Month: March 2023
Sonos is betting big on spatial audio with the $450 Era 300 speaker
For the last few years Sonos has focused most of its efforts on two categories: portable speakers, like the Move and Roam; and home theater products like the affordable Ray and more extravagant, Atmos-capable Arc soundbars. The company’s main pair of music-focused speakers, the One and Five, still sound great…
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Sonos Era 100 and Era 300: New Speakers, New Name
The audio giant discovers Bluetooth and embraces spatial audio with an oddly shaped top model and a One successor. Source
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TikTok introduces paywalled content, with videos up to 20-minutes long
TikTok is adding another way for creators to make money on the platform: by putting exclusive content behind a paywall. And those videos can be much longer than the typical TikTok, too. The company today announced a new program, Series, that allows content creators to make collections of videos that…
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This malicious Word doc doesn’t even have to be opened to infect your PC
Audio player loading… Last week, cybersecurity researcher Joshua Drake published a proof-of-concept for a vulnerability in Microsoft Word, detailing a way for threat actors to deliver malware (opens in new tab) without users ever needing to open a file. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-21716. It’s been given a 9.8…
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Atomi Alpha Review: Pretty but Flawed
This beautiful electric scooter only works for shorter, lighter riders. Also, the kickstand is a fail. Source
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The Morning After: Every link on Twitter briefly broke
Many Twitter users feared that the platform would fall apart after Musk took over Twitter in October and swiftly fired thousands of employees and contractors. That hasn’t happened yet, but links failing to work, yesterday, is likely connected to the company’s recent tinkering with APIs. On Monday, links and images…
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