Hello, Google Pixel Buds (and real-time translation). Goodbye, headphone jack.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Hey, Google: Say it ain't so. At a splashy event in San Francisco to unveil its latest generation of Pixel smartphones, Google debuted Google Pixel Buds, its own Bluetooth earbuds priced at $159. Their biggest selling point of the Pixel Buds is that they come equipped with the smarts of Google Assistant (though they don't come with the purchase of a Pixel phone) and a really nifty feature: real-time translations of conversations through Google Translate in 40 languages. The downside: Google has jettisoned the headphone jack on the Pixel, leaving just a USB-C data/charge port. If this sounds familiar, it's because the headphone jack is increasingly an endangered feature on smartphones, thanks in large part to Apple.