The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) released Bluetooth 6.0 in Sept. 2024. Its notable features pave the way for universal device tracking, lower latency, and more efficient wireless connections ...

If there’s one thing that CES 2026 illustrated to audiophiles, it’s that open-ear audio is the thing right now. The category isn’t new—big names in the audio space like Bose and Nothing have been ...

Modern generative and multimodal models increasingly rely on compact latent representations that trade and balance semantic richness with high-fidelity reconstruction. We introduce SALAD-VAE, a ...

A friend of mine is producing a series of HOWTO videos for an open source project, and discovered that he needed a better microphone than the one built into his laptop. Upon searching, he was faced ...

Through the looking glass: Nearly three decades after its US patent date, the MP3 is no longer the cutting edge of audio compression. Yet support for it remains ubiquitous in media players, browsers, ...

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Korean researchers have achieved a remarkable result in the international standardization organization that develops digital video and audio compression standards. Electronics and Telecommunications ...

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After years of speculation and broken promises, Spotify is finally rolling out lossless audio streaming to its premium subscribers. The long-awaited feature, which the company first hinted at as far ...

In a nutshell: Using Bluetooth headphones while maintaining high audio quality on Windows has long been a challenge, with trade-offs between playback fidelity and microphone use. Now, Microsoft is ...