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The excellent LG C3 Series OLED 4K is up to $800 off at Best Buy depending on what size you buy.

Many smart home users are familiar with ‘Matter’, but don’t quite understand what it does. If that sounds familiar, we’ll cover what Matter is and how it affects your smart home products.

Interested in canceling your Apple TV+ subscription to save money or end your free trial quickly? We’ll show you exactly how to do it on multiple platforms!

It’s possible that some Snapchat users may not like your content and may even choose to block you. And there are ways to find out if that’s the case.

The Asus Vivobook Go L510MA, which comes with one year of Microsoft 365, is an excellent productivity tool that doesn’t break the bank at $199 from Walmart.

The Razer Blade 14 gaming laptop, which is powered by the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card, is on sale from Razer for $2,000 following a $400 discount.

Norton Secure VPN is a great way of ensuring your browsing activity is entirely secure and private. It’s available at a great price right now.

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Apple has scheduled its next product showcase for May 7, a few weeks before its Worldwide Developers Conference, clearing space for even more announcements in June, hopefully. For May 7, an iPad refresh has been rumored for months, and Apple’s Let Loose announcement features an illustration of a hand holding an Apple Pencil. That screams iPad to us.

We could see some substantial upgrades to the iPad Pro series. M3 chips are a predictable addition, but we might also see OLED displays, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. That should bring richer colors and deeper blacks to the iPad Pro. The technology could even lead to thinner iPads too. Given the illustration, we wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a next-gen Apple Pencil or even iPad Air unveiled too.

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FCC restores net neutrality protections

Commissioners voted along party lines to reinstate the Obama-era rules.

The Federal Communications Commission has voted to reinstate net neutrality protections that were cast aside during the Trump administration. With net neutrality rules in place, broadband service is considered an essential communications resource under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934. That enables the FCC to regulate broadband internet in a similar way to water, power and phone services. Here’s our explainer on what net neutrality entails.

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The best wireless earbuds for 2024

Noise-canceling, sport models and cheap wireless Bluetooth earbuds galore.

We at Engadget are constantly testing and reviewing new Bluetooth earbuds at all price ranges to provide the best buying advice and refine our favorites. Here’s our latest refresh, including the usual suspects from Sony, Bose and Apple, as well as a few other surprises and a breakdown of what to look for when buying your first pair — or an upgrade.

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Tupac’s estate threatens to sue Drake for his AI-infused diss track

Even if it was aimed at Kendrick Lamar.

Tupac’s estate is not happy about Drake cloning the voice of the late Shakur in a recent song. Attorney Howard King, representing Shakur’s estate, sent a cease and desist letter calling Drake’s use of Shakur’s voice “a flagrant violation of Tupac’s publicity and the estate’s legal rights.” The diss track “Taylor Made Freestyle” is the latest chapter of the artist’s simmering decade-long feud with Pulitzer and 17-time Grammy award winner Kendrick Lamar. The track also used AI to clone Snoop Dogg’s voice.

Further complicating the whole AI-voice-cloning-without-permission thing, Universal Music Group (UMG), the label representing Drake, pulled the track “Heart on My Sleeve” by Ghostwriter977 because it used an AI-generated version of Drake’s voice.

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After months of anticipation, President Biden finally signed the TikTok divestment into law this week. It will force ByteDance to either sell TikTok to another company within a year, or see the app banned from US app stores. Is this a wise move to rid control of the social app from the Chinese government, or is it government overreach before TikTok has done anything wrong? Engadget Senior Editor Karissa Bell joins Cherlynn and Devindra to dive into what’s next for TikTok.

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• The US TikTok ban is signed into law, what happens now? – 0:57

• Devindra and Cherlynn’s take on whether bad product reviews hurt tech companies – 20:42

• Meta opening QuestOS to third party hardware developers – 31:39

• Apple ‘Let Loose’ virtual event scheduled for May 5 – 33:48

• Leading AI companies pledge to keep kids safe (though harm is already evident) – 41:48

• Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses add multimodal AI – 43:58

• X is allegedly working on a smart TV app – 47:01

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• Pop culture picks – 56:29

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Music: Dale North and Terrence O’Brien

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