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Tech NewsResearchers Think It’s a Good Idea to Secure Your Phone Using the One Thing You Perpetually Lose
Apple’s FaceID authentication system started moving smartphone users away from relying on fingerprints to secure their mobile devices, which are arguably less secure. But researchers think they’ve come up with an even better biometric tool for protecting a device that uses a part of the body that’s nearly impossible to spoof: a user’s ear canals. … Continued
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Tech NewsJabra’s Great Truly Wireless Earbuds Just Got Better
Jabra just announced the next generation of its popular truly wireless earbuds. The new Elite 75t look like a slimmed-down version of the 65t earbuds, which we love. Based on our first peek at the product, it sure looks like Jabra took a great set of earbuds and made them just a little bit better. … Continued
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ReviewsHeadphonesSony’s New Wireless Earbuds Put Amazing Noise Canceling in Your Pocket
Sony has been trying to crack a tough nut for the past couple of years. The company wants to translate the tremendous success it’s had making over-ear noise-canceling headphones and shrink the technology down to something you can put in your pocket. The new $230 WF-1000XM3 represent its latest attempt at miniaturizing its excellent noise-canceling … Continued
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Tech NewsSony’s New Truly Wireless Noise-Canceling Earbuds Feel Like a Fancy Step Forward
Sony showed up early to the truly wireless noise-canceling party in 2017, and now the company has an exciting new update: the WF-1000XM3 truly wireless earbuds. They cost $230 and look like some silly mini version of the company’s popular WH-1000XM3 noise-canceling headphones. That’s kind of the point, too. Apple’s AirPods have no noise-canceling and … Continued
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Tech NewsCatfish Fetishists, Secondhand Vape, and the Mystery of Tape: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
Welcome! Welcome to June, which is not technically summer yet so far, but good enough to do the job so long as everyone knows what’s good for ‘em and looks the other way. But though this year is zipping by at a terrifying pace, let us commemorate the end of May by revisiting some of … Continued
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Tech NewsCommerceAmazon’s AirPods Rival Is Reportedly Planning to Outshine Apple
The ongoing, tiresome feud between Apple and Amazon continues. According to a Thursday report from Bloomberg, Amazon is looking to kick this competition into high gear with Alexa-linked earbuds it hopes will rival AirPods. Not only will these earbuds aim for higher quality audio than AirPods, according to Bloomberg’s sources familiar with the matter, they … Continued
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ReviewsThe New Truly Wireless Powerbeats Pro Seem Like the Better AirPods We Wanted All Long
If the second generation of AirPods seemed underwhelming, the new Powerbeats Pro by Beats might just get your blood moving. They’re truly wireless earbuds designed for sports and equipped with the new Apple-made H1 chip, superior sound quality, as well as an eye-popping nine hours of battery life. In other words, the Powerbeats Pro earbuds … Continued
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ReviewsHeadphonesSamsung’s New Galaxy Buds Almost Give AirPods a Run for Their Money
Everybody loves to compare the new Samsung Galaxy Buds to Apple’s AirPods. It’s pretty obvious. Samsung and Apple make popular phones, and now both companies have truly wireless earbuds to pair with them. I’ve spent two weeks with the $130 Galaxy Buds. They’re frankly pretty awesome. But are they better than AirPods? That depends on … Continued
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ReviewsHeadphonesI Really Wanted to Love Jaybird’s Wireless Sport Earbuds
All earbuds are, at least in my experience, a trade-off of one kind or another, especially true wireless earbuds with words like “sport” or “active” in their name. Ergonomics, battery life, and sound quality all fight for representation in a vanishingly small form factor, at best striking an acceptable balance of mediocrity between all three. … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Galaxy Buds Are Samsung’s Attempt to One Up the AirPods
At this point, it’s practically impossible to go outside without seeing white, Q-tip-looking earbuds sticking out of people’s heads, and with sales of Apple AirPods expected to rise to between 50 and 55 million this year, that phenomenon probably won’t go away anytime soon. Meanwhile, over in Samsung’s camp, while the company is no stranger … Continued
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Klipsch’s New Wireless Earbuds Are Wooing Me With a Zippo-Like Charging Case
Apple’s AirPods paved the way for decent wireless earbuds, but the lump of white plastic that serves as their charging case leaves something to be aesthetically desired. Limited battery life means you’ll have to carry some way to recharge wireless earbuds, though, and Klipsch is seriously wooing me with a battery case that looks like … Continued
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ReviewsHeadphonesSennheiser’s Truly Wireless Earbuds Sound Impossibly Good
I walked into this review hoping to be disappointed. Ever since I first reviewed them four years ago, the over-ear Sennheiser Momentum Wireless has been the model to beat in terms of supreme sound quality in the world of Bluetooth headphones. So when the company announced that it would be releasing truly wireless earbuds with … Continued
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Tech NewsDon’t Cross Revamped AirPods Off Your Holiday Wish List Just Yet
When Apple failed to provide any updates on AirPods during its most recent launch event, it seemed like fans of the ubiquitous wireless earbuds would be forced to wait until 2019 for a new model. However, based on newly granted Bluetooth SIG certifications discovered by MySmartPrice.com, it seems there’s still a chance that new AirPods … Continued
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Tech NewsTo All the ‘Shitty’ Earbuds I’ve Loved Before
I’m a simple woman. When I’m riding the bus, walking down the street, or working in the open offices here at Gizmodo Media Group, I just want to pop in my earbuds, turn on some good music (buy Honey on iTunes) and ignore everything around me. Luckily, this experience only costs 10 American dollars (plus … Continued
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ReviewsHeadphonesMaster & Dynamic’s New Truly Wireless Earbuds Thump
Sound quality on truly wireless earbuds can seem like a bit of an afterthought. After all, most people just want these things not to fall out of their ears. But Master & Dynamic’s new MW07 truly wireless earbuds do a few new interesting things. Not only do they feel good and look great. They sound … Continued
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ReviewsHeadphonesSony Almost Made the Perfect Commuter Earbuds
There are two ways of listening to music: you can shut everything out and focus purely on the tunes, or you can use music to enhance other activities in your life. Headphones and earbuds, especially those of the noise-canceling variety are quite good at the first; you just put some on, turn up the volume, … Continued
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ReviewsHeadphonesI’d Love Sony’s New Truly Wireless Earbuds If the Battery Didn’t Suck
Despite many tries, no company has nailed truly wireless earbuds. Apple’s AirPods come close, but the lack of sports-friendly features has always been a problem. That’s why I was so excited to see Sony release a set of truly wireless earbuds that are not only tight-fitting and water resistant, they also come with noise-cancelling. After … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsThe Truly Wireless Earbuds You Should Buy Instead of AirPods
If you’d told me in 2007 that people would be walking around listening to music with wireless, popcorn-sized earbuds, I would’ve called you crazy. It is now 2017, and these futuristic little gadgets are a reality. But which ones are the best? Pretty much every major tech company has now released its version of completely … Continued
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Innovative Headphone Maker Doppler Labs Was Too Good For This World
Doppler Labs emerged four years ago as a rare breed in the startup world. It had an original idea—putting a computer in everyone’s ear and allowing them to control the sound of their world—and it was ambitious without forcing snake oil down people’s throats. On Tuesday, the company announced that it was going out of … Continued
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ReviewsHeadphonesThese Completely Wireless Jaybird Headphones Are Almost Amazing
This fall seems like the season we’re finally going to see an amazing new family of gadgets: completely wireless headphones that work properly. Sure, companies have tried for years, but most of those attempts have sucked (or been really hard to actually buy). And now, Jaybird is sprinting out of the gates with Run, a … Continued