Chances are, if you listen to music you want it to sound good. And for the best quality various how-tos and internet tips recommend lossless audio. But what is lossless audio and where can you get tracks that feature it? And what’s with HiFi audio, anyway? Fear not, we’ll guide you through these sometimes messy
Read MoreThe Backblaze 4U storage pods can save up to 480 TB of user data. A dead hard drive can be a genuine disaster in the modern age. With capacities exceeding 20TB, that could mean a ton of lost data if you don’t have a good backup solution. Buying reliable hard drives from the start can
Read MoreJust a wee phone with massive cameras. The Zenfone 9, like last year’s 8, is that rare Android phone that prioritizes compact size rather than maximizing screen or battery size. Be still my heart! But the new story this year is the phone’s camera and stabilization system: rather than just moving a single lens element
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority The Asus Zenfone 9 has been announced. The relatively small 5.9-inch phone is packed with high-end hardware. Pricing starts at $699 in the US and €799 in Europe. Asus has unveiled the Zenfone 9, a diminutive Android phone that still has a ton of impressive hardware specs. While the
Read MoreAsus is continuing its previous generation’s compact form-factor flagship with the Zenfone 9. Historically, smaller phones have compromised on features and performance, but that’s not the case here. At least not entirely. Asus is attempting to distill a full-fledged affordable flagship experience into one of the smaller form factors on the market. With its small
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Read MorePaul Sawers / TechCrunch: Filing: Spotify bought Findaway for €117M, Sonantic for €91M, and Chartable and Podsights for €83M, with a possible extra payment of €21M — Spotify has quietly announced how much it’s paying for four of its recent acquisitions, revealing that it’s doling out a combined €291 million …
Read MoreApple’s online store in China has gone down ahead of a very rare sale event this weekend that will see it cut the prices of some of its top products.
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Read MoreNintendo has announced a release date — August 4th — for the next DLC courses coming to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. This second wave includes eight courses, the same as what we saw when the first wave launched in March. They’re mostly based around tracks found in previous Mario Kart games, but there’s one that’s
Read MoreIf you’re bored with the default keyboard on your Android phone or iPhone, then there are many third-party options available out there. But the one that stands head and shoulders above all the rest is Gboard (also known as Google Keyboard.) It is a well-made free keyboard, providing all kinds of useful Google services that
Read More(Photo: Eugenia Shustikova/Unsplash)Russia is facing a unique consequence of its war with Ukraine: it’s running out of usable computer keyboards. Keyboards acquired through Russia’s “parallel imports” strategy are proving impractical for the country, which is now scrambling to provide workers with the hardware they need. Russia adopted the parallel imports scheme following a slew of
Read MoreYou’re running out of time to get Meta’s best virtual reality headset for a lower price. Almost two years after its release, Meta (formerly Oculus) has announced the Quest 2 is getting a price hike from $299.99 to $399.99. New customers will get one of the best VR games free with their Quest 2, but
Read MoreSara Fischer / Axios: Sources: Meta begins telling its 50 US news partners that it will no longer pay for content to run on Facebook’s News Tab, ending a three-year deal from 2019 — Meta on Tuesday began telling its news partners in the U.S. that the company no longer plans to pay publishers for
Read MoreMars is a world of extremes. Not only does it have the largest volcano in the solar system (Olympus Mons), but it’s also home to the deepest known canyon, called Valles Marineris. The European Space Agency (ESA) recently captured new images of this grander canyon. The ESA didn’t need a fancy new mission to snap
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Asus has officially unveiled the Zenfone 9 today, showing us a compact flagship phone largely in line with last year’s Zenfone 8. It also ticks quite a few boxes for a flagship device in 2022, such as the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 chipset and an IP68 rating.
Read MoreThe company will review its financial performance for Q3 2022 as well as answer a range of questions from investors and financial analysts.
Read MoreThis week, we examine Instagram’s move to prioritize Reels—a feature copied from TikTok—and whether that will help or hinder the platform’s growth.
Read MoreAndroid smartphones are usually available to purchase prepaid or on a contract. The former makes sense if you don’t want to be tied to a cellular network and don’t mind spending a big chunk of cash, while the latter route involves monthly payments that might be more manageable for some. But what if you could
Read MoreWhy bother to design your own robots when you can just reuse what nature created? This was the thought process behind a research project from engineers at Rice University who successfully transformed dead spiders into robotic gripping claws. The scientists have dubbed their new area of research “necrobotics” and say it could create cheap, effective,
Read MoreThe Markup: A look at 37 companies within the connected vehicle data marketplace, a largely unregulated industry that some estimate will be worth $300B-$800B by 2030 — A firehose of sensitive data from your vehicle is flowing to a group of companies you’ve probably never heard of
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Comcast didn’t add any new broadband subscribers between April and June, marking the first time the company has failed to grow its high-speed internet business. Broadband figures stayed flat from Q1 at 32.2 million subscribers, the company announced in its Q2 2022 earnings release this morning. With just
Read MoreJust out of prison, the former executive is launching a crypto-backed venture that tests the limits of his lifetime ban from the pharmaceutical industry.
Read MoreThese WIRED-tested AC units have been lodged into our windows and cooling our homes for months, if not years.
Read MoreThis prototype proton exchange membrane, or PEM, fuel cell system can provide emissions-free backup power to about 10,000 data center servers. | Image: Microsoft / John Brecher Microsoft has reached a new milestone in its effort to ditch diesel in favor of cleaner energy at its data centers. The company announced today that it successfully
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