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If I said “name a commodified consumer electronics category,” wireless speakers and headphones would probably be at the top of your list. Search on Amazon — or at your local drugstore — and you’ll see plenty of them with generic or unfamiliar Chinese brand names in the $25 range. And that’s why it’s encouraging to see the JBL Go 3 on sale today, ahead of Amazon’s Prime Early Access Sale (which officially runs Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 11 and 12). Usually selling for $50, the JBL Go 3 is currently 40% off — just $30. (It occasionally hovers at this price, but we’ve never seen it lower.)

I own the Go 3, and it’s one of my favorite gadgets and travel companions. It’s also IPX 67 waterproof, so it’s at home in the shower or by the pool. In fact, I installed a Command Hook by the bathroom sink where it can hang from its durable braided loop. The only two buttons are Bluetooth sync and power — it’s worked flawlessly with any phone, laptop or tablet I’ve ever tried to connect to it.

And the sound? For something that fits in the palm of my hand, I think it sounds great. With a good bit of midrange and even a touch of bass, you actually feel like you’re getting some of that JBL audio DNA that

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson confirmed Tuesday that the space agency succeeded in its mission to change the orbit of small asteroid Dimorphos. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, aka DARTwas crashed into Dimorphos a few weeks ago to test one possible method of protecting Earth from a dangerous body on a collision course with our planet.

“This is a watershed moment for planetary defense and a watershed moment for humanity,” Nelson said during a press conference.

To be clear, this was only a test of one potential defense method, called “deflection by kinetic impactor,” that doesn’t require any nuclear weapons or celebrities on a suicide mission a la popular Hollywood movies like 1998’s Armageddon. Dimorphos, which is actually a moonlet orbiting the larger asteroid Didymos, doesn’t pose an actual threat to Earth. in fact, no known asteroids or near-Earth objects are considered to be a threat to humanitybut there are still plenty of space rocks and comets out there yet to be discovered or tracked by astronomers.

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DART’s impact with Dimorphos on Sept. 26 appears to have reduced the time it takes the moonlet to orbit Didymos by 32 minutes, from 11 hours and 55 minutes to 11 hours and 23 minutes, with a margin of uncertainty of about two minutes. NASA had hoped DART would alter the orbital period by at least 73 seconds but expected it could alter the orbit by at least a