Nothing’s modular CMF Headphone Pro are down to their lowest price to date
Over the past several years, Nothing’s budget-centric subsidiary, CMF, has built a reputation for producing attractive, inexpensive products with features often reserved for gadgets that cost twice the price. The CMF Headphone Pro — the company’s first pair of over-ear wireless headphones — fit precisely in that lane, especially now that they’re on sale at Amazon in both light gray and a subtle green shade for an all-time low of $69 ($30 off). CMF Headphone Pro Where to Buy: $99 $69 at Amazon (light gray) $99 $69 at Amazon (green) Although the Headphone Pro eschew the retro-transparent design found on Nothing wares like the Headphone 1, I wouldn’t necessarily say that’s a bad thing given the polarizing, squared-off design of the latter. Instead, the Pro go all in on the curves, with circular earcups, cushions, and a plush headband. You can also add an additional pop of color with CMF’s $25 interchangeable cushions, which, as of now,...
Over the past several years, Nothing’s budget-centric subsidiary, CMF, has built a reputation for producing attractive, inexpensive products with features often reserved for gadgets that cost twice the price. The CMF Headphone Pro — the company’s first pair of over-ear wireless headphones — fit precisely in that lane, especially now that they’re on sale at Amazon in both light gray and a subtle green shade for an all-time low of $69 ($30 off).
CMF Headphone Pro
Where to Buy:
$99 $69 at Amazon (light gray)
$99 $69 at Amazon (green)
Although the Headphone Pro eschew the retro-transparent design found on Nothing wares like the Headphone 1, I wouldn’t necessarily say that’s a bad thing given the polarizing, squared-off design of the latter. Instead, the Pro go all in on the curves, with circular earcups, cushions, and a plush headband. You can also add an additional pop of color with CMF’s $25 interchangeable cushions, which, as of now, are available in either orange or the aforementioned green hue.Unlike many premium pairs of noise-canceling headphones, the Pro ditch touch-capacitive controls for physical b***ons — a plus, as far as I’m concerned — allowing you to control playback, adjust the volume, and tweak a range of other settings using a customizable action b***on and a multi-function roller. Nothing also includes something called an Energy Slider, so you can adjust the treble and bass balance on the fly without digging into Nothing’s app to make EQ adjustments.The biggest draw of the Headphone Pro, aside from their adaptive ANC, is that they offer a whopping 100 hours of battery life per charge, ensuring you can travel just about anywhere without having to top them off. That number drops to 50 hours with active noise cancellation enabled; however, that’s still 10 hours more than what you’d get with a higher-end pair like Sony’s WH-1000XM6 and 20 hours more than the latest Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones. The fact that they support Google Fast Pair and the higher-quality LDAC codec is just a plus.
Other alternatives to consider
Beats Solo 4
With lossless USB-C audio, 50 hours of battery life, Find My support, spatial audio, and comfy ear cups, the Beats Solo 4 offer significant quality-of-life improvements over their predecessors. They still deliver that bass-rich Beats sound, too. Read our review.
Where to Buy:
$199.95 $129.95 at Amazon
$199.95 $129 at Walmart
$199.95 $149.99 at Best Buy
Sony WH-CH520
The Sony WH-CH520 offer a lot for very little. The on-ear Bluetooth headphones provide 50 hours of battery life and support hands-free voice a**istants, including Google a**istant and Siri. They also offer multipoint Bluetooth support and can tap into Google’s Find Hub network.
The tiny free PDF editor that changed how I edit files on Windows, Mac, and Linux
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PDF editors are often too basic to be useful or overloaded with features, pop-ups, and subscription prompts. I wanted something lightweight that could handle the everyday jobs I actually care about, whether I was on a Windows desktop, MacBook Pro, or tinkering with a Linux machine in my home lab.
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Grand Theft Auto VI exists in its own universe
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on GTA VI and the state of the video game industry, follow Andrew Webster. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it...
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on GTA VI and the state of the video game industry, follow Andrew Webster. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here.How it startedFour years ago, fans got a long-awaited look at Grand Theft Auto VI with a huge cache of videos that showed off Rockstar's latest open-world epic. There were 90 videos in total, providing a glimpse at the next-generation take on Vice City, introducing the game's new dual protagonists, and generally showing off the crime-fueled mayhem the series is known for. …Read the full story at The Verge.
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I replaced Google Photos with Immich, and my entire photo library finally stays under my control
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There's a simple question you might've asked before heading into this article. "What's actually wrong with Google Photos?" For many years, it was the storage limits that kept getting tighter, the shrinking free tiers, and the added monthly cost of paying for one subscription after another. Today, there's an even more compelling reason to leave the ad giant's ecosystem.
Michael Johnson Chicago
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I switched from a smart TV to an Android box, and I actually own my entertainment now
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Michael Johnson Chicago
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Emily Brown Houston
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Your games still stutter at 100 FPS because average frame rate hides the real problem
When I first got into PC gaming, the only performance metric I really cared about was average FPS. As someone who switched from a PS3 back then, I just wanted AAA titles to average around 50FPS on my GTX 680 at 1080p. I never even knew what 1% lows or...
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Léonie Robert France
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A supposed GTA 6 build is going around the internet, but don’t be fooled: it’s fake and full of malware
Whenever something gets a lot of attention online, scammers and malware distributors are always quick to capitalise on it. When news broke that a leaker had gotten their hands on a full, working copy of GTA 6, people started to ask questions. For instance, has the leaker uploaded the game...
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Emily Brown Houston
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I don’t pay for Perplexity or ChatGPT after combining my local LLMs with Perplexica and SearXNG
When it comes to simple inference tasks, my locally-hosted large language models are reliable enough to deliver accurate results. But everything falls apart as soon as I start prompting my LLMs about complex errors, new topics, or frequently updated information. By default, the models I run on llama.cpp can only...
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Jessie Garrett United States
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Someone wired up seven ESP32s to create a ~0.4B LLM, and so can you
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Murat Avan Turkey
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I connected a local LLM to a $30 ESP32 display, and it designs a new screen for every question I ask
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Most smart displays come with a fixed set of screens, and you get whatever the team behind the firmware happened to think of. Usually that's a clock, the weather, a calendar, and after that you're stuck with it. I've used a few of these over the years and the pattern's always the same; they're mostly cookie-cutter devices, nothing more and nothing less.
Michael Johnson Chicago
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The Asus Googlebook is reportedly going to cost ~$1,400, spelling the end for its affordable range
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