People keep dropping their AirPods onto subway tracks

The embodiment of the tech industry is firmly planted in one ear — and falling right out the other.

Depending on who you ask, Apple's $159 wireless AirPods are either straight up amazing or the cheery manifestation of societal rot. One fact, however, is undeniable: People keep dropping these things onto subway tracks. 

So confirms BART, the transit system operating across the tech capital of the world that is the Bay Area. In fact, according to BART officials, the agency's lost and found received 52 reports of lost AirPods so far this year. If the rate keeps up, the number could surpass last year's total. In 2018, BART clocked 80 reports of lost AirPods.  Read more...