The ‘Zoey 102’ film star applauded Justin’s single in 2017 and included a photo of her as a child sitting in a car with him and Britney Spears.
The ‘Zoey 102’ film star applauded Justin’s single in 2017 and included a photo of her as a child sitting in a car with him and Britney Spears.
The latest version of Apple’s AirPods Pro is back on sale for $190 at Amazon and Target, which is only a dollar more than the lowest price we’ve tracked. We’ve seen this new model briefly fall this low a few times since arriving in September, and there’s at least some chance it could drop farther by Black Friday, but the discount is still $60 less than Apple’s usual price. It also beats the deal we saw over the weekend by $10.
As a refresher, this variant of the AirPods Pro comes with a USB-C charging case to match the latest crop of iPhones. It technically has a higher IP54 dust-resistance rating and will support lossless audio with the upcoming Vision Pro headset as well. Other than that, though, it’s essentially the same as the Lightning-based model that Apple launched last year.
That’s not a bad thing: We gave that pair a review score of 88 at launch for its effective active noise cancellation (ANC), pleasantly warm sound, superb transparency mode and easy pairing with other Apple devices. You really need to be a dedicated Apple user to get the most out of it but, if so, perks like Find My tracking and hands-free Siri can also be useful. A software update last month added a few new helpful features as well, including an “Adaptive Audio” mode that blends the ANC and transparency modes based on your surroundings and can automatically lower the volume when you start speaking to somebody else.
We wouldn’t call the AirPods Pro the best wireless earbuds overall: Their six-ish hours of battery life is just average, there’s no way to customize the EQ and the touch controls take some getting used to. If you want a similar pair that’s more suitable for the gym, the Beats Fit Pro (which is also on sale) would be a better choice. But the AirPods Pro remain a compelling option for those firmly planted in Apple Land, which is why they’re the “best for iOS” pick in our wireless earbuds buying guide.
The only small caveat here is a Bloomberg report from last week that detailed Apple’s plans to revamp its entire AirPods lineup starting next year. According to the report, this refresh will include a version of the standard AirPods with ANC and a redesigned AirPods Pro that may include new hearing health features. Bloomberg says most of those headphones won’t arrive until late 2024, however, while the new AirPods Pro won’t release until 2025.
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The iconic singer went as the beloved ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ character for a totally stylish Halloween costume.
The iconic singer went as the beloved ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ character for a totally stylish Halloween costume.
Zoë Kravitz is the only daughter of famous exes Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz, who have maintained a very close relationship in the years after their divorce.
Zoë Kravitz is the only daughter of famous exes Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz, who have maintained a very close relationship in the years after their divorce.
As if! Kim Kardashian and North West celebrated Halloween with an epic photoshoot in their iconic ‘Clueless’ costumes.
As if! Kim Kardashian and North West celebrated Halloween with an epic photoshoot in their iconic ‘Clueless’ costumes.
Heidi Klum likes to keep her beauty routine as simple as possible and uses coconut oil all over her body for instant hydration.
Heidi Klum likes to keep her beauty routine as simple as possible and uses coconut oil all over her body for instant hydration.
During its Scary Fast product event last night, Apple officially debuted its new M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max chips. The company is positioning the M3 chips as major upgrades over its M1 hardware — if you bought an M2 system, you’re probably not itching for a replacement just yet.
The M3’s GPU is the biggest leap forward, delivering new features, like hardware-accelerated ray tracing and mesh shading, enabling more realistic lighting and better geometry handling. If you’re into chip architecture and other fun endeavors, the M3 chips are also notable for being the first PC chips built on a three-nanometer process — both the M1 and M2 families are based on a 5nm process. This means more transistors packed into the same space, which helps with power efficiency, as well as providing better overall performance. The M3 series will feature in the revamped MacBook Pro 14-inch and 16-inch (more on those below), as well as the 24-inch iMac.
That new chip will make the new iMac up to twice as fast as its predecessor, but there aren’t too many upgrades elsewhere in the latest Mac. Apple is sticking with a 4.5K Retina display, for instance. There are some handy changes on the connectivity front, now with support for Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 The new iMac starts at $1,299 and ships on November 7.
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Apple’s updated line of 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros features a range of new M3 chips and a new Space Black chassis. Was that the spooky part of Apple’s event?
The 14-inch MBP with a base M3 processor will cost $1,599 — the first time the 14-inch laptop has hit that low of a price. The M3 Pro iteration will still cost you $1,999, and prices go up from there for M3 Max options. Meanwhile, a base 16-inch MacBook Pro with an M3 Pro chip will have the same $2,499 starting price as its M2 Pro predecessor. Alas, the 13-inch version is no more. Farewell, Touch Bar.
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In the last few years, we’ve seen Amazon get into e-ink scribes, while startups like ReMarkable have carved out their own niche with capable hardware for a reasonable price. Lenovo, having dabbled with e-ink on devices like the Yoga Book, has joined the fray with a dedicated device, the Smart Paper. While the product hasn’t yet launched in the US, the Smart Paper has launched elsewhere, including the UK. At around $400 (or £500 in the UK), it’s expensive. The hardware is impressive (and useful), but it’s all tainted by a subscription service that demands even more money.
X will no longer pay creators for tweets promoting misinformation. Elon Musk said the company is making a “slight change” to its monetization program, and tweets fact-checked via community notes will no longer be eligible for payouts.
The latest change comes as researchers, fact-checkers and journalists have raised the alarm about the amount of viral misinformation spreading on X amid the ongoing conflict in Israel and Gaza. Recent analysis from NewsGuard, a nonprofit that tracks the spread of misinformation, found 74 percent of “the most viral posts on X advancing misinformation about the Israel–Hamas war are being pushed by ‘verified’ X accounts.”
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Calling all Beats fans — or anyone considering an earbud upgrade, really — the Apple-owned tech brand has major sales going right now across its lineup. Notably, a 20 percent discount on the Beats Fit Pro brings the noise-canceling earbuds back down to their all-time low price for newer colors, coral pink, volt yellow and tidal blue. The earbuds have dropped to $160 from $200, a deal last seen on October Prime Day.
When the Beats Fit Pro launched in 2021, we were impressed with its comfortable fit and inclusion of spatial audio, hands-free Siri and solid noise-canceling abilities. The earbuds work on Apple’s H1 Platform, come with dynamic head tracking and can hold up to seven hours of battery without noise canceling, 30 hours with the case.
The Beats Studio Buds + are also $40 off, down to $130 from $170. They don’t have all of the Fit Pro’s features — the Studio Buds + use the company’s Proprietary Platform and don’t offer dynamic head tracking, ANC that adapts to external noise or bright colors. However, they do have a better battery life, lasting for nine hours when noise canceling is off and 36 hours with the case.
If you’re more of a headphone person, the last — and best — deal is for you. The Beats Studio Pro headphones are down to $200 from $350 — a 43 percent discount. These headphones offer ANC and transparency modes, lossless audio and a range of on-ear controls. Plus, they have the longest battery life, lasting up to 40 hours and offering a 10-minute Fast Fuel charge for another four hours of listening time.
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We’re still a few weeks away from Black Friday, but if you’re looking to get a new electric toothbrush, you can get a deal on one of Oral-B’s models as early as today. The Oral-B iO Series 7 electric toothbrush that comes with two brush heads is currently on sale at Amazon for $150, which is a record low for the device that typically sells for $200. Even better, you can get it for $140 if you apply the website’s $10 coupon, so don’t forget to tick that little box right next to it.
We named the Oral-B iO Series 7 as our best overall smart electric toothbrush for the year because its price sits right in the middle of the category’s price spectrum. With this discount, it’s become an even more appealing option. The device is equipped with an internal gyroscope and accelerometer, giving it the capability to detect its position inside your mouth while you brush. If you switch on guided brushing in the app, you’ll see a 3D illustration of your teeth turn blue as you brush — the app can even tell you if you’ve missed specific areas by the end of the two-minute session.
The app tracks unguided brushing sessions, as well, taking note of their time and durations. On the toothbrush itself, you’ll see a built-in LED screen that displays a time and the mode you’ve chosen, so you don’t always need to have the app open nearby. Take note that the device comes with five cleaning modes, including one you can use if you have sensitive teeth. And if you tend to press down on your toothbrush, one useful feature is that the ring of light at the base of the brush flashes red if you push too hard and glows green when you exert just the right amount of pressure.
As we mentioned in our best electric toothbrush list, the Oral-B iO Series 7 is nearly identical to the higher-tier iO Series 9. The only difference is that the latter comes with extra modes, a full color screen and an even more detailed app-guided brushing. Still, if you want give the Oral-B iO Series 9 a try, it’s also currently on sale at Amazon for $250, which could go as low as $230 with its clippable coupon.
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Samsung has been reporting steep profit declines and record-breaking losses over the past quarters, and while it has yet to go back to its previous numbers, it sounds optimistic for the future in its latest earnings report. The company credited the strong sales of its mobile flagship devices and its premium displays for doing better the past three months than the previous quarters. Samsung also said that its Device Solutions (DS) division, which includes its memory and foundry businesses, has narrowed its losses. It even expects demand for memory chips to recover gradually with the rise in popularity of artificial intelligence.
The company has posted a consolidated revenue of KRW 67.40 trillion ($49.9 billion) for the third quarter of 2023, which shows a respectable 12 percent increase from the previous quarter’s. It reported KRW 2.43 trillion ($1.80 billion) in profit, as well, and while that’s a third of what it earned in the same period of 2022 — KRW 10.85 trillion or $7.6 billion — that figure still much better than the $527 million profit it reported for the second quarter.
For its mobile and network business, in particular, it reported KRW 30 trillion ($22.17 billion) in consolidated revenue, as well as KRW 3.30 trillion ($2.44 billion) in operating profit. There was a higher demand in the third quarter compared to the second, Samsung said, thanks to the global smartphone market showing signs of recovery. If you’ll recall, the company mostly blamed its drop in revenue for the second quarter to a decline in smartphone shipments. For this period, it says the Galaxy S23 series has maintained “solid sales momentum,” while its foldables, tablets and wearables recorded strong sales. It expects smartphones sales to grow next quarter due to the holiday season and for the market to bounce back next year “as consumer sentiment stabilizes in anticipation of a global economic recovery.”
Another segment that did well in the third quarter is Samsung’s mobile panel business, which “reported a significant increase in earnings on the back of new flagship model releases by major customers.” As Bloomberg notes, those new flagship model releases could include Apple’s iPhone 15. Samsung intends to continue focusing on OLED panels for its mobile display business and plans to establish a supply chain catering to the augmented and virtual reality market.
Finally, the company’s semiconductor division posted KRW 3.75 trillion ($2.77 billion) in operating losses for the quarter, which is slightly better than its KRW 4.36 trillion ($3.23 billion) losses in the previous one. Samsung expects the demand for PCs and mobile devices to improve next period, and it’s anticipating strong server demand from cloud service providers thanks to generative AI applications.
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