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If you use Google’s Chrome browser, you now have a new way to copy a frame from a video without taking a screenshot. On Thursday, Google announced a Chrome feature called “Copy Video Frame,” which does exactly what its name suggests: It copies a video frame.

“You can pause anywhere in a video that’s playing in Chrome and get a clean copy of the exact frame you want,” Google wrote in a blog post.

To use the feature, Google says to pause a video playing in Chrome, right-click the video frame and select Copy Video Frame from the pop-up menu. However, if you’re trying to copy a video frame from YouTube, you need to pause the video and right-click the frame twice — on Mac, you need to click the video with two fingers twice — to select Copy Video Frame.

Google also wrote that you could take a screenshot of the video frame how you normally would, but it would likely result in a lower-quality image and potentially have the video’s progress bar running across the bottom. This suggestion implies Copy Video Frame will result in a higher-quality and cleaner picture.

For more, check out why Chrome now sends out weekly security updates, and the pros and cons of Chrome’s Enhanced Safe Browsing mode.

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Max just added a new feature that may seem familiar to a lot of streamers already: Top 10 rows.

According to Max’s account on Twitter/X, people will see the rows within the app on the Warner Bros. Discovery streaming service starting Thursday. The rows will update daily, according to the streaming service.

Max is The One to Watch when you’re looking for what’s trending. Starting today you’ll see Top 10 rows within the app that update daily to show you which series and films everyone is watching. pic.twitter.com/DMZte6qa5g

— Max (@StreamOnMax) August 31, 2023

Netflix, Max’s closest streaming rival, already has its version of Top 10 rows. Given they’re available in your country and you’re using a current version of the app, lists for Top 10 shows and movies show up automatically, according to the streamer’s help center.

The Max post includes a GIF showing off a row for series on the homepage. I looked at my own Max homepage and saw a row for movies too. If you’re on the hunt for something to watch right now, the first five titles included in the Top 10 shows row are as follows: Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the New York Jets, And Just Like That…, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, 90 Day: The Last Resort and Telemarketers.

Not satisfied with that list? Here are movies and shows with high Metacritic scores to watch on Max right now. (Plus, The Flash is streaming as of last week). Max replaced HBO Max in May and unites the HBO Max and Discovery Plus libraries.

Despite dating apps’ ever-growing popularity, they still have something of a bad reputation. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard my mother say that back in the day you’d just go out to the neighborhood bar to meet people. Well, times have changed — and in some ways for the better. Dating apps have emerged for all groups and niches, allowing singles to narrow down the field and find exactly who they’re looking for.

The downside is that with all these apps it’s hard to know which you should focus your time on and which to avoid. Luckily for you, I have a lot of first-hand experience with current dating apps. This is a list of some of the best dating apps out there, including the experiences they offer, their unique features and the pool of people you can expect to find on each platform. So what are you waiting for? Sign up for these top dating sites or apps, start chatting and maximize your chances of meeting your match. We’ll update this list periodically.

(A note on the byline: This story was initially written by Rebecca Fleenor and has been substantially updated, including the introduction, by Charlotte Maracina. The blurbs below are initialed to reflect which of the authors’ respective opinions are referenced.)

Best dating apps for 2023

Bumble	Best dating app for bold women
Tinder	Best dating app for casual chat and hookups
OKCupid	Best dating app for those on a budget
Hinge	Best dating app for relationship seekers
Coffee Meets Bagel	Best dating app for serious relationships
Happn	Best dating app for local dating
Her	Best dating app for lesbian, bisexual and queer women
Raya	Best dating app for social media influencers
Plenty of Fish	Best dating app for conversations
Match	Best dating app for someone with money to spend
eHarmony	Best dating app for marriage seekers

How we test

There’s only one true way to test a dating app and that’s to try them out ourselves. Everyone’s experience with dating apps will be different, but our reviews are based on our own personal experiences along with reviews from friends and family. After carefully crafting a profile we then took the time to swipe through our options and familiarize ourselves with the platforms. Once we’ve had the opportunity to talk to potential partners, we’re able to form our opinions of the overall vibe of the app and who we think it might appeal to.

Factors to consider

If you’re freshly single or have been single your whole life, it’s important to have an idea of what you want when picking out the best dating app to invest your time in. You can download all of them and constantly be switching between platforms, but I’ve found it best to invest your time, and money if you want, into one or two apps. Also consider whether or not you want to spend money on app.

Dating app FAQs

Midway through a quick playthrough of a course in Super Mario Bros. Wonder‘s new Flower Kingdom, I find that I’ve suddenly turned into a Goomba. Shrunken down to angry mushroom size, I’m reduced to trying to hide behind bushes and scramble as I find a way to where I’m going next. Hey, at least this was less chaotic than the level where I inflated like a balloon and bounced up through the sky.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder, coming Oct. 20, is Nintendo’s biggest new Switch game, and it’s trying to bring back the whimsical magic Nintendo has always coded into Mario games. This time it’s even more overt: The 2D Mario game, Nintendo’s first truly new 2D Mario platformer since New Super Mario Bros. U, has little Wonder Flowers that turn levels into hallucinogenic multiverse versions of themselves.

In a year when the Mario Bros. movie made a ton of money, and Nintendo opened a Mario theme park in LA, it all looks like perfect timing. But it’s also a game that Wonder’s creators say is establishing a new platform for the next decade.

“As we were wrapping up development for New Super Mario Brothers U Deluxe, we were thinking about what we can do to create a system that we can use that can support Mario for 10 years in the future,” said Shiro Mouri, director of Super Mario Wonder, in an interview with CNET.

Part of that rethinking has to do with reupping a sense of surprise in the familiar formula. The other involves adding more integrated online play.

Rethinking online Switch games

The Switch is six years old now, and a new version could end up emerging next year based on the latest reports. Even so, the idea of the Switch is likely to stick around for a while longer. Games like Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom proved that the Switch is still excellent at being both a handheld and a TV game console. But I felt differently about my early and brief playtime with Wonder. It was extraordinarily fun, but I paid more attention to how the game treats multiplayer and online differently.

There are already tons of co-op multiplayer games on the Switch, many of them made by Nintendo. Wonder’s four-player co-op feels similar to others at first, but it definitely has a less competitive, chaotic vibe between players. Instead of worrying about someone sabotaging you, a lot of the game is supportive: sharing power-ups, rescuing players or an online feature where online players can drop little signposts that offer supportive power-ups for others who play the course later on.

“People have their own image of what online play might be. Maybe it’s a little difficult, or maybe it’s a little a little scary,” Takashi Tezuka, producer of Super Mario Bros. Wonder, says of Nintendo’s challenge to build an online mode that felt organic to all players.

“The concept behind the online play this time is really this idea of casual connection, being able to experience multiplayer game sessions as if you were playing a single-player game,” Mouri says, explaining how players can appear in the background to offer assistance without interrupting the flow, while still being helpful. “What I really wanted to do is create an online play experience that’s entirely positive.”

My brief experience with the game showed me how single-player runs work in an online state where other players can leave little assistive signs of themselves that sprout power-ups. Or they can show up as shadows in courses to race against, or you can simply follow them for helpful suggestions. It’s reminiscent of how the game Elden Ring shows wisps of other players’ progress as you play: separate, but together, maybe sharing discoveries along the way.

To be sure, there’s also competitive stuff. It seems like courses are a bit short at times, and challenges fast. Races to make it through courses first have a familiar feel.

However, it also means two-player, in-room co-ops can play online with two others online, mixing and matching so everyone doesn’t need to be online or in the same room. I wish the game had even more player flexibility there (what about three players in a room and one online?), but it’s a great start. There are also player lobbies where a group of 12 could split up, play courses and come back to regroup over and over.

The number of playable characters has also expanded: Mario, Luigi, Toads, ridable Yoshis, Peach, Daisy and even the weird Nabbit. They vary slightly in abilities, with some having more forgiving controls. Extra badges with added abilities can be toggled on and off per course, too, so customization plays a big role.

Super Mario Maker, New Super Mario Bros. U and Super Mario 3D World already have multiplayer support on the Switch, and so do many Kirby and Yoshi games. But Wonder’s tweaked formula could end up being one of the best balances of supportive, reliable and competitive gameplay.

Rethinking wonder

All Mario games tweak the main concepts: Super Mario Maker is a game design app, and Mario Odyssey has hat-tossing identity swapping, for example, but according to Mario Wonder’s creators, the idea here was to capture some of the unexpected whimsy Mario games had in the first place, way before we knew the formula.

“The baseline fundamental concept we were going for was to create a game that’s filled with secrets and mysteries,” Mouri says. “The original Super Mario Bros. was exactly that, a game filled with secrets and mysteries. But we started to realize that this idea of secrets and mysteries started to become a standard of what the series is, and we saw that as a challenge.”

The Wonder Flower oddities that pop up everywhere are apparently all unique. “In order to fill every main course with a wonder, we polled the entire team for ideas,” says Mouri. “The number of ideas that came up was more than 2,000. And from that big pool, we whittled it down to those that have potential.”

How deep and weird is Wonder? That’s what I can’t tell you, because I only played for about 45 minutes. I did see courses get filled with shooting stars. I turned into a massive elephant (not a Wonder Flower moment, though). I inflated like a balloon. I turned into a Goomba. The pipes all became animated. A herd of buffalo creatures suddenly lifted me into the air and moved me like a train.

Mouri promises many, many secrets and mysteries, while Tezuka tells me to keep an eye out for little details, too. Knowing previous Mario games, and Nintendo games in general, I’m used to Mario games seeming finished, and then unfolding whole new parts (and even more parts after that). How deeply Wonder plays with those ideas remains to be seen, but Nintendo promises that every single course has a new Wonder Flower idea.

The emphasis on mystery reminds me of my own love of magic, and the famous Tannen’s Magic Mystery Box, an unknown package with surprise magic tricks inside, that film director J.J. Abrams adopted for his theory of magic in storytelling.

“I do think this is an idea that can be applied in many different ways in many different places,” Mouri says about the idea of the reality-bending Wonder Flowers, and the new Flower Kingdom in general. “But there’s nothing specific that I have in mind at the moment.”

It’s hard to tell yet whether Super Mario Bros. Wonder will top Super Mario Odyssey as my favorite Switch Mario game, but its multiplayer approach will likely make it the top one I pick to play with my family.

A few weeks before Apple’s September “Wonderlust” event and the anticipated release of iOS 17, the tech giant began rolling out changes early, starting with the iTunes Movie Trailers app on Thursday. The app still works, but it no longer shows trailers, clips or features like it used to. Instead, it only shows a screen redirecting users to the Apple TV app.

“Apple TV app is the new home of iTunes Movies Trailers,” the screen reads. “Keep watching trailers. Open the Apple TV app to start.”

Now if you want to watch trailers, you have to open the Apple TV app, tap the Store icon across the bottom of your screen and scroll down the page to see a carousel titled “Watch the Latest Trailers.”

Apple announced the demise of iTunes in 2019 at that year’s WWDC event, and the company has gradually retired the brand since then.

For more Apple news, check out what to know about Apple’s Wonderlust event, all the iPhone 15 rumors and when Apple might release iOS 17.

Apple’s next major event is set for Sept. 12, and it’s likely we’ll see a new iPhone 15, Apple Watch Series 9 and possibly the second-generation Apple Watch Ultra. I’ve been wearing the current Ultra for almost a year, and it’s without doubt the best Apple Watch money can buy. But there are features I’d really like to see in the next version.

The public beta of WatchOS 10 previews some Apple Watch Ultra updates like topographic maps and support for Bluetooth accessories including power meter pedals. These additions go a long way to help the Apple Watch Ultra stand out as a top-tier smartwatch, though I hope we get even more safety- and sports-focused options on the Ultra 2.

Two sizes to suit more wrists

I love wearing sports and outdoor watches, but sometimes they can be too big for everyday wear. I have a relatively small wrist measuring 152mm, and though I don’t think the 49mm Ultra looks or feels too hefty, it will likely overwhelm anyone with a smaller wrist. Another size option could go a long way to opening up the Ultra’s appeal to people who want a rugged watch with a smaller case size.

The Apple Watch Series comes in a number of different finishes, so why not the Ultra? Currently, the titanium Ultra is available in only one color. Rumors surfaced about a darker titanium finish, which I think would pair nicely with the midnight ocean band Apple currently sells.

Emergency SOS via Satellite on the Apple Watch

A standout iPhone 14 feature is Emergency SOS via Satellite that lets you message with an emergency dispatcher even when you’re out of cellular range. The new safety tool has already saved lives, so it makes sense to bring it to the Apple Watch Ultra 2. Hopefully, you’d never need to use Emergency SOS via Satellite, but for people who use the Ultra as an outdoors adventure watch, it would be an incredibly valuable safety feature.

WatchOS 10 supports SOS waypoints in the compass app, so you can visually see the last spot you had a cell signal. But this requires you to track back to that last location. The Ultra already has a built-in siren that can audibly alert passersby to your location, as well as fall detection and Emergency SOS that works when you have cell service. So it seems like a logical include for additional off-grid safety tools like satellite connectivity to the Ultra 2.

A built-in flashlight for extra safety

All Apple Watches have a screen-based flashlight you can turn on from the Control Center. If you’re like me and walk or run when it gets dark, it’s not as practical to have the entire screen taken up with this light because then you can’t use it to see anything else, like your workout stats. I’d love to see a built-in flashlight that can illuminate the path in front of you.

The Garmin Fenix 7 Pro series has a similar built-in LED, and it’s a valuable safety tool. You can adjust the brightness level, change the color to a red light or even strobe or pulse the light to alert others to your location.

Slimmer bezels and a new processor

A key Apple Watch Ultra design element is its flat screen. But if you use anything other than a watch face with a black background, you can see some of the bezel around the display’s edge. To really capitalize on the 49mm case size I’d love to see a true edge-to-edge display that goes right up to the case.

Like my colleague Lisa Eadiccico speculated in her Apple Watch Series 9 wishlist, I would also love to see the always-on display do more than it can now. One of the most frequent requests I get from CNET readers and viewers is help in finding a watch that can show a seconds count on the display at all times. A newer processor might make something like this possible, but that’s only speculation at this stage.

Recovery metrics to help you train better

The Apple Watch tracks a bevy of health and fitness stats like VO2 Max, sleep quality, blood oxygen levels and heart rate variability. I’d love to see the Apple Watch Ultra 2 interpret all those metrics by giving us some recovery metrics like other sports and endurance watches.

This could be as simple as guidance to help you identify if a bad night’s sleep will impact your training readiness the next day. Visually, I’d love to see something like an extra ring in the Activity app that shows if you’re ready to tackle a workout or how “charged” you are based on the previous day’s activity and night’s sleep. Maybe even throw in some customized suggestions for workouts you might want to try from Fitness+ based on your readiness.

Similar features already exist on other sports watches. Garmin has the Body Battery to indicate how your body is coping with a training routine, while Polar shows metrics like cardio and muscle load after a workout. Fitbit’s Daily Readiness Score ranks your readiness out of 100 and surfaces some workouts you might want to try depending on the score.

It’s almost time for football’s triumphant return. As fantasy leagues around the country continue their drafts, and the real teams finalize their actual rosters, NFL fans around the world are prepping in earnest for the start of the 2023 regular season. Week 1 begins on Thursday, Sept. 7, with the Detroit Lions visiting the reigning Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs on NBC, but how about watching the rest of the 2023 campaign?

This year there are more options on streaming services than ever. YouTube and YouTube TV are now the exclusive home of NFL Sunday Ticket, the plan that lets you watch any out-of-market game. Meanwhile, the NFL has improved its own NFL Plus streaming service to include RedZone and the NFL Network in the Premium tier and allowing both channels to be viewable on your TV or computer. Local and primetime games, however, are still locked to mobile devices.

Throw in the games that appear on Paramount Plus (all CBS contests), Peacock (all NBC games, plus an exclusive Week 16 game between the Bills and Chargers), ESPN Plus (some Monday Night Football and an exclusive Week 4 international game between the Falcons and Jaguars in London) and Amazon’s Prime Video (all Thursday night games after opening night), and things can get complicated in a hurry.

Here’s what you need to know to stream all the NFL action this year, and our recommendations for watching the 2023 NFL season, including RedZone, week in and week out.

Who airs games and when?

Paying for cable used to be the easiest solution, but not the cheapest, for watching all the football. In today’s world things have gotten a bit more complicated with games played across three different days and nights each week on different channels and streaming services.

Most NFL games are played on Sunday, with a game each week on Monday and Thursday nights. On Sundays, games start around 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m. PT) and 4 p.m. ET (1 p.m. ET), with most AFC teams on CBS and most NFC teams on Fox. NBC has the primetime Sunday night game.

Although the first Thursday night game will be on NBC, the rest of the games for Thursday Night Football (with the exception of Week 12’s Thanksgiving Thursday games) will be shown on Amazon’s Prime Video. Week 12’s Amazon game will be taking place on Black Friday and feature the Dolphins visiting the Jets.

As in previous seasons, Monday Night Football games will be on ESPN and/or ABC. This year there will be several Monday night doubleheaders including in weeks 2, 3 and 14 with games airing on ABC and ESPN. It is worth mentioning that ABC will be the exclusive TV broadcast for one of the Monday night games during those weeks, as well as having the exclusive TV broadcast feed for Week 16’s Christmas game between the Ravens and 49ers.

What are my streaming options for NFL games in 2023?

All five of the live TV streaming services (YouTube TV, Hulu Plus Live TV, DirecTV Stream, Sling TV and Fubo) carry ESPN, ABC, NBC and Fox, and all but Sling TV carry CBS (though you need Sling Orange to get ESPN). All but DirecTV Stream carry the NFL Network with their base plans (DirecTV does offer it with its pricier options, like Choice, Ultimate or Premier).

For the games on CBS and Fox, keep in mind that not every service carries every local network, so check each one using the links below to make sure it carries ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox in your particular area.

In addition to Prime Video, there are four other streaming services that cord-cutting NFL fans should consider. Both the Essential and With Showtime (previously known as Premium) versions of Paramount Plus will show CBS games on Sundays, and both the paid Premium and step-up Plus versions of Peacock will show NBC’s broadcasts of Sunday Night Football (plus that exclusive Week 16 game).

ESPN Plus will stream some Monday Night Football games that air on ESPN and/or ABC, as well as that exclusive Week 4 game, but not all Monday night games that Disney broadcasts will stream on ESPN Plus.

Lastly, there’s NFL RedZone, a channel that springs to life each fall and shows live NFL action during the Sunday afternoon games. It pops in and out of the live games and attempts to show each touchdown scored in each game. RedZone is available as an add-on on all five major live TV streaming services.

What about NFL Plus and NFL Network?

NFL Plus, the NFL’s own streaming service, recently got a few tweaks to go along with its price hike. Now starting at $7 per month ($50 if purchased annually), you can still stream any local or national games regardless of whether they air on ABC, ESPN, CBS, Fox, NBC or Amazon Prime Video, but those streams are limited to just watching on a phone or tablet.

NFL Plus will also let you watch the ESPN Plus and Peacock exclusive games (though again, only on a phone or tablet).

NFL Network is now also included, and you can watch the football-focused channel as well as the eight exclusive NFL games it airs (in Weeks 5, 6, 9, 10, and 16 as well as three games in Week 15), on your mobile device, computer, game console or TV with NFL Plus.

The NFL Network is also offered by the five major streaming services in at least some of their plans.

Those looking for RedZone can opt for NFL Plus’ Premium plan that runs $15 per month (or $100 annually). Discounts on NFL Plus can drop the annual prices by 20%, though that offer is listed by the league as being available for a “limited time.” Like with the NFL Network, NFL Plus Premium will let users stream RedZone on TVs and computers in addition to their phones and tablets.

Best for everything: YouTube TV ($73 without RedZone, $84 with)

Our pick from the last two years remains our go-to choice in 2023.

Now priced at $73 per month, YouTube TV checks all the NFL boxes. Local channels CBS, NBC, Fox and ABC are included in many markets, as are ESPN and the NFL Network so you can watch Sundays and Monday nights. The next best options are Fubo and Hulu Plus Live TV; both offer the same channels as YouTube TV for NFL fans, but Fubo runs $75 per month and Hulu is set to jump to $77 per month in October.

Want to follow your fantasy team with RedZone? That’s available on all three services as part of an add-on. If you’re a YouTube TV subscriber, you can add the $11 per month Sports Plus add-on by clicking on your profile and going to Settings, then the Membership tab. Fubo subscribers can go into My Profile and choose Manage Add-ons to get its $11-per-month Sports Plus with NFL RedZone offering. And Hulu users can now add RedZone for $10 per month with its Sports add-on.

Both YouTube TV and Fubo allow three people to watch at once (Hulu allows two livestreams) and all three have apps on nearly every mobile device and major streaming platform, including Amazon Fire TV, Google TV, Roku and Apple TV.

While all three are largely similar, we like YouTube TV for its superior DVR — unlimited storage compared with 30 hours on Fubo and 50 hours on Hulu. We also like YouTube TV because it gives you an option to stream in 4K for an extra $20 a month. Fubo does, too, with its $85-a-month Elite plan. Keep in mind that only Fox and NBC have previously offered 4K NFL broadcasts; CBS and ESPN do not.

DirecTV Stream offers all the main broadcast channels for NFL games, but it starts at $80 per month (after factoring in various fees), requires a two-year contract and that base package lacks the NFL Network. Adding in RedZone also costs an extra $15 per month through its Sports Pack. For new customers, it is worth pointing out that DirecTV is offering to waive the $15 per month Sports Pack fee for three months (or what amounts to most of the NFL’s regular season, which ends the first week in January).

The service is also offering $400 Visa cards to new users who sign up for one of its packages and YouTube’s Sunday Ticket, so long as they submit proof of their purchase of Sunday Ticket to DirecTV.

Sling TV’s Orange and Blue plan for $60 a month gets you ESPN and the NFL Network, and, in select major markets, Fox and/or ABC and NBC, but you’ll still lack CBS. You can also add RedZone for an additional $11 per month with its Sports Extra add-on (if you have just Sling Blue; if you have the Orange and Blue plan it’ll be $15 per month extra).

Sling is also offering a deal where new users can prepay for five months of its Orange and Blue plus Sports Extra add-on for $274. Dubbed the “Sling Season Pass,” this would get you most of the NFL channels including RedZone (but again, not CBS) for roughly $55 per month.

The cheapest way to stream NFL RedZone: NFL Plus Premium ($15 per month)

A frequent fan-favorite method of following all the NFL action on Sundays, RedZone is a way to catch every big play around the league. The cheapest road to RedZone in 2023 is with NFL Plus Premium. With the NFL adding in the popular channel and the ability to watch it on more than just phones and tablets — including TVs and computers — it’s the easy go-to pick for RedZone fans.

Budget alternative for NFC fans in big cities: Sling Blue ($45) or antenna ($20 one-time)

Those looking to save some cash might want to check out Sling Blue for $45 a month. While this package lacks ESPN, meaning you’ll miss out on Monday Night Football, in select markets you’ll be able to get Fox and NBC. The catch is that those markets are mainly in big cities, so if you live outside one of those areas, Sling Blue might not be for you.

You can also add RedZone through the company’s $11 per month Sports Extra add-on.

With Sling lacking CBS (and Sling Blue lacking ABC), an antenna can fill those local channel gaps without a monthly charge.

Budget alternatives for AFC fans: Paramount Plus Essentials ($6) or an antenna ($20 one-time)

There are some apps that offer CBS’ slate of Sunday AFC games live, including Paramount Plus’ Essentials tier for $6 per month. Depending on where you live, however, your local CBS station (and those NFL games) might not be available. CBS offers livestreaming services in many markets; you can check for yourself if your area has live CBS streaming here.

An antenna is another option for getting CBS. And as we mentioned above, an over-the-air antenna connected to your TV provides another option for all the basic channels, no streaming or monthly fee required, as long as you have good reception.

Thursday Night Football: Amazon Prime Video

Starting in Week 2, the games on Thursday nights are available only on Prime Video, giving NFL fans more incentive than free two-day shipping to sign up for an Amazon Prime account for $15 a month or $139 a year. Those who just want Prime Video can get it for $9 per month.

The full list of Prime Video games can be found on Amazon’s site here.

What about Sunday Ticket?

After years as a DirecTV exclusive, NFL Sunday Ticket has a new home with YouTube TV. Pricing is as follows (and includes a $50 discount Google is offering):

If you have YouTube TV, you can add Sunday Ticket for a one-time charge of $299 for the season. If you want RedZone included, it’ll be $339. If you don’t have YouTube TV and just want football, you can get Sunday Ticket from YouTube for $399, or a version that includes RedZone for $439.

Students looking to save can get NFL Sunday Ticket for $109, or $119 with RedZone.

As with before, Sunday Ticket doesn’t include local games. You can only watch Sunday afternoon games that aren’t being broadcast on CBS or Fox in your area (what is known as “out-of-market” contests). If you want to watch all the football on Sundays you’ll need Sunday Ticket plus an antenna or cable, satellite or streaming service like the ones we mentioned above.

There’s a lot of things you’ll need to get your online business off the ground. But one of the most important tools to invest in is a shipping label printer. And right now, you can snag one for nearly half off. Amazon currently has this Nelko Bluetooth thermal shipping label printer — our top pick in our best printer round-up — on sale for just $90, which saves you $86 compared to the usual price. There’s no set expiration for this deal, so get your order in soon if you don’t want to miss out on these savings.

This Nelko printer makes it easy to get your orders out the door quickly and efficiently. It’s equipped with thermal direct technology, so it supports speeds of up to 150 mm/s, which means it can print up to 72 4×6 inch shipping labels every minute. The labels are compatible with a wide variety of platforms, including Amazon, Etsy, Shopify, FedEx, USPS, UPS and many more. It doesn’t support Wi-Fi connectivity but is equipped with Bluetooth, so you can print wirelessly right from your phone, tablet or laptop, or via USB as well. Plus, it has a small 5×9 inch footprint, so it won’t crowd your desk or workstation either.

Over the last couple of years Jabra has released a slew of earbuds that were a little hard to tell apart from one another. Not only did we get Elites 3, 4, 5 and 7 Pro, but there were “Active” versions of some of those same buds. Some variety can be a good thing, but too much tends to create confusion and can stymie sales.

Now it appears Jabra has come to its senses. Or sort of, anyway. Once again, it’s released multiple models at the same time — the Elite 8 Active ($199) and the new flagship Elite 10 ($249), which I’m reviewing here. But at least Jabra has assured me that there won’t be a standard Elite 8 or an Elite 10 Active. Ever. So it’s finally showing some restraint.

Read more: Best wireless earbuds of 2023

Jabra Elite 10 design

Of the two new models, the Elite 8 Active are the more straightforward earbuds. They look, feel and perform like a modestly upgraded version of the Elite 7 Pro, with six microphones instead of four, slightly improved adaptive noise canceling and wind-reduction technology along with a higher durability rating. They have a noise-isolating design — you jam the tips into your ears to get a tight seal — and Jabra is billing them as the “world’s toughest earbuds” (if you’re more interested in the Elite 8 Active, feel free to jump over to that review).

The Elite 10s are a completely different set of earbuds. If they have an antecedent, it’s the Elite 85t, which also had a semi-open design. Some people really liked those earbuds; I was less of a fan. Compared to the Elite 85t, the Elite 10s offer not only a more comfortable fit and better design but better sound and significantly better noise-canceling performance along with impressive Dolby Spatial Sound with head tracking.

The Elite 10 are designed for people who don’t like having ear tips jammed in their ears. You’re still dealing with silicone ear tips but they have a unique oval shape and are designed to nestle in your ears. They’re certainly among the most comfortable earbuds that have silicone ear tips.

While the buds don’t have Jabra’s “ShakeGrip” finish that’s found on the Elite 8 Active, the finish does feel pretty similar to that of the Elite 8 Active — it’s soft to the touch, yet has some grip to it. Interestingly, the buds sometimes felt like they were sitting in my ears a little too loosely, but I actually had a more secure fit than I thought. I also appreciated that they didn’t stick out of my ears all that much — they’re pretty discreet.

Most earbuds have touch controls these days, but all of Jabra’s earbuds have a physical control button on each bud for controlling music playback, answering and ending calls and toggling between noise canceling and HearThru transparency mode. I’m among the people who tend to prefer physical controls to touch controls and the Elite 10’s button is well designed and makes a fairly subdued clicking noise when you press it.

While the Elite 8 Actives have a higher durability rating (IP68), the Elite 10s still have an IP57 rating, which means they offer both good dust resistance and can also be fully submerged in water. In other words, you can use these for running if you get a secure enough fit, but I felt more confident that the Elite 8 Actives would definitely stay in my ears while running with them.

The new charging case has rounded corners and offers wireless charging. It’s bigger than both the AirPods Pro 2’s and Sony WF-1000XM5’s charging cases, but it’s still relatively compact. The buds come in five color options: cream, cocoa, titanium black, gloss black and matte-black. I’m not quite sure why there are three black versions; they may be exclusive to certain retailers.

Jabra Elite 10 features

The Elite 10s have a robust feature set. They have Jabra’s “Advanced” adaptive noise canceling and an adjustable HearThru transparency mode that lets you hear the outside world. There are ear-detection sensors that automatically pause your music when you remove a bud from your ears and you can use a single bud in mono mode while the other charges in the case.

For both these earbuds Jabra has moved away from using Qualcomm chips, so they don’t support the AptX audio codec for Android devices, but they do support the AAC audio codec and are also compatible with the new LE Audio standard that includes the LC3 audio codec. LE Audio features will supposedly be available via a firmware upgrade sometime in the not-so-distant future, though it’s unclear exactly when.

Multipoint Bluetooth pairing, which allows you to pair the buds with two devices at the same time, is available from the get-go (it took a while for Jabra to add the feature to the Elite 7 Pro). And Android users get hands-free Google Assistant — you just have to say the wake word to access the assistant. You can also use your device’s native voice assistant, including Siri on Apple devices, but you have to press a button to access it.

One of the noteworthy additions to both the Elite 8 Active and Elite 10 is Dolby’s Spatial Sound. However, one key difference between the two buds is that the Elite 10s have Dolby Spatial Sound with Dolby head tracking. The standard Dolby Spatial Audio on the Elite 8 Active tricks your mind into thinking the sound is coming from more outside your head — it opens up the soundstage a bit — but the head-tracking takes the spatial audio to another level. I was impressed by it.

It’s right there with Apple’s spatial audio, and some might argue it’s even slightly better. It works with music and can enhance the listening experience with some tracks (or at least give you a different listening experience), particularly those remixed in Dolby Atmos. But like with Apple’s spatial audio, it can also enhance video-watching, creating a virtual surround experience with dialog fixed at the center of your smartphone or tablet’s screen. It works with both Apple and Android devices.

Finally, there’s a Find My Jabra feature that can tell you the last location of your buds before they disconnected from your device. It’s not as sophisticated as the AirPods Pro 2’s Precision Finding that allows you to track your buds much more exactly. But it’s better than none at all.

Jabra Elite 10 sound quality

The Elite 10s have larger 10mm drivers that help deliver richer and more accurate sound than the Elite 8 Active buds, which feature 6mm drivers. In a quieter environment anyway, the Elite 10 deliver sound that ranks up there with some of the best-sounding wireless earbuds. It’s clean, nicely detailed and open with well-defined bass. These sound a little more natural than the Elite 8 Actives, particularly in the midrange where vocals live. They just have a little more depth and refinement.

You can tweak the sound a bit in the app with some preset EQ options or create your own custom EQ. And you can turn Dolby Spatial Sound on and off in the Jabra Sound Plus app, which noticeably changes the sound. I found myself playing around with the Spatial Sound but generally used it with head-tracking on (if I used it).

I mainly compared these to Sony’s WF-1000XM5 earbuds, which list for $50 more. The Sonys are a bit warmer sounding and a little more accurate (they sound slightly more natural). But the Jabras are slightly more open and dynamic. From an audiophile standpoint, the Sonys sound a little better, but it’s easy to appreciate the bold, open sound of the Jabras. I did end up creating a custom EQ setting with the bass ticked up a notch and the treble lowered a bit to get a little smoother sound, and you’ll probably have to tweak the EQ settings to come up with the right sound profile for your ears and music listening tastes.

Jabra Elite 10 noise-canceling

The one issue with semi-open earbuds is that they do allow some sound to leak in and that creates challenges for noise canceling performance. As I said, these do a significantly better job than the older Elite 85t at reducing ambient sound. But I wouldn’t buy these expecting to muffle the outside world nearly as well as the AirPods Pro 2, Sony WF-1000XM5 or Bose QuietComfort Earbuds 2. In other words, they’re able to reduce ambient sound better than I thought they would, but they can only do so much.

While those aforementioned buds give you the impression that the ambient sound is being truly suppressed and blocked, the Elite 10s have a more filtering effect. Outside sounds are cut down or stripped down but you can still hear them. It’s almost as if the buds are acting as a strainer, catching harsher sounds but letting some sounds through. The buds basically took the edge off the cacophony as I walked the streets of New York but didn’t come close to completely eliminating it.

That’s all a lot of people want, particularly if you’re not a fan of strong noise canceling because it creates a pressure sensation (some people can’t tolerate active noise canceling). But these probably wouldn’t be the buds I’d use on a plane for a long trip. The noise canceling just isn’t that great.

On a side note, I did notice that the sound quality changed a bit when I switched from active noise canceling to HearThru mode or off completely. Each mode made the earbuds sound slightly different.

Jabra Elite 10 voice-calling performance

The voice-calling performance for both the Elite 10s and Elite 8 Actives left me slightly disappointed. Don’t get me wrong, it was quite good when I was making calls in less noisy environments. Callers said they could hear me clearly. But with both buds now featuring six microphones and improved wind noise reduction technology, I expected a little more in harsher conditions. In our torture test in the noisy streets of New York, callers told me they didn’t reduce background noise as well as competing models like the AirPods Pro 2 and Sony WF-1000XM5, and my voice warbled at times.

If you watch my companion video review, you can hear a test call I recorded with the Elite 10 that gives you a sense of the call quality in a harsh environment, though note that the call is recorded via the internet so a little bit of fidelity in my voice is lost.

Jabra Elite 10 battery life

The Elite 10 don’t have as good a battery life rating as the Elite 8 Active but it’s still not bad. They’re rated for up to 6 hours at moderate volume levels with ANC on compared to 8 hours for the Elite 8 Active. That’s about the same as what you get with the AirPods Pro 2.

Jabra Elite 10 final thoughts

With so many good true-wireless earbuds on the market, it’s become much harder for companies to make their products stand out from the pack. With the Elite 10 Jabra manages to do just that with a set of buds that are aimed at folks looking for a more comfortable fit from their in-ear buds without sacrificing too much performance by moving to a fully open design that tends to offer less-than ideal sound quality and no active noise-canceling capabilities.

Yes, the Elite 10s do have some potential drawbacks (their noise canceling is lighter compared to competitors) and they’re pretty pricey at $249 and will probably have to come down a bit to better compete with the AirPods Pro 2 — at least for Apple users. Still, they’re really good earbuds that are not only comfortable to wear for long periods but also sound excellent. In fact, if their voice-calling performance was leveled up a bit, the Elite 10 buds might just be in Editors’ Choice territory. Hopefully, we’ll see some improvements with firmware upgrades.

Jabra Elite 10 key specs, according to Jabra

• Optimized for Dolby Atmos with Dolby Head Tracking
• Jabra ComfortFit technology for a natural, airy fit and less occlusion with semi-open design to relieve ear pressure
• Six-mic call technology with advanced algorithms for better call clarity in any environment
• Jabra Advanced ANC which blocks out 2x more noise than Jabra’s standard ANC
• HearThrough technology with wind-noise reduction
• 6-hour battery (27 hours including case) with ANC on
• Wireless charging
• IP57 rating
• Bluetooth Multipoint connection
• Hands-free Voice Assistant, Fast Pair, Swift Pair, Spotify Tap playback
• Ready to support Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) and LC3, LC3plus codec with future firmware update
• Price: $249

The last few years Jabra has released a lot of earbuds, perhaps too many, confusing consumers in the process. These include the Elites 3, 4, 5 and 7 Pro, as well as Active versions of some of those same buds. But now Jabra’s marketing team is promising a more streamlined approach, at least at the top of its earbuds line. While it’s once again released multiple models at the same time — the new flagship Elite 10 ($249) and Elite 8 Active ($199), which I’m reviewing here — Jabra has assured me that there won’t be a standard Elite 8 or an Elite 10 Active. That seems like a step in the right direction, and both new models offer some unique traits that help them stand out in the crowded premium earbuds market.

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Jabra Elite 8 Active design

Of the two new models, the Elite 8 Actives are the more straightforward earbuds. They look, feel and perform like a modestly upgraded version of the Elite 7 Pro and Elite 7 Active, with six microphones instead of four, slightly improved adaptive noise canceling and wind-reduction technology along with a higher durability rating. They have a noise-isolating design — you jam the tips into your ears to get a tight seal — and Jabra is billing them as the “world’s toughest earbuds” (if you’re more interested in the Elite 10, feel free to jump over to that review).

Like the Elite 4, 5 and 7 series buds, the Elite 8 Actives have a noise-isolating design with the same ear tips. They fit my ears quite well and I like that they have physical control buttons for controlling music playback, answering and ending calls and toggling between noise canceling and HearThru transparency mode.

Jabra’s Active earbuds have always been billed as being slightly more durable than their standard Elite counterparts. But for the Elite Active 8, Jabra has really leaned into the whole durability factor, and it’s marketing these as the world’s toughest earbuds. They’re fully waterproof and dustproof with an IP68 rating, and their charging case is dust- and splashproof with an IP54 rating. Jabra also says they’re drop-proof to 1 meter and have passed nine durability tests to meet the military spec standard for ruggedized electronics.

While I didn’t do any extreme cold tests, I did drop them several times on the pavement from shoulder height (more than 1 meter), fully submerged them in water, and wore them around in 90-degree heat in the streets of New York. They came out no worse for wear, and I was impressed that the pavement didn’t leave any marks on the buds. Typical plastic buds tend to show scratches and dings after being dropped on hard, rough surfaces.

The new charging case has rounded corners and does offer wireless charging. It’s bigger than both the AirPods Pro 2’s and Sony WF-1000XM5’s charging cases, but it’s still relatively compact. The buds come in four color options: navy, black, dark gray and caramel.

If you’re looking for rugged buds, that would be a key reason to buy these. But they’re also lightweight at 5 grams each, and compact, sitting fairly flush with your ears. They have Jabra’s ShakeGrip rubber coating that gives them an added bit of grip, and most people should get a very secure fit. In my tests, they worked well for running.

Jabra Elite 8 Active features

The buds have both adaptive noise canceling and an adjustable HearThru transparency mode that lets you hear the outside world. There are ear-detection sensors that automatically pause your music when you remove a bud from your ears, and you can use a single bud in mono mode while the other charges in the case.

For both the Elite 8 Active and Elite 10 earbuds, Jabra has moved away from using Qualcomm chips, so they don’t support the AptX audio codec for Android devices, but they do support the AAC audio codec and are also compatible with the new LE Audio standard that includes the LC3 audio codec. LE Audio features will supposedly be available via a firmware upgrade sometime in the not-so-distant future, though it’s unclear exactly when.

Multipoint Bluetooth pairing, which allows you to pair the buds with two devices at the same time, is available from the get-go (it took a while for Jabra to add the feature to the Elite 7 Pro). And Android users get hands-free Google Assistant — you just have to say the wake word to access the assistant. You can also use your device’s native voice assistant, including Siri on Apple devices, but you have to press a button to access it.

One of the noteworthy additions to both the Elite 8 Active and Elite 10 is Dolby’s Spatial Sound. However, one key difference between the two buds is that the Elite 10s have Dolby Spatial Sound with Dolby head tracking. The standard Dolby Spatial Audio on the Elite 8 Actives tricks your mind into thinking the sound is coming from more outside your head — it opens up the soundstage a bit — but the head-tracking takes the spatial audio to another level on the Elite 10s.

Finally, there’s a Find My Jabra feature that can tell you the last location of your buds before they disconnected from your device. The Find My isn’t as sophisticated as the AirPods Pro 2’s Precision Finding that allows you to track your buds much more precisely. But at least there’s some help if you’ve misplaced your headphones.

Jabra Elite 8 Active sound quality

Equipped with new 6mm drivers (the Elite 10s have 10mm drivers), the Elite 8 Actives lack a bit of refinement and accuracy compared to even more expensive buds, including the Elite 10s and Sony WF-1000XM5s. But all in all, there isn’t a whole lot to complain about. The buds have decent clarity and punchy bass. While their sound didn’t blow me away, it’s in line with what I get from other sports buds in this price range, including the Beats Fit Pros, which also deliver very good but not necessarily great sound. And like with the Elite 10s, you can also tweak the sound a bit in the app with some preset EQ options or create your own custom EQ.

As I said, the biggest benefit of activating Dolby Spatial Sound in the Jabra Sound Plus app for iOS and Android (you can deactivate it) is a wider soundstage. More average earbuds and headphones leave you feeling like the sound is stuck inside your head. But better ones deliver more open, airy sound that sounds bigger and has more depth to it. And with Dolby Spatial Sound on I did feel as if the sound was more outside my head. I generally left it on.

Jabra Elite 8 Active noise canceling

Neither the ANC or transparency are quite up to the level of the AirPods Pro 2, which retail for a similar price. But the noise canceling seems slightly improved from the Elite 7 Pro. These use Jabra’s adaptive hybrid noise canceling, which it lists as its second most technologically advanced noise canceling technology.

The Elite 10 earbuds use Jabra’s Advanced noise canceling, which it says delivers a “completely bespoke sound experience however loud your surroundings,” but the Elite 10s have semi-open design and their noise-canceling is that strong compared to that of Bose, Sony and Apple. In fact, because the Elite 8 Actives block out more noise passively than the Elite 10s due to their noise-isolating design, the Elite 8 Actives muffle ambient sound better than the Elite 10s.

Note that the adjustable HearThru, or transparency mode, is an important feature for runners who want to let sound in and hear the outside world for safety reasons. It’s a decent transparency mode, but doesn’t sound quite as natural as the AirPods Pro 2’s transparency mode.

Jabra Elite 8 Active voice-calling performance

The voice-calling performance for both the Elite 10 and Elite Active 8 left me slightly disappointed. Don’t get me wrong, it was quite good when I was making calls in less noisy environments. Callers said they could hear me clearly. But with both buds now featuring six microphones and improved wind noise reduction technology, I expected a little more in harsher conditions. In our torture test in the noisy streets of New York, callers told me they didn’t reduce background noise as well as competing models like the AirPods Pro 2 and Sony WF-1000XM5s, and my voice warbled at times.

If you watch my companion video review, you can hear a test call I recorded with the Elite 10 that gives you a sense of the call quality in a harsh environment, though note the call is recorded via the nternet so a little bit of fidelity in my voice is lost. The Elite offered similar voice-calling performance. As I said, it’s good — but I was hoping for great.

Jabra Elite 8 Active battery life

Battery life is rated at up to 8 hours with ANC on and 14 with it off. Good numbers for sure, and better than the Elite 10, which is rated for 6 hours of battery life at moderate volume levels with ANC on.

Jabra Elite 8 Active final thoughts

As noted in my intro, the Elite 8 Active is a modestly upgraded version of the Elite 7 Pro and Elite 7 Active with added durability and slightly better sound and noise canceling. The Elite 7 Pros also carry a list price of $200 but have regularly been on sale for $30 to $50 off, dipping to as low as $120 recently. As with the Elite Series 7 buds, I think you’ll see some discounts on the Elite 8 Actives as we head into the holiday buying season, so keep an eye out for that if you’re on the fence about these (it would make sense for Jabra to price the Elite 8 Active lower than the AirPods Pro 2 if it wants to attract more Apple users).

While I did feel they had some small shortcomings in their voice-calling performance even with their upgraded six-microphone array (three on each earbud), I did come away feeling these were really solid buds overall and are an appealing option for those looking for really durable buds that stay in your ears securely. Hopefully, we’ll see some firmware updates that make the buds even better. If so, I may raise my rating slightly.

Elite 8 Active key features, according to Jabra

• IP68 rated dust-proof, watertight, sweat-proof and 1m drop-resistant earbuds
• IP54 rated dust- and splash-proof case
• Crystal-clear sound and added dimensionality with Dolby Audio
• Jabra ShakeGrip technology for secure fit in a wing-free, sleek design
• Adaptive Hybrid ANC auto-filters background noise
• Wind Neutralizing HearThrough for indoor and outdoor activities
• Six-mic call technology with wind noise protecting mesh
• 6mm speaker drivers
• Up to 8 hours of battery life and up to 32 hours with case (ANC on)
• Stable smartwatch connectivity
• Google Assistant, Fast Pair, Swift Pair & Spotify Tap playback
• Bluetooth multipoint connection
• Ready to support Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) & LC3, LC3plus codec with future firmware update
• Price: $199