Tag: Technology & Electronics
The Morning After: Our verdict on Sonos’ debut headphones
After years of rumors of Sonos getting into headphones, the $449 Sonos Ace are here. They’re well-designed and have impressive audio quality. Integrating the headphones with its family of speakers isn’t what many expected, but the feature works well, according to Engadget’s Billy Steele. They’re also comfortable to wear. Engadget…
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Intel officially unveils Lunar Lake, its Copilot+ AI PC chip
Intel recently revealed that its upcoming Lunar Lake chips would be available this fall for Copilot+ AI PCs, but the company waited until Computex to give us more technical details. For one, they'll offer up to 48 TOPs (tera operations per second) of AI performance, thanks to an updated neural…
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Sonos Ace headphones review: An impressive but incomplete debut
When Dolby made a play for the headphones market in 2018, its tech-packed Dimension model offered excellent sound quality, but the $599 price was too high to take hold. Now Sonos, another key player in living room audio over the last decade, has entered similarly uncharted territory. After years of…
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The Morning After: Starliner’s crewed flight gets scrubbed
The first crewed launch of Boeing’s Starliner was scrubbed less than four minutes before liftoff after a computer failed to launch the correct countdown. It’s the squillionth setback for the craft, (our math may be out a little) which should support the next generation of spaceflight. NASA says it’ll target…
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ASUS’ slimmed-down ProArt laptops focus on AI features
ASUS announced a trio of new releases in its ProArt line of laptops at this week’s Computex expo in Taipei. These devices are generally thinner, lighter and more portable than previous generations, though that’s where the similarities end. Let’s get into it. The ProArt 16 is a thinner and lighter…
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The ASUS Zenbook S16 laptop boasts an ultra-thin design and AMD’s latest AI chip
ASUS unveiled a bunch of new laptops at this week’s Computex tech expo in Taipei, including a Zenbook refresh. The Zenbook S16 is as sleek and well-designed as ever, but comes with a spate of iterative improvements and a couple of major updates. It’s equipped with AMD’s Ryzen AI 9…
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