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The promised new major update for Xbox One which has been in preview for a few weeks now has finally been released for everybody. The Xbox One summer update brings some highly anticipated features to the console such as the Cortana personal digital assistant. It’s currently available for those who are in the United States and UK, Cortana on Xbox One has been designed to look and feel just like its Windows 10 counterpart.

This means that most of the queries that work on Cortana for Windows will work on the Xbox One as well. Console owners will also be able to use Cortana to see what their friends are playing, control media playback, set up parties, and more.

Another big feature included in this update is background music. Pandora is just one of the services that support background music. The feature enables players to continue playing music while they launch a game, the music will continue to play in the background as they indulge themselves in playing their favorite game.

A significant number of tweaks and minor improvements are onboard all of which have been detailed on the official Xbox One blog as well as in the video posted above. The summer update for Xbox One is now being rolled out for all consoles.

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If you’re not a professional skydiver but you want to do it anyway with a professional in tandem, chances are that you would want to be assured of maximum security before you decide to jump out of an airplane from a height of several thousand feet. Even if you’re a professional you wouldn’t want to jump out of a plane without a parachute but you do have to go out of your comfort zone a little when you’re trying to make history and professional skydiver Luke Aikins certainly made history when he jumped from 25,000 feet with no parachute on.

Don’t assume the worst. He survived as he nailed the drop into a net on the ground which was roughly as big as a third of a football field. Massive respect for the 42 year old who did what I probably wouldn’t do even if I had 42 lives.

Aikins was in a free fall for about two minutes after jumping out of a plane at 25,000 feet. He flipped onto his back at the very last moment and made it safely into the net. He has now become the first person to pull off something like this and is probably going to hold the record to himself for a considerable amount of time.

You can watch his incredible achievement in the video posted above. Remember to breathe.

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People like noise-cancelling headphones for a reason. They tune out any ambient noise to ensure that users have a great listening experience. Now that’s great for when you’re traveling on an airplane or on a bus but the noise-cancelling feature can do harm if you’re around people who might need your help, because even when they call out to you, you won’t be able to hear them. Amazon has patented a new kind of noise-cancelling headphones that address this very issue and might potentially help save lives.

Amazon has been awarded a patent for noise-cancelling headphones that automatically click off when they hear certain frequencies, sound patterns, and even keywords like a name. This would enable the user to immediately hear ambient noise and react in whatever way they need to.

The way this would work is that the headphones will have an array of microphones built into the ear pads. They will constantly be listening for specific frequencies or keywords so when someone calls out your name, they will automatically shut off the music and let you hear ambient noise.

There are many noise-cancelling headphones on the market right now that have a manual passthrough button which when pressed allows the user to hear ambient noise. While that’s a welcome addition, many would appreciate having an automatic feature like the one Amazon has created to ensure that they stay in the loop even when they can’t hear anything other than what’s playing.

Amazon has only patented this technology right now, it’s unclear if and when these headphones will see the light of day.

Amazon Patents Noise-Cancelling Headphones That Just Might Save Lives , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.