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The world is a noisy place. High-end headphones are getting better at shutting it out; solid noise-canceling headphones from Sony, Bose, and others are increasingly a must-have for anyone who spends a lot of time on planes and trains, or in coffee shops full of people pitching AI startups. It’s a sanity thing



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If you've seen episode 5 of Netflix's 3 Body Problem, your jaw might still be on the floor. For the residents of the doomed ship Judgment Day in the show, it's not just their jaws.

Taken directly from Liu Cixin's book, it's one of the most horrifying scenes you'll see on TV this year. The sequence sees the military deployment of Auggie Salazar's (Eiza González) nanotechnology against a large



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Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge crash
The Dali container ship collided with Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday.
  • A cargo ship collided with Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday, causing it to collapse.
  • The same ship was involved in a crash in Antwerp, Belgium, in 2016.
  • The cause of both incidents was not immediately clear.

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3 Body Problem has left us with all sorts of burning questions, not least of which is what the San-Ti alien threat might actually look like in their real form.

We've already dug in pretty deeply into that last one, but that didn't stop us from putting it to showrunners David Benioff, D. B. Weiss and Alexander Woo when Mashable spoke to them about the show.

Did they all have an image of the aliens in



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Back when I was a kid (puts on old man glasses) we had the Casio SK-1. We’d spend all day making samples of burps and turning them into stupid little songs, but that’s about as far as it went. You couldn’t layer tracks or anything. Modern children, however, are about to get an actual full-featured groovebox, thanks to Playtime Engineering.

The Blipblox myTRACKS is a complete music production



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Disney has made some slight but notable updates to the logo and splash screen for its Disney Plus streaming service that likely nod to its looming merger with Hulu. The biggest change is the new teal / seafoam background color, which appears to be a rough mix between its



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Sony is introducing a new Community Game Help feature on the PS5 later this year that is designed to automatically create clips that can help other players. PS5 players will be able to automatically upload gameplay to help contribute to hint videos provided by game developers.

The opt-in experience will let your PS5 automatically capture a



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Meta's relationship with politics and political content on its platforms has been a source of enormous controversy, with the platform routinely accused of highlighting material designed to rile up users in the name of engagement. The company has, in recent years, tried to distance itself from its reputation and is now allowing users to restrict algorithmically-suggested political content on both



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Technology has become so ingrained into our lives that we often don’t stop to think about the electronics—small, delicate, and powerful—that have to work in perfect harmony to make our favorite gadget work. In my case, I would have never imagined that Apple’s Lightning charger, a bane of my existence, would have as…

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  • Stocks are in a bubble that will almost certainly burst, Jeremy Grantham said.
  • The GMO cofounder said bull markets almost never start in boom times, and end badly when they do.
  • Grantham shrugged off de-dollarization fears and blasted bitcoin as speculative and inferior.

Stocks are in a bubble that's bound to burst, there's no imminent risk to dollar dominance, and


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There's a huge range of Android tablets out there. Some are great for reading comics, while others can double as laptop replacements. However, with devices starting at under $200 and going up to well over $1,000, picking the right one for your needs can be kind of tricky. We’ve tested dozens of tablets over the years from companies like Samsung, Lenovo and Google. So to help you select a device