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Bowers & Wilkins PI7 true wireless earbuds can work with non-Bluetooth devices (but they still cost too much)

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Bowers & Wilkins makes premium audio hardware including speakers and headphones. The company’s latest product are a line of high-end true wireless earbuds with support for active noise cancellation. Priced at $250, the Bowers & Wilkins PI5 earbuds are about the same price as a pair of Apple AirPods Pro, which is to say expensive, […]

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Amazon’s 2nd-gen Echo Buds are smaller, cheaper, and bring active noise cancellation

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Amazon is updating its true wireless earbuds with a new version that’s smaller, a little more affordable, and offers better noise cancellation. The new 2nd-gen Amazon Echo Buds will sell for $120 when they ship on May 13, but they’re up for pre-order now for $100. Both of those prices are lower than the $130 […]

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Something from Nothing: the new brand teases semi-transparent wireless earbuds

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OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei’s new company is called Nothing. And in recent months the company has been grabbing headlines by raising money from investors, acquiring the assets of Android founder Andy Rubin’s defunct Essential Products, and announcing it would be working with design company Teenage Engineering. One thing Nothing hasn’t done yet? Released any products. […]

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Lilbits: Leak season (Pixel 5, Amazon Fire TV Stick Lite)

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Amazon is holding a hardware event on September 24, when the company will most likely introduce new Echo smart speakers, new eero mesh WiFi routers, and a new entry-level Amazon Fire TV Stick. WinFuture obtained some marketing documents for the previously unannounced device, and it looks like the new model adds a live TV button, […]

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Skullcandy’s new true wireless earbuds have Tile tracking built-in

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It’s easy enough to misplace a set of wired or wireless earbuds… but these days it’s twice as easy thanks to the rise of true wireless earbuds. So it makes sense for companies to build location-tracking technology into their earbuds. And that’s what Skullcandy did for its latest products. The company has announced four new set […]

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Lilbits 400: Google’s problematic auto-policing of the Play Store and Chrome Web Store

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Google has a long history of using computers to do thing that… quite honestly could probably be done better by humans. But it’s easier to scale an algorithm than it is to hire more people. And that leads to situations where an algorithm makes an obviously wrong decision that stays in place until a human […]

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Microsoft Surface Earbuds delayed until 2020

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When Microsoft announced plans to release its first set of true wireless earbuds, the company said that the Microsoft Surface Earbuds would be available in time for the 2019 holiday season. But that’s not going to happen. Now Microsoft Devices chief Panos Panay says they’ll be available in the spring of 2020 instead. While Panay isn’t […]