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The Download: cancelling out noises, and tastes like (lab-grown) chicken

The Download: cancelling out noises, and tastes like (lab-grown) chicken

The news: A new system for noise-canceling headphones lets users opt back in to certain sounds they’d like to hear, such as babies crying, birds tweeting, or alarms ringing.  How it works: The system, which is still in prototype, connects off-the-shelf headphones to a smartphone app. The microphones embedded in these headphones, which are used […]