Today's vast array of devices for listening to music means that it is increasingly difficult to decide what to listen to or which audio player should be used to play favorite tunes. A new company has ...

Is a piece of code capable of mimicking the way humans listen to music? That’s the promise of Cone, a “thinking” speaker that watches what you listen to and learns from it. It doesn’t perfectly ...

In a perfect world, every speaker system would come with a personal “audio chauffer” to make it play what you want, when you want. So when you and your significant other are having a romantic lobster ...

It’s a Saturday night and you’re cooking dinner before some friends come over. You hit a button on the speaker in your kitchen and it starts playing Daft Punk. You didn’t ask for Daft Punk, and the ...

Music is personal. It’s tied to our identities, our emotions, even our friends. So the idea that a complex algorithm could make us smarter about music is counter-intuitive. The creators of Cone, a ...

Someday, Siri and the Aether Cone might make perfect speech-recognition soulmates. Not yet. The Cone still qualifies as the world’s smartest wireless speaker because it plays requests — as in, “Play ...

Cone is a Wi-Fi speaker which promises to learn what type of music you like, create a personalized music experience, and get better over time. I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer electronics, ...

A conical intelligent speaker could cut through the choice-overload of online music services, with startup Aether promising simplicity without giving up choice with its new Cone streamer. Shaped, as ...

You know why people still listen to the radio? Some of them enjoy a steady diet of de-virginized Disney stars, but most just want to listen to music without the hassle of actively DJing. And that’s ...

Meet the Cone speaker, an Internet of Things newcomer from a startup by the name of Aether. Cone is unlike any other speaker you've seen before in that it aims to simplify how you listen to music by ...

The Aether Cone is magically simple: Tap it to play a song. Don't like what you hear? Rotate the ring around its edge—a tiny twist skips the current track, and a big one adjusts the overall mood of ...

Aether’s Cone speaker is simple, in both its physical design and its interface. Inside, though, it has a brain that learns what you like. The Cone is a cone-shaped AirPlay-ready speaker which also ...