Gear News of the Week: Nothing’s Latest Earbuds, Amazon’s Hardware Event, and a New Free VPN

Nothing has a caller brace of earbuds for you: nan Ear 3. These AirPods-style buds costs $179 and are disposable now, pursuing nan Nothing Phone (3) and Headphone (1) nan institution released this summer. While they stock nan stem creation artistic of Apple's celebrated earbuds, nan blend of aluminum and integrative judge makes them look unique.

The cardinal characteristic successful nan noise-canceling earbuds is called Super Mic. Except it's not successful nan earbuds astatine all—there are 2 microphones successful nan charging case. It supposedly cuts inheritance noise, and you tin talk into it by pressing nan Talk fastener connected nan case, for illustration a walkie-talkie. A double-press keeps nan mic connected continuously. (Keep an oculus retired for free Nothing earbuds lawsuit merchandise placement successful influencer videos soon.)

The earbuds still characteristic a three-mic array, but utilizing nan Super Mic successful nan lawsuit should heighten your voice. Naturally, you tin besides usage it to grounds sound memos, which are saved successful nan company's Essential Space app connected its phones.

These flagship Ear 3 earbuds besides characteristic improved sound canceling, enhanced audio quality, a stronger awesome connection, and longer artillery life—5.5 hours pinch sound canceling enabled and 10 hours pinch it turned off. We'll beryllium giving them a rotation soon, truthful enactment tuned for our review.

Amazon’s Fall Hardware Event Is Coming

It’s that clip of twelvemonth again. Not Halloween season, but autumn gadget season. Apple kicked things disconnected earlier this month, Meta unveiled caller smart glasses this week, and now Amazon will adjacent nan period pinch its ain hardware event. The institution sent retired property invites this week for an arena connected September 30 successful New York City.

If nan creation connected nan invitation is thing to spell by, we tin expect caller Echo speakers, potentially a caller colour Kindle, and a Fire TV Smart TV. There are a fewer bluish rings that are nan hallmarks of an Echo, which whitethorn mean we'll yet get a timeline for when Amazon's souped-up Alexa+ will exit early entree and officially rotation out.

The different intriguing summation is nan photograph of a Kindle pinch a colour screen. Amazon just announced new Colorsoft Kindles earlier successful July, and it's a small excessively soon to spot yet different Colorsoft. It's astir apt a colour type of nan Kindle Scribe, conscionable successful clip to compete pinch ReMarkable's caller Paper Pro Move. We’ll beryllium connected nan crushed connected September 30 to relay nan details. —Nena Farrell

ExpressVPN Debuts a Free VPN

ExpressVPN precocious changed its subscription tiers, and now it has thing other cooking: EventVPN. It's a free VPN work disposable connected Apple devices, including iOS and macOS. What makes it different? There isn't a paid plan. EventVPN runs exclusively disconnected ads.

Ads and online privateness are fundamentally lipid and water, but EventVPN claims it has an advertisement exemplary that will let it to enactment afloat without compromising personification privacy. It's besides operating wholly connected RAM-based servers, which intends that, moreover if it wanted to log your data, it would vanish nan infinitesimal it's flushed from memory.