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Watching sports at home? I’d change these 4 soundbar settings for the most optimal audio

Watching sports at home? I’d change these 4 soundbar settings for the most optimal audio

Published by skeptic

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As much fun as it is going to a professional sporting event, nothing beats watching the big game in the comfort of your own home. If you’re watching who’s going to take it all on the basketball court, diamond, soccer pitch, or gridiron, you need to ensure your soundbar’s audio settings are ready before the first ball is in play. Also: How I tweaked my Sonos speakers to upgrade their audio performance – easy and free If you’re watching the game on an over-the-air cable or satellite broadcast, you may notice fuzzy or degraded audio quality. The good news is that your soundbar likely has some features that can help. 1. Use room calibration Most soundbars have a room calibration feature that will use either built-in microphones or the microphones in your mobile device to measure your room’s acoustics. This feature will account for your room’s size, shape, and furniture to optimize the soundbar’s audio output. This feature is easy to overlook, but tuning your …

3 Keys to Optimal Living in the Second Half of Life

3 Keys to Optimal Living in the Second Half of Life

Published by Jenni Sidey

The World Health Organization (2025) reported that people all over the world are living longer, and that by the year 2030, 1 in 6 people will be age 60 or older. A recent international review of healthy aging recommended that we develop a new understanding of the factors contributing to healthy aging (Catalano et al., 2025). If you’re in the second half of life, you can take active steps to live with greater well-being, joy, and vitality. In addition to eating a balanced diet and getting regular exercise, research finds that three ways you approach aging can bring you greater vitality in the days ahead. 1. Revise Your View of Aging A new study by Levy and Slade (2026) reveals the need to dramatically reconsider our previous views of aging. The researchers found that we can maintain and even improve our physical and cognitive function when we develop more positive beliefs about aging. Instead of retreating into what once were called our “declining years,” you can focus on what you can do—discovering new possibilities in …

AI: Stimulus and Threat to Optimal Brain Functioning

AI: Stimulus and Threat to Optimal Brain Functioning

Published by Jenni Sidey

Since the end of 2022, when the first chatbot (ChatGPT) was introduced, we’ve progressed from a “machine” capable of human-like speech and writing to realistic videos of people with movie-star good looks whom some people fall in love with, only to learn, alas, that they exist solely in the realm of computer code. Currently, AI is challenging some of our most basic notions. Based on AI’s increasing employment in areas such as journalism, war, education, and socialization, we have good reason to question the origin of anything we see, hear, or read. Is it human or AI? Editor vs. Reader If you want to see the inroads made by AI into journalism, pick up a copy of the Plain Dealer, Cleveland’s major newspaper. You’ll regularly encounter articles written by AI (although a final reading prior to publication is still tasked to human editors). Other papers, such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Financial Times, haven’t gone that far yet, but are already experimenting with interactive chatbots. When you combine these early …