Audio-Technica’s ATH-CKS5TW earbuds offer stellar battery life at a decent price

The app is so limited that basically the only thing I used it for was to download software updates and check the battery percentage on the earbuds. The update process is more labor intensive than with other models I've tested. Most of them just require you to leave the buds alone for a few minutes,…

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Facebook Removes Accounts With AI-Generated Profile Photos

Facebook on Friday removed what it called a global network of more than 900 accounts, pages, and groups from its platform and Instagram that allegedly used deceptive practices to push pro-Trump narratives to about 55 million users. The network used fake accounts, artificial amplification, and, notably, profile photos of fake faces generated using artificial intelligence…

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So You Think You Know Gravity? Let Us Drop Some Knowledge

Gravity is just gravity, right? You slip on some stairs, take a tumble to the bottom, and everyone laughs. Hilarious, that’s a given, but that’s also not giving gravity its due. Gravity is all around us, an omnipresent force that keeps our feet on the ground or our bodies falling down the stairs, but there’s…

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The Best Amazon Fire Tablet (2019): Which Model Should You Buy?

Amazon's Fire tablets are some of the only high-profile, affordable tablets around. Their prices seem too good to be true—and in some ways, they are—but Fire tablets are also completely functional, reasonably capable devices. To help you decide if one of these slates is right for you, we reviewed every model. These are our unfiltered…

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The 8 Best Baby Monitors: Wi-Fi, Radio (No Internet), and More

New parents, here's a tip: You might not even need a baby monitor. A healthy, hungry baby can shriek in tones piercing enough to bend metal, let alone your poor eardrums. Nevertheless, a monitor comes in handy if you like to sit out on the porch or if you're sleep-training and want to make sure…

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The 5 Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy TV Shows of 2019

We don’t only watch nerd TV here at WIRED. Fleabag’s fabulous. More Pose now. Ship a box of Emmys to Big Little Lies.It’s just that, this year, when it came to new shows, genre kind of kicked all the butts. In fact, we could’ve left off the sci-fi/fantasy qualifier and called this list “The 5…

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Puma Is Making Gamer Shoes Now

Welcome to the last Replay of 2019! For this final installment, we're covering some light news during a light week. But still, we will not let you fall behind, dear readers. Read on for all the videogame news you need to know as you go headlong into 2020.The Core Rainbow Six Siege Team Has Moved…

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Feds Call Helicopter That Crashed in NYC River a ‘Death Trap’

The helicopter that crashed in New York City’s East River last year and led to the deaths of five young sightseers on an open-door flight was a “death trap,” according to the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, which concluded its investigation into the incident last week. In its preliminary report, the agency tallied…

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Was Built to Win. So It Had to Fail

First, a seemingly controversial opinion: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is a good movie. A good movie—not a good film. Films win Oscars and play festivals. Movies sell popcorn and play in multiplexes. There are films that qualify as movies and movies that qualify as films, but Rise of Skywalker is definitely a movie.…

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‘Boomerspeak’ Is Now Available for Your Parodying Pleasure

In 2019, young people learned how to talk like boomers. It showed up in tweets ("why do boomers all have such a strange relationship with capitalization and punctuation"), on Reddit ("On my first ever Facebook post to a friend's wall, I signed my name like some kind of boomer"), and people who type "ok boomer"…

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