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The Sound Blaster X5 is a new USB sound card for Mac and other platforms to deliver high-quality audio with two DACs.Sound Blaster X5A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) can enhance audio from a Mac by converting the digital ones and zeroes into an analog signal. As a result, it offers better audio quality in a broader…
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Spotify said in its Q4 earnings report that while it bled another $231 million in cash, subscribers rose to 489 million.Following its laying off of 6% of its workforce, Spotify has reported mixed results for its latest financial earnings.”In hindsight, I got a little carried away and over-invested relative to the uncertainty I saw in…
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Update: We’re seeing reports that LinkedIn is now restoring admin access for users. LinkedIn is suffering from widespread downtime this morning. The system-wide outage is affecting business administrators who are unable to access company pages. When navigating directly to your company’s LinkedIn page, it may appear as if you’re a regular user or not at…
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Reviews are in for the new large HomePod, with them saying that while Siri is faster, and it has a similar sound, a high price make it hard to justify the product for round two.The new HomePod is priced at $299Apple reintroduced the HomePod on January 18 at the same $300 price point it had…
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Apple recently announced a major update for its high-end MacBook Pro models, adding the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, better battery life, Wi?Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, and an HDMI 2.1 port. Last year, Apple updated the MacBook Air with a complete redesign and the M2 chip, so how do the machines compare? Despite now…
Nothing’s Phone (1) did not get an official U.S. release when it launched in July 2022, but that is set to change for the second version of the company’s popular transparent Android handset, according to CEO and co-founder Carl Pei. Speaking to Inverse, Pei said that the U.K.-based company will make the U.S. market its…
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Long-time Apple rival Samsung had an incredibly bad fourth quarter, with the global economic downturn blamed for a 69% drop in quarterly operating profit.Samsung Galaxy Flip4In the days before Apple’s announcement its own financial results for the most recent quarter, other tech companies also bring out their results. However, in the case of Samsung, its…
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Hit Apple TV+ drama “Severance” has been nominated for the prestigious Normal Felton Award at the Producers’ Guild of America awards.Image Credit: AppleThe PGA has announced its main television and film award nominations, following an earlier announcement of children’s categories. Apple TV+ animated special “Snoopy Presents: It’s the Small Things, Charlie Brown,” was previously revealed…
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While old Apple hardware is mostly long-gone, there are ways to run some of your antique software on your current Mac. Here’s how to get started emulating old Apple computers on your new machine.At the dawn of the personal computer era in the late 1970’s and 1980’s, there were dozens of companies that made small…
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A data scientist formerly working for Meta says that Facebook apps can deliberately drain the batteries of both iPhones and Android smartphones, in order to examine the effect of low battery power on app performance … more… The post Facebook apps can deliberately drain iPhone and Android batteries, says former employee appeared first on 9to5Mac….
Apple’s holiday quarter results will be lower than 2021, according to Cowen, with “softness” expected due to iPhone shipments impacted by Chinese lockdowns.iPhone 14 ProFor the December 2022 quarter, analysts at Cowen model Apple as being down 4% year-on-year, with total revenue at $118.8 billion. The earnings per share for the quarter is expected to…
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Apple has been granted a patent for technology that has the iPhone hear chewing, prompt you to photograph your food, and could then criticize your food choices.Apple’s newly-granted “Augmented Reality Calorie Counter” patent is split between detection of chewing, and then determination of what is being eaten. The patent doesn’t really explicitly say Apple will…
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The iPhone 14 Crash Detection feature has been credited with helping bring about a rapid police response to a pickup truck crash in the early hours of the morning, which left one or more occupants unconscious. The crash happened on the island state of Tasmania, off the Australian coast, outside a town with a population…
A ruling declared that Apple violated the United States labor laws by warning employees against leaking the company’s confidential information. In 2021, Tim Cook allegedly sent an email that stated that people who leak confidential information about Apple — product I.P. or meeting details — don’t belong in the company. Cook further threatened that Apple…
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1Password 8 for iOS is soon going to get a slew of improvements to enhance its existing feature set, including universal search. (via Cult of Mac – Tech and culture through an Apple lens) Go to Source Author: Rajesh Pandey