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Jada Jones/ZDNET If you’re ready to upgrade to premium headphones with great sound, superb noise-canceling, and all-day comfort, I recommend the Bose QuietComfort Ultra headphones. They’re my top pick for over-ear headphones and noise-canceling headphones, and you can get them on sale at Amazon, Best Buy, and Bose. Even better, every colorway is on sale (excluding Deep Plum) and will stay on sale until March 30. Also: Why these Bose headphones are still the best I’ve…

“And therefore, does bring us closer to escape velocity,” he added. “When this will happen, and we’ll be able to present an Alice & Bob’s logical qubit under threshold depends on a variety of factors, but we can openly say that this is the current big work happening in the lab.” Alice & Bob uses cat qubits, which have built-in error correction. This is the sample approach that’s used by AWS’s recently announced Ocelot chip….

ZDNET’s key takeaways The Eero Pro 7 is available for $300. The tri-band Eero Pro 7 supports wireless speeds of up to 3.8Gbps and a coverage area of up to 2,500 square feet per unit, making it ideal for congestion management. As a midrange router, the Eero Pro 7 is not great for complicated smart home setups, and it’s also not the most attainable at $300 each. I’ve been testing the Eero Pro 7 for…

MF3d/Getty Images OpenAI wants the government to review its AI models — in exchange for a break from state AI regulations. On Thursday, the company released a 15-page policy advisory in response to the Trump administration’s request for input, which will inform the administration’s forthcoming AI Action Plan. OpenAI offered to voluntarily let the federal government review its models in exchange for being exempted from state-specific regulations. The company positioned its proposal as a way to counter…

ZDNET Amid growing concerns over Chinese AI models like DeepSeek, new research suggests that fears may be overblown – at least when it comes to data privacy. In fact, some popular US-based AI chatbots might be collecting even more of your personal information. When DeepSeek debuted its flagship open-source AI model in January, the American tech industry was thrown into hysteria. Some embraced the competition — claiming this is “AI’s Sputnik moment” — but others? Well,…

ZDNET’s key takeaways Super-fast SSD that’s speedy enough to handle Apple ProRes video recording The drive is small, thin, and light enough to attach to an iPhone without adding too much bulk or weight Systems that don’t support USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 will see significantly slower speeds. The iPhone is a fantastic tool for both budding and professional videographers, and it can easily capture stunning shots. However, the downside of using your smartphone for recording…

dlewis33/Getty Images Anyone who is not in the medical profession and who has wandered into an emergency room may be baffled by the hours of waiting and the mysterious process by which nurses and doctors move patients through the stages of the ER. Researchers at Yale School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins University wrote recently that an artificial intelligence program they’ve created can improve the emergency room process by making the task of triage more efficient…

ZDNET’s key takeaways NixOS is an open-source operating system that is available to install and use for free. It offers several desktop environments to choose from, is as rock-solid as any OS on the market, and performs quite well. However, there’s a fairly steep learning curve for installing non-free software. Before we get into this review, I want to offer some information for new Linux users. If you’re uncomfortable using the command line or diving…

ZDNET’s key takeaways After a 10-year hiatus, Dynebolic is back and can be downloaded and used for free. Dynebolic has everything you need for multimedia creation and runs as a live instance, so it’s portable and doesn’t make any changes to your default operating system. You’ll need an external drive to save your work, since Dynebolic is a live distribution, saved work is lost when you reboot. There are plenty of Linux distributions that are…

ZDNET’s key takeaways The Withings Scanwatch Nova is available for pre-order now, starting at $599. It’s an elegant smartwatch with a one-month battery, water resistance up to 10ATM, and various health-tracking metrics. A $10/month subscription is required for some advanced metrics, and the watch is only available in one 42mm diameter. Healthy heart monitoring starts with gathering your metrics, but making sense of all the numbers is a whole different challenge. For the past few…