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Apple is banking on privacy to set its smart glasses apart

According to Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to reveal its first smart glasses at WWDC next June, with an expectation that they’ll launch by the end of 2027. Part of the hold-up may be around the company’s efforts to get its privacy features and messaging in order. Smart glasses in general, and Meta’s in particular, […]

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The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border

The government is prosecuting US citizen Sam Tunick for allegedly providing authorities with a “duress password” that wiped his phone when they tried to seize it at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport on January 24th, 2025. Federal agents detained Tunick at the airport, allegedly questioning him about child exploitation images. However, a motion filed by Tunick’s lawyers […]

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US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a ‘duress’ password during border search

A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government’s claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone’s data, opening up fresh questions about a person’s constitutional rights at the U.S. border.

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OpenAI wants your medical records, and says its AI is ‘better than clinician level’

OpenAI wants to be in the room for your next diagnosis. On Thursday it began rolling out ChatGPT Health to every logged-in US adult. The chatbot can now connect to your Apple Health data and medical records, the company said. It can then draw on them in any conversation. More than 300 million people already […]

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Meta is banning the ‘pervert glasses’ creeps from Instagram

Meta has a nickname problem. Its Ray-Ban smart glasses have earned an ugly label: “pervert glasses”. Men wear them to film women in the street. Pranksters wear them to ambush shop workers. Now Instagram is trying to scrub the evidence. The platform will start removing videos shot on the glasses to harass people, as Business […]

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Google now lets you sign in to your account with a selfie video

Everyone has lost access to something. A phone, a password, a recovery code sent to a dead email. Google’s answer, announced on Thursday, is your face. The company is adding a selfie video as a way to sign in, it said in a blog post. Setting it up takes a short online process with a […]

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Meta’s AI is deleting accounts, and the only way to appeal is more AI

Camille Hanson woke one night in March to a notification: Meta had flagged her Facebook and Instagram accounts for deletion. She and her husband ran an English-teaching business there with nearly a million followers. Meta said she had breached its rules on fraud and deception, the New York Times reported. She appealed. A week later […]

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Hackers stole Estée Lauder staff’s bank and health data. The company took nearly a year to say so.

The cosmetics giant Estée Lauder is notifying staff of a data breach after hackers slipped into the Oracle software it uses to run human resources. BleepingComputer first reported the disclosure. Nearly a year in the dark The timeline is the uncomfortable part. According to the company’s notification letter, an intruder reached its Oracle E-Business Suite […]

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Everyone is cramming AI into phones. Light’s new flip phone strips it all out.

The flip phone is back, and this one has a cause. Light, the Brooklyn maker of deliberately boring phones, has unveiled the Light Flip, its first clamshell and its fourth device in a decade. It costs $299 and lands with a pointed message: as Apple and Google push AI deeper into everything, Light is building […]

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Halliday made 2025’s worst smart glasses. Its camera-free comeback is aimed at your meetings.

It is rare that a crowdfunded hardware startup gets a second shot at a first impression. Halliday is taking it. The company unveiled the G2 on Tuesday, priced from $499, shipping in September. A brutal first act The original glasses were panned. Engadget scored them 54 out of 100, one of the lowest marks in […]

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