The Apple AirPods Pro are among the best pairs of true wireless earbuds you can buy right now. Which is why, when it comes to the best wireless buds on the market, the Sony WF-1000XM3 wireless earbuds currently take our top spot. AirPods Pro vs Sony WF-1000XM3: priceThe Apple AirPods Pro cost $249 / £249 / AU$399. When we compared the Apple AirPods Pro with the Apple AirPods we found there’s a lot more on offer with the Pro model, most notably noise-cancellation and active EQ. But when it comes

WhatsApp dark mode is nearly here, having now arrived for beta testing on both iOS and Android, but personally I think it could use a little tweaking, which got me thinking about dark modes in general. What makes a truly good one, and which apps get it rightGive us a choiceGoogle’s Material Design guidelines for dark themes recommend avoiding pure black as a background color to make the contrast between interface elements less stark, but many users actually prefer their apps to be as black as po

The impressive AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X, with its unprecedented 64-core count, is already setting world records not even 24 hours after its release. As Tom’s Hardware reports, pro overclockers TSAIK, Allen “Splave” Golibersuch and safedisk showed just what the Ryzen Threadripper 3990X is capable of. He paired his Ryzen Threadripper 3990X with the MSI Creator TRX40 motherboard and DDR4 RAM clocked at 1,866 MHz with 13-13-13-31 CL timings. He overclocked his chip to 5,475.43 MHz, 5,375 MHz and

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Players will want to wait until right before the Tuesday reset to pull all of their accrued Polarized Fractaline. When Empyrean Foundation first launched, players could see that the Tower Obelisk had a storage of Polarized Fractaline based on the resonance of each Obelisk around the Solar System. advertisingRELATED: Destiny 2’s Empyrean Foundation Offers Fast XP FarmHowever, there were some concerns that the Tower Obelisk’s Polarized Fractaline stash would reset on Sunday rather than the normal

The Witcher may be one of the most popular pieces of media at the moment, but the Netflix series wouldn’t have been possible without the Witcher video games that preceded it. advertisingYet anyone who has experienced both knows that The Witcher is more directly based on the books, leading to some big differences between The Witcher TV show and the games. And what I will say is that, that’s probably the biggest thing I took from the game,” she said. advertisingSpecifically, it was the beauty of t

The White House on Monday rolled out a proposed $4.8 trillion budget that earmarked $1 billion toward increasing affordable child care options for American families. But amid the cuts, the Trump administration included a one-time, $1 billion investment to build out a more robust supply of child care options, including programs sponsored by employers. Spending $1 billion on child care may sound like a lot, but it’s only about a 4.5% increase in federal funding. His 2020 budget earmarked $1 billio

A U.S. judge on Monday rejected a request by Uber and courier services provider Postmates to block a California labor law from taking effect, saying the bill’s public benefits outweighed the companies’ concerns. The 24-page decision is a blow to the employers of the so-called gig economy which had hoped to stop a bill that will make it harder for them to classify their workers as independent contractors rather than employees. Gee did not rule on the merits of the case and her decision does not s

MonzoTom Blomfield doesn’t think big banks will ever undergo a digital transformation. The British fintech entrepreneur says banking behemoths like Barclays and HSBC are saddled with outdated technology and a risk-averse culture to respond to the challenge that upstarts like his digital bank, Monzo, present. “The banks really focus very hard on their existing set of financial products,” Blomfield, co-founder and CEO of Monzo, said in an interview. RBS for example recently introduced a standalone

Google human resources chief Eileen Naughton is stepping down from her role amid growing tensions between employees and management. Naughton, who has held various roles at the company since 2006, has led the company’s human resources department as the vice president of people operations since 2016. In November 2019, the company fired four employees who allegedly shared internal information. CNBC recently reported that in 2019, the company rolled out an overhaul to how its human resources departm

The outbreak of the coronavirus is a “true black swan” for the oil and energy market, and as crude prices continue to move lower the worst may not be over yet, Ned David Research said in a note to clients Monday. Analyst Warren Pies noted that the outbreak has reduced Chinese demand for oil by 2 million to 3 million barrels per day, which means “the oil market is looking down the barrel at no demand growth for the calendar year, and outright demand contraction is now on the table.” At the end of

Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg is seeing increased support from business leaders as he jumps in the polls following a successful showing in the Iowa caucuses. In the wake of Buttigieg’s success in Iowa, the campaign announced it raised more than $2.7 million and attracted more than 22,000 new donors. The Iowa Democratic Party allocated the most delegates to Buttigieg in the wake of their caucus debacle last week. Through conversations with Buttigieg’s campaign and his allies, i

The company reported a fourth-quarter profit of 35 cents a share, while analysts expected earnings of 29 cents per share, according to Refinitiv. Slack – The instant messaging app’s stock dropped 8% in extended trading after the company filed an 8-K Monday downplaying a news report that sent its stock surging more than 15%. Moderna – Shares of the biotechnology company fell more than 6% in extended trading after the company announced a proposed $500 million public offering of common stock. The c

Tesla shares initially popped more than 9.5% earlier in the session before receding. Market commentators, still baffled by Tesla’s recent moves, largely saw the action as part of a broader trend higher for the surging stock. I can’t imagine owning the stock right now just because what do you [do]? They have better battery technology right now, better battery pack technology, all the way up to the way that they control the battery pack, and it’s a significant lead. … Tesla has reached scale in a

President Trump speaks during an event at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020. Most recently, electric vehicle startup Lordstown Motors, which purchased GM’s shuttered Lordstown Assembly plant in Ohio, was in discussion with government leaders about a loan from the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program. Lordstown Motors, in an emailed statement on Monday to CNBC, said it had not yet applied for the loan. A spokesperson for the federal program, which a

The Department of Transportation’s watchdog on Monday said it will review federal pilot training requirements, a move that comes after two fatal crashes of Boeing’s 737 Max raised questions about increasing automation in aircraft. “These fatal accidents have drawn widespread attention to FAA’s oversight and certification practices, including the Agency’s process for establishing pilot training requirements for the aircraft,” the department’s Office of Inspector General said in a statement. The o

The leader of the United States Space Force on Monday confirmed reports that a pair of Russian spacecraft have come very close to a U.S. spy satellite, saying that foreign satellites are showing “unusual and disturbing behavior.” “Last November the Russian government launched a satellite that subsequently released a second satellite. But, two weeks after launch, the Russian satellite split into two different objects. By the middle of January, Kosmos 2542 and Kosmos 2543 had moved in orbit and we

Former advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, Roger Stone, leaves the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse after being found guilty of obstructing a congressional investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election on November 15, 2019 in Washington, DC. Federal prosecutors told a judge Monday that Roger Stone, an ally of President Donald Trump and longtime Republican political operative, deserves a criminal sentence in the range of 7-1/4 to 9 years in prison, according to a

Chief executives of companies in the S&P 500 combined to spend at least $2 million on political causes in the fourth quarter of 2019, helping both Democrats and Republicans, according to a CNBC analysis of data provided by the Center for Responsive Politics. The two biggest contributors, Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett and Netflix’s Reed Hastings, gave to groups looking to elect Democrats in Congress this year. Buffett contributed just more than $245,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campa