In the week that we reviewed the new HTC One, there was quite the gathering of stories from other major manufacturers. Samsung dropped a Snapdragon 600-shaped bomb on chipset-conscious UK fans. Sony finally took the wraps off its interesting new mid-ranger, the Xperia SP. And the LG Nexus 4 showed its face once again in the UK and Germany.
Check out some of the bigger international Android stories of the week after the break.
Strong company earnings boosted stocks on Wall Street Friday. Investors also saw a chance to add to their holdings after declines earlier in the week.
Nike reported a surge in profit, sending its stock price to a record. Tiffany topped earnings predictions, boosted by demand from customers in Asia.
A strong run-up in stocks this year is encouraging investors to buy whenever the market dips, says Ron Florance, managing director of investment strategy at Wells Fargo Private Bank.
"We still have an astonishing amount of money sitting on the sidelines," says Florance.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 90.54 points, or 0.6 percent, to 14,512.03 Friday. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 11.09 points, or 0.7 percent, to 1,556.89. The Nasdaq composite gained 22.40 points, or 0.7 percent, to 3,245.
Nike's stock hit an all-time high, rising 11 percent to $59.53 after the company reported a spike in quarterly profit. Tiffany's stock rose nearly 2 percent to $69.23 after it reported strong earnings.
Despite Friday's gains, the S&P 500 was down for the week, falling seven points, or 0.3 percent. The index was weighed down by another debt crisis in Europe and disappointing corporate news.
The Dow had its worst week in more than a month, shedding a fraction of a percentage point.
The markets got hit on several fronts.
The Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus, a banking haven, struggled to devise a plan to avoid financial collapse.
Oracle reported weak sales. FedEx, a bellwether for the economy, posted a drop in quarterly profit and cut its annual earnings forecast.
As a result, the S&P 500 logged only its second weekly decline of the year. The first came the week of Feb. 22, when investors were spooked by the minutes from a Federal Reserve policy meeting. The minutes revealed disagreement over how long to keep buying bonds in an effort to boost the economy.
A pause in the stock market run-up is due, says Terry Sandven, chief equity strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management. Gains this year overstate the improvement in the economy, he says.
The biggest risk to the market run-up will come when the Fed faces increasing pressure to end its stimulus program. That could happened if the economy continues to improve and stock markets rise, says Sandven.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 1.93 percent from 1.92 percent.
Among other stocks making big moves Friday;
? Micron Technology rose 97 cents, or 10.7 percent, to $10.05 despite reporting a loss in its fiscal second-quarter later Thursday. The chipmaker said that revenue grew 3 percent, to $2.08 billion, better than analysts had expected.
? Anacor Pharmaceuticals Inc. climbed $1.24, or 25.6 percent, to $6.08 Friday, after the drug developer reported strong data from a mid-stage study of a potential chronic rash treatment.
? Marin Software, a marketing software company, rose $2.26, or 16.1 percent, to $16.26 on its market debut. The San Francisco-based company raised $105 million in its initial public offering.
? AK Steel Holding fell 16 cents, or 4.6 percent, to $3.31, after projecting a larger-than-expected first-quarter loss because a previously expected seasonal increase in demand for steel hasn't materialized.
Walking train wreck, former child star and current?Kiely Williams?impersonator?Amanda Bynes?has been on a pretty major self-destructive spiral into madness, hasn?t she? It?s the kind that?s absolutely riveting to watch, even as it fills the observer with the idle discomfort that arises when we don?t know whether it?s going to turn out like Britney Spears?(redemption!) or?Amy Winehouse?(tragedy!) or?Lindsay Lohan?(neither!), where we think, ?Oh, here?s a talented person who?s clearly suffering from a serious mental illness, but the spectacle is so funny that it?s hard not to laugh at, even though a time will probably come when we?ll feel terrible for having been so cruel to her.? Ah, well.?
Anyway, celebrity news isn?t really our beat here, but?music?news is (which means now we get to talk about Amanda Bynes, hey!) and last night, Bynes amped up the insanity with a disturbing and provocative tweet to?Drake, in which she asked him to murder her vagina. Yep! That?s what she said. Behold:
And then the seas dried up and the stars dropped out of the sky and the Internet melted into a hot tsunami of semiconductors and telephone wire and it was the end of the world, the end of everything. The End. Bye forever.
But no, okay, really. Of course this is hysterical, and also horrifying, and the sort of thing that we can?t?not?talk about, but also, maybe, let?s try and be compassionate to poor Amanda Bynes, the oddest celebrity curiosity who ever lived. She?s going through a rough patch! And if she wants Drake to murder her vagina, well ? sure, it?s a little explicit, and also gruesome, but who are we to judge? After all, it?s what a girl wants.
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Contact: Jacqueline Partarrieu press@escardio.org 33-492-947-756 European Society of Cardiology
Scotland takes action to tackle relationship between deprivation and CVD
Deprivation represents the "elephant in the room" with regard to cardiovascular disease (CVD), and health care professionals have an important role to play in tackling the problem, delegates heard at a special plenary session opening the EuroHeart Care Congress in Glasgow, Scotland, 22 March to 23 March 2013. The session heard how Scotland, a country considered to have the highest rates of heart disease in Western Europe, has recently taken action to address the CVD health inequalities that exist between affluent and deprived communities.
Mr Michael Matheson, the Public Health Minister in the Scottish Government, told the meeting, "We are continuing to make significant cuts in the number of deaths from heart disease and stroke, with an 8.1% drop in deaths from coronary heart disease between 2010 and 2011. I am also pleased that we're cutting coronary heart disease mortality rates fastest in the most deprived areas, which is vital if we are to successfully improve health equality in Scotland."
Recent statistics show that between 2002 and 2011, reduction in the age-sex standardised mortality rate for CHD among the most deprived category was 38.7%, compared with 25.1% in the least deprived category.
"There is however more to do. For example, more people are surviving heart attacks and living with heart disease, so they need access to high quality rehabilitation and support. Our Heart Disease and Stroke Action Plan focuses not just on providing the best possible care, but in helping people's longer-term recovery in their own communities. Future improvements will largely depend on people's lifestyles eating better, being more active, stopping smoking and drinking sensibly and we are also taking firm action in all these areas to support people to live healthier lives," said Mr Matheson.
Scotland targets deprived areas for health checks
Dr Barry Vallance, the lead clinician for Heart Disease in Scotland, stressed there was no room for complacency. "Death rates from heart disease have fallen in Scotland, but it still remains the second highest cause of death after cancer. In Scotland, as in other parts of the world, there's still a significant gap between the rich and poorest, with those living in deprived communities more likely to die prematurely."
Statistics for Scotland have shown a big difference for the richest and poorest members of society, with those in the top 10% having a standardized mortality ratio for CHD of 65 compared to 140 for those in the bottom 10%.
No one, said Dr Vallance, fully understands why people from deprived areas are more prone to CVD. "The reasons are likely to be multi factorial. Health is low on their list of priorities because they've so many other issues to contend with, and they consider vices like cigarette smoking and excess alcohol as pleasures. Furthermore, they're less likely to be able to afford healthy activities like gym memberships and fruit and vegetables," he said.
With regard to unhealthy activities, taking the example of smoking, in 2005 smoking rates in Scotland ranged from 11% in people from the 10% most affluent areas to 44% in people from the 10% least affluent areas.
People from deprived areas in Scotland also appear to be accessing less treatment for CVD. Data from the National Records of Scotland, showed that in 2008/9 over 20% fewer treatments than expected for angioplasty and CABG surgery were carried out for people in the 10% most deprived areas, compared to around 60% more treatments than expected in people from the 10% least deprived areas?.
"The overall result is that people from deprived areas often present to health professional with more advanced disease, leading to their having higher morbidity and mortality rates," said Vallance. "In a National Health System it's not that we're denying people from deprived areas health care, but that they don't seek it out," he said.
Since March 2009as part of the "Keep Well" programme of inequalities targeted health checks, the NHS in Scotland has delivered over 180,000 health checks to people living in the most deprived areas. The health checks, which are carried out in general practice and offered to all 40 to 64 years olds living in deprived communities, focus on CVD and wider life style issues, such as mental health and social needs. People identified to be at risk are referred for services including smoking cessation, alcohol interventions and diet/weight management or are prescribed appropriate medication. "Our next step is to take a bottoms-up approach, educating children about CVD. We want people to start taking responsibility for their own health from an early age," said Dr Vallance.
Health care professionals urged to be proactive
In order to increase access to health care for marginalized groups, Professor Christi Deaton, from The University of Manchester, UK, told the meeting that health care professionals need to become more proactive and go out into communities. "Just because you are holding clinics there's a tendency to think that people will come to them. To be really effective you need to seek out your most deprived or under-served patients," said Professor Deaton.
The first step, she said, was to identify "pockets" of deprivation and identify vulnerable groups within your own community. "Many councils have statistics on morbidity and mortality for different conditions according to area, and also information about deprivation," said Professor Deaton.
It is helpful, she added, to collect information about ethnicity for your area. "If you only see 1% of people of a certain ethnicity in your clinic, but statistics tell you that the local area has 15% you know you're not reaching that part of the population," she said.
One effective strategy for targeting different populations is to recruit lay community health workers. "They can act as service brokers persuading people to come in for screening. Their activities may involve speaking in churches, mosques or other community centres, or even just knocking on people's doors to tell them about screening," said Professor Deaton. Where there are language barriers community workers can be employed from different ethnicities. "It appears people much prefer health prevention messages to come from within their own communities, rather that outsiders telling them what to do," said Professor Deaton.
Health care professionals, said Professor Deaton, can tackle the problem of deprivation on all sorts of different levels. "There's a lot we can do to help influence Government policy and improve the infrastructure for healthy living. This might be campaigning for increased access to recreational areas and cycle lanes, so that people can exercise more, and encouraging Government subsidies for healthy foods like fruit and veg," she said. "Health professionals should also be encouraged to undertake research looking at the best ways to persuade individuals and populations to adopt healthy behaviours, like exercising more, quitting smoking and reducing alcohol intake. Nurses are very good at talking to people and developing interventions that are culturally relevant and that incorporate patient perspectives and ideas."
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Prevention of heart disease requires professionals to go out into communitiesPublic release date: 21-Mar-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Jacqueline Partarrieu press@escardio.org 33-492-947-756 European Society of Cardiology
Scotland takes action to tackle relationship between deprivation and CVD
Deprivation represents the "elephant in the room" with regard to cardiovascular disease (CVD), and health care professionals have an important role to play in tackling the problem, delegates heard at a special plenary session opening the EuroHeart Care Congress in Glasgow, Scotland, 22 March to 23 March 2013. The session heard how Scotland, a country considered to have the highest rates of heart disease in Western Europe, has recently taken action to address the CVD health inequalities that exist between affluent and deprived communities.
Mr Michael Matheson, the Public Health Minister in the Scottish Government, told the meeting, "We are continuing to make significant cuts in the number of deaths from heart disease and stroke, with an 8.1% drop in deaths from coronary heart disease between 2010 and 2011. I am also pleased that we're cutting coronary heart disease mortality rates fastest in the most deprived areas, which is vital if we are to successfully improve health equality in Scotland."
Recent statistics show that between 2002 and 2011, reduction in the age-sex standardised mortality rate for CHD among the most deprived category was 38.7%, compared with 25.1% in the least deprived category.
"There is however more to do. For example, more people are surviving heart attacks and living with heart disease, so they need access to high quality rehabilitation and support. Our Heart Disease and Stroke Action Plan focuses not just on providing the best possible care, but in helping people's longer-term recovery in their own communities. Future improvements will largely depend on people's lifestyles eating better, being more active, stopping smoking and drinking sensibly and we are also taking firm action in all these areas to support people to live healthier lives," said Mr Matheson.
Scotland targets deprived areas for health checks
Dr Barry Vallance, the lead clinician for Heart Disease in Scotland, stressed there was no room for complacency. "Death rates from heart disease have fallen in Scotland, but it still remains the second highest cause of death after cancer. In Scotland, as in other parts of the world, there's still a significant gap between the rich and poorest, with those living in deprived communities more likely to die prematurely."
Statistics for Scotland have shown a big difference for the richest and poorest members of society, with those in the top 10% having a standardized mortality ratio for CHD of 65 compared to 140 for those in the bottom 10%.
No one, said Dr Vallance, fully understands why people from deprived areas are more prone to CVD. "The reasons are likely to be multi factorial. Health is low on their list of priorities because they've so many other issues to contend with, and they consider vices like cigarette smoking and excess alcohol as pleasures. Furthermore, they're less likely to be able to afford healthy activities like gym memberships and fruit and vegetables," he said.
With regard to unhealthy activities, taking the example of smoking, in 2005 smoking rates in Scotland ranged from 11% in people from the 10% most affluent areas to 44% in people from the 10% least affluent areas.
People from deprived areas in Scotland also appear to be accessing less treatment for CVD. Data from the National Records of Scotland, showed that in 2008/9 over 20% fewer treatments than expected for angioplasty and CABG surgery were carried out for people in the 10% most deprived areas, compared to around 60% more treatments than expected in people from the 10% least deprived areas?.
"The overall result is that people from deprived areas often present to health professional with more advanced disease, leading to their having higher morbidity and mortality rates," said Vallance. "In a National Health System it's not that we're denying people from deprived areas health care, but that they don't seek it out," he said.
Since March 2009as part of the "Keep Well" programme of inequalities targeted health checks, the NHS in Scotland has delivered over 180,000 health checks to people living in the most deprived areas. The health checks, which are carried out in general practice and offered to all 40 to 64 years olds living in deprived communities, focus on CVD and wider life style issues, such as mental health and social needs. People identified to be at risk are referred for services including smoking cessation, alcohol interventions and diet/weight management or are prescribed appropriate medication. "Our next step is to take a bottoms-up approach, educating children about CVD. We want people to start taking responsibility for their own health from an early age," said Dr Vallance.
Health care professionals urged to be proactive
In order to increase access to health care for marginalized groups, Professor Christi Deaton, from The University of Manchester, UK, told the meeting that health care professionals need to become more proactive and go out into communities. "Just because you are holding clinics there's a tendency to think that people will come to them. To be really effective you need to seek out your most deprived or under-served patients," said Professor Deaton.
The first step, she said, was to identify "pockets" of deprivation and identify vulnerable groups within your own community. "Many councils have statistics on morbidity and mortality for different conditions according to area, and also information about deprivation," said Professor Deaton.
It is helpful, she added, to collect information about ethnicity for your area. "If you only see 1% of people of a certain ethnicity in your clinic, but statistics tell you that the local area has 15% you know you're not reaching that part of the population," she said.
One effective strategy for targeting different populations is to recruit lay community health workers. "They can act as service brokers persuading people to come in for screening. Their activities may involve speaking in churches, mosques or other community centres, or even just knocking on people's doors to tell them about screening," said Professor Deaton. Where there are language barriers community workers can be employed from different ethnicities. "It appears people much prefer health prevention messages to come from within their own communities, rather that outsiders telling them what to do," said Professor Deaton.
Health care professionals, said Professor Deaton, can tackle the problem of deprivation on all sorts of different levels. "There's a lot we can do to help influence Government policy and improve the infrastructure for healthy living. This might be campaigning for increased access to recreational areas and cycle lanes, so that people can exercise more, and encouraging Government subsidies for healthy foods like fruit and veg," she said. "Health professionals should also be encouraged to undertake research looking at the best ways to persuade individuals and populations to adopt healthy behaviours, like exercising more, quitting smoking and reducing alcohol intake. Nurses are very good at talking to people and developing interventions that are culturally relevant and that incorporate patient perspectives and ideas."
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This film image released by Focus Features shows Tina Fey in a scene from "Admission." (AP Photo/Focus Features, David Lee)
Review ? Plenty of wit in collegiate comedy-drama.
Tina Fey didn?t write "Admission," but between her performance and Karen Croner?s script, this smart and sweet comedy-drama is brimming with her dry wit and complex characters.
Fey plays Portia Nathan, a detail-obsessed admissions officer at Princeton University, where only one applicant out of 20 is accepted. Portia is ruthless in cutting through padded applications and helicopter parents to find the best students. She is particularly intent on doing so this year, as her boss (Wallace Shawn) has announced his retirement, and she?s competing with office rival Corinne (Gloria Reuben) for his job.
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?Admission?
Tina Fey shines as a neurotic college-admissions officer in this sweet, smart comedy-drama.
Where ? Theaters everywhere.
When ? Opens Friday, March 22
Rating ? PG-13 for language and some sexual material.
Running time ? 117 minutes.
While touring schools in the Northeast, Portia gets a call from John Pressman (Paul Rudd), who operates an alternative high school in New Hampshire. John tells Portia he?s got a great "diamond in the rough" student, Jeremiah Balakian (Nat Wolff). Then John drops the bombshell: He believes Jeremiah was the baby boy Portia gave up for adoption 16 years ago, when she attended Dartmouth.
When the news comes, Portia?s life is already in turmoil. Her staid English-professor boyfriend (Michael Sheen) suddenly dumps her for a sultry Virginia Woolf scholar (Sonya Walger). Further complicating things are Portia?s undeniable attraction to John and her issues with her feminist-scholar mom (Lily Tomlin).
Director Paul Weitz takes Croner?s intelligent script ? adapted from Jean Hanff Korelitz?s novel ? and wrings out solid humor from Portia?s comic struggles to balance her professionalism with her newly unearthed maternal instincts. Weitz also has fun depicting the cutthroat competition in academia, where transcripts and essays substitute for a genuine understanding of a student?s inner being. As for Weitz, his r?sum? is a roller coaster of varying quality, from the funny "American Pie" and the smart "In Good Company" to the detestable "Little Fockers" and last year?s overwrought "Being Flynn."
As Fey?s first true star vehicle, "Admission" is a perfect follow-up to her recently concluded run on "30 Rock." Here, she has a nice, easygoing chemistry with Rudd (hard to believe they?ve never done a movie together before) and trades barbs with Tomlin with an unforced agility. But Fey?s at her best riding solo, distilling Portia?s neurotic perfectionism just in the way she keeps her desk.
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DENVER (AP) ? Texas authorities are investigating whether a black Cadillac that led deputies on a gunfire-filled chase through a rural county on Thursday is linked to the slaying of Colorado's state prison chief.
The car, which has Colorado plates, matches the description of the vehicle seen leaving Tom Clements' house shortly before he was fatally shot Tuesday night while answering his front door.
"There is an investigation into that right now," Montague County Sheriff Paul Cunningham said. "There's nothing confirmed."
The chase began about noon in Montague County, about 100 miles northwest of Dallas, when a deputy stopped the Cadillac, Cunningham said. He said he did not know the reason for the stop.
The car's driver fired on the deputy, then drove off, Cunningham said. The deputy alerted local law enforcement, which found the car heading south on a highway in the town of Decatur.
The Cadillac crashed into a truck, Police Chief Rex Hoskins told the Wise County Messenger in a videotaped interview. The driver opened fire on authorities and was shot, then taken to a Ft. Worth Hospital, officials said.
El Paso County, Colo., sheriff's investigators were looking for a late-model car, possibly a Lincoln or a Cadillac, that a neighbor spotted near Clements' home around the time of the shooting. Lt. Jeff Kramer refused to say what other clues may have been found after Clements' neighborhood was canvassed by officers.
Clements, 58, was killed as he answered the door to his home Tuesday night in Monument, a town of rolling hills and alpine trees north of Colorado Springs. His death stunned law enforcement colleagues in Colorado and Missouri, where he spent most of his career as a highly respected corrections official.
Police haven't said if they think his death was linked to his job.
Denver's KMGH-TV reported Thursday that Clements may have put a bicycle up for sale for $1,200 on Craigslist. Kramer told the station, "I can't speak to the efforts behind this tip, or the level we are giving it."
In recent weeks, Clements had requested chemicals to plan for the execution of a convict on Colorado's death row and denied a Saudi national's request to serve out the remainder of a sentence in his home country. Officials refused to say whether they were looking at those actions as possible motives.
Clements came to Colorado in 2011 after working three decades in the Missouri prison system. Missouri Department of Corrections spokeswoman Mandi Steele said Thursday the department was ready to help in the probe if asked.
"Tom regularly commented that corrections is inherently a dangerous business, and that's all that I'll say," said Alison Morgan, a Colorado corrections spokeswoman who worked closely with Clements.
Officials in positions like Clements' get a deluge of threats, according to people who monitor their safety. But it can be hard sorting out which ones could lead to violence. A U.S. Department of Justice study found that federal prosecutors and judges received 5,250 threats between 2003 and 2008, but there were only three attacks during that time period.
The last public official killed in Colorado in the past 10 years was Sean May, a prosecutor in suburban Denver. An assailant killed May as he arrived home from work. Investigators examined May's court cases, but the case remains unsolved.
"We were looking for anybody who had a grudge against May," Jackson said.
Steven Swensen, a former U.S. marshal who runs a company that provides security advice for court personnel, said one problem is that if someone really wants to harm a person, they usually don't send a warning.
"The person who makes a threat isn't the most likely to carry out on a threat," he said.
Glenn McGovern, a senior investigator with the Santa Clara County district attorney's office in California, tracks attacks on judges, prosecutors and senior law enforcement officials worldwide. He tabulated 133 such incidents in the U.S. since 1950.
"When I was looking at these attacks, very few gave any kind of threats," he said. "When it comes up, it's out of left field."
Mike McLelland is district attorney in Kaufman County, Texas, where one of his prosecutors was gunned down in January walking to the office through the courthouse parking lot.
McLelland said the attack was a "well-executed assassination" and that investigators have had to comb through every case the lawyer, Mark Hasse, handled. McClelland is still baffled at what might have sparked the slaying.
"Nobody is excluded and everybody is included," he said of investigations like these. "They're knocking over every rock they can."
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Associated Press writers Colleen Slevin in Denver and Jordan Shapiro in Jefferson City, Mo., contributed to this report.
Logitech might have been down, but they?re not out?of the gaming peripherals business. Contrary to reports received earlier in the year, the company is not discontinuing its gaming peripheral line. Instead the company is redoubling its efforts and launching 8 new products for PC gamers. Touting a ?new approach to PC gaming, the collection, including 4 mice, 2 keyboards and a pair of headsets, has been dubbed the G Series.
The company is hoping to appeal to certain niches of gamers, creating mice targeting specific gaming genres. For FPS gamers, there?s the G500s Laser Gaming mouse ($69.99) and the G400s Gaming Mouse ($59.99). The G500s has gaming-grade laser for precise control with a dual-mode scroll wheel, and 10 programmable buttons and a hydrophobic coating to prevent gamers? hands from sticking to the device. The G400s has 8 programmable buttons with a DPI range of 400 -4000.?
MOBA and RTS aficionados will want to take a gander at the G100s Optical Gaming Mouse ($39.99). Outfitted with an?inverted trapezoid shape and buttons designed for heavy clicking action, this mouse can take a beating.?
Logitech is also releasing the $99.99 G700s Rechargeable Gaming Mouse for players that are searching for no-strings attached gaming. Logitech claims that the mouse registers 8 times faster than a USB-connected mouse with 13 programmable buttons. There?s no word on battery life at the time of this writing. Each of the mice has been outfitted with new?low-friction polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) feet for faster movements and a?hydrophobic coating to prevent gamers? hands from sticking to the device. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
It appears that Logitech is looking to compete directly with Razer with its new LogitechR G19s Gaming Keyboard ($199.99). This latest keyboard will stream important information to gamers such as stats via a integrated, adjustable GamePanelT LCD similar to the?The LCD multitouch track panel touchpad on the Razer Blade gaming notebook. There?s also the $119.99 ?G510s Gaming Notebook that allows gamers to configure a maximum of 54 different functions across three different modes, with three macros per key.
To round out the series, the company is also launching two new headsets: the $79.99 LogitechR G430 Surround Sound Gaming?Headset?and the $59.99 LogitechR G230 Stereo Gaming?Headset. The Dolby Headphone 7.1 surround sound-powered?G430s offers 360 degrees of sound with up to seven discrete channels of audio data and a noise-cancelling mic. The G230s features a pair of 40mm neodynium drivers for immersive sound, a bendable noise-cancelling mic and soft, washable earpieces.
Gamers looking to upgrade their gaming peripherals can expect Logitech?s new offerings to hit U.S. store shelves sometime in April.
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