Cricut’s Joy 2 helps you personalize Father’s Day gifts, and it’s at its lowest price yet

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If you’re looking for a way to add a personal touch to Father’s Day or graduation gifts, the Cricut Joy 2 can help you customize everything from water bottles and bookmarks to greeting cards and gift cards. The Cricut Joy 2 Rainbow Essential Bundle includes enough vinyl, cardstock, iron-on materials, and other supplies to create up to 75 projects, and it’s currently down to a new low of

Microsoft Build 2026: All the news about Windows, AI, RTX Spark and more

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Microsoft’s annual developer conference is kicking off on June 2nd in San Francisco with the keynote presentation streaming live at 12:30PM ET / 9:30AM PT, and we will be following along here with everything as it’s announced. 

The Verge’s Tom Warren reports that we can expect to hear about new AI models and agentic OpenClaw-like tools, plus a Copilot “super app” to go along with some of

Data centers are taking over the suburbs. This man wants to sell his entire neighborhood to one.

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Mital Gandhi poses for a photo in front of a data center, near The Regency, the community where he lives in Ashburn, Virginia in the heart of Data Center Alley.
Mital Gandhi, 47, is a resident of Ashburn, Virginia, whose community has been overtaken by data centers.

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Mital Gandhi remembers watching the 2024 NBA Finals on TV at his home in Ashburn, Virginia, when he realized something wasn't right.

Instead of hearing the ball bouncing or the intermittent squeaks from shoes on the hardwood, his ears could only focus on a constant hum. That

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Cleveland Clinic's chief digital officer says its AI scribe is giving some doctors 'joy' again

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Cleveland Clinic initiated a pilot project in which 250 physicians evaluated five ambient listening products.

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  • Ambient AI scribes can reduce busywork and improve doctor-patient interactions.
  • Cleveland Clinic's AI pilot led to widespread use, with 4,000 clinicians adopting the technology.
  • AI scribes help reduce physician workload, but require careful oversight to ensure accuracy.

If you

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Ableton is letting musicians build browser-style extensions for Live

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Hack your DAW. | Image: Ableton
Hack your DAW. | Image: Ableton

Ableton already has Max for Live, which allows users to build MIDI effects, synths, and samplers for its digital audio workstation (DAW). But now with its Extensions SDK, features can be added to Ableton Live with common JavaScript. Where Max is largely limited to MIDI and audio processing, Extensions can touch almost any part of the DAW simply by right

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I moved to Japan and enrolled my child in a local school. It showed me a different way to raise an independent child.

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The author moved from New Zealand to Japan and learned how to foster even more independence with her daughter.

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  • I enrolled my daughter in a Japanese public school, and it changed how I think about raising an independent child.
  • In Japan, kids walk to school, serve lunch, and clean classrooms daily.
  • I've learned independence is about contributing to the community.

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