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Comparison of $4,000 boutique audio cable to $7 Amazon Basics cable shows audiophiles waste a lot of money
Those upgraded audio cables probably won't take your music listening pleasure up to the next level. All you need are the basics, literally.
In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud
An experiment revealed that people cannot differentiate between audio signals sent through premium audio cables, wet mud, and a banana.
DoomBuds ports the 1993 FPS classic to open-source earbuds by streaming JPGs at 18fps — runs on 300MHz CPU with less than 1MB of RAM
A developer has ported Doom to a pair of earbuds, but there were extra hurdles to jump, as the earbuds don't have a screen.
Windows Media Player’s ‘find album information’ functionality has been removed
Microsoft has quietly removed ‘find album information’ and ‘update album info online’ tools from the Media Player apps supplied with Windows 11.
New fabric speakers use flexible electronics to be thin, light, and flexible
Thin, light, and flexible electronics technology commercialized in new ‘Fabric Speaker Portable’ product.
The U.S. patent for MP3 audio was granted on this day in 1996
On this day in 1996, a freshly inked U.S. patent quietly laid the cornerstone of the digital music revolution.
Frustrated users crowdfund a $2,000 fix for Lenovo Legion ‘speakers not working properly’ error
A motivated Lenovo Legion Pro 7 (16IAX10H) owner has successfully gotten their system’s speaker issues fixed after setting up a bug bounty program on GitHub.
Yes, you can store data on a bird
A music and science lover has demonstrated the capacity of birds to store and retrieve digital image data.
