Monthly Archives: October 2022

The Bose QuietComfort 45 at $229 is our pick for best headphone deal of Prime Day

The QuietComfort 45 headphones come with a handy carrying case that offers protection. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge We’ll be approaching the closing hours of Amazon’s Prime Day before you know it, but we wanted to highlight one standout deal. The Bose QuietComfort 45 are some of the best noise-canceling wireless headphones…

Microsoft’s Surface Pro 9 is the latest major gadget to ditch the headphone jack

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Today marks another chapter in the slow demise of the headphone jack. Microsoft has quietly removed the 3.5mm connector from its brand-new Surface Pro 9. The change is confirmed on the tech specs page, which no longer lists a headphone jack among the device’s “connections.” But it’s very…

SCOTUS Justices Lob Tough Questions at Both Sides in Prince Photo Fair Use Fight

The Supreme Court today heard oral arguments in The Andy Warhol Foundation v. Lynn Goldsmith, a case asking the nation’s highest court to determine whether Warhol’s unlicensed use of Goldsmith’s photographs of pop superstar Prince was a fair use of that copyright-protected photo. Many of the Supreme Court’s questions focused on the scope of the…

Holmes gets new hearing after disheveled gov’t witness shows up at her house

Enlarge / Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos Inc., arrives at federal court in San Jose, California, on Thursday, September 1. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) On the brink of sentencing for her four fraud convictions in January, disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes will get a new evidentiary hearing in which the judge in the criminal case…

These are the Cold War sites the National Park Service is considering as landmarks

Atlas F missile infrastructure, circa early 1960s. Dyess Air Force Base historical photo / US Air Force Every day the world wakes up in the shadows of the Cold War, both metaphorically and literally. The metaphorical shadow is the perpetual specter of nuclear oblivion, stemming primarily from the massive arsenals of the United States and…