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Apple announces new AirPods Max, costing £549

The noise cancelling headphones are almost as expensive as an iPhone, and more than twice the cost of Apple's AirPods Pro.

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Apple announces $549 over-hear headphones, the AirPods Max

The AirPods Max are joining the AirPods and AirPods Pro in Apple’s audio accessory lineup. As you can see on the photo, Apple is releasing its first over-ear headphones under the AirPods brand.The wi

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The mikme pocket is a fantastic mobile audio solution for podcasters, reporters and creators

Portable audio recording solutions abound, and many recently released devices have done a lot to improve the convenience and quality of sound recording devices you can carry in your pocket – spurred i

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Is 'Made in China 2025' a threat to the West?

03:06 What exactly does China have in mind, and what does it want to achieve in the coming five years? It might be unrealistic to pinpoint a specific target, but having a direction cer

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Improved 'to the point of perfection': The best gadgets of the year

The consumer group whittled down 3,500 products to 50 based on exceptional innovation, sustainability or value for money.

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Discovery will launch its own streaming service on January 4

Discovery is the latest media company to launch a standalone streaming service — and the latest to adopt the simple naming strategy of just adding a plus sign — with discovery+, set to launch in the

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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 will land on phones in Q1 2021

As promised, more info following yesterday’s Snapdragon 888 announcement. First off, as expected, the company’s next flagship SoC will arrive in the first quarter of next year. We’re still waiting on

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F5G is life after 5G?

A "Smart Factory" model is on display at the World 5G Convention in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, November 26, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note: Dr. John Gong is a professor at the U

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Gift Guide: Smart exercise gear to hunker down and get fit with

Welcome to TechCrunch’s 2020 Holiday Gift Guide! Need help with gift ideas? We’re here to help! We’ll be rolling out gift guides from now through the end of December. You can find ou

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Hey look, glow-in-the-dark PowerBeats

Now that Apple’s getting more serious about its own branded headphones, Beats have, perhaps, lost a little bit of luster within the company. The products are still wildly popular, of course, and the b

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Astrobotic teams with Bosch and WiBotic to give its Moon rovers wireless charging and smarts to find power stations

Lunar exploration startup Astrobotic is working on developing ultra-fast wireless charging technology for its CubeRover shoebox-sized lunar robotic explorers. The project, which is funded by NASA̵

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Is 5G useless? Businesses found 'killer apps' they really need

Screenshot from a live stream of the 2020 Global Mobile Broadband Forum in Shanghai, November 12, 2020. You may have heard that many people found a 5G smartphone quite useless and drain up bat

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Come hear about the opportunities in space observation at TC Sessions: Space

The market for space observation is one of the few commercialized segments of the nascent industry and could be worth upwards of $8 billion by the end of the decade, according to some estimates.At TC

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'UK could be at leading edge of 6G' as university launches innovation centre

The technology could allow surgeons to use a robot to perform a life-saving operation in real-time from across the globe.

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DJI’s pint-sized Mavic Mini gets camera and connection upgrades

We dug DJI’s Mavic Mini when the drone arrived last year. As Matt noted in his review, “It packs everything critical to be a quality drone. It has a good camera, good range and a good controller. It

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Hands-on with Mophie’s new modular smartphone battery case

There was some confusion when the Juice Pack Connect was announced last week. I admit I was a bit confused, too. It was, no doubt, the proximity to Apple’s iPhone 12 launch that lead many to (underst

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More chip industry action as Marvell is acquiring Inphi for $10B

It’s been quite a time for chip industry consolidation, and today Marvell joined the acquisition parade when it announced it is acquiring Inphi in a combination of stock and cash valued at appro