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Chip firm claims speaker breakthrough
Solid-state speaker design might revolutionize AirPods and other earbuds.
Leander Kahney
November 14, 2023
Speaker design hasn’t changed much in decades.
Most speakers — including the tiny ones in your AirPods — rely on a motor-driven diaphragm to create sound waves that tickle your eardrums.
Modern speakers can sound absolutely phenomenal, but they face a range of challenges, like the inability of small speakers to really pump out decent bass.
But now a California semiconductor company claims to have developed a breakthrough technology that makes tiny speakers sound phenomenal — and it’s using solid-state chips to create the audio.
The company says its tech will revolutionize the kind of tiny speakers found in AirPods and other mobile listening devices. Let’s hope Apple’s listening!
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Ultimate Ears makes some of the best portable speakers (according to our reviews, like this one) — and they’re well-discounted ahead of Black Friday.
— Leander Kahney, EIC.
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Today is a sad day...
You can no longer buy OS X Mountain Lion from the Apple online store.😂
— Mr. Macintosh (@ClassicII_MrMac)
4:06 PM • Nov 14, 2023
Just discovered the designer that worked on the glass-like Apple icons of the late 90s and early 2000s. kcottingham.com/apple
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10:19 PM • Nov 13, 2023
My sister just sent me these pics and said, "iPhone 8 still slaying"
Do you agree?😳
— Rjey (@RjeyTech)
11:04 PM • Nov 13, 2023
iPhone 8 Engineering Sample found on wild for 290$USD each🤔running on switchboard, stages not confirmed
Links below if you’re interested in..— Kosutami (@KosutamiSan)
2:56 PM • Nov 14, 2023
Repair world, we need your help. Some iPhones with third-party batteries can’t update over the air. We don’t think Apple is intentionally sabotaging third-party repair here, but we’ve seen this kind of error too many times to let it go.
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#iFixit— iFixit (@iFixit)
7:37 PM • Nov 13, 2023
One more thing ...
If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things — that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It's a discipline; you have to practice it.
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