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Makes sense to me. I'm rolling my old HD580s (semi-open, over ear) in the lab in case anything catches on fire or infects/corrodes someones face, but it's easy to imagine how invaluable a comfortable, noise cancelling headphone could be on a flight to Japan that one has to make every second week.

That depends upon the actual specifics of both the noise (frequency range and intensity) and the noise cancellation in use. Headphones that sound like everything was piped through a steaming pile of donkey excrement, but which have active noise cancellation, can still sound wildly inferior to...

I agree entirely, but it's important to understand (in this context) that a lot of people really value noise cancellation and the lack of a wire more (or as much as) than accurate signal reproduction. Seems crazy if you like music, or... accuracy. But, in fact, if you fly regularly or work in...

Well, the eSIM makes the SIM bit rather inapplicable, and Apple has made the XS/XR universal to both GSM/CDMA, so that's not an issue, although it was (and didn't have to be). Edit: this actually was more of a marketing differentiation than anything. uSD flash? Not going to happen. Not...

AAC got added for full AOSP support in October 2017. AptX HD is probably preferable if you're transcoding. But, you're... Seriously suggesting that no one would listen to anything but AAC files on $350 cans? Go to Amazon, pick a song to download. Is it an AAC file? It is not.

You...do know what 'likely' means? Let's put it very simply. The manufacturers of the drivers (transducers) in headphones are substantially fewer than the number of headphone brands, and are not the same companies. Where, oh where, do these manufacturers find headphone drivers if they don't...

Cost: $350 Sound quality: BT recompression aside, likely on par with 10 year old $50 wired Panasonic headphones (possibly even using the exact same ~40mm commodity drivers, if that), but with variable noise cancellation and the requirement to constantly recharge the headphones. Ah, but it has a...

Of course it does. My statement was a qualified one built around the (correct) contention of the poster that google is an advertising company and therefore simply not trustworthy by default. You've linked to a story about location tracking with the maps app on either iOS or Droid, and another...

Excellent article! The number of sub-acute viral infections that go undetected, or are not yet established to cause or exacerbate chronic health problems are almost certainly substantial in number. Give virologists and immunologists more money! Sad to say however, that Prof. X.J. Meng and Dr...

Samsung isn't discontinuing support after 6 months on $800 devices these days, although I'm sure they would if they thought they could get away with it. It's an essential point, however. Android is unquestionably a horror-show in terms of OS update support (the individual google apps often get...

Experienced exactly zero of those problems, but then I never bothered to try Nokia's selfie+back camera mode (which seems like the main difference from other Android One units). I will have to ask the end user about her experience after a few weeks. This was a 3GB/32GB USA bog standard model...

Sure, no doubt. Genomic surveillance of edited cell lines is going to become cheap, granular and pervasive. Good thing, too, as Bradley et Al.(among others) have demonstrated that existing techniques are prone to generating problems which can go undetected by older, gross-scale surveillance.

Okay. And yeah; We'll see what their costs and surveillance overhead ends up being, if and when they're approved. Approved CAR treatments are currently...limited in number, and regulatory oversight of engineered cellular therapeutics as a class is still very much in its infancy. Sure, and...

Sure. Manufacturers typically have a rated 'use case' that they're warranting a product to be good for, which tends to be reasonably well defined. Hopefully HP won't be screwing customers under warranty over by telling them they've 'used the product too much'.

Definitely not the case. Allen Bradley, the Sanger trust, and anyone invested in CRISPR companies (just talked to people at Intellia about this very topic), all of whom have seen their stocks drop since last November's Nature Biotechnology , have questions for you. T9 Endonuclease checks with...

Any statements on the MTBF for the leather 'moving parts'?

The issue in that particular case was inadvertently editing a cancer (probably cancer stem)cell, so likely a poor sort of the initial pool of cells. This is an issue made especially challenging with leukemias if you're using PBMCs from blood for your cell source, but not all techniques do...

The FCC junior council was ill at ease; the chairman had been ranting incoherently again. The mound of Peruvian cocaine that sat next to Ajit Pai's comically oversized coffee mug was slightly less disconcerting than the bloodied, single-use bendy straw. Strippers with prominent 'Verizon' logo...

Hmmm. Mouse/keyboard connection? Wireless headphone support for PM viewing? Android wearable remote controls? Malicious NSA plan to steal my sekrets?

The Nokia 6.1 I just picked up (definitely not the high end snapdragon) for a very nice woman seems surprisingly good at doing most things, actually. It is unquestionably inferior to the iPhone X at all those things, however. It did cost me $250 new yesterday. So it's way better at being...