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The best noise-canceling headphones let you listen to music without distractions.

When listening to music, there's nothing worse than annoying background noise drowning out your favorite songs. That's why noise-canceling headphones have become so popular. Using built-in



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A chunky electric spoon for your chunky low-sodium foods. | Image: Kirin

If you’re cutting salt out of your diet, either for medical reasons or just trying to be healthy, low-sodium foods can be a letdown. But don’t despair — Japanese company Kirin claims to have a solution in its Electric Salt Spoon, which uses electrodes to electrify your tongue to give you a little salty



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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - 2024/04/22: South Korea's 24-hour Yonhapnews TV shows a file image of North Korea's missile launch during a news program on a TV at Yongsan Railroad Station in Seoul.
South Korea's Yonhap News TV showing a file image of a North Korean missile launch.
  • Tensions are high between North Korea and South Korea, and it could soon erupt into a crisis.
  • North Korea is expected to provoke conflict before the US election in November.
  • An expert says that could drag the US into a clash on the peninsula.

Tensions are flaring



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Despite the fact that they’re created by humans, large language models are still quite mysterious. The high-octane algorithms that power our current artificial intelligence boom have a way of doing things that aren’t outwardly explicable to the people observing them. This is why AI has largely been dubbed a “black…

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  • Comcast is selling Netflix, Peacock, and Apple TV+ for $15 a month. It'd cost $23 to get them separately.
  • Where does that $8-a-month discount come from?
  • Good question. The possible answers tell you a lot about streaming economics these days.

If you subscribe to Netflix's cheapest plan, and also get Peacock's cheapest plan, and also get Apple TV+, it will cost you $23



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Recall, one of Windows’ new AI features, on a Surface Laptop. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge

Microsoft’s new Windows on Arm push is a milestone moment. It’s taken nearly five years to get to the point where the software maker is confident it has the upper hand over the MacBook Air on performance, battery life, and app compatibility.

But behind the scenes, Microsoft



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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at Build 2024. | Screenshot: YouTube

Microsoft had a lot to say about Windows and AI — and a little to say about custom emoji — during the Build 2024 keynote. The company, like just about everyone else in the industry, is charging hard at cramming AI into every nook and cranny it can find. That means Copilot watching your screen to help you play



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Microsoft is adding a new Advanced Paste feature to PowerToys for Windows 11 that can convert your clipboard content on the fly with the power of AI. The new feature can help people speed up their workflows by doing things like copying code in one language and pasting it in another, although its best tricks require OpenAI API credits.

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