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The Bose SoundLink Home brings ‘premium’ audio to a small and portable package
01 Oct

The Bose SoundLink Home brings ‘premium’ audio to a small and portable package

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Bose launched a new wireless portable speaker on Tuesday. The SoundLink Home is a relatively small addition to the lineup with “premium sound” and around nine hours of battery life for $219.The SoundLink Home is quite “mini” for a home-branded speaker: 8.5 inches high, 4.4 inches wide and 2.3 inches deep. It weighs 1.93 lbs (0.88 kg). It shouldn’t be hard to tote it from room to room or find an open spot on a desk or table.A small size often means compromised audio, but Bose promises its dual passive radiators will produce “deep bass that fills any room.” The…
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Here’s how Sonos hopes to win back your trust after its app debacle
01 Oct

Here’s how Sonos hopes to win back your trust after its app debacle

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It’s been a disastrous few months for after the company. In an effort to win back users’ trust, the company has laid out a plan that includes several new commitments.“Our priority since its release has been — and continues to be — fixing the app. There were missteps, and we first went deep to understand how we got here, and then moved to convert those learnings into action,” Sonos CEO Patrick Spence . “We are committed to making changes to get us back to being the brand people love by offering the best audio system for the home and beyond.”There…
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The Morning After: Verizon and PlayStation’s network separately hit by outages
01 Oct

The Morning After: Verizon and PlayStation’s network separately hit by outages

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It was a messy Monday if you were a Verizon customer or wanted some PS5 gaming in the evening. First, Verizon mobile customers reported outages across the US on Monday. At around 9:30AM ET, hundreds of thousands of users flagged problems with their mobile service on Downdetector. Reports spiked at almost 105,000 at 11:20AM. Issues included the inability to send texts and a lack of cellular service outright. The issue centered on the East Coast and Midwest. The carrier hasn’t elaborated on what caused the issue. The FCC said it was “working to determine the cause and extent of these…
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Football Manager 25 is out on November 26
01 Oct

Football Manager 25 is out on November 26

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Football Manager 25 is finally on its way, with Sports Interactive confirming the news and announcing a release date. The game will arrive for PC, Mac, Xbox and PS5 on November 26, just in time for some Thanksgiving gameplay. At the same time, FM25 Mobile is launching exclusively on Netflix, while FM25 Touch should come to Nintendo Switch on December 3.FM25 comes with two big updates: a switch to the Unity engine (everywhere except mobile) and women's football (or soccer, depending on where you're reading this from) arriving into the same world as the men's teams. Sega-owned SI first announced…
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The USB-C Apple Pencil is cheaper than ever in this early Prime Day deal
01 Oct

The USB-C Apple Pencil is cheaper than ever in this early Prime Day deal

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There are bargains aplenty to be had in the lead up to the October edition of Prime Day. Many are even bringing the prices of certain products down to record lows. Case in point: the USB-C Apple Pencil is cheaper than it’s ever been right now. You can , which is $10 off and matches the lowest price we’ve seen to date for it.Apple as its most budget-friendly Apple Pencil so far, and this sale makes the peripheral even more wallet-friendly. However, Apple's long had a problem with making it clear to consumers .AppleThe USB-C Apple Pencil was already the…
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Raspberry Pi built an AI camera with Sony
01 Oct

Raspberry Pi built an AI camera with Sony

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AI enthusiasts who like the Raspberry Pi range of products can rejoice, as the company is now announcing its new Raspberry Pi . This product is the result of the company’s collaboration with (SSS), which began in 2023. The AI Camera is compatible with all of Raspberry Pi’s single-board computers.The approximately 12.3-megapixel AI Camera is intended for vision-based AI projects, and it’s based on SSS’ IMX500 image sensor. The integrated RP2040 microcontroller manages the neural network firmware, allowing the camera to perform onboard AI image processing and freeing up the Raspberry Pi for other processes. Thus, users who want to…
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Verizon says its network is ‘fully restored’ following an hours-long outage
30 Sep

Verizon says its network is ‘fully restored’ following an hours-long outage

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Update, September 30, 7:28PM ET: At 7:18PM ET, the company tweeted that its engineers had resolved the issue. The original story, which was updated twice after publish with statements from Verizon, follows.Verizon mobile customers reported widespread outages across the US on Monday. Starting at around 9:30AM ET, hundreds of thousands of people flagged issues with their mobile service on Downdetector, which tracks user-submitted outage reports. The volume of reports spiked at almost 105,000 at 11:20AM, but were still reaching almost 59,000 at 12:52PM.Many folks claimed they were unable to make or receive calls or exchange text messages. Those with an…
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Amazon’s Fire HD 10 tablet drops to a record-low price ahead of October Prime Day
30 Sep

Amazon’s Fire HD 10 tablet drops to a record-low price ahead of October Prime Day

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If you've been on the lookout for a killer deal on a perfectly decent tablet for streaming videos and catching up on some reading, hunt no more. Just ahead of the October edition of Prime Day, Amazon has , which is a discount of $65. This matches the tablet's lowest price to date, which we saw .The deal is for a model with 32GB of storage and ads on the lockscreen. Expanding the storage is easy enough thanks to the microSD slot, but to get rid of the lockscreen ads you'll need to buy a different version (which, ).AmazonThe base…
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GM’s Cruise fined $1.5 million for omitting details about its gruesome 2023 crash
30 Sep

GM’s Cruise fined $1.5 million for omitting details about its gruesome 2023 crash

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On Monday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) fined Cruise, GM’s self-driving vehicle division, $1.5 million. The penalty was imposed for omitting key details from an October 2023 accident in which one of the company’s autonomous vehicles struck and dragged a San Francisco pedestrian.Cruise is being fined for initially submitting several incomplete reports. The NHTSA’s reports require pre-crash, crash and post-crash details, which the company gave to the agency without a critical detail: that the pedestrian was dragged by the vehicle for 20 feet at around 7 MPH, causing severe injuries. Eventually, the company released a 100-page report from…
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Reddit policy changes make sitewide protests nearly impossible
30 Sep

Reddit policy changes make sitewide protests nearly impossible

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Reddit has just changed the rules so moderators of subreddits must get admin approval to switch from public to private, as originally reported by The Verge. This is being seen by many as an attempt to curb sitewide protests, as these requests must be approved by Reddit staffers. There will be no way for multiple subreddits to go private at once without Reddit having its hand on the lever.The company put a little note on the support page that reads “if you’re changing your community type after community creation, you’ll need to submit a request.” This page doesn't offer any…
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