Techlife News
NBC HOPES FOR MORE INDYCAR AS CONTRACT COMES TO AN END
NBC Sports heads into its third Indianapolis 500 not ready to wave the checkered flag on its partnership with Roger Penske’s open-wheel racing series.
2 min |
Techlife News #500
Techlife News
RUSSIAN TO BE DEPORTED AFTER FAILED TESLA RANSOMWARE PLOT
A Russian man was sentenced to what amounted to time already served and will be deported after pleading guilty to trying to pay a Tesla employee $500,000 to install computer malware at the company’s Nevada electric battery plant in a bid to steal company secrets for ransom.
2 min |
Techlife News #500
Techlife News
HOW VACCINE PASSPORTS FOR GLOBAL TRAVEL WILL WORK
Boarding pass, suitcase, passport and ... digital vaccination certificate?
5 min |
Techlife News #500
AppleMagazine
REVOLUTION: THE POST-COVID DIGITAL WORLD IS COMING
COVID-19 era been a story of dramatic digital transformation for all of us, or just some of us? And what’s next?
7 min |
AppleMagazine #500
AppleMagazine
WHO'S AN ASTRONAUT AS PRIVATE SPACEFLIGHT PICKS UP SPEED?
As more companies start selling tickets to space, a question looms: Who gets to call themselves an astronaut?
4 min |
AppleMagazine #500
AppleMagazine
GERMAN REGULATOR PROBES GOOGLE'S MARKET POSITION, DATA USE
German regulators have launched an investigation into Google’s position in the market, and how the search engine and advertising giant handles user data.
1 min |
AppleMagazine #500
AppleMagazine
GM NOW SAYS IT WILL SUPPORT UNION AT NEW BATTERY FACTORIES
General Motors now says it will support efforts by the United Auto Workers union to organize employees at two U.S. electric vehicle battery factories that it’s building in Ohio and Tennessee with a joint-venture partner.
3 min |
AppleMagazine #500
AppleMagazine
UK MASS SURVEILLANCE UNLAWFUL UNDER EUROPEAN RULES
Europe’s top human rights court ruled this week that British mass surveillance and intelligence-gathering practices breached human rights laws, in a partial victory for civil rights groups that had challenged the practices exposed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
1 min |
AppleMagazine #500
AppleMagazine
FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM WILL NOW LET YOU HIDE ‘LIKE' COUNTS
If you post a photo to social media and you don’t know how many people liked it, did you really post it?
1 min |
AppleMagazine #500
AppleMagazine
AMAZON TO BUY MGM, STUDIO BEHIND JAMES BOND AND ‘SHARK TANK'
Online shopping giant Amazon is buying MGM, the movie and TV studio behind James Bond, “Legally Blonde” and “Shark Tank,” with the hopes of filling its video streaming service with more stuffto watch.
3 min |
AppleMagazine #500
AppleMagazine
DC FILES ANTITRUST CASE VS AMAZON OVER TREATMENT OF VENDORS
The suit seeks to end Amazon’s use of the allegedly illegal price agreements as well as unspecified damages and penalties.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #500
AppleMagazine
FORD CEO SAYS US NEEDS TO REGULATE AUTOMATED DRIVING SYSTEMS
The CEO of America’s second-largest auto company is calling for the federal government to set standards for fully or partially automated vehicles to tighten the safety of electronic driving systems.
3 min |
AppleMagazine #500
AppleMagazine
A NEW REASON TO SWIPE RIGHT? DATING APPS ADDING VAX BADGES
The White House is pushing a new reason to swipe right: vaccination badges and “super swipes” for people who’ve gotten their coronavirus shots.
1 min |
AppleMagazine #500
Stereophile
NAD C 298
POWER AMPLIFIER
10+ min |
June 2021
Stereophile
ELAC Alchemy DPA-2
POWER AMPLIFIER
10+ min |
June 2021
Sound & Vision
TV TRENDS OF CES 2021
THE ANNUAL CES trade show put on by the Consumer Technology Association was an “all-digital” event for 2021. On the plus side, that allowed us to report on the show from the comfort of our homes dressed in hoodies and sweatpants instead of suits.
6 min |
April - May 2021
Sound & Vision
Mini-LED Made Affordable
IN LATE 2019, TCL flew me to the company’s U.S. offices in California to spend an afternoon with its new flagship, the 75Q825 8-Series Roku LCD Ultra HDTV, a 75-inch 4K model.
10+ min |
April - May 2021
Sound & Vision
Monolith by Monoprice M-TWE True Wireless Earbuds
Noise Cancellation Customized Monoprice is an affordable direct-to-consumer brand, and its Monolith product line features sophisticated A/V gear including speakers, amps, surround sound processors, and now the new Monolith M-TWE earbuds.
4 min |
April - May 2021
Sound & Vision
The End of Analog
Q Over the years, I’ve discovered that sound and vision are two distinct camps in the home theater realm, and it’s best to keep them separated due to constantly changing video formats.
4 min |
April - May 2021
Sound & Vision
HEADPHONES AT CES 2021
Once upon a time, CES was a huge show for audio but those days are long gone and showed no signs of returning in the virtual world that was CES 2021, with one possible exception: wireless headphones, a category that has made incredible strides in just the past year or so.
5 min |
April - May 2021
Sound & Vision
Control Central
ANY NEW surround sound processor circa-2021 is bound to have a heap of demands placed upon it. Along with support for the latest immersive audio formats—Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, etc.—there’s music streaming, Auto EQ/room correction, and HDMI video switching of the latest 4K/ high dynamic range video formats.
10 min |
April - May 2021
Sound & Vision
How Napoleon Bonaparte Invented the Compact Disc
You can admit it. You are intrigued. Of course, it can’t be true. But is it purely nonsensical? Is it a “pigs can fly” kind of declaration? Or is there someway, somehow, a grain of truth in it? And if that’s the case, how on earth could you conceivably connect the dots between the Little Corporal and the Compact Disc?
3 min |
April - May 2021
Sound & Vision
Bass is the Place
AS SOMEONE who appreciates the benefit deep bass brings to music and movie soundtracks, I’ve come to accept that having a box the size of a small refrigerator in my living room is a reality of life I need to contend with.
5 min |
April - May 2021
Sound & Vision
Evolution of the App
The introduction of the iPhone in 2007—or, more specifically, Apple opening its App Store to third-party developers in 2008—turned out to be one of the most consequential developments ever to hit the home automation market.
4 min |
April - May 2021
Sound & Vision
Got Livestream If You Want It
A year into the pandemic, the improved quality of livestream concerts is helping to bridge the gap between artists and their socially distanced fans.
4 min |
April - May 2021
Sound & Vision
A Mighty Mini
Mankind has steadily sought to produce more and deeper bass from smaller and smaller enclosures ever since the first Neolithic audiophile blew through a conch shell and thought, “Damn, I wish this thing went lower, louder!”
9 min |
April - May 2021
Mac Life
TRUE WIRELESS NOISE–CANCELLING HEADPHONES
Upgrade your iPhone, iPad, or Mac audio and rid your surroundings of unwanted noise
8 min |
June 2021
Mac Life
Razer Kiyo Pro
A flawed gem of a camera for Mac users
2 min |
June 2021
Mac Life
CRAVE
THE GEAR WE’RE LUSTING AFTER
3 min |
June 2021
Sound & Vision
Bluesound Pulse Sub+ Subwoofer
Out of Sight Sound What’s the one thing lacking in even the best soundbar? If you said “deep, realistic, room-filling, floor-pounding bass,” then you are absolutely correct.
4 min |