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Bose Overhauls QuietComfort 2nd Gen With Major Upgrades For $359

Bose is giving its core noise-canceling headphone line a major mid-cycle upgrade. The new QuietComfort Headphones (2nd Gen), priced at $359 MSRP, pack several features previously reserved for the pricier Ultra lineup, while tweaking the hardware design to solve some long-standing daily usage annoyances, such as active-noise cancellation leakage when wearing glasses.

ANC has historically been a strong suit among Bose's headphones and earbuds, as we most recently experienced in our QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds (2nd Gen) review. Now branded as "QuietControl" with the release of its refreshed QuietComfort Headphones, Bose's ANC gets some key under-the-hood tweaks. Chief among them is a six-microphone array that uses adaptive feedforward processing to compensate for broken earcup seals caused by thick eyeglass frames, hats, or even bushy hair.

"In addition, the new QuietComfort Headphones feature an improved ActiveSense responsewhen in Aware Mode, engaging the right amount of noise cancellation in a smoother and...

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OpenAI is adding text watermarking in ChatGPT and Codex

Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. An invisible, machine-readable watermark in text output is rolling out to ChatGPT and Codex, but only for users in the European Union at first.

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Tesla Model Y tops global EV sales figures again — but new report reveals BYD is closing fast with 4 of the top 10…

* Chinese brands dominate new global EV sales charts for August * The Tesla Model Y still tops the tables * Battery EVs are outselling plug-in hybrids The global EV sales figures are in — and while Tesla’s Model Y still dominates the list of August’s best-selling pure electric vehicles, models from

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Surprise surprise, AI data centers are still incredibly unpopular across the US — and nearly two-thirds of Americans say they oppose new facilities

* A majority of US voters (61%) now oppose AI data center construction * Trump voters support construction, but only at 49%, versus 47% opposing * Polling took place in early September 2026 The majority of US voters have expressed their opposition to further AI data centers, as newly published research by The

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At 19, founder raises $11 million for Ghost, maker of a $3,499 computer for personal AI

For much of his life, Zain Javaid, 19, wanted to be a quant who uses math and data to guide his investment decisions. And for a while, he was one. But he got bored. Then, in 2022, ChatGPT was released, and “I felt fundamentally excited in a way that I

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OpenAI is adding text watermarking in ChatGPT and Codex

Tesla Model Y tops global EV sales figures again &mdash; but new report reveals BYD is closing fast with 4 of the top 10…

Surprise surprise, AI data centers are still incredibly unpopular across the US &mdash; and nearly two-thirds of Americans say they oppose new facilities

At 19, founder raises $11 million for Ghost, maker of a $3,499 computer for personal AI

Tesla Model Y tops global EV sales figures again — but new report reveals BYD is closing fast with 4 of the top 10…

Surprise surprise, AI data centers are still incredibly unpopular across the US — and nearly two-thirds of Americans say they oppose new facilities