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Fender Offers Up Its First Wireless Headphones, With Emphasis on Battery Life

You can also swap out the battery when you need a new one.

Fender Audio is unveiling its first wireless headphones at CES 2026 next week, and the battery life is so long they could outlast the four-day event itself.

The Mix headphones boast 100 hours of battery life with active noise cancellation turned off and 52 hours with ANC turned on at 50% volume. The battery can also be replaced when needed. The company says a 15-minute charge will yield 1 hour of listening time, and a full charge takes 2 hours.

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Fender Audio, the consumer electronics brand of the world-renowned guitar maker, is taking on the wireless headphones makers with standout battery life. Marshall’s Major V can also last up to 100 hours on a single charge, but Sony’s WH-1000XM6‘s battery only lasts 30 hours with ANC on and 40 hours with it off. The Bose QuietComfort Ultra, which CNET ranked No. 1 among all wireless headphones, has a charge life of 30 hours.

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Active noise cancellation sounds cool, but what exactly is it? You can go down a very complex (but interesting) technical rabbit hole if you really want to do a deep dive on it, but basically ANC — sometimes called noise cancellation or active noise reduction — reduces unwanted sound by adding a second sound designed to cancel the first.

The Mix headphones will launch in two colors — Skyscraper Black and Olympic White — with three other colors to be available later. You can mix and match headbands and ear cups, owing to the Mix’s modular design, «making it easily serviceable and customizable,» the company said. They will be listed at $300.

The headphones have three audio modes — lossless, low latency and Auracast — to «adapt to any setting.» Lossless allows listeners to stream 96kHz/24bit pure high-fidelity audio, low latency enables streaming high-quality audio in less than 20ms for gaming and Auracast allows broadcasting to multiple devices.

For speaking, the Mix has a dual mic with environmental noise cancellation for «clear voice quality for calls and voice commands.» It also has a 3.5mm AUX input.

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Today’s NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for March 18, #1011

Here are some hints and the answers for the NYT Connections puzzle for March 18 #1011.

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.

Today’s NYT Connections puzzle is pretty tricky, but musicians might find the blue group easy. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.

The Times has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including the number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.

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Hints for today’s Connections groups

Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.

Yellow group hint: Time between two things, maybe.

Green group hint: That smarts!

Blue group hint: Rockers know these well.

Purple group hint: You might write one out to pay a bill.