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How to improve audio quality on your Android phone with Bluetooth or wired headphones

Maximizing your listening experience on Android can get very complicated, but we’ll guide you through settings and headphone choices to get you there.

This Microsoft 365 Family plan cloud storage change may leave you frustrated

Your Microsoft 365 Family plan will transition to a new (smaller) shared storage model when you renew it.

Google joins OpenAI and Anthropic in promising new scraping controls

Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft pledge to support a new common signal for robots.txt that blocks scraping for AI training.

Meta settles another social media addiction case just before trial

Snap is now the only defendant in the case.

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The Wikimedia Foundation weighs in on the NYT’s case against OpenAI

The folks behind Wikipedia say that an extreme decision in either direction could threaten the open web.