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Snap’s $2,200 gamble on AR glasses reveals the company’s precarious position

Since Specs' debut earlier this year, Snap has clearly been looking for an opportunity to explain why the smart glasses deserve to exist.

TechCrunch·3w ago

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Valor’s SpaceX shares expose a venture capital liquidity crisis

Valor Equity Partners is handing out stock to its LPs instead of cash returns.

TechCrunch·3w ago

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Snap’s $2,200 Specs glasses show AR is maturing, but the real test is just beginning

My favorite part of wearing the Specs, Snap's new augmented reality glasses, was playing dominoes. Sitting across the table from a Snap employee wearing the same pair of chunky glasses, I could select a virtual domino with a pinch and then move my hand to drop it in place, watching the tile snap dow

The Verge·3w ago

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Snap bets its future on AI assistant that connects to your other apps

Snap is introducing "Specs Intelligence," a new AI assistant that can connect other digital accounts to help you with things like work tasks and keeping track of travel information. It seems similar to AI assistants like Meta's Muse and Gemini's Spark, though Snap is pitching Specs Intelligence as a

The Verge·3w ago

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Apple’s server chip play signals shift in AI infrastructure strategy

Apple reportedly building server packed with M-series Ultra chips for AI

Ars Technica·3w ago

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Epstein abuse survivors use civil courts to identify people in seized images

Epstein had huge cache of child sex pics; victims sue to find out who's in them

Ars Technica·3w ago

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Cyberattack exposes the fragile infrastructure behind meteor tracking

Nonprofit that tracks meteors taken down by "critical blow" from a cyberattack

Ars Technica·3w ago

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AI-generated Odyssey adaptation reveals the gap between hype and reality in filmmaking

Christopher Nolan's engrossing take on The Odyssey dominated at the box office and spurred a newfound interest in classic literature among filmgoers. But a new retelling of the story made entirely with AI is so bad that it might just make viewers hate the original tale altogether. The new film, call

The Verge·3w ago

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Lionsgate releases a new trailer for Sunrise on the Reaping

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Ars Technica·3w ago

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Human neurons in mouse brains pose ethics questions neuroscience cannot yet answer

Multiple cameras tracked a mouse as it wandered around a small arena. A computer charted its position and speed, leaving Pong-like traces on a monitor. The reason to watch this rodent so carefully? Nearly half its brain volume had been replaced with human cells. The effort to mix the brain tis

MIT Technology Review·3w ago

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Materials science is becoming AI’s overlooked bottleneck

The AI boom is becoming a materials challenge. As AI pushes computing into new territory, the materials behind that infrastructure are becoming just as crucial as the algorithms running on it. Semiconductors and data centers are approaching physical limits around performance, thermal management, ele

MIT Technology Review·3w ago

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OpenAI’s biodata play signals a shift in AI’s power over medicine

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What’s at stake in AI’s trillion-dollar gamble When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania, wanted to assess AI’s impa

MIT Technology Review·3w ago

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