Meta has announced a new generation of its Ray-Ban smart glasses, featuring significantly improved battery life and the ability to record 3K video, which brings them up to par with the Oakley HSTN smart glasses. The new glasses, technically called the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2, are available to order today and start at $379. Let’s dig in on battery, which …
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Meta’s next big Connect conference is nearly here, and this year, we’re expecting to see a lot of news about glasses. AI-focused hardware is all the rage, and Meta arguably already has the best gadgets around in its Ray-Ban and Oakley glasses. At this year’s show, we’re expecting to see more about glasses, but also some standalone AI updates and …
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The letter outlined not only the improper access engineers had to WhatsApp user data, but a variety of other shortcomings, including a “failure to inventory user data,” as required under privacy laws in California, the European Union, and the FTC settlement, failure to locate data storage, an absence of systems for monitoring user data access, and an inability to detect …
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A woman was left in shock after she went in for a Brazilian wax – only to find that her service provider was wearing Meta‘s Ray-Ban AI glasses. Aniessa Navarro, a New York City-based influencer with over 100,000 followers, took to TikTok recently to share her story, explaining that she was completely caught off guard after going in for a treatment. …
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Advocates have long contended that so-called “smart glasses,” which when activated record whatever the wearer sees, pose serious privacy risks. There was a sharp outcry when Google debuted Project Glass more than a decade ago, and now with Meta’s Ray-Ban AI glasses, a new generation is finding out the hard way just how creepy these surveillance wearables can be. In …
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Hypernova is the codename for Meta’s upcoming smart glasses with a small heads-up display (HUD) in one eye. While Meta hasn’t directly confirmed plans to soon launch HUD glasses, multiple executives have strongly hinted at it, and The Verge, The Information, The Financial Times, and Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman have all released reports claiming the launch is set for this year. …
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Meta is reportedly going to launch two new smart glasses during its annual product showcase, Meta Connect 2025, in September. One of those glasses has been tipped to be the rumored Hypernova specs that should feature a display and a wristband controller. The social media-turned-AI company will debut its first consumer glasses with a display alongside a “third-generation of its …
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OpenAI is asking Meta to produce evidence related to any coordinated plans with Elon Musk and xAI to acquire or invest in the ChatGPT-maker. The request was made public in a brief filed Thursday in Elon Musk’s ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI. Lawyers representing OpenAI said they subpoenaed Meta in June for documents related to its potential involvement in Musk’s unsolicited, …
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When Meta selected a site in Louisiana for its largest data center to date, it signed a deal with Entergy to power the site with three massive natural gas power plants. Yesterday evening, a state regulator approved Entergy’s plans. The power plants are expected to come online in 2028 and 2029, and at full strength, they’ll generate 2.25 gigawatts of …
Read More »Meta just made the biggest reorganization of its artificial intelligence operations to date. Business Insider obtained the full email sent by 28-year-old Alexandr Wang, the leader of Meta Superintelligence Labs, or MSL, to all Meta employees who work on AI. As the AI arms race continues, Meta has been assembling an all-star team of talent, trying to poach researchers from …
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