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The Shokz OpenRun Pro 2 are now at their lowest price in months

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The Shokz OpenRun Pro 2 deliver good bass for a pair of bone conduction headphones. | Image: The Verge As the days get warmer, it’s tempting to take your workouts outside. Bone conduction headphones let you listen while staying aware of your surroundings, making them ideal for runs, walks, and more. Through April 7th, Shokz is discounting several models during its spring sale , from the Shokz OpenFit Air Earbuds to the OpenDots One clip . The best deal, however, is on the Shokz OpenRun Pro 2 , which are on sale for $139.99 ($40 off) at Amazon , Best Buy , and directly from Shokz . That’s their best price since December and $15 shy of their all-time low. Shokz OpenRun Pro 2 Where to Buy: $179.95 $139.95 at Amazon $179.95 $139.99 at REI $179.95 $139.99 at Best Buy The OpenRun Pro 2 are Shokz’s best bone conduction headphones yet, addressing a long standing problem with the category: bass. The running-safe open-ear design often comes at the expense of clarity. The OpenRu...

I tested a living room full of cheap Ikea speakers against Sonos and Bose

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Ikea's $10 Kallsup Bluetooth speaker is fun and colorful and sounds better than its price suggests. It's not mind-blowing (it is a $10 speaker, after all), and there are no features to speak of, other than the ability to connect up to 100 of them together, but at that price, I don't really care. They're a quick addition if I need a bit more color and sound on my desk or in my son's room. The Kallsup is about as simple as a Bluetooth speaker can get. It's a 2.75-inch plastic cube enclosure with four short feet on the bottom and a single speaker inside, and it's available in pink, white, and yellow green. There are two buttons and a small LED … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/tech/904822/ikea-kallsup-bluetooth-speaker-review

Snapchat’s ‘Reals’ joke mocks Instagram’s many ripoffs

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It's April Fools' Day, and Snap is using the occasion to "announce" that it's switching the name of Snapchat's Spotlight feed, the app's Instagram Reels-like feed of shortform vertical videos, to "Reals." In a video featuring co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel, Snap also includes a description of "Reals" as a place where "real people share real moments. Really." Spiegel adds that "People feel free to be their full selves and to keep it Real on Snapchat" (In the video's captions, Snap capitalized "Real"). Spiegel also used the video to remind users about its ephemeral Stories format - which, like TikTok's vertical video feed , Instagram ripped … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/tech/905272/snapchat-reals-spotlight-instagram-feed-april-fools-day-2026

The Trump administration’s antitrust honeymoon is over

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"It's not personal, Sonny, it's strictly business." That quote was first delivered by mob boss Michael Corleone in The Godfather , but last Monday, it became the title of a speech by the Justice Department's acting antitrust chief Omeed Assefi. At a George Washington University event co-hosted with the publication MLex , Assefi described an agency firing on all cylinders, standing strong against bad corporate actors when warranted, but being open to reasonable negotiation to reach the strongest possible result. Implicitly, Assefi was responding to months of complaints that his agency was bowing to corporate lobbyists and striking weak settle … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/policy/905222/antitrust-trump-tech-live-nation