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The maelstrom of travel through LAX calms down when you walk into the Orchestrina. At the start of a 1,000-foot-long hallway connecting the Tom Bradley International terminal’s Great Hall to its west gates, the light dims to a soothing cerulean. Swells of ambient music rise to meet passengers as the moving sidewalk whisks them through the terminal.Along the way, the music shifts between 30 compositions written in a single key (C major), from well-known artists like Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh, local heroes John Carroll…

Scientists in South Korea have begun developing a room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor, if new claims are to be believed. The claim is published in a paper on the arXiv pre-publish server and has yet to be proofed and verified. Tech. Entertainment. Science. Your inbox. Sign up for the most interesting tech & entertainment news out there. By signing up, I agree to the Terms of Use and have reviewed the Privacy Notice. If it proves true, the new superconductor will literally…

Exposure to ambient air pollution, such as car exhaust, has been linked to a higher risk of developing dementia; genetics can heighten the risk. Credit: IQAirResearch reveals a link between environmental air pollution and certain dementia characteristics, like impaired verbal fluency. Possession of a particular gene variant seems to amplify and complicate this risk.An international study commissioned by the Lancet three years ago outlined 12 overall modifiable risks linked to dementia. It also identified a trio of newly…

On Global Accessibility Day Samsung released an update to the Galaxy Buds2 Pro that enabled Enhanced Ambient Sound, a feature that helps people with mild-to-moderate hearing loss. The update was rolled out in South Korea initially but is now expanding to Europe. The firmware update is version R510XXU0AWF4. Here’s the changelog: A new feature has been added to the Labs menu Added “Sharpen call sound,” which is useful in noisy places Added “Extra-high ambient volume” for “Hearing enhancements”…

Last updated: June 13th, 2023 at 14:56 UTC+02:00 Last month, on Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Samsung announced it’s been working on a firmware update to improve the Galaxy Buds 2 Pro wireless earbuds, specifically around the Ambient Sound feature. Now, Samsung appears to be rolling out a new firmware update for the Galaxy Buds 2 Pro that brings the features promised in May. The update is available for the Galaxy Buds 2 Pro in South Korea and carries firmware version R510XXU0AWF3. The machine-translated…

EVs have been found to deliver, on average, 12.5% below their advertised range, according to a study published by SAE International. Pune: Intangles Lab Pvt. Ltd., a Digital Twin solutions provider, has e launched its Ambient Cognitive AI Technology for electric vehicles (EVs). The suite of cutting-edge algorithms has been specifically developed to tackle range anxiety, one of the most significant obstacles in large-scale EV adoption for the commercial vehicle industry.…

Today Samsung has announced a very interesting new update for the Galaxy Buds2 Pro. This will be rolling out in the coming weeks, and it brings enhanced ambient sound volume for people who are hard of hearing. The Ambient Sound feature will gain two additional levels, thus now offering a total of five levels of amplification and "providing the benefit of improved hearing to even more users", according to the Korean company. The efficacy of the new Ambient Sound feature was proven through a clinical trial undertaken…

Last updated: May 16th, 2023 at 16:07 UTC+02:00 Samsung wants to enhance the Ambient Sound feature on the Galaxy Buds 2 Pro with more fine-tuning options. The company announced its plans for an upcoming software update today, on Global Accessibility Awareness Day, and detailed what new features Buds 2 Pro users can expect. Firstly, Samsung will enhance the Ambient Sound feature with two additional audio level options. Right now, the Ambient Sound feature, which amplifies external audio using the earbuds’ microphones,…

Samsung will start rolling out an update for the Galaxy Buds 2 Pro that will give users more control over how much ambient sound they want to hear. After the software updates goes out, users will find two additional levels on top of the original three for their ambient sound volume settings under the Laboratory menu of the Galaxy Wearable app. And they can customize how much ambient sound to let in for each ear, since it's possible to adjust the volume for each earbud independently.  The settings page already offers users…

After recently closing out Coachella with UK bass rollers, heady trance and comedy dubstep in his trio with Skrillex and Four Tet, Fred again..’s next move is a quite colossal dynamic shift: releasing an album of ambient songs made with Brian Eno. The pair go way back, to 2010 and Fred again..’s mid-teens, when a mutual friend invited the boy who was then just Fred Gibson to join a singing group of Eno’s. Eno is not his godfather, as has been widely rumoured, but he quickly became a mentor, bringing him on to…