Smokey Robinson is still alive!?

Yes, considerably. Integrated sound cards have to deal with a lot of interference coming from the different components on the board, which raises the noise floor. If you ever heard a high pitched whine in your headphones while the PC is doing something, that’s interference from the CPU. It’s much more noticeable if you have high-end headphones that require amplification; the amp will make the interference very obvious. But you might still hear it if you crank your OS’s volume too.

For this reason, external USB-C sound cards (also called DACs in certain circles) are preferred among enthusiasts and audiophiles. It’s a lot more difficult for interference to reach a device that is outside of the PC. I have one and the difference is night and day.

I thought Patel was fired for ditching work for a couple of weeks?

I’m surprised there are Overwatch fans left (29k just on Steam alone as of this comment). I thought everyone moved onto Marvel Rivals.

Full article because paywall:

The first time that Mehmet Oz was questioned by the Senate, in June 2014, the atmosphere was not inviting. He’d been hauled in to defend his habit of promoting unconventional supplements for weight loss, including green coffee beans, raspberry ketones, and an Asian tropical fruit called garcinia cambogia, on his daytime-television talk show. “I don’t get why you need to say this stuff,” Claire McCaskill, the Missouri senator who chaired the hearing, told him. “Because you know it’s not true.”

Last Friday, Oz was back before the Senate, this time to be questioned as President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In the interim, despite a turn to politics that included an unsuccessful bid to join the Senate himself, Oz has stayed the course: selling stress-relieving shrubs on social media, for instance, and leveraging his mother’s Alzheimer’s to pitch herbal remedies. Now a physician who was once described by other doctors in an open letter as demonstrating “an egregious lack of integrity by promoting quack treatments and cures in the interest of personal financial gain” may soon be tasked with regulating the health insurance of more than 150 million Americans. But the context of his return to Washington has cast the former TV star in a new, more flattering light: Next to some of the other appointees to the Department of Health and Human Services, even Dr. Oz seems safe and normal.