Sony’s WF-1000XM4 may be the best noise-canceling earbuds yet

Sony’s WF-1000XM3 were some of the best high-end true wireless earbuds around, especially if you prioritized sound quality and noise canceling. Today, Sony announced their successors, the creatively named WF-1000XM4, and they are a remarkable improvement in many respects, including even better noise cancelation and sound quality, improved controls, and a much better design My review unit actually arrived just a few hours before the publication of this article, so you can take this as a ‘hands-on’ piece as well....

3 min · 486 words · Colleen Davis

Sony’s working on an AI that can play games for you. Here’s a better idea

Sony’s AI division recently published a patent for an AI system that learns to mimic a player’s style. Give a person a video game and they’ll play it, teach an AI to play it for them and… what’s the point? Actually, there might be something to the idea. But it’s probably not what Sony intends to do. Per thepatent: The method includes generating a user game play profile of the user by adjusting the default game play style based on the plurality of game plays, wherein the user game play profile incudes a user game play style customized to the user....

4 min · 651 words · Elizabeth King

Sophia the robot ‘created’ an NFT artwork and it sold for almost $700K

Sophia the robot ‘created’ an NFT artwork and it sold for almost $700K Is the crypto art bubble about to burst? The NFT artwork boom The market for NFT artworks has erupted in 2021. Earlier this month, a graphic designer who goes by the name of Beeple sold a digital image with an NFT for a whopping $69.3 million, the third most expensive sale ever of a living artist, after works by David Hockney and Jeff Koons....

2 min · 260 words · Troy Norris

SoPhone: The incredibly deceiving iPhone 4 fake

There must be thousands of iPhone 4 knockoffs around the globe but this one is so uncanny I was actually fooled into believing it’s the original. Meet the SoPhone, the iPhone 4 replica that not only looks like an iPhone, it even has a similar-looking user interface that functions pretty much like the iOS 4 we know and love. Don’t expect it to support the same apps though. It is equipped with a 3....

2 min · 261 words · Melissa Hopkins

Sorry Apple fans: The notch is here to stay

Though I’ve dabbled with macOS and iOS here and there, I’m partial to Windows and Android. I like choices, and I like flexibility. But if there’s one thing I’ve learned reporting on Apple and observing it from the other side of the fence, it’s that Apple likes to stand out — occasionally at the expense of its users. Hence, the notch onthe new 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pros. When Apple introduced the notch with the iPhone X, most of us assumed it was a temporary compromise while the company figured out how to shrink the selfie camera and Face ID....

4 min · 768 words · Johnny Lowe
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