Marshall has announced a new music streaming hub called the Heddon that can broadcast to multiple speakers using the Bluetooth Auracast feature that's finally starting to catch on. Similar to Sennheiser's BTA1 TV Transmitter announced earlier this week, the Heddon doesn't require wireless audio devices to go through a pairing process to stream audio, as long as they also support Bluetooth Auracast. But while Sennheiser's transmitter has an HDMI port for broadcasting audio from movies and TV shows, Marshall focuses on music.

The Heddon hub includes Wi-Fi which is used to directly connect to streaming services including Spotify Connect and Ti …

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With many day-to-day tasks now carried out on screen it’s inevitable that the effectiveness of technology impacts on our work. A new study shows that American employees spend 4.5 hours a week searching for files, emails, or links they have already seen, totaling 29 work days per year. The survey of over 1,000 US employees about their digital habits and workspace organization, carried out by Smallpdf, finds that disorganization and digital clutter costs workers time, energy, and confidence. Windows users reported spending an hour more per week looking for files than Mac users, and finance professionals top all industries with… [Continue Reading]

The United States formally withdrew from the World Health Organization on Thursday, making good on an executive order that President Trump issued on his first day in office pledging to leave the international organization that coordinates global responses to public health threats. The New York Times: While the United States is walking away from the organization, a senior official with the Department of Health and Human Services told reporters on Thursday that the Trump administration was considering some type of narrow, limited engagement with W.H.O. global networks that track infectious diseases, including influenza. As a W.H.O. member, the United States long sent scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to participate in international decision-making about which strains to include in the flu vaccine. A W.H.O. meeting on next year's vaccine is scheduled for February. The official said the Trump administration would soon disclose how or whether it will participate. On Thursday, the administration said that all U.S. government funding to the organization had been terminated, and that all assigned federal employees and contractors had been recalled from its Geneva headquarters and its offices worldwide.

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Microsoft’s new winapp CLI simplifies Windows app development with one-command setup, faster testing, and easier packaging.

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These tricks show how AI tools, new import formulas, and classic features improve productivity.

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Microsoft is giving its Paint and Notepad apps on Windows new AI capabilities for editing text and making digital illustrations. The updates are currently rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Windows 11 Canary and Dev channels, and include features that feel oddly niche or advanced for such simplified apps, such as AI text improvements in Notepad and the ability to instantly generate coloring book pages in Paint.

The latter feature is aptly called "Coloring book," and lets you make blank coloring templates in version 11.2512.191.0 of Paint based on a text prompt. Users can access this feature by selecting the Coloring book option from the …

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