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fromInfoQ
1 day ago

Google Research Open-Sources the Coral NPU Platform to Help Build AI into Wearables and Edge Devices

Coral NPU enables efficient, on-device AI for battery-powered wearables and edge devices by optimizing hardware for ML, reducing fragmentation, and enforcing privacy.
#ai-companionship
fromFuturism
2 weeks ago

Cocky AI CEO Does Photoshoot in Front of His Subway Ads That Got Relentlessly Vandalized

Last month, AI startup Friend launched an eyebrow-raising advertising campaign in the New York City subway, which drew a striking amount of hatred. The largely white billboards left a convenient amount of room for passersby to air their feelings about the privacy-infringing tech. As such, it didn't take long for handwritten scribbles to cover the ads. "Befriend something alive," one pen-wielding tagger wrote. "AI wouldn't care if you lived or died," another vandal raged.
Artificial intelligence
fromThe Atlantic
2 weeks ago

A Walk With New York's Most Hated Tech Founder

If you haven't already heard of Friend, the company that makes a $129 wearable AI companion-a plastic disk, containing a microphone, on a necklace-you probably also have not seen Friend's recent ad campaign. Late this past summer, Friend paid $1 million to plaster more than 10,000 white posters throughout the New York City subway system with messages such as I'll binge the entire series with you.
Artificial intelligence
#privacy
fromFast Company
3 weeks ago
Gadgets

The 22-year-old behind the most controversial ad campaign in New York tells all: 'I'm kind of purchasing the zeitgeist and mindshare right now'

fromFast Company
3 weeks ago
Gadgets

The 22-year-old behind the most controversial ad campaign in New York tells all: 'I'm kind of purchasing the zeitgeist and mindshare right now'

#smart-glasses
fromDefector
1 month ago

Mark Zuckerberg Demonstrates That His AI Smart Glasses Suck And Don't Work | Defector

"Um ... there we go ... uh-oh," said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on stage as he attempted to answer a video call through a combination of movements between a wristband and a pair of glasses. "Well, I ... let's see what happened there ... that's too bad," he continued, shortly before cutting short the live demo. The video call went unanswered.
Wearables
#meta
fromFortune
1 month ago
Wearables

Mark Zuckerberg unveiled $800 smart glasses that come with a special twist-here's what they can do | Fortune

fromFortune
1 month ago
Wearables

Mark Zuckerberg unveiled $800 smart glasses that come with a special twist-here's what they can do | Fortune

Wearables
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago

Harvard dropouts to launch 'always on' AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation | TechCrunch

AI-powered always-on smart glasses will record and transcribe conversations, display real-time prompts and contextual information, and aim to augment memory and intelligence.
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