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Samsung is giving you one last chance to grab the Galaxy Buds Pro at a discount from Amazon before the year ends. The earbuds, which we called Samsung’s best ones yet when we reviewed them in January, are currently available for $125. That’s $75 less than their original retail price of $200 and only $5 more than their all-time low on Amazon-owned Woot. The main Amazon website has return policies Woot doesn’t offer — plus, the model isn’t available right now on the deals site anyway. 

Buy Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro at Amazon – $125

We have the Galaxy Buds Pro a score of 85 in our review and praised them for their comfortable fit, thanks to Samsung combining the Live’s curves with the original Buds’ small form factor. The company said the model has “the most comprehensive sound” among its true wireless earbuds, and we did find its sound to have real depth and solid clarity. The buds have active noise cancellation and their ear tips are effective enough in sealing off the ear canal to block out constant background noise. Further, the model uses Dolby Head Tracking tech to create more immersive sound with Dolby Atmos content, so long as it’s paired with a Galaxy device that supports the feature. 

We also found voice calls to have better quality than other models due to the buds’ three microphones and Wind Shield technology. When it comes to battery life, we found that it matches the company’s estimates of five hours with ANC and Bixby and eight hours without them. 

All the colors of the Galaxy Bud Pro are on sale at the moment, so you can choose between White, Phantom Black, Phantom Silver and Phantom Violet.

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LG Display has unveiled its next generation of OLED tech, called “OLED EX,” that’s supposed to “enhance brightness up to 30 percent compared to conventional OLED displays,” the company said. That could help fix OLED’s biggest flaw next to mini LED technology, namely a lack of overall brightness. 

As LG Display points out, each OLED pixel emits light independently, meaning it can be fully on or off. That allows TVs to show perfect blacks with no “blooming” seen on LED TVs, but at the same time, OLED pixels can’t hit the same brightness levels as LEDS. Current OLED sets can display peak brightness levels up to around 500-600 nits, while mini LED sets can hit 2,000 nits and higher.

LG Display

To make OLED sets brighter, OLED EX (Evolution/eXperience) uses deuterium compounds to allow the light-emitting diodes to emit stronger light. “When stabilized, the deuterium compounds allow the display to emit brighter light while maintaining high efficiency for a long time,” LG Display said. 

OLED EX also allows for improved color accuracy. It apparently uses algorithms to predict the usage of 33 million OLED diodes in an 8K display, so it “precisely controls the display’s energy input to more accurately express the details and colors of the video content being played.” 

The company also upgraded its designs, reducing thickness by 30 percent and bezel size from 6 to 4 mm on 65-inch OLED displays. The company didn’t say yet when it plans to bring the technology to market, but it noted that OLED sales increased 70 percent last year despite a 12 percent decline in the global TV market. “With our new OLED EX technology, we aim to provide even more innovative, high-end customer experiences through the evolution of our OLED technology, algorithms and designs,” said LG Display’s Dr. Oh Chang-ho. 

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Earlier this year, Apple announced that they would be launching lossless streaming to Apple Music where it would be available to all subscribers at no extra cost. The company initially launched the feature with 20 million songs that supported the new streaming format, and stated that they are aiming to cover its entire catalogue by the end of the year.

Now according to 9to5Mac, it appears that the company has managed to achieve its goal. While there was nothing officially announced by Apple, the publication notes that pretty much every song and artist and album they searched for appeared to be lossless, suggesting that Apple had indeed hit its goal.

For those unfamiliar, lossless audio formats are where the music isn’t as compressed compared to traditional digital music formats. This means that in theory, the quality will be better, but of course if you’re listening to it on a pair of cheap $5 earphones, you probably wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.

In addition to lossless, Apple also offers a higher tier in the form of Hi-Res Lossless which will require that users have a DAC in order to fully take advantage of it. Keep in mind that lossless streaming will consume more data compared to regular streaming, so if you’re streaming over cellular, you could burn through your data cap faster than normal.

Apple Music’s Entire Catalogue Appears To Have Fully Transitioned To Lossless

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For years, DSLR cameras would be the camera of choice amongst professionals. However, the problem with DSLRs isn’t the quality of the images they take, but rather how big and bulky they are. That’s where mirrorless cameras come in, where they not only offered up similar quality, if not better, but in a much smaller package.

For a while, both DSLR cameras and mirrorless cameras existed side-by-side, but that will change soon, at least as far as Canon is concerned. This is according to a report from Yomiuri Shimbun who spoke to Canon Chairman and CEO Fujio Mitarai, where he revealed that Canon will soon stop producing flagship DSLRs. In fact, the company’s current Canon 1D X Mark III will be the company’s last flagship model.

According to Mitarai, “The market needs are acceleratingly shifting to mirrorless cameras. In line with this, we are steadily shifting people.” The company confirmed Mitarai’s statement with a statement of their own made to PetaPixel where they said, “As reported in the article, we plan to make future flagship models strictly mirrorless cameras. Naturally, we are considering an RF mount camera as our next flagship model.”

Canon has had a bit of a rocky start in the mirrorless market, but in recent years they made pretty good progress with its RF-mount cameras.

Canon’s 1D X Mark III Will Be The Company’s Last Flagship DSLR

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