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Sonos starts hiring to build “Home Theater OS”

Enlarge / The Sonos Arc soundbar. (credit: Sonos) Sonos has ambitions not just to be the platform of choice for home audio but for home theater, too, according to several new job postings first discovered and reported on by Protocol. The job listings strongly suggest several new areas of expansion for Sonos, and they paint […]

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iOS 15 review: Forget quantity, Focus on quality

Enlarge / A few apps that received significant updates in iOS 15. (credit: Samuel Axon) Every year, Apple releases a major update to its operating systems for the iPhone and iPad that sets the stage for a year of changes to come.  This year, iOS 15 brings new FaceTime and Messages features, tweaks to existing […]

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iOS and iPadOS 15 will feature major changes to notifications, home screen

Enlarge / The iPhone 12. (credit: Samuel Axon) Yet another report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has emerged with details of Apple’s future product plans. Citing “people with knowledge of the matter,” the article broadly describes some of the key upcoming features in iOS 15 for iPhones and iPadOS 15 for iPads. Apple is likely to […]

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LG enters fray with Google, Amazon, Roku for TV operating system dominance

LG’s 2021 OLED lineup. [credit: LG ] LG has announced that it will begin licensing its webOS TV software for use by other TV manufacturers. That will put webOS in direct competition with other platforms in use across TV brands, such as alternatives from Roku, Amazon, and Google. LG says “over 20 TV manufacturers” have […]

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MacOS 11 Big Sur starts on November 12 

[charge: Apple ] Now, Apple announced that macOS 11 Big Sur will start on all supported devices on November 12. The working system upgrade was announced in the organization’s yearly developer conference in June, also has already been working its way through different stages of beta testing as. Big Sur mostly sets the groundwork to […]