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Jada Jones/ZDNETIn June, the home audio company Sonos announced its first pair of over-ear headphones, the Sonos Ace. The Sonos Ace are the culmination of many years of product research and development, and Sonos took direct aim at Sony, Apple, and Bose’s premium over-ear headphones.Review: Sonos AceI reviewed the Ace headphones when they launched, and I enjoyed their comfort, simple and functional design, and dynamic and vibrant sound. When Sonos launched the Ace headphones, it was clear that the standout feature was TV Audio Swap, which allows users to swap audio from their Sonos Arc soundbar More

ZDNETApple’s Photos app has undergone a revamp courtesy of iOS 18. With the new operating system, currently in public beta, the app automatically organizes your photo library into collections based on topics. And if you don’t like the default collections, you can tweak them according to your preferences.You’ll still find the usual grid of photos that you can view based on years or months. You can sort and filter your photos to display them in a certain order. But now you’ll also discover collections for specific photos and videos, including Recent Days, People, Memories, Albums, and Featured Photos.Also: You can now easily move your photos from Google Photos to iCloud Photos. Here’s howViewing each collection is as simple as swiping up and down the screen. Jump to the bottom of the screen and customize the layout to remove or resort your collections.To try this app yourself, you’ll need the iOS 18 public beta on an iPhone. To install the beta, follow the steps in ‘You can download iOS 18 public beta on iPhone right now. Here’s how (and which models support it).’ If you’ve already installed the initial public beta, update the OS to the third beta to grab the latest changes to the Photos app. More

Proton Proton Pass, the password manager unveiled last year by the makers of the Proton VPN<!–>, is celebrating its first anniversary with a set of new security features. The cross-platform password manager now offers the ability to store detailed personal information (such as identities) and is also adding biometric authentication for the Windows and MacOS […] More

Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images Organizations deem mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) devices crucial to their operations, but they also recognize that the risk of using these devices has climbed over the past year.  In fact, 46% said mobile devices had progressed beyond a nice-to-have product to become a critical business tool, with 80% describing these […] More

Apple For far too long, Android users have been excluded from many of Apple’s flourishing apps and services, including iMessage and FaceTime. While texts from Android devices to iPhones may remain green for the foreseeable future, Apple has been a little more generous about sharing its video-calling platform.  Android users still can’t initiate a FaceTime call […] More

Darrell Gulin/Getty Images One of the myths surrounding the Linux operating system is that you have to run all sorts of complicated commands to get anything done. Although that may have been the case some time ago, it’s no longer a reality. You could go your entire life with Linux and never run a single […] More

Sony A80L TV 4 / 5 Very good pros and cons Pros Fantastic audio Three options for the stand legs XR Clear Image upscales content beautifully and naturally Cons Only two HDMI 2.1 ports Struggles in super bright environments more buying choices When it debuted last year, Sony’s A80K OLED television scored fairly high all […] More

Getty Images/Malte Mueller ByteDance, known in the US for creating the wildly popular (and controversial) short-form video TikTok app, has officially entered the AI space with its latest release — Jimeng AI.  As first spotted by Reuters on Tuesday, ByteDance-owned Faceu Technology made Jimeng AI, a text-to-image and text-to-video generator, available on the Apple App Store for […] More