Apple kicked off its MacBook Pro keynote a little differently today: with a sweet remix of classic Apple sound effects from the past 45 years of the company’s history, created by artist A. G. Cook — ...

For understandable reasons, most technology coverage tends to focus more on the physical or visual elements of new devices than their audio signature. It’s much easier to show and tell audiences how ...

Hey, remember Lights Off? We first posted about it in the relative Stone Age of iPhone development, when the only SDK we had was writing web pages and when you had to actually jailbreak your iPhone to ...

Apple won a patent for making the acoustics coming from a MacBook sound far away. It’s an idea that could make watching movies, TV shows or videos on a laptop feel significantly more immersive. The ...

Apple might update its legendary soundscape with a brand-new iPhone ringtone. Found in the code of iOS 26's initial developer beta, this as-yet-unreleased tune is another take on the classic ...

Apple's new AirPods and MacBook Pros feature spatial audio, which lets you watch films and listen to albums mixed in Dolby Atmos, but how does it work? TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio, ...