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Bowers and Wilkins’ excellent sounding PX7 S2e headphones are $120 off

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Antonio G. Di Benedetto
A pair of green Bowers and Wilkins PX7 S2e headphones on a wood table beside a phone and coffee.
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge

We’re flush with great options for noise-canceling headphones that sound good, but if you care most about sound quality (without spending pricey audiophile money) a great choice is the Bowers and Wilkins PX7 S2e — which are on sale for $279 ($120 off) in all five color options at Amazon, Best Buy, and direct from Bowers and Wilkins.

The PX7 S2e may not have the most charming sounding name, but they do have a clean design and warm, detailed sound that even competes with the much pricier AirPods Max. In addition to sounding excellent and offering niceties like a transparency mode, they favor proper physical buttons and a proper on / off switch over the touch controls found on some other headphones like Sony’s WH-1000XM5. Their 30 hours of...

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Apple updates the MacBook Pro with M4 Pro and M4 Max chips

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Antonio G. Di Benedetto
A render of a front-facing 14-inch M4-generation MacBook Pro and rear-facing 16-inch M4-generation MacBook Pro behind it.
They look a whole lot like last year’s models, even down to the wallpaper choice. | Image: Apple

Apple is updating the MacBook Pro and introducing some even more powerful chips. Announced this morning via a low-key press release, the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros are being updated to the M4 line of processors, which now includes the M4 Pro chip that debuted yesterday in the Mac Mini and a new, even higher-end M4 Max. The entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro is also getting a small design upgrade in the form of an extra USB-C / Thunderbolt 4 port on the right-hand side and a space black option to match its more premium brethren.

Like previous models, the M4 Pro-equipped laptops will start at $1,999 for the 14-inch and $2,499 for the 16-inch, but both are getting an upgrade from 18GB of base RAM to 24GB. The basic 14-inch M4 MacBook Pro...

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Animal Crossing mobile is getting its new, paid app in December

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Antonio G. Di Benedetto
A phone on a table playing Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp.
It’s all smiles until your campsite’s owner doesn’t transfer you over and you get deleted. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

The final, microtransaction-free version of Animal Crossing mobile is coming to iOS and Android on December 3rd. Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete is set to replace the existing “free-to-start” version of Pocket Camp that first launched in 2017. The complete version will cost $9.99 in the US at first, but once January 30th at 10PM PT rolls around it will cost twice as much at $19.99.

Existing Pocket Camp players who want to port their game data over will have until June 1st, 2025 to do so, via a linked Nintendo account. The original app’s service will cease on November 28th at 7AM PT, so it seems anyone on the fence needs to have their save data linked and prepped for transfer before that. Nintendo has spelled out some of these...

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