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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Wednesday, September 18th.

I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.

Listen up, Apple's got new AirPods models,

four of them.

But can any of them hit the quality and price sweet spot?

Our personal tech columnist Nicole Nguyen has been testing them out.

And then, Instagram is making changes to prevent teens from creating adult accounts with phony birth dates

and it will now automatically make youth accounts private with the most restrictive settings.

Our family and tech columnist Julie Jargan has been speaking

with Instagram's head Adam Mossary and she'll be here to tell us about the changes. First up though, Apple has expanded its headphones options and the new versions of its

wireless wearable audio line offer a range of features from noise cancelling to hearing

aids and a variety of price points. Our personal tech columnist Nicole Nguyen has been

sorting through the differences and testing them out.

So Nicole, Apple hasn't updated its basic airpods in several years.

What has Apple changed in the new airpods for?

There are two new airpods for. That's probably the biggest change. There's your basic,

traditional, classic white toothpicks in your ear. Airpods 4. Those have some new features like you can nod your head to

accept a Siri request. You can shake your head to decline it, for example. But there is a new step-up model that's $199. It's $50 more and that's called

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