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The Verge Tech22 May 2026

Anker’s new earbuds are the first with its AI chip that boosts noise reduction

The Liberty 5 Pro Max feature a larger touchscreen with more controls and the ability to record meetings without a phone. | Image: Anker Anker has announced a new version of its Soundcore Liberty Pro earbuds: the new Liberty 5 Pro. These are the company's first earbuds featuring the Thus AI audio chip Anker announced last month, here being used to bolster noise reduction capabilities and help ensure the user's voice can be clearly heard during calls, even in noisy environments. They're the fir

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The Verge Tech22 May 2026

Anker’s new earbuds have the best call quality I’ve ever heard

The Liberty 5 Pro series are Soundcore’s most ambitious earbuds yet. Soundcore, Anker's audio brand, has mostly lived in the budget-to-midrange world, but with its new Liberty 5 Pro earbuds, it's aiming at the big guys. The two new earbuds - the Liberty 5 Pro and Liberty 5 Pro Max - use Anker's new Thus chip, which has more processing power than previous Soundcore earbuds to try and compete with the chips found in Apple, Sony, and Bose products. And that extra processing power gives the Libert

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DEV Community22 May 2026

Building Calendar ToDo: Turning Calendar Events into a Done List with SwiftUI and EventKit

Sometimes I want to look back at my calendar and know not only what I planned, but what I actually did. For example: Did I finish my study session? Did I actually go to the gym? Which scheduled tasks did I complete this week? What kind of rhythm do I have in my daily schedule? Calendar apps are great for managing future plans. But I felt they were not very good at showing whether those plans were actually completed. So I started building an iOS app called Calendar ToDo. It is an app that lets y

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Hacker News22 May 2026

Are we self-sovereign PKI yet?

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The Verge Tech22 May 2026

States ask judge to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster

A federal judge is officially being tasked with deciding whether to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster. More than 30 states are asking Judge Arun Subramanian to order a sale of the ticketing giant, a "sufficient number" of large amphitheaters, and limit its ability to tie access to its remaining amps to the use of its promotions services. In April, a jury found that the company is an illegal monopolist, after more than a month of trial. The initial remedies proposal doesn't include a further bre

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Ars Technica22 May 2026