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Communication in space is important and through NASA's work of helping astronauts to speak and hear hands-free without any wires then came wireless headsets. Adapting to the new tech, wireless earphones were fashioned.
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FILE - Terry Anderson, who was the longest held American hostage in Lebanon, grins with his 6-year-old daughter Sulome, Dec. 4, 1991, as they leave the U.S. Ambassador's residence in Damascus, Syria, following Anderson's release. Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America's longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years, died Sunday, April 21, 2024. He was 76. (AP Photo/Santiago Lyon, File)
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This handout photograph taken and released by the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation on April 17, 2024 shows Mount Ruang spewing hot lava and smoke as seen from Sitaro, North Sulawesi. A volcano erupted several times in Indonesia's outermost region overnight on April 17, forcing hundreds of people to be evacuated after it spewed lava and a column of smoke more than a mile into the sky. Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation/AFP via Getty Images
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India speaks during a rally in Sydney, Australia, on May 23, 2023. Modi has tried to fuse his image to the economic and political power of Indians abroad. They voice both pride and worry in return.
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Tunde Onakoya, a Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate, plays a chess game in Times Square, Friday, April 19, 2024, in New York.
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Nymphia Wind, a Taiwanese drag queen performs at a local temple ahead of the annual pride parade in Taipei, Taiwan October 21, 2023.
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TOPSHOT - People sit on the rubble of buildings destroyed during Israeli bombardment in Khan Younis, on the southern Gaza Strip on April 16, 2024, as fighting continues between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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SOUTHERN ISRAEL, ISRAEL - APRIL 17: Israeli armored personnel carriers move along the border after leaving the Gaza Strip on April 17, 2024 in Southern Israel. Israel's allies, including the UK and US, have urged the country to avoid escalation of conflict with Iran after it launched hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel over the weekend. Meanwhile, foreign mediators in the conflict continue to push for a ceasefire in the war in Gaza and an increase in distribution of humanitarian aid there.(Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)
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Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane on April 21, 2024, shows a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ship searching for two MSDF helicopters in waters east of Torishima Island in the Izu Island chain in the Pacific after they crashed during a drill the night before, leaving at least one of the eight crew members dead, with the other seven missing. (Photo by Kyodo News via Getty Images)
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