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Smart glasses are getting banned from offices, event spaces, pubs, and courtrooms (among other venues), and folks are expressing their uneasiness at being under the gaze of camera-equipped specs — especially given the…
And while it's announcing some new games alongside the VR glasses, including the latest iteration of Beat Saber, I don't think gaming will be a primary use case. Instead, Meta seems to be positioning its VR glasses as…
A close-up of the lutetium clock’s interior, which is the world’s most accurate timekeeper. Credit: Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore Lutetium clock is the best timekeeper ever Physicists…
So why do 10–15% of people using the drugs lose minimal weight or none at all? “There is tremendous heterogeneity” in the response to these medications, says Daniel Drucker , an endocrinologist at the University of…
Researchers say this is the first instance of a frontier AI model breaching another country’s government systems. Although no personal health data are thought to have been accessed, the breach is the latest in a series…
The arm loaded a multi-well plate into an instrument that filled the wells with liquid, then carried the plate to a distant device that analysed the wells’ contents. Baranzadeh, a computational biologist at Carnegie…
Researchers added more than 8,000 virus protein dimers — pairs of interacting molecules — to the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database on 24 September. The resource contains predictions of the 3D structure of proteins…
Meta knows you probably have some privacy concerns about its smart glasses . At its annual Meta Connect event today in Menlo Park, California, the company announced plans to incorporate its siloed AI processing scheme…
Meta states the third-gen pair offer longer battery life, new photography tricks and introduce new celebrity collaborations to the mix. But has Meta done enough to make its smart glasses safer and, frankly, less creepy?…
With privacy concerns surrounding its Meta Glasses that no amount of celebrity endorsement can fix , plus issues around shielding children and vulnerable people from harmful content online, it really doesn’t feel like…