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My editor has insisted that I can’t call Atmos in a car “Catmos.” So anyway, Catmos is the latest implementation of Dolby’s object-based surround technology. We’ve talked before about how well it can add height to movie sound in theaters, how most mid- and high-end soundbars have some Atmos functionality and how even some headphones …

I Listened to Dolby Atmos in a Rivian SUV: Is It the Future of Automative Audio? Read More »

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today’s Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today’s Wordle puzzle could be a toughie. It’s a word many people know, but perhaps don’t use that frequently, and the letters aren’t …

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Marvel’s Captain America: Brave New World marks the big-screen jump as Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson takes center stage with the shield. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier laid the foundation for the new film, and the last time we saw the hero he’d uncovered a plot about a super serum, made nice with bestie Bucky Barnes, …

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2025 is starting off with a bang for skygazers, with a planet parade now visible in the night sky. A planet parade is when several of our solar system’s planets are visible in the night sky at the same time. There will be six planets visible this time around, including Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune …

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Image: Microsoft Back in 2022, Microsoft integrated the (mostly) free video editor Clipchamp into Windows 11. Apart from Windows 11, it’s also one of the hidden gem inclusions in Microsoft 365. And last year, Clipchamp got boosted with several nifty AI features. Earlier this week, Microsoft announced in a blog post that a new version …

Major Clipchamp update improves Microsoft’s free video editor Read More »

The first 45-inch OLED bendable gaming monitor, the Corsair Xeneon Flex (45WQHD240) got a whole lot right for a new gaming technology. It promised (and delivered) beautiful visuals that did a better job of mimicking the 3D experience than a flat monitor could. Curved monitors do that too, of course, but the obvious advantage of …

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Motor neuron diseases took their voices. AI is bringing them back. Jules Rodriguez lost his voice in October of last year. His speech had been deteriorating since a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2020, but a tracheostomy to help him breathe dealt the final blow.  Rodriguez and his wife, Maria Fernandez, who live …

The Download: AI-restored voices, and bot relationships Read More »

An entertainment revolution, powered by AI and other emerging technologies, is fundamentally changing how content is created and consumed today. Media and entertainment (M&E) brands are faced with unprecedented opportunities—to reimagine costly and complex production workloads, to predict the success of new scripts or outlines, and to deliver immersive entertainment in novel formats like virtual …

Designing the future of entertainment Read More »

This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. A few weeks ago, a fire broke out at the Moss Landing Power Plant in California, the world’s largest collection of batteries on the grid. Although the flames were extinguished in a …

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Jules Rodriguez lost his voice in October of last year. His speech had been deteriorating since a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2020, as the muscles in his head and neck progressively weakened along with those in the rest of his body. By 2024, doctors were worried that he might not be able …

Motor neuron diseases took their voices. AI is bringing them back. Read More »