{"id":3961,"date":"2021-12-07T20:36:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T19:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/07\/kamala-harris-is-on-to-something-airpods-are-bad-people-julia-carrie-wong\/"},"modified":"2021-12-07T20:36:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T19:36:27","slug":"kamala-harris-is-on-to-something-airpods-are-bad-people-julia-carrie-wong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/07\/kamala-harris-is-on-to-something-airpods-are-bad-people-julia-carrie-wong\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris is on to something: AirPods are bad, people | Julia Carrie Wong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity experts confirm that Bluetooth signals can in fact be intercepted. And old-school earbuds have a level of retro cool<\/p>\n<p>AirPods are bad, people. I\u2019ve said it for years. In 2016, when Apple first debuted the overpriced accessories, I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2016\/sep\/07\/apple-airpods-launch-problems-with-wireless-headphones\">wrote<\/a> that wireless headphones were like tampons without strings \u2013 missing the crucial feature that helps you find them when you need to.<\/p>\n<p>As the years have gone by, I\u2019ve clung steadfastly to my wired headphone sets. (I say headphone sets, plural, because I need two pairs, one to plug into the headphone jack in my laptop and one to plug into the non-headphone jack in my iPhone. I frequently think that the people I can\u2019t hear on Zoom calls are on mute when I actually just have the wrong pair of earbuds in my ears. I don\u2019t care; I won\u2019t change.)<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/dec\/07\/kamala-harris-airpods-bad-people\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4b96f29135e4a7714be0eeae071e3294739aa9ea\/0_409_6720_4032\/master\/6720.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e8c7d48e88932f0ae52e8b76dc074f42\" title=\"Kamala Harris is on to something: AirPods are bad, people | Julia Carrie Wong\" \/>Cybersecurity experts confirm that Bluetooth signals can in fact be intercepted. And old-school earbuds have a level of retro cool<br \/>\nAirPods are bad, people. I\u2019ve said it for years. In 2016, when Apple first debuted the overpriced accessories, I wrote that wireless headphones were like tampons without strings \u2013 missing the crucial feature that helps you find them when you need to.<br \/>\nAs the years have gone by, I\u2019ve clung steadfastly to my wired headphone sets. (I say headphone sets, plural, because I need two pairs, one to plug into the headphone jack in my laptop and one to plug into the non-headphone jack in my iPhone. I frequently think that the people I can\u2019t hear on Zoom calls are on mute when I actually just have the wrong pair of earbuds in my ears. I don\u2019t care; I won\u2019t change.) Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity experts confirm that Bluetooth signals can in fact be intercepted. And old-school earbuds have a level of retro cool AirPods are bad, people. I\u2019ve said it for years. In 2016, when Apple first debuted the overpriced accessories, I wrote that wireless headphones were like tampons without strings \u2013 missing the crucial feature that helps &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/07\/kamala-harris-is-on-to-something-airpods-are-bad-people-julia-carrie-wong\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kamala Harris is on to something: AirPods are bad, people | Julia Carrie Wong<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}