TL;DR Two college students have put facial recognition technology into the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The demo the students created can pull up personal information such as names, phone numbers, addresses, and family members. The demo shows off the scarier side of smart glasses. The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are impressive tech that allows a … Read more
After fifteen years of fighting to make the web safer and more accessible, the World Wide Web Foundation is shutting down. From a report: In a letter shared via the organization’s website, co-founders Sir Tim Berners-Lee — inventor of the World Wide Web — and Rosemary Leith explain that the organization’s mission has been somewhat … Read more
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has now raised $6.6 billion in a new funding round that values the company at $157 billion, nearly doubling its previous valuation of $86 billion, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The funding round comes with strings attached: Investors have the right to withdraw their money if … Read more
Google today announced an update for the summary card feature in Gmail, which is designed to provide helpful information at the top of incoming emails. Summary cards have a new look for purchases, events, bill, and travel emails, with Google adding new action buttons. With these action buttons, Gmail users can do things like add … Read more
What’s Up: October 2024 Skywatching Tips from NASA NASA is back again with its monthly update of celestial delights to enjoy over the coming weeks. The space agency shared its tips in a video (above), which we’ve summarized below. Planets galore! It turns out that October offers a great chance to spy many of the … Read more
We’re still a week away from Prime Big Deal Days. Still, Amazon just can’t help itself. The company is now offering an upgraded line of Fire HD 8 tablets, all with limited-time discounts of 45-50%. The 2024 Fire HD 8 is an incremental upgrade. It’s got the same screen, processor, and battery life as its … Read more
This is a sponsored article brought to you by Khalifa University of Science and Technology. A total of eight intense competitions to inspire creativity and innovation along with 13 forums dedicated to diverse segments of robotics and artificial intelligence will be part of the 36th edition of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and … Read more
Elon Musk’s satellite internet company Starlink claims it can bring superfast broadband to ‘almost anywhere on Earth’. It is the largest satellite internet provider around the world, and has already launched in several African countries. But will it be the solution to Africa’s patchy broadband access? Reporter: Debula Kemoli Edited by: Ali Abbas Ahmadi Source … Read more
GamesBeat Next is almost here! GB Next is the premier event for product leaders and leadership in the gaming industry. Coming up October 28th and 29th, join fellow leaders and amazing speakers like Matthew Bromberg (CEO Unity), Amy Hennig (Co-President of New Media Skydance Games), Laura Naviaux Sturr (GM Operations Amazon Games), Amir Satvat (Business … Read more
Maria Diaz/ZDNET Amazon’s October Prime Day event is almost here, and many discounts on our favorite computer monitors are cropping up. It can be difficult to sift through all the great deals because there are so many. I want to take this opportunity to shine a spotlight on Samsung’s Odyssey OLED G9, a gaming monitor that … Read more