These boxes will send Dolby Atmos through your home’s power lines

Side-by-side images showing Fasetto’s sound over power lines transmitter and receivers.
Fasetto’s Audio Cu sends audio signals to surround sound speakers over a home’s existing power lines. | Image: Fasetto

Fasetto has announced that its Audio Cu system, which connects TVs and other audio devices to speakers and subwoofers using the existing power line wiring in a home, has received Dolby Atmos Product Certification from Dolby Laboratories.

Similar to powerline networking solutions that can leverage existing electrical wiring to share internet around a home, Fasetto’s Audio Cu is an alternative to having to snake audio cables through a wall or attempt to camouflage wires connecting speakers to an audio source under rugs and furniture. It’s also an alternative to wireless solutions like Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, which have their own challenges and compromises, including added latency, audio compression, and signal reliability.

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Author: Andrew Liszewski

YouTube TV may soon let you keep listening even when you can’t watch

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

You may soon be able to keep listening to your TV shows on YouTube TV even if you can’t watch them. Google appears to be finally bringing background playback to its YouTube TV streaming service. The company confirmed to The Verge that it’s “experimenting” with enabling YouTube TV playback after a phone is locked.

As reported by 9to5Google, the feature was spotted a couple of weeks ago by Reddit users who found they could continue listening to YouTube TV audio even after sending the video app to the background on their mobile devices.

Background playback lets you keep listening to your content when your phone’s screen is off or locked. So, you can still listen to the audio even if you can’t watch the action. This could be helpful in…

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Author: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Threads is giving you more time to edit your posts

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You now have 15 minutes to edit your posts on Threads, an increase from the previous five-minute limit. If you have fediverse sharing toggled on, that means you’ll have to wait 15 minutes until your post shows up on Mastodon and other platforms.

The window is a little short when compared to other platforms. X, for example, lets you edit your posts for up to one hour, but you have to pay for a subscription. Mastodon also lets you edit your posts for free at any time after they’ve been published.

Additionally, Threads will now let you see who follows you and likes your posts from other fediverse servers such as Mastodon. That should make it a lot easier to keep track of new followers and engagement, no matter the platform people are using…

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Author: Emma Roth