iFixit x-rayed and ripped Apple’s new earbuds apart, and found two things the AirPods 4 with ANC have that the regular model doesn’t: A “$2 microphone” and a speaker in the case are what accounts for the $50 price difference between the two.
Of course, that doesn’t account for any software Apple has to license to make its ANC work.
This obviously digitally altered photo of Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), posted the morning after the vice presidential debate, is supposed to signify... masculinity? Strength? I don’t know, honestly.
It’d be a little more convincing if we hadn’t spent two hours looking at the man’s face — and listening to his lies — last night.
So said Daniel Plasche, co-director of a Berlin venue, while talking to The New York Times about the club’s decision to follow other nightclubs by putting stickers on customers’ smartphone camera lenses.
“There is something unifying, ritualistic about the dance floor,” he added, but the atmosphere was ruined when people use their phones to take images that “they will never look at again, anyways.”
[The New York Times]
As previously announced, Masahiro Sakurai’s excellent YouTube channel — which has covered everything from organizing classic games to the nitty gritty of game development — is coming to an end. The silver lining is that the Smash Bros. boss is teasing that a “special finale” is in the works.
