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Spotify pmaylist
Living
2 min read

Spotify Premium prices jump again in the US

Spotify raised its subscription prices in the US last July, increasing the Premium individual plan by $1 to $10.99. This was just two years after a similar price hike for the Family plan in 2021. Now, a year later, Spotify is bumping up prices again. This…

Spotify
Living
1 min read

Spotify launches pilot Voice Translation for podcasts

While everyone is anxious to learn more about Spotify’s HiFi tier, the streaming company announced the launch of a much smaller new feature: Voice Translation for podcasts. The pilot Voice Translation for podcasts is a new feature powered by AI, which does…

Spotify pmaylist
Living
2 min read

Spotify has officially crossed 200 million premium subscribers

The recently concluded holiday shopping season may not have been as auspicious for the global smartphone market as we’ve expected over the years, but for some reason, the music streaming industry doesn’t appear to be suffering any consequences of a tough…

Tesla Plant
Automotive
2 min read

Tesla Could Adopt Apple’s AirPlay To Improve In-Car Audio

Tesla has often bashed Apple with Elon Musk claiming that the Cupertino-based tech giant is a graveyard of ex-Tesla engineers. Tesla has also famously not adopted Apple’s phone streaming technology called CarPlay, but Elon Musk could be warming up to the idea…

Clubhouse
General
3 min read

Clubhouse gets a text chat feature for live audio rooms

Clubhouse, an audio chat app that debuted back in 2020 as an exclusive social network, is now adding a feature that seems to be contrary to its initial live audio chat purpose. 9to5Mac reports that there is a major change to the app coming, and will let users…

Beats
Electronics
1 min read

Apple has just killed off the last Beats-branded speaker

After discontinuing the Beats Powerbeats wireless earbuds, Beats EP wired on-ear headphones, and high-end Beats Solo Pro wireless on-ear headphones just a couple of months ago, Apple appears to have also pulled the Beats Pill+ plug more recently. This was of…

Google AI
3 min read

Google to add spatial audio, auto-switching, and more to Android this year

Google is going to be making some changes to Android this year that according to the tech giant in a blog post, will allow the operating system to pick up some audio features that iPhone and AirPods users already have on their devices. This will reportedly be…

Facebook password
General
3 min read

End-to-end encryption now covers Messenger video and audio calls

In this era where privacy reigns, end-to-end encryption (E2EE) is an important feature because it keeps messages private and only the sender and the recipient know what it says. It prevents law enforcement, employees of the platform being used, and others…

Facebook Movie Reminder
General
1 min read

Facebook set to announce new audio products – Recode

Facebook will announce a series of products under the umbrella of “social audio” on Monday, including its take on audio-chat app Clubhouse and a push into podcast discovery and distribution, Recode reported on Sunday. These plans include an audio version of…

Spotify S10
Living
1 min read

Spotify launches Group Session feature for Premium users

Spotify introduced two weeks ago a special premium plan for couples, which allows two users who reside at the same address to get similar benefits for just $12.99 per month. While the new plan does make sense for a certain category of customers, it’s limited…

Apple store China
Electronics
3 min read

Apple patents technology for AR audio headphones

Imagine listening to a conference call on a headset and knowing the position of everyone in the room just by listening to the sound. Apple apparently is planning on developing AR audio headphones and has just received a patent covering related technology from…