The debate over technology and privacy is intensifying as Meta prepares to announce a third generation of its Ray-Ban smart glasses, a launch that will hold both excitement and unease in the tech community at the same time. In the new model, which will be marketed as Meta Ray-Ban Glasses Gen 3, the features that have already attracted more than two million buyers since they were introduced in 2023 will be refined. | CySecurity News - Latest Information Security and Hacking Incidents
In the 1980s, people weren’t wearing head-mounted cameras, displays, or computers. Except for high school student Steve Mann, who regularly wore his homemade electronic computer vision system (seeing aid). Back then, Mann attracted stares, questions, suspicion, and sometimes hostility. But it didn’t stop him from refining the technology he developed. It now underlies augmented-reality eyeglasses—including those by Google and Magic Leap—that are used in operating rooms and industrial s...| IEEE Spectrum
General-purpose robots are hard to train. The dream is to have a robot like the Jetson’s Rosie that canperforming a range of household tasks, like tidying up or folding laundry. But for that to happen, the robot needs to learn from a large amount of data that match real-world conditions—that data can be difficult to collect. Currently, most training data is collected from multiple static cameras that have to be carefully set up to gather useful information. But what if bots could learn fr...| IEEE Spectrum
Google's daring return to smart glasses is here. Can these stylish marvels truly transform our reality? The answer might surprise you.| Software Test Tips
Flow. In the zone. Peak performance. Whether you get to these states as a yogi, an athlete, or as a knowledge worker, hyperfocus is another, broader, term that describes this heightened mental state. It’s something into which artists and NFL players alike can tap into for composing an opus, or throwing a perfect football spiral. […]| Narbis