50 Cent just scored his first Las Vegas Residency, and he reportedly got a bag full of millions for it. TMZ reported on Tuesday (Oct. 15) that Fif would be getting paid up to $15 million for 6 performances live at the PH Inside Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino. Fiddy confirmed the news the same day, taking to his Instagram with a celebratory post.

“50 Cent is coming to Las Vegas!! You don’t wanna miss this @50cent will be doing 6 Exclusive shows December 27—January 4 at PH Live at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino. Tickets are on sale Saturday,” the post reads, attached with a picture with an official title for the event that says “50 Cent: In Da Club.”

As the dates suggest, the outlet reports an exclusive New Year’s performance will be set aside to ring in 2025 with a bang in Sin City. The flyer also shows Fif’s residency has many sponsors, including his own brands, Sire Spirits and Branson Cognac.

As for the music, TMZ reports that fans attending 50’s inaugural residency can expect an adventure through the Queen’s rapper’s greatest hits. G-Unit’s fearless leader is expected to perform “In Da Club,” “Candy Shop,” “21 Questions,” and more.

But the Las Vegas residency isn’t the only business move 50 has recently made. A 50 Cent-themed escape room called “Get Rich or Read Trying” is heading to Shreveport, Louisiana’s Shreve Memorial Library for the “Fall Into the West Festival.”

Fans will be tasked with solving puzzles and riddles in an escape room based on the businessman’s life. Participants will need to solve the challenge in 60 minutes if they hope to emerge victorious.

While the festival begins on Friday (Oct. 18), the escape room will open up to the public on Monday (Oct. 21). Both the escape room and festival will take place at the West Shreveport Branch location, at 4380 Pines Road and is free and open to the public from 3:50 p.m. to 7:50 p.m.

The Via Via food hall will open in the former quick-service dining section near the Grand Colonnade area of the resort’s casino floor in mid-2025. Its biggest get is the second Las Vegas location of All’Antico Vinaio, the sandwich shop based in Florence, Italy — and known for its round-the-block lines, square slices of schiacciata bread, and sandwiches piled with cured meats and cheeses. The sandwich shop also has a location at Uncommons.

James Beard Award-nominated chef Mason Hereford will open two of his New Orleans restaurants in the food hall. Turkey and the Wolf will debut at Via Via with oversized braised collard green sandwiches and empanadas stuffed with chicken pot pie while Molly’s Rise and Shine will offer quick-service breakfast options.

Other restaurants joining the food hall include Los Angeles hot chicken restaurant Howlin’ Ray’s, New York’s Scarr’s Pizza, izakaya and noodle shop Ivan Ramen, and cocktail bar Close Company — a spin-off of LA’s Death & Co.

Chef Ray Garcia is revitalizing his B.S. Taqueria, which used to serve chile-rubbed al pastor and chorizo tacos at the Sundry food hall at Uncommons. That food hall closed just one year after opening.

Via Via is hardly the only food hall to anticipate in the coming months. Miracle Mile Shops at the Planet Hollywood casino plans to open Miracle Eats this winter. The food hall will have locations of Fat Sal’s, Tacotarian, Carnegie Pizza, Dave’s Hot Chicken, Lobster Me, and Fat Tuesday. And Caesars Palace is in the midst of converting its generic food court into a celebrity chef-studded food hall with Esther Choi’s Mokbar, Buddy V’s Pizzeria by Buddy Valastro, and Tortazo by Rick Bayless all opening later this year.

And Via Via joins other new additions coming to the Venetian as part of the resort’s $1.5 billion reinvestment project. Next year, chef José Andrés will move his Bazaar Meat steakhouse from the Sahara Las Vegas to the Palazzo at the Venetian Resort and both California-based Gjelina and the Michelin-starred Cote Steakhouse are planned to open.

It looks like the Las Vegas food hall trend may be here to stay.

The JW Marriott Las Vegas Resort & Spa and Rampart Casino announced a three-day party starting Friday.

Officials say there will be fireworks, food trucks and a live DJ.

Friday from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m., the casino says there will be free cake and champagne toasting.

On Saturday from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m., there are planned bingo sessions for $2,500.

Sunday, Rampart Casino said that will be their “25th Anniversary Fireworks Festival.” At 7 p.m., there will be a 10-minute firework show.

Overflow parking for the fireworks could be found at Tivoli Village. Shuttle service will be available every 15 minutes from Tivoli Village to the resort from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Sunday.

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The lucky poker player traveled to Vegas for a football game but left over a half-million dollars richer.

The second poker player was on vacation at the gambling destination from Knoxville, Tennessee, the hotel said. She sat at a Crazy 4 Poker table at the same casino on Oct. 13 and won the $216,682 jackpot. The woman scored big with a royal flush, the rarest hand in the game, according to Upswing Poker. Her winning cards were a 10, jack, queen, king and ace. The lucky gambler told the casino she plans to spend her money on a home and to travel with her children. Caesars Palace is famous for its Roman architecture. The hotel and casino is on the Strip.

Microsoft’s Phone Link app will soon allow users to select and copy text in images on Android phones.

Spotted by The Verge, the new feature is in testing now in ‘Release Preview Insider’ builds of Windows and could roll out to everyone in the near future.

Phone Link leverages optical character recognition (OCR) technology to detect text in images, which The Verge says is “decent” but more prone to errors than Samsung’s or Apple’s text extraction.

Notably, Windows 11’s ‘Snipping Tool’ recently got text extraction capabilities for images. That enabled a bit of a workaround for copying text from images captured on a smartphone, but the built-in capability in Phone Link streamlines the process.

Microsoft seems to be on a bit of an OCR kick. The company’s recently announced ‘Recall’ feature relies on OCR capabilities to help people look up things in screenshots of their PC activity.

Phone Link is a service that syncs various aspects of users’ smartphones with their Windows PCs. That includes calls, messages, notifications, images and more. However, most of the features are limited to Android phones, though some things still work with iOS.

Phone Link and its smartphone companion app, Link to Windows, are available for free on their respective platforms.

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Apple’s AirPods along with its Pro and Max versions are excellent for FaceTime, phone calls, and music playback. The seamless transition between devices, like as your iPhone and Mac when you sit down at your work, is one of its best features. However, they do experience issues sometimes. One of the common problems is that the volume on the AirPods gets too low. We will demonstrate how to resolve that in this article.

Why Is The Volume in My AirPods So Low?

Depending on the gadget you’re using your AirPods with, there are several reasons why they might not be loud enough. For instance, your Mac or iPhone’s accessibility settings may be restricting the volume, or your battery may be almost dead. Additionally, your AirPods’ performance may be unpredictable if you’re getting close to the boundary of their Bluetooth range. This could result in the volume being too low.

One of the following common issues could be the cause of your AirPods becoming quiet:

Accumulation of earwax: It’s unpleasant, but earwax buildup on your AirPods’ mesh might really reduce sound quality.
Poor bluetooth: Your AirPods’ sound quality may be impacted by a weak Bluetooth connection or disturbance from other devices.
Software problems: If your AirPods haven’t received the most recent software update, you will experience low sound levels.
Battery life: Low-level batteries may also have an impact on sound quality.
Configurations: It’s possible that the volume or balance of the audio settings on your device are off.

7 Ways To Fix Quiet AirPods

First, determine if the issue affects all of the devices you use or just one of them. Try them on your iPhone or iPad if you see the issue on your Mac, and vice versa. In this manner, you can determine if your Mac, iPhone, or AirPods are the source of the issue.

There are a few options available if your AirPods are the issue. This is how you should proceed.

1. Clean your AirPods

AirPods occasionally become a bit dirty because of all the debris that gets accumulated in the speaker mesh. So, wipe them down with a soft, wet cloth that is free of lint as soon as possible. Make sure the cloth is only slightly wet. You do not want to get moisture on your AirPods. Use the same method to clean the charging port and the casing. You can take off the silicone ear tips from your AirPods Pro and give them a quick wash in cold water. Before you reattach them, make sure they have dried.

2. Use The Ear Tip Fit Test

After everything has been cleaned, you can confirm that your AirPods Pro fits comfortably in your ears. For this, Apple offers a helpful fit test that can distinguish between muffled and clear music. This way, you won’t need to increase the AirPods’ volume for louder sound and guarantee a better sound quality.

A proper fit could actually make the difference between your AirPods feeling too quiet and just right.

3. Reset and Recharge Your AirPods

Even though your AirPods seem to have a lot of power left, there can be a problem with the battery life display itself. Recharge them and give them another go to be sure that’s not the case.

If the volume of your AirPods is too low on a particular device but not on another, there may be a problem with Bluetooth or your device itself. You can follow these steps to resolve the issue with system reset:

Place your AirPods in their case, then select System Settings>Bluetooth, from the Apple menu on your device.
Click on “Remove” and confirm.
Open the cover of your AirPods case, then hold the setup button until the light begins to flash.
Navigate to System Preferences>Bluetooth, and select “AirPods.”
Check to see if the problem is resolved

4. Check the Volume

It may seem silly, but check sure that the affected device’s volume is up before performing any more actions. In case your Mac is not working with your AirPods, select Control Center and move the slider towards the right. Verify that the app you’re using is not on mute and that the volume is also cranked up.

Apple customers also check if they didn’t turn on any odd equalizer settings by double-checking the settings of their programs. Things may sound much quieter than they actually are if you have adjusted the level sliders partially or completely. This user tip is quite helpful in most situations.

Additionally, some websites, such as YouTube, have volume sliders built right into their playback windows. It would be wise to make sure that all of these are adjusted to a high level before using the Mac’s main volume adjustment.

5. Check Your iPhone Settings

Check the Settings on your iPhone if the volume on your AirPods is only too low when you use them with your phone. Select Sound & Haptics > Headphone Safety after opening the Settings app. Verify that the toggle switch for “Reduce Loud Sounds” is turned off.

Additionally, you should look at the accessibility options, since occasionally they can be set up in a way that makes your AirPods too silent. Navigate to Settings, select Accessibility, then Audio/Visual. Verify that the slider is positioned halfway between L and R. Select Headphone Compatibility. Turn them off and back on if the toggle switch is in the “on” position to avoid the potential issue.

6. Run Maintenance Scripts

There are various reasons why your Mac could be the source of the quiet music coming from your AirPods. Using maintenance scripts is the most efficient way to address multiple issues at once. There are several apps made specifically for that purpose. They can perform a wide range of other maintenance tasks, such as reindexing Spotlight, thinning out Time Machine pictures, and freeing up RAM, in addition to executing maintenance scripts.

7. Check if the Volume On Both Earphones is the Same

It’s possible that one earbud might have ended up being quieter than the other. You’ll need your iPhone close at hand to verify if that is the case:

Launch the Settings application.
Log in to your Apple ID if you’re not logged in.
Click or tap “Accessibility.”
Select “Audio/Visual” under “Hearing.”
Make sure the “Balance” section’s slider is in the middle, then move it back there if necessary.

You may need to get in touch with Apple for support if none of these fixes work to address your loudness problems. Even so, it is worthwhile to experiment with all of the aforementioned settings, in case you happen to miss something simple, like the volume controls. You can also contact community forums to see if you can find any unique information. Your feedback can help others as well so if you want to add your experience to it, that’s helpful as well.

Conclusion

If you’ve performed all the checks above and still don’t see any improvement, it’s time to go to the Apple service store. Just know that you may be saying goodbye to your AirPods if you’ve read this far and you don’t have a fix. You will have to go without them for a short while while they are being fixed or replaced.

The Pixel 9 and Pixel 9 Pro are really all we can think about for tech in 2024. Google’s upcoming design and line-up change for the Pixel 9 series will be major and I would love nothing more than to fast forward to their late fall arrival. The Pixel 9 Pro, even before it is official, is the phone I want in my pocket.

That said, the Pixel 10 might be the true phone upgrade most will end up wanting. The conversation around why that is will be far too nerdy to keep the attention of most of us, so I’ll try and explain as simply as possible.

Ever heard of Samsung Foundry? What about TSMC? It’s OK if you haven’t.

These are two big names in the chipset space that help companies like Qualcomm and Samsung make chipsets like the Snapdragon series or Samsung’s Exynos line. The thing is, TSMC is largely thought to be the gold standard for making chips, while Samsung Foundry is often considered to be steps below. There are few better examples that show this than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and 8+ Gen 1, both of which released in 2022 by Qualcomm.

You may recall that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 was an overheating, battery weak, performance mess of a chip, while the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 dramatically improved all of those areas only months later. Samsung Foundry made that original 8 Gen 1 chip and Qualcomm then switched to TSMC for the 8+ Gen 1. My review of the Galaxy Z Flip 4 summed up my findings between the two chips nicely.

Qualcomm has since used TSMC for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and 8 Gen 3. They are expected to use TSMC for the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 as well.

What does all of this mean for the Pixel 9 vs. the Pixel 10? Well, Google’s Tensor chips are made by Samsung Foundry. We’re talking about the Tensor, Tensor G2, and the current Tensor G3. The upcoming Tensor G4 that will land in the Pixel 9 series is once again expected to be a Samsung Foundry-made chip.

As many of you know from owning any of the Pixel phones from the Pixel 6 up through the current Pixel 8, Tensor chips have issues. They tend to get hot, can’t hang with the best performers from Qualcomm, and certainly don’t boast top battery life scores. Their connectivity issues haven’t improved much over the years either, but that’s mostly a modem thing.

Since the Tensor G4 is likely thought to be made by Samsung Foundry, we have no idea if the Pixel 9 will see big improvements over previous Tensor chips. That said, Google is preparing to switch to TSMC for the Tensor G5 and what could be their first truly custom chipset. It could mean big things, assuming TSMC can do for Tensor what it did for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon.

Over the weekend, supposed evidence confirming this change showed up. The folks at Android Authority dug into trade databases that purportedly confirm the switch from Samsung Foundry to TSMC. If you care deeply about the tiny details around that confirmation, feel free to read their story. But for most of us, all we can about is that the evidence continues to point in the direction of a switch to TSMC. This was first rumored in July 2023 and then later backed by a roadmap leak in September 2023. This latest evidence is a good sign of things to come, assuming it holds up.