What started as a 24-hour hackathon project last weekend could empower the open-source community to upend the smart glasses industry. Five team members built a $20 pair of smart glasses, dubbed Open Glass, that connects what you see and hear to an AI chatbot, such as Meta’s Llama 3.
Remember meme stocks?
In early 2021, the stock price of video game retailer GameStop pumped immensely after a Reddit community of traders, led by a trader known as Roaring Kitty (or DeepFuckingValue on Reddit), started buying en masse. This in turn caused the demise of hedge fund Melvin Capital that was shorting GameStop stock (shorting, in the simplest of terms, is betting on the stock price
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Fans of the children's TV sensation "Bluey" feared
This might come as a shock to you but the things people put on social media aren't always truthful — really blew your mind there, right? Due to this, it can be challenging for people to know what's real without context or expertise in a specific area. That's part of why many platforms use a fact-checking team to keep an eye (often more so look like they're keeping an eye) on what's getting shared
Every Met Gala has some sort of controversy, whether it’s about the dress code and theme, the guest list, or a now-infamous brawl in an elevator at an afterparty. Because this is 2024, it’s only fitting that the outrage began this year because of a TikTok audio track.
In a now-deleted video, an influencer named Haley Kalil
As usual, Google I/O 2024 is an absolute whirlwind of news and announcements. This year, rather than focusing on hardware, Android, or Chrome, Google spent most of this year’s developers’ conference convincing us that its AI features are worth prioritizing. One of those projects is Project Astra, a multimodal AI…
Paul Walter Hauser teases his mystery Fantastic Four character. Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Tomb Raider series is a go at Amazon. Plus, what’s coming in Evil’s final season. To me, my spoilers!
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Halfway to the weekend! What do you get when you create a livestream video portal connecting New York and Dublin? In a word, chaos.
In today's big story, we're looking at Google's big event that's pitching all the ways AI agents can make our lives
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Inflation in the US is still above 3%, new Consumer Price Index data released on Wednesday suggested, but cooled off slightly in April.
The Consumer Price Index or CPI, an inflation
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A 24/7 livestream “Portal” that connects New York City and the Irish capital of Dublin was temporarily deactivated on Tuesday as technicians sought to solve a critical flaw in the project’s fun premise: How to stop so many people from sharing inappropriate material—like dick pics, videos of 9/11, or boobs.
