Ars Technica

APRIL 25, 2025

The closed captioning we've all been using for years includes not only the words the people on-screen are saying, but additional information needed by the hard of hearing, including character names, music cues ("dramatic music intensifies") and sound effects ("loud explosion").

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Mashable Tech

MAY 29, 2025

SEE ALSO: Sony's new flagship XM6 headphones are here — but there's a catch These headphones boast great sound quality, even featuring Dolby Atmos, and Active Noise Cancelation that allows you to be fully immersed in the sounds you're listening to without any outside noises interrupting.

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Mashable Tech

MAY 20, 2025

The feature trains on a user's past emails and documents in their Google Drive in order to sound like a natural response from that particular user. This sounds like a feature that will eventually roll out to Google's broader user base, but will launch first to Workspace users.

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Futurism

MAY 23, 2025

I was sleeping soundly, deeply," Helberg told local press, "and then I heard a dinging sound, which I wondered might be my doorbell. Helberg slept soundly as the 135-meter ship ran aground, missing the cabin he calls home by mere meters. He didn't even realize what had happened until a neighbor woke him up. "I

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Futurism

MAY 8, 2025

While it's common for students and for anyone else who uses ChatGPT and other chatbots to edit the output of an AI chatbot, some are adding typos manually to make essays sound more human. Some more ingenious users are advising chatbots to essentially dumb down their writing.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Active noise-cancelling headphones electronically cover up the sounds coming from your surroundings. The best over-ear headphones also create a tight seal around your ears, providing an extra layer of passive sound blocking. Both brands feature industry-leading ANC on top of superb sound quality.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

” Details are limited, but Ice Universe says the codename of the headset is “Able” and it’ll use open wireless stereo (OWS) that “can transmit sound from around the ear instead of cramming the headphones into the ear.” ” Other details like availability, design, color, and pricing were not mentioned.

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Engadget

APRIL 14, 2025

With no cords to untangle or get caught on your bag, theyre a great pick for anyone who wants convenience without compromising on sound quality. But if wireless headphones with top-tier sound and a comfortable, over-ear design are what you're after, read on weve tested the top options to help you find the right pair.

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Ars Technica

MAY 20, 2025

AI assistants such as ChatGPT are well-known for creating plausible-sounding errors known as confabulations , especially when lacking detailed information on a particular topic. The problem affects everything from AI search results to lawyers citing fake cases.

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Engadget

MAY 21, 2025

Like the Move 2, the speaker has the ability to connect to a smartphone over Bluetooth outside while still being able to hook into your larger Sonos sound system over Wi-Fi at home. With the ship mostly righted on the software side of things, a sale is a great time to see what all of the fuss is about.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 17, 2025

Confabulations are a type of "creative gap-filling" response where AI models invent plausible-sounding but false information. This marks the latest instance of AI confabulations (also called "hallucinations") causing potential business damage.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

That is a 33% discount on a pair of AI-powered noise-canceling earbuds with real-time translation, 360 Audio, high-resolution sound, and IPX7 water resistance. Get Deal The Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro offer next-level sound quality , noise cancellation, and AI-powered features. at Woot $199.99 Save $65.00

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Engadget

MAY 13, 2025

Background Sounds, Personal Voice, Vehicle Motion Cues and Eye Tracking get updates While we're on the topic of sound, Apple is updating its Background Sounds feature that can help those with tinnitus by playing white noise (or other types of audio) to combat symptoms.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Retailer: Best Buy Display: 65-inch OLED, 4K UHD Processor: NQ4 AI Gen2 Processor HDR: OLED HDR+ Refresh Rate: 120Hz with Motion Xcelerator Turbo+4 Audio: Dolby Atmos, Object Tracking Sound Lite Smart TV: Samsung Tizen OS Gaming Features: Gaming Hub, NVIDIA G-Sync, AMD FreeSync Premium HDMI Ports: 4 x HDMI 2.1 Sound is just as impressive.

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Mashable Tech

MAY 29, 2025

It also features Sonos Voice Control, as well as Alexa, customizable sound in the Sonos app, and the ability to connect seamlessly with other audio products from Sonos. As Schroeder puts it in his review, "It singlehandedly produces sound that can often match larger speakers, perhaps even entire hi-fi systems."

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Ars Technica

MARCH 28, 2025

From a human perspective, it can be hard to understand why these models don't simply say "I don't know" instead of making up some plausible-sounding nonsense.

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Mashable Tech

MAY 29, 2025

Opens in a new window Credit: Sonos Sonos Era 100 $179 at Amazon $199 Save $20 Get Deal A high-quality speaker is worth investing in for your home, whether you want it for playing music or to create a surround sound system for your next movie night. If you've been on the hunt for something new, the Sonos Era 100 is worth a look.

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Engadget

MAY 20, 2025

Looking up Bad Bunny's "Deb Tirar Ms Fotos" will show the album, but also "influential artists who influenced his sound" and other musicians he's collaborated with, the company says.

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Futurism

APRIL 25, 2025

In any case, the whole situation sounds like a mortifying catastrophe. What spurred the dubious measures sounds like a familiar tale of disastrous cost-cutting.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 13, 2025

— Afraid it’s a bad time to sound the alarm Dear Afraid it’s a bad time, When your funding is suddenly slashed—and people’s safety, health, or dignity are on the line—you don’t just have permission to sound the alarm. So yes, sound the alarm. Let’s look at a couple examples of how that can sound, depending on your mission.

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Engadget

MARCH 12, 2025

We also liked its bass performance and overall sound quality for either TV or music. However, it didn't create as immersive a sound as larger options, so people with a big space might want to opt for something else. It offers great sound quality and has two tweeters.

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Engadget

APRIL 1, 2025

TVs are getting slimmer and sleeker, but that often comes at the expense of sound quality. Whether youre after a Dolby Atmos setup for immersive surround sound, a compact, budget-friendly option or a feature-packed soundbar with smart assistant support, theres something out there to match your needs. Is it ease of use?

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Singularity Hub

MARCH 24, 2025

The gummy-candy-like blobs are controlled using sound waves and can slip through grated fences, chomp up debris, and skim across solid and liquid surfaces. The team used sound waves to steer the robots around for more difficult tasks. This month, a team from Korea introduced liquid robots inspired by biological cells.

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Ars Technica

MAY 13, 2025

If Yelland sounds paranoid, thats because she is. If the contact claims to speak Spanish, Yelland says, she will casually test their ability to understand and translate trickier phrases. If something doesnt quite seem right, shell ask the person to join a Microsoft Teams callwith their camera on.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Now, finally, Nickelodeon has greenlit a sequel series and it sounds pretty awesome. The plot sounds pretty dark. Deadline reports that Avatar: Seven Havens will be a 2D animated 26-episode followup that chronicles the rise of the next Avatar after Korra.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

They’ve nailed that elusive mix of powerful noise cancellation, rich sound, and decent call quality, which usually means sacrificing one for the other. Sony claims these are their best truly wireless buds yet. Honestly, I believe them. What sold me is the balance. These don’t. Price: $179.99 $299.99

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

This Samsung Q-Series 7.1.2ch soundbar packs True Dolby Atmos, Q-Symphony, and wireless connectivity, turning your living room into a surround sound paradise without the mess of extra cables. channel audio, sound moves around and above you, so action scenes feel like they’re happening in real-time.

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.orgSource

JUNE 10, 2025

If staff see leaders unsure, disengaged, or hesitant about a new tool, it signals doubt—even if the tool is technically sound. Leadership matters in tech adoption because: People follow people, not software. Cultural change trickles down. Leaders help define what is normal and valued. Trust and transparency build buy-in.

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Mashable Tech

MAY 29, 2025

Searching Samoa with AI and sound Members of the most recent tooth-billed pigeon expedition. Despite this limitation, Colossal was able to use the audio sample to create a machine learning algorithm that could distinguish tooth-billed pigeon calls from more general sounds of birdlife in Samoa.

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Engadget

MAY 29, 2025

The Era 300 is a highly capable device that we praised in our official review , saying that it "sounds excellent." This feature optimizes the sound of the speaker to the unique acoustics of a room by leveraging an internal microphone. It measures how sound reflects off surfaces and adjusts the EQ to match. It's pretty nifty.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 8, 2025

It looks and sounds like the future, but this launch has been a decade in the making. Zipline is launching its airborne delivery service for real, rolling it out in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of Mesquite ahead of a gradual spread that, if all goes according to plan, will also see its craft landing in Seattle before the end of the year.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

” Winner: Tie Sound quality is almost identical Amazon describes the Echo Pop’s sound as a “full sound” that’s a good fit for bedrooms and small spaces and the Echo Dot’s sound as a “bigger vibrant sound” for any room.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

This led VML and the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development to launch Sound Sites an initiative to replace the alt text on the states official tourism website with lyrical verse from one of Tennessees best natural resources: songwriters. Our tagline for the state is Sounds Perfect.

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Engadget

MAY 20, 2025

It showed an AI-powered voice that sounds more natural and less robotic, with subtler nuances. The TTS can also switch to a whisper (which sounded a little creepy) on the fly. On Tuesday at Google I/O 2025 , the company previewed a new TTS feature, built on native audio output, that can "converse in more expressive ways."

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Futurism

MAY 27, 2025

However, instead of combining waves of radiation, light, or sound, the team used the information collected by multiple light detectors to measure variations in intensity, a technique known as intensity interferometry. They then used this data to compile an image of a distant object.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 22, 2025

While we're still enjoying the best summer songs from 2024 , soon enough we'll all be adding to a fresh playlist and you'll want to make sure your tunes are getting fair treatment with earbuds that come with solid sound quality. If you're in the market to make an upgrade, check out this Amazon deal.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

Making a miniseries where each episode is shot in one take sounds more like a technical exercise than something that'll benefit the viewer. The police station and school settings of the first two episodes are a chaos of sound and movement, an assault on the senses that mirrors what the characters are feeling.

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