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

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 rec…

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

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 t…

Google wins appeal against $1.7 billion EU fine for ‘abusive’ advertising practices

The amount of fines Google has to pay in Europe may have become just a bit smaller. It has successfully convinced the European Union's General Court to annul the €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion) penalty levied against it back in 2019 for what the Europe…

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

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" i…

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

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 bui…

iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max review: Cameras and customization

It may seem like Apple is behind the competition a lot of the time. The company appeared to be slow to developments like widgets, bezel-less displays with camera notches and screens with high refresh rates. And with the iPhone 16 Pro, it appears to onc…

Meta could face massive EU fines over Marketplace competition

Meta is once again at risk of getting fined heavily by the European Commission. The bloc's regulatory arm is preparing its findings that Meta linked its Marketplace service to Facebook to undermine competitors, the Financial Times reports, citing s…

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

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 com…

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

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 com…

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

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 Eng…