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Bose Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar Review: Bringing Uber Clarity to Your Living Room

8.3

Pros & Cons

Excellent speech clarity and music replay
Calibration feature is easy to use
Great connectivity
Bose app and ecosystem not as sophisticated as Sonos
No native Apple Music support in app

The soundbar market is now fully in the thrall of AI, with nearly every audio feature from speech enhancement to room calibration getting a robot-flavored bump. Yet, these add-ons only matter if they’re in service to what’s most important in a soundbar: sound! The best soundbars can run both whizz-bang movie sound effects and nearly concert-level music experiences — with actual on-board kit such as height speakers replacing virtual trickery. In addition, ever-expanding connectivity makes these speakers more of a Swiss army knife that can keep pace with our smartphone-centric lives.

With prices ranging from a couple hundred bucks for entry-level units to several thousand for so-called audiophile-grade models, the Bose Lifestyle Ultra sits at a...

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Oracle says AI will save it from the SaaSpocalypse, not bring it on

It’s a better interface, can speed installations, and drives IaaS sales too Oracle has argued AI will strengthen its applications business, by giving customers new ways to use software and making them easier to implement. Co-CEO Mike Sicilia decided to defend applications in his first remarks on Oracle’s

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Microsoft annoints Rust as a 'Tier 1' internal language

Redmond's coders get the tool to help them scrub memory bugs off Windows When Microsoft's developers and engineers sit down to code, they can now choose to work in Rust, which Redmond has added to its list of canonical languages. “Rust now is a Tier One

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On Call: Boss wrongly claimed IT deleted his files, refused to learn the one-click fix

personal tech There's no place like the Home directory, but the Documents folder is sometimes nicer ON CALL Friday morning is The Register's home for tech support stories, which we showcase in On Call – the weekly column made possible by readers generously sharing their experience of

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MIT launches the LLM Election Observatory, a dashboard tracking how nearly a dozen AI models tailor responses to political queries during the 2026 US midterms

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MIT launches the LLM Election Observatory, a dashboard tracking how nearly a dozen AI models tailor responses to political queries during the 2026 US midterms