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Bose’s latest QuietComfort Ultra are $70 off, marking a new low price 

13 June 2026 at 17:00
Bose's second-generation QuietComfort Ultra headphones
Bose’s latest QuietComfort Ultra headphones fold down for easy storage. | Image: Bose

If you’re planning on traveling anytime soon, Bose’s second-generation QuietComfort Ultra headphones are a great companion for long flights and train rides. Not only do they offer excellent noise cancellation, but they also retain the foldable design of their predecessor, making them easy to pack in a carry-on. They’re even easier to recommend today, now that they’ve dropped to a new low price of $379 ($70 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart. 

Bose QuietComfort Ultra headphones (second-gen)

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The over-ears improve upon their predecessor with better noise cancellation and support for lossless audio over a USB-C cable, allowing you to enjoy higher-quality sound from compatible devices. Bose also added a new Cinema Mode that helps make movies and TV shows feel more immersive while making dialogue easier to hear, along with an improved transparency mode that surpasses the predecessor’s capabilities of reducing sudden loud noises. Battery life is better too, with the headphones lasting up to 30 hours on a single charge — a six-hour increase over the first-generation model. 

Bose has also added a few other conveniences, including the ability to automatically enter a low-power standby mode when stored in the included case or laid flat. Plus, the headphones automatically power on and reconnect to a paired device when you put them on. At the same time, the new model retains soft ear cups and a comfortable, lightweight design that’s easy to wear for hours a time. Support for multipoint Bluetooth pairing remains as well, allowing you to stay connected to two devices simultaneously, so you can watch a video on your laptop and answer calls from your phone.

Nothing CEO says phone prices are going to keep going up

12 June 2026 at 21:02
Photo of Nothing Phone 4A Pro on a green cutting mat showing the camera module with an unhappy smiley face on the Glyph Matrix
Nothing Phone 4A Pro | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge

If you're thinking about upgrading your phone, "the best time was yesterday," according to Nothing CEO and co-founder Carl Pei, echoing a message we heard during MWC. As Android Authority reports, Pei said in a post on X that the RAM shortage has already impacted Nothing's less expensive mid-range phone: "For Phone 4A , memory costs doubled between when we decided to build the device and when it launched. They've doubled again since." He warned that "Phone prices are going up, and they'll keep going up into next year."

Pei says RAM can now account for over 50 percent of the cost of a new phone. Nothing's just the latest phone maker to warn …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Samsung Galaxy S26 : son tarif chez Rakuten fait vaciller la concurrence

12 June 2026 at 13:00
Vous imaginez encore le Samsung Galaxy S26 affiché à son tarif de lancement ? La réalité est bien différente. Quelques mois seulement après son arrivée sur le marché, ce smartphone haut de gamme est déjà proposé à moins de 650 € chez Rakuten. Une baisse de prix qui permet d'accéder aux dernières...

Apple’s Camera Chief Thinks AI Can Give You Superpowers

12 June 2026 at 02:00
The generative features in iOS 27’s new Photos app will add fake pixels to some of your shots, but Apple’s Jon McCormack says the company isn’t using AI “for the sake of AI.”

Study Links Smartphones With Declining Fertility Rates

By: BeauHD
12 June 2026 at 00:00
Two recent studies argue that smartphones may have contributed to falling birthrates by reducing in-person social interaction, sexual frequency, and other conditions tied to unintended pregnancies. "One of the studies published in May is called 'The Collapse of Teen Fertility in the Digital Era' and the other, published just Monday, is titled 'Is the iPhone Birth Control? Causal Evidence from AT&T's 2007-2011 Carrier Monopoly,'" reports KTLA. "Both were chronicled in a New York Times piece by political writer Sabrina Tavernise on Monday." Slashdot reader sabbede submitted the story. From the report: The one from May, authored by two University of Cincinnati professors, posits that teen fertility "collapsed globally" starting around 2007 -- the same year the first iPhone was released. "Smart phones changed how teens spend time with each other ... this change in turn drove the collapse in teen fertility," the study's abstract reads. "Once enough teens are on the phone, being on the phone is where the peer network is; in-person time falls sharply, and with it the unstructured contact in which most unintended teen conceptions occur." The study claimed that countries "across the income and policy spectrum" were affected by the teen fertility drop, and that researchers used data from multiple countries, including the U.S., England and Wales, to rule out "country-specific contraceptive access and welfare reform stories." "This model predicts that the shift towards the phone-mediated equilibrium affects multiple aspects of teen behavior," the abstract continues, concluding that "the same instrument that produces a collapse in teen fertility produces a surge in teen suicides." The study published on Monday looks more closely at the United States, explaining that nationwide general fertility rates have fallen 22% since 2007. "[This is] a sustained decline not readily explained by economic conditions, contraceptive use, housing or childcare costs, or other commonly cited factors," the National Bureau of Economic Researchers study states. "We assess the potential role of a different shock: the diffusion of the smartphone." As mentioned before, the first iPhone was rolled out in 2007, and this study makes use of that timeframe as "a natural experiment" by using data from 2007 through 2011, when iPhones were only sold on AT&T. "From June 2007 through February 2011, the device was sold only on AT&T, allowing us to identify its effect from variation in AT&T's mobile broadband coverage," the study says. "Entropy-balanced Poisson and synthetic difference-in-differences event studies imply that access to the iPhone reduced births by 4.5-8.0% at ages 15-19 and 3.2-6.6% at ages 20-24, with statistically significant but smaller declines among older cohorts. Placebo analyses applied to Verizon and Sprint's pre-2011 coverage footprint are null. Taken together, these cohort effects imply that the diffusion of the iPhone deepened the decline in births among women under 30 while suppressing the rise in births among older women." "Overall, the diffusion of the iPhone explains 33-52% of the decline in the general fertility rate among women aged 15-44," researchers continued. "National-survey evidence on time use and sexual behavior is consistent with the iPhone reducing in-person interactions, increasing pornography use and reducing sexual frequency."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Le OnePlus 15 à 650 € : Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, écran 165 Hz, 7300 mAh et triple capteur 50 MP pour un flagship qui frappe fort

11 June 2026 at 16:00
Le OnePlus 15 incarne ce que la marque chinoise sait faire de mieux : un flagship sans concession technique, vendu nettement moins cher que la concurrence directe. Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 dernière génération, écran de 6,78 pouces avec une fréquence de rafraîchissement record de 165 Hz, triple...

Do lixo eletrónico à “mina urbana”: A economia circular pode salvar a soberania tecnológica da Europa?

11 June 2026 at 13:24

Em entrevista ao TEK, Peter Windischhofer, cofundador da Refurbed, antecipa um cenário de maior pressão nos preços dos novos equipamentos devido à escassez de chips e deixa um alerta: há milhões de smartphones esquecidos nas gavetas dos portugueses que podem ser a chave para a independência de recursos na Europa.

The post Do lixo eletrónico à “mina urbana”: A economia circular pode salvar a soberania tecnológica da Europa? appeared first on Tek Notícias.

Xiaomi 15 : -55 % sur ce smartphone haut de gamme qui cartonne chez Rakuten

11 June 2026 at 13:00
Le Xiaomi 15 fait actuellement partie des smartphones les plus remarqués de sa catégorie, notamment grâce à une promotion particulièrement agressive chez Rakuten. Avec une réduction de 55 % sur son prix habituel, ce modèle haut de gamme devient bien plus accessible pour celles et ceux qui...

iFixit Trump phone teardown confirms it’s an HTC dupe

11 June 2026 at 11:40
Promotional image of the redesigned Trump Mobile T1 Phone on a beige background
This is the Trump phone, but it could just as easily be an HTC. | Image: Trump Mobile

After getting its hands on a Trump phone and tearing it apart, iFixit has confirmed what I first reported back in February: the T1 Phone is an almost exact duplicate of the HTC U24 Pro.

iFixit partnered with NBC to get hold of the network's media sample of the Trump phone, along with a U24 Pro. They ran the phones through a CT scanner, tore them down to parts, and even put them back together into a functional Frankenstein phone with the U24 Pro's board inside the T1 Phone's chassis, confirming along the way that the two phones are functionally identical.

There are minor differences: The flash has been moved slightly, the speaker grille was …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Google Pixel 9 Pro XL : ce smartphone premium perd 33 % de son prix chez Rakuten

10 June 2026 at 13:00
Certains smartphones vieillissent mal. D'autres voient simplement leur prix fondre avec le temps. C'est justement le cas du Google Pixel 9 Pro XL qui profite aujourd'hui d'une belle cure d'amaigrissement sur Rakuten.

L'Honor Magic8 Lite à moins de 205 € : voilà un smartphone qui redéfinit le rapport qualité-prix

9 June 2026 at 17:00
L'Honor Magic8 Lite débarque avec une fiche technique qui fait mal à bien des smartphones vendus 150 € plus cher : écran AMOLED de 6,79 pouces à 120 Hz, capteur principal de 108 mégapixels, batterie de 7500 mAh avec charge rapide, triple certification de résistance (IP, chutes, températures...

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