The best headphones for kids

The best headphones for kids

Buying headphones for your kids sounds like a good idea — you won’t have to listen to Baby Shark for the umpteenth time. But there’s a more important reason. Your child’s ears are super sensitive when they are still developing. It’s possible to damage them with sounds of over 85 decibels. Using adult headphones isn’t the best idea. Not unless you can convince them to lower the volume. Which is…

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A lifetime subscription to this premium plant identification app is on sale for under £20

A lifetime subscription to this premium plant identification app is on sale for under £20

TL;DR: A lifetime subscription to a NatureID Plant Identification Premium Plan is on sale for £15.80, saving you 67% on list price. Growing your own veggies and herbs is a pretty genius way to curb some of the steep grocery prices caused by inflation. But it’s far from easy. If you’re new to plant parenthood, you’ll need some assistance on your journey. That’s where NatureID comes in. NatureID…

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NASA spins a spiral galaxy soundtrack. What exactly are we hearing?

NASA spins a spiral galaxy soundtrack. What exactly are we hearing?

Some 69 million light-years from Earth is a barred spiral galaxy in the southern hemisphere constellation Eridanus. Its arms are strung with young blue stars, pink cotton candy star-forming clouds, and darkened dusty alleyways. The Hubble Space Telescope has helped tell galaxy NGC 1300’s story through pictures, but what’s the colorful tale’s soundtrack? Perhaps exactly what you’d expect: a…

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This 3-in-1 space-saving charging station is on sale for under $50

This 3-in-1 space-saving charging station is on sale for under $50

TL;DR: As of May 31, this MagStack Foldable 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Station with Floating Stand and 20W Adapter is on sale for $47.99. That’s 36% off its regular price of $74.99. It would be pretty convenient if you could charge more than one of your electronic devices at a time, and leave for work with your smartphone and earbuds fully charged so they last you the whole day without worry.…

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Apple's next iPhone might finally get always-on display

Apple's next iPhone might finally get always-on display

Apple’s iPhone 14, likely to come out in the fall, will have a feature Android devices have had for years: an always-on display. This is according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who laid out Apple’s possible plans in the latest instalment of his “Power On” newsletter (via MacRumors). According to the report, Apple’s iOS 16 — likely to come alongside the next iPhone — will come with an “enhanced”…

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NASA's tenacious drone sweeps over Mars in farthest flight yet

NASA's tenacious drone sweeps over Mars in farthest flight yet

The little Martian helicopter-that-could has done it again. Ingenuity, a small 4-pound robotic scout that hitched a ride to the Red Planet last year, has recently sent back video documentation of its farthest and fastest flight yet. On April 8, it traveled 2,310 feet — a bit less than half a mile — at 12 mph. The helicopter’s black-and-white navigation camera caught the excursion, showing a rare,…

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This innovative decentralized VPN (DPN) offers an all-in-one cybersecurity solution

This innovative decentralized VPN (DPN) offers an all-in-one cybersecurity solution

TL;DR: As of May 31, the Deeper Connect Mini Decentralized VPN & Firewall Hardware is on sale for $349. It’s usually $399, so that’s savings of 12%, Whenever you hop online, whether it’s to pay a bill or stream a movie, you could become susceptible to hackers. As the saying goes, it’s better to be safe than sorry, so help keep yourself safe online by subscribing to a VPN service. If you want to…

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The best on-ear headphones from all the top brands

The best on-ear headphones from all the top brands

Somewhere in between those bulky over-ear headphones and tiny earbuds is a more classic style: on-ear headphones. And with on-ear headphones, you really get to enjoy the best of both worlds. That’s because on-ear headphones have the benefit of having speakers large enough to produce hi-fi sound (the way over-ear headphones do) while remaining compact enough to stow away for easy transport (like…

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The best electric toothbrushes for healthier, whiter teeth

The best electric toothbrushes for healthier, whiter teeth

Let’s assume from the outset that you already own an electric toothbrush. It’s one of the must-have modern items. If you don’t, you and your gnashers really need to get with the times. Because seriously, who has the energy to actually move a brush up and down, back and forth with their own hand? We’re not cavemen anymore, guys. That’s not to mention the huge benefits of using an electric…

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All the best beard trimmers — no matter what style of facial hair you have

All the best beard trimmers — no matter what style of facial hair you have

Do you want your face constantly nestled in a cozy, luscious beard? Or do you want every single follicle eradicated from your beautiful mug? Either way, the fact stands: you need the tools to take care of your facial hair. Do whatever it takes to not look like a scraggly mess — because if your face isn’t looking its best, you’re not going to feel your best. To get the job done, you need a good…

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The Station: EV SPACs face new regulatory speed bump, more on Rivian’s reorg and VW weighs direct sales for Scout brand

The Station: EV SPACs face new regulatory speed bump, more on Rivian’s reorg and VW weighs direct sales for Scout brand

Welcome back to The Station, your weekly guide to everything going on in the world of transportation. Many readers of this weekly newsletter are likely enjoying a three-day weekend thanks to the Memorial Day holiday. So, this week I will keep it a wee bit shorter. Before we get started, check out the latest transportation Q&A, this time with Convoy co-founder and CEO Dan Lewis. He predicts…

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Mintlify taps AI to automatically generate documentation from code

Mintlify taps AI to automatically generate documentation from code

Mintlify, a startup developing software to automate software documentation tasks, today announced that it raised $2.8 million in a seed round led by by Bain Capital Ventures with participation from TwentyTwo Ventures and Quinn Slack, Sourcegraph’s co-founder. CEO Han Wang says that the proceeds will be put toward product development and doubling Mintlify’s core three-person team by the end of the…

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Why web3 companies get hacked so often, according to crypto VC Grace Isford

Why web3 companies get hacked so often, according to crypto VC Grace Isford

On the Chain Reaction podcast this week, Lux Capital’s newest investor, Grace Isford, joined us to talk about the opaque but crucial world of web3 infrastructure. At Lux, Isford invests in the companies working behind the scenes to make sure crypto exchanges are secure and reliable enough to avoid being hacked. Before joining Lux this February, Isford was an investor at Canvas Ventures focused on…

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Should Oracle or Alphabet buy VMWare instead of Broadcom?

Should Oracle or Alphabet buy VMWare instead of Broadcom?

As expected, the Broadcom-VMware deal is a go. The chip giant intends to snap up the virtualization software company for $61 billion in cash and stock, along with taking on $8 billion in VMware debt. It’s not an inexpensive transaction, but thanks to a “go-shop” provision that gives VMware 40 days to “solicit, receive, evaluate and potentially enter negotiations with parties that offer…

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How Box escaped the SaaS growth trap

How Box escaped the SaaS growth trap

Enterprise productivity company Box reported results earlier this week for the first quarter of its fiscal 2023, the three-month period ending April 30. Box managed to beat revenue expectations, though it missed on adjusted per-share profit. Shares of the company initially lost modest ground. You might read the above paragraph and wonder why we’re digging into a SaaS company that had a quarter…

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One AI raises $8M to curate business-specific NLP models

One AI raises $8M to curate business-specific NLP models

Whether to power translation to document summarization, enterprises are increasing their investments in natural language processing (NLP) technologies. According to a 2021 survey from John Snow Labs and Gradient Flow, 60% of tech leaders indicated that their NLP budgets grew by at least 10% compared to 2020, while a third said that spending climbed by more than 30%. It’s a fiercely competitive…

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Tension Inside Google Over a Fired AI Researcher’s Conduct

Tension Inside Google Over a Fired AI Researcher’s Conduct

In late 2018, Google AI researchers Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini got the go-ahead to test an elegant idea. Google had invented powerful computer chips called tensor processing units, or TPUs, to run machine learning algorithms inside its data centers—but, the pair wondered, what if AI software could help improve that same AI hardware? The project, later codenamed Morpheus, won support from…

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