard to remove and the device suffered from a "parts pairing" issue that meant you couldn't easily replace the LiDAR sensor with one from another phone. With those…

18 Sep

The best Apple Watch accessories you can buy

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Whether you’re sporting an older model or you just picked up one of the latest Apple Watches, you’re probably eager to put it on every day as part of your tech kit and wardrobe. But did you know that you can make your Apple Watch even better? With the right accessories, your Apple Watch can be customized to fit your…

18 Sep

The Morning After: Our verdict on the Apple Watch Series 10

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The reviews don’t stop. This morning, we’re checking out how Apple’s latest wearable compares to its predecessors and competition. Deputy Editor Cherlynn Low says that, while the Series 10 is noticeably lighter, you wouldn’t notice many differences compared to the Series 9 unless they were side by side. The latest Apple Watch is ever so slightly bigger (46mm), but if…

18 Sep

The best Apple Watch accessories you can buy

John RoutledgeLatest News

Whether you’re sporting an older model or you just picked up one of the latest Apple Watches, you’re probably eager to put it on every day as part of your tech kit and wardrobe. But did you know that you can make your Apple Watch even better? With the right accessories, your Apple Watch can be customized to fit your…

18 Sep

The best Apple Watch accessories you can buy

John RoutledgeLatest News

Whether you’re sporting an older model or you just picked up one of the latest Apple Watches, you’re probably eager to put it on every day as part of your tech kit and wardrobe. But did you know that you can make your Apple Watch even better? With the right accessories, your Apple Watch can be customized to fit your…

18 Sep

Microsoft says Russian troll farms are targeting the Harris-Walz campaign

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Kremlin-affiliated Russian troll farms are running disinformation campaigns that aim to interfere with this year's US presidential elections, and according to Microsoft, they're focusing their efforts on discrediting Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. The company has published a new report detailing the movements of two troll farms being monitored by the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center.These Kremlin-backed actors apparently struggled to…

18 Sep

Apple halts iPadOS 18 update for M4 iPad Pro after bricking reports

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Apple has temporarily paused the rollout of iPadOS 18 for M4 iPad Pro models, some of the most expensive iPads that the company sells, after some users complained that the update bricked their devices. Apple acknowledged the issue in a statement to Engadget, saying, “We have temporarily removed the iPadOS 18 update for M4 iPad Pro models as we work…