Published on: 2025-06-04 17:31:54
Apple has been on an impressive streak with updates for its three-year-old AirPods Pro 2. You’d have a hard time finding another set of earbuds that’s received so many new features entirely via software. Among the most recent additions, Hearing Protection stands out as AirPods Pro’s most ahead-of-its-time feature yet. AirPods can now prevent hearing loss without you even knowing Last fall, Apple introduced a trio of new AirPods Pro 2 features that were exclusive to the years-old hardware. Hea
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 05:57:00
ZDNET's key takeaways The Nuance Audio hearing glasses are available in two styles and colors for $1,200 at participating retailers. They provide a stylish and discreet way to aid mild to moderate hearing loss. However, they provide six to eight hours of battery life and a three-hour charging period, which might frustrate power users. View now at Nuance Audio Since the US Food and Drug Administration approved a category of hearing aids that can be sold to consumers without a doctor's prescrip
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With last year’s release of iOS 18, AirPods Pro got even better. Apple added new gestures, improvements to gaming support, and more. Head below for a recap of each of these features and details on how to use each of them. New AirPods features: Head Gestures Available on AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 With iOS 18, AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 users can interact with Siri and incoming notifications by nodding their heads up or down. Accept a call or reply to notifications and messages: Nod your he
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 09:00:00
It’s been more than two years since Eargo last updated its hearing aid hardware, and that’s not a slight: Eargo makes some fine products that have successfully stood the test of time. Upgrades for the sake of upgrades are never a good idea. But the hearing aid world of today is in flux, and it’s beginning to diverge from the way it looked back in 2023. Not only is technology changing, but so is the business landscape. Namely, Eargo recently merged with hearX (maker of the Lexie brand hearing ai
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Hearing loss is common, and there’s a good chance it will impact you or someone close to you in your lifetime. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, 13 percent of adults in the US have some difficulty hearing, and it’s a growing problem around the globe. The World Health Organization predicts that one in four people will have some degree of hearing loss by 2050. Whether you struggle to hear the doorbell or frequently find yourself cranking the TV volume up, you likely have a d
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-20 09:00:00
Here’s the dirty secret about hearing aids. Millions of people need them. Most don’t wear them. Why? Because they hate having shit in their ears. Pardon my French. I often feel the same way. I have mild but measurable hearing loss, and I love the benefit that high-quality hearing aids provide me. But I don’t often wear hearing aids in my daily life when I'm not testing products for the same reasons as everyone else. I hate putting them in, taking them out, having them in for hours at a time—the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-11 07:47:00
CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review products and services. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. It's probably been a long time since you had your hearing checked, if you've had it checked at all. It's easy to take your hearing for granted, and while it's normal for your hearing to change as you get older, it's still important to monitor it. Leaving hearing loss untreated can definitely make matters worse, but unfortunately,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-01 20:00:37
Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . You don’t need a set of AirPods to get wireless audio from your iPhone, iPad or Mac, but Apple’s earbuds and headphones offer a lot of convenient integrations with its other products that you won’t find anywhere else. After helping popularize true wireless earbuds with its original Air
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-03 21:34:08
The UK won’t be able to keep its fight with Apple over end-to-end encryption secret after all. As reported by the BBC, tribunal judges on Monday rejected the government’s request to keep details of the battle private, saying: “It would have been a truly extraordinary step to conduct a hearing entirely in secret without any public revelation of the fact that a hearing was taking place.” The story started in February, when the UK government secretly ordered Apple to create a backdoor into iCloud
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-09 12:28:00
While it's relatively normal for your hearing to fade as you age, it's still important to get it checked out. Leaving hearing loss untreated can exacerbate the problem, but you wouldn't be alone if you did it. The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders reports that less than 30% of US adults aged 70 or older with hearing loss use a hearing aid to correct it. Notably, that number falls to just 16% of adults in the 20 to 69 age range. The first step to dealing with hearin
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Art by Michael Zhang Apple has a strong culture of secrecy, so when it shares details about its behind-the-scenes projects and processes, it’s a special treat. Today the Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast has published one such treat. The latest episode features Apple staffers going in-depth on the company’s Accessibility and Health work, including AI and research developments that have powered recent features for AirPods Pro, Apple Watch, and more. Deep dive podcast features new Apple interviews o
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Columbia University student Roy Lee says he’s been suspended after he built an AI program that helped him pass the brutal technical interviews for Meta, Facebook, Amazon, and TikTok. “I just got kicked out of Columbia for taking a stand against Leetcode interviews,” Lee said in a March 26 post on LinkedIn. I spoke with Lee earlier this month after his story went viral on social media. Lee is, or was, a sophomore at Columbia who had an eye towards graduating in 2026. As a computer science whiz,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-23 00:44:02
Apple last year introduced new hearing health features for its AirPods Pro 2 wireless earbuds. Since the features require approval from health regulators, they’ve been rolled out region by region. Starting today, these features are now available to AirPods users in four additional countries. Apple expands AirPods Pro 2 hearing health features to more countries As confirmed by Apple, the AirPods Pro 2 hearing health features are now available to users in Australia, Brazil, Colombia, and Saudi A
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How much money should you expect to spend on a hearing aid? The answer depends primarily on whether you’re looking into over-the-counter or prescription hearing aids. Unsurprisingly, the latter is a wallet guzzler, with average costs between $2,000 to $8,000. But OTCs can ring up quite a tab in their own right, and our most highly rated devices will still run you about $800 to $2,000 a pair. So far, we haven’t found an OTC device under this $800 price that is truly effective at treating hearing
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-06 23:59:00
Experiencing some degree of hearing loss is common as we age, but its effects take hold so gradually that it often goes untreated. The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders reports that less than 30% of US adults aged 70 or older with hearing loss use a hearing aid to correct it. Perhaps surprisingly, for adults in the 20 to 69 age range, that number falls to just 16% of people. The first part of dealing with failing hearing is to know what you're working with, and tha
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A secret court hearing on iCloud encryption began on Friday, amid calls in both the UK and US to make the proceedings public. The British government is demanding that Apple create backdoor access, not just for the personal data of British citizens, but for all iCloud users worldwide … The British government’s worldwide attack on ADP By default, some iCloud data uses weak encryption – where Apple holds a copy of the key, and can be required to share data with governments on receipt of a court
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-07 23:28:05
Jada Jones/ZDNET Bluetooth Auracast is a Bluetooth feature that allows devices like smartphones, TVs, or public announcement systems to broadcast audio to unlimited audio receivers, such as hearing aids. Also: Turn your AirPods Pro 2 into hearing aids Last week, Google announced Android support for Auracast, and users with Auracast-supported smartphones can use them to connect their compatible earbuds or hearing aids to broadcasts via Bluetooth. Android phones that support Auracast In a pre
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Apple encrypted data row hearing begins in secret 1 day ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman & Tom Gerken Technology editor & reporter Share Save Getty Images Apple's encrypted data case against the UK government has begun in secret at the Royal Courts of Justice. The Home Office has demanded the right to access data from Apple users that have turned on Advanced Data Protection (ADP), a tool that prevents anyone other than the user - including the tech giant - from reading their files. Apple says it i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-10 12:14:02
AirPods are arguably Apple's most popular post-iPhone product, and it sounds like the company has plans to make them even more essential. Bloomberg reports that Apple is adding a live-translate feature to AirPods later this year as part of an upcoming software update. The feature sounds like it would work in a similar way to the translation feature on the Pixel Buds, only without the need to ask Google Assistant or in this case, Siri, to start listening for a specific language first. Apple's fe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-10 12:07:40
Google announced on Thursday that Android phones will soon support Auracast, a new Bluetooth technology that uses a phone to enable a direct connection from hearing aids to audio broadcasts in noisy environments. With Auracast, compatible hearing aids and earbuds can receive direct audio streams, such as a PA system at a train station or an audio broadcast at a concert. Google notes that hearing aid presets can be applied to these broadcasts, which means users can personalize streams to their h
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-10 20:16:00
Jada Jones/ZDNET Bluetooth Auracast is a Bluetooth feature that allows devices like smartphones, TVs, or public announcement systems to broadcast audio to unlimited audio receivers, such as hearing aids. Also: Turn your AirPods Pro 2 into hearing aids Today, Google announced Android support for Auracast, and users with Auracast-supported smartphones can use them to connect their compatible earbuds or hearing aids to broadcasts via Bluetooth. Android phones that support Auracast In a press r
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-11 00:00:34
Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Google is adding Auracast support to Android. Users will be able to connect directly from hearing aids to audio broadcasts. Pixel 9 devices will be able to connect to broadcasts through QR codes. During Samsung’s Unpacked event back in January, it was announced that Galaxy S25 devices would get LE Audio compatibility. LE Audio is a type of Bluetooth that enables low-energy connections and brings support for things like Auracast and hearing aids. Althou
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-11 00:00:50
Google is updating Android to support Auracast, a Bluetooth LE technology that makes it possible to create, listen to and switch between public broadcasts of Bluetooth audio on the devices you already own. At its simplest, Auracast could let you to tune your Bluetooth earbuds to a muted TV in a public space and hear its audio. For Google, though, it sounds like the company is primarily interested in using the feature to make hearing aids even more helpful. Google plans to use Auracast as a way
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-11 00:00:19
Jada Jones/ZDNET Bluetooth Auracast is a Bluetooth feature that allows devices like smartphones, TVs, or public announcement systems to broadcast audio to unlimited audio receivers, such as hearing aids. Also: Turn your AirPods Pro 2 into hearing aids Today, Google announced Android support for Auracast, and users with Auracast-supported smartphones can use them to connect their compatible earbuds or hearing aids to broadcasts via Bluetooth. Android phones that support Auracast In a press r
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-11 00:00:00
Google's adding Auracast support as part of an Android update announced Thursday, which will allow anyone who uses hearing aids to directly connect to audio streams in public venues. Auracast is a Bluetooth feature that lets venues create a broadcast network that hearing aids can tap into. This can be especially useful in noisy environments like concerts or train stations, where it can be hard to decipher audio coming from speakers. The update allows Android phones to link LE Audio-compatible
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-14 00:48:38
Secret hearing on Friday in Apple and UK government data row 13 minutes ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman & Liv McMahon Technology editor & reporter Share Save Getty Images Apple's appeal against a UK government demand to be able to access its customers' most highly encrypted data is set to be considered at a secret hearing at the High Court on Friday, the BBC understands. It is due to be considered by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal - an independent court which has the power to investigate claim
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-21 10:58:04
According to the CDC, 48 million people in the US have trouble hearing with one or both of their ears. This doesn't just affect older adults -- the CDC also reports that five in 10 young people listen to their music or other audio too loudly, and 4 in 10 young people are around dangerously loud noises during events like concerts and sports games. To pay closer attention to our hearing health and learn more about what we can do to protect it, we wellness editors decided to take Apple's Hearing T
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OTC hearing aids can be a budget-friendly alternative for mild to moderate hearing loss. OTC hearing aids have only been available for a few years in the US. These devices offer a range of features like volume control and app support. To find the best over-the-counter hearing aids, I tested top brands across in-ear, over-the-ear and in-canal styles. With input from my dad and grandfather -- both at different stages of hearing loss -- I evaluated comfort, setup and sound quality. Below, you’ll fi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-07 21:38:17
A new Bluetooth-compatible hearing aid could help those with hearing loss listen more clearly -- and for a bit longer -- than with their current hearing device. On Monday, hearing aid maker Signia unveiled the Signia Pure Charge & Go BCT IX, which boasts a battery life of up to 36 hours, including five hours of streaming, on a single charge. Signia claims this is the longest battery life of any Bluetooth Classic-compatible hearing aid. Also: How to use the AirPods Pro as hearing aids Bluetoot
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-07 14:32:57
As previously reported in January, the AirPods Pro 2 can now be used as hearing aids in the United Kingdom, having now received government approval for over-the-counter hearing aid devices. AirPods Pro 2 can address mild to moderate hearing loss. With an iPhone and AirPods Pro, users can perform a hearing test, and apply their hearing profile to their earbuds for continuous hearing correction. This functionality is all available as a free software update. In a statement, Apple says it is delig
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