While Apple and Pixel owners have their own earbuds with special features, Samsung phone owners have the option of reaching for something like the Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 FE. They’re a pair of last-gen Samsung buds that are still great, and a good match for Samsung’s Galaxy mobile phones, with extra app support, one touch pairing, and impressive noise-canceling and sound quality for the price. If you head over to Amazon, you can save $20 on either the Black or Gray version.

One area where Samsung’s buds shine is the sound quality. They have a big, bold sound with great detail from the midrange up through the top end, and a fairly wide soundstage. The result is a pleasantly robust listening experience, with one minor note worth mentioning. The buds come with a volume normalization disabled, which results in a muddled sound, and you’ll need to connect them to a Samsung phone to disable the setting. Once you do, they sound a lot better, and you can even tweak them further with the Wear app’s nine-band equalizer.

They also excel at active noise-canceling, something other earbuds at this price point don’t always handle that well. It works the best with low-frequency noises, like the whirr of a plane engine, and has adjustable levels so you can move from almost complete silence all the way to transparency mode for a quick chat. It doesn’t quite compete with some of the best earbuds on the market, but it should be more than good enough for most folks. The microphone quality is excellent too, with awesome noise isolation for crystal clear calling, and you can even leverage the transparency mode for some talkback, which is also adjustable in the app.

You may find these work a lot better with Samsung phones than with other Android or iOS devices, so if you aren’t in the Galaxy universe, I’d rocket over to our guide to the best wireless earbuds we’ve had the chance to check out. Otherwise, you can grab the Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 FE from amazon for their discounted price of $130. I also spotted them in stock at Best Buy if that’s your preferred retailer.

Enterprise and industrial connectivity is becoming critical infrastructure through artificial intelligence (AI) moving into real-world operations, and in response to this changing world, Ericsson and Future Technologies Venture have expanded their existing collaboration to accelerate deployment of enterprise wireless and private 5G networks across industrial and critical infrastructure sectors in North America.

The comms tech giant and connectivity transformation systems integrator believe that as organisations deploy AI into real-world environments – from manufacturing plants and logistics networks to energy infrastructure and transportation systems – they require secure, resilient and deterministic connectivity capable of supporting real-time data movement between connected devices, edge computing platforms and centralised cloud systems.

Moreover, they believe that as industries accelerate adoption of AI-driven operational technologies, scalable wireless infrastructure is emerging as a strategic foundation for modern industrial environments.

They add that such a shift is creating a growing gap between AI compute capacity and the enterprise networks designed to support it, and warn that many traditional enterprise connectivity architectures were not built to deliver the scale, reliability and real-time performance required for modern AI-enabled operations.

To address these requirements, Ericsson and Future Technologies Venture stressed that organisations are increasingly deploying cellular technologies, including private 5G and enterprise wireless WAN (WWAN), to provide secure, deterministic connectivity across complex operational environments.

The new collaboration is based on the conviction that enterprise wireless is becoming a foundational layer enabling AI-driven modernisation across physical industries. The partnership will see Ericsson provide enterprise wireless and private cellular technologies while Future Technologies will deliver systems integration expertise spanning strategy, architecture, deployment and lifecycle services.

In addition, Future Technologies will look to offer overall enterprise wireless transformation initiatives, helping organisations to design and deploy modern connectivity environments across sectors including energy, manufacturing, transportation, logistics and enterprise campus environments.

The organisation also operates customer validation environments including its Living Lab and Lab-on-Wheels mobile demonstration platform to allow enterprises to test real-world connectivity architectures, validate operational use cases and accelerate pilot-to-production deployment timelines.

Ericsson and Future Technologies have already collaborated for more than 13 years across thousands of deployments throughout North America with what is said to be more than $150m in cumulative joint engagement value, spanning public cellular modernisation, private cellular deployments, industrial wireless WAN initiatives and large-scale enterprise connectivity transformation programmes.

Deployments have taken place at manufacturing environments, industrial facilities, and large-scale sports and entertainment venues where secure connectivity enables real-time operational data and advanced digital applications.

Åsa Tamsons, senior vice-president and head of business area enterprise wireless solutions at Ericsson, said: “AI is moving into the physical world, and that fundamentally changes the role connectivity plays inside enterprises. Enterprise wireless is becoming foundational infrastructure for AI-driven operations. Our collaboration with Future Technologies strengthens Ericsson’s ability to help organisations deploy the networks required to power the next generation of industrial innovation.”

Future Technologies CEO Peter Cappiello added: “Connectivity transformation is not simply about upgrading networks, it is about enabling AI modernisation across industrial environments. Ericsson has been a foundational technology partner for more than 13 years. Together we are scaling deterministic enterprise wireless as a utility layer supporting modern infrastructure across North America.”

Render Networks has made further expansion of its footprint as a system of execution for critical infrastructure with the ClearWay platform.

As infrastructure investment accelerates across fibre broadband, electric grid modernisation, distributed energy and AI-driven datacentre expansion, capital discipline has emerged as a defining concern, according to the company.

Render has stated that traditional methods of data analysis and manual decision-making often hamper progress, with deployment risk now consequentially translating directly into capital risk. It added that operators, utilities and builders must reduce variance, accelerate cash conversion and establish audit-grade accountability across increasingly complex, multi-asset deployments.

Originally establishing itself in telecommunications, Render now supports electric utilities and multi-utility environments where construction accuracy is a prerequisite for operational reliability. Built for infrastructure environments where governance is “non-negotiable”, ClearWay is claimed to advance automation without eroding engineering authority.

The new platform is built to transform design data into live scopes of work, to capture verified field progress in real-time and to econcile workflows to maintain financial integrity. This is seen as producing defensible as-built records that flow “seamlessly” into operations. Rather than a collection of isolated AI features, ClearWay is said to operate across a federated system of specialised agents designed to operate autonomously in identity, policy and audit controls.

Each agent operates with a uniquely defined degree of autonomy, managed identity and least-privilege access. As additional ClearWay agents are introduced, the system is built to support progressively higher levels of autonomy, bounded by deterministic guardrails derived from user-defined operational policies. The result is that decision-making choices are underpinned by controlled, auditable automation that preserves first-order accountability while also enabling meaningful scale.

The first release of ClearWay scheduled for release in the second quarter of 2026 and is scheduled to introduce field assurance and work approval capabilities across telecom and electric deployments with an assurance agent and approval agent.

The former is said to validate field-captured evidence against planned work in real-time, ensuring accuracy before crews leave the site. By contrast, the latter approves work autonomously based on a correlation of work type, planned vs. actual units, photos, and test results. When predefined criteria are met, the agent processes the approval and escalates exceptions only when human review is required.

By ensuring work is correct and defensible at the point of execution, Render is confident that ClearWay can accelerate design to build lead times, reduce construction rework, accelerate closeout and improve working capital velocity. This will be “particularly vital” in broadband and grid modernisation environments, where construction accuracy directly affects serviceability, network reliability and regulatory compliance.

“We have always focused on ensuring that work in the field becomes verified operational truth. The next step is ensuring that truth drives disciplined, governed and rapid action across the lifecycle,” said Stephen Rose, CEO of Render Networks.

“As capital efficiency becomes central to telecom and electric infrastructure, automation must ensure rapid decisions are made well to reinforce control and accountability. ClearWay is designed to do exactly that.”

Render will introduce additional specialised agents in the ClearWay architecture, spanning lifecycle management and financial reconciliation, service activation and operational monitoring, and predictive maintenance and sustainability governance.