Hands-on: How the new Lightning EarPods compare to the old 3.5mm EarPods [Video] and other top stories.

• Hands-on: How the new Lightning EarPods compare to the old 3.5mm EarPods [Video]

  

  It’s going on two weeks since the iPhone 7 first went on sale, which means that many of us have had time to sit back and digest the experience. We covered the iPhone 7 via an unboxing video with a glance at some of the device’s top features, but now we’ll take a closer look at the new Lightning EarPods versus the old EarPods with 3.5mm headphone jack. Sound Quality If you’ve ever used EarPods, you’ll know exactly what to expect with the new Lightning EarPods. Sound quality is the same on the ..

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• Google announces Neural Machine Translation to improve Google Translate

  

  Google has announced a neural machine translation (NMT) system that it says will reduce translation errors across its Google Translate service by between 55 percent and 85 percent, calling the achievement by its team of scientists a "significant milestone".Announced on the 10-year anniversary of Google Translate, Google Brain Team research scientists Quoc Le and Mike Schuster said Google has used machine intelligence to improve its image and speech-recognition systems, but had previously found ..

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• Why Xiaomi's new handsets won't give it an edge in the smartphone market

  

  The stand-out feature introduced was the ultrasonic fingerprint sensing technology, which Xiaomi said could read a user's fingerprint using ultrasonic waves when the user placed a finger on the sensor. This allowed Xiaomi to put their fingerprint sensor under the top glass of the phones, which eliminated the need for a ridge button or touch pad that is common in other handsets including the Samsung Galaxy S7. "In theory, this would be more accurate since dirt will not affect the finger pri..

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• Google's iOS app now lets you lock incognito searches behind Touch ID

  

  Google will now let you privately search the web in its core app on iOS. The ability to search in incognito mode is being added in an update to the Google app that's coming out today. But the more interesting part of the update isn't incognito mode on its own — private searches are already available in both Chrome and Safari, so that's nothing new — it's how Google is making them even more secure. Google will let you lock up private searches using Touch ID, so that if someone else is holding yo..

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• Your Amazon Echo can now teach you a thing or two about whisky

  

  One of the best parts of owning an Amazon Echo is watching its virtual voice assistant, Alexa, mature with age. In the past year alone it's learned what time restaurants close thanks to Yelp integration and can tap into Audible to read you a bedtime story. But Alexa's latest leap forward – well, more of a stumble really – is something a little kid-friendly: Johnnie Walker Blended Scotch Whisky has teamed up with Amazon to develop a skill that will teach you about 150 years of whisky in a matter..

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• SpaceX's Elon Musk Unveils Interplanetary Spaceship to Colonize Mars

  

  Now we know how Elon Musk plans to get 1 million people to Mars. At a conference in Mexico today (Sept. 27), the SpaceX founder and CEO unveiled the company's Interplanetary Transport System (ITS), which will combine the most powerful rocket ever built with a spaceship designed to carry at least 100 people to the Red Planet per flight. If all goes according to plan, the reusable ITS will help humanity establish a permanent, self-sustaining colony on the Red Planet within the next 50 ..

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• $999 DJI Mavic Pro Foldable Camera Compresses To The Size Of A Water Bottle Without Compromising Power ...

  

  The DJI Mavic Pro camera drone is finally official, and it packs high performance in an ultra-portable, foldable body that fits in the palm of your hand. Despite its greatly compact body, the DJI Mavic Pro packs plenty of DJI prowess, from the ease-of-use to the top-end performance of the Phantom 4. In fact, it may even be better than DJI's larger drones in some areas, such as live streaming video from up to 4.3 miles away. The top-notch DJI Phantom 4, for instance, maxes out at 3.2 miles. The ..

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• BlackBerry DTEK60 Pays A Visit To FCC's Website: Company's Third Android-Powered Smartphone To Be Unveiled ...

  

  BlackBerry's successor to the Android-powered DTEK50, called the DTEK60, recently showed up in a filing with the Federal Communications Commission, suggesting that the smartphone's unveiling is imminent. A recent leak previously foretold features of BlackBerry's newest Android smartphone, which is said to be powered by the Snapdragon 820 processor, loaded with a fingerprint scanner, among other things. Now, the device has been certified by both FCC and Wi-Fi Alliance. The device sprang up on th..

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