š¶ļø Canāt wait for a new wave of glass-holes: Mark Zuckerberg thinks Metaās Orion smart glasses will replace smartphones for messaging, video chatting and browsing social media. Zuck and his team have been working on the (really) thick black glasses for 10 years. They include a holographic display only the wearer can see. No price or timeline yet.
Tags: Mark Zuckerberg, media, messaging, Meta, Smart, smartphones, social media, video
Data broker MC2 Data left more than 100 million records of Americans exposed online for anyone to copy, grab, forward, sell on the Dark Web ā you name it. This comes only a month after the National Public Data breach of 2.9 billion records. Iām getting so tired of these data broker companies and people-search sites screwing up, and itās you and me who have to pay for their mistakes.
A Texas woman took to Facebook after her 9-year-old left his stuffed gorilla at a California hotel. A stranger saw the post, went an hour out of her way to pick it up, then documented the gorillaās journey home. Absolutely watch this if you need a smile!
Found buried with Bronze Age mummies in northwestern China. It took researchers a decade of DNA analysis to determine the substance was, in fact, the worldās oldest cheese. Un-brie-lievable.
How often Teslaās Full Self-Driving mode requires human intervention. In a 1,000-mile test, drivers had to intervene to prevent dangerous behavior more than 75 times. The good: Self-driving mode brakes for pedestrians and lets oncoming cars through. The bad: It also runs red lights and drives into oncoming traffic. Just say no.
Paying the neighborās electricity bill. A guy in Vacaville, California, has lived alone in the same apartment complex since 2006. The entire time, he wondered why the heck his power bill was so high. Turns out he was paying for the apartment next door, too. What a dope.
To return a kidās beloved stuffed animal. A Texas woman took to Facebook after her 9-year-old left his stuffed gorilla at a California hotel. A stranger saw the post, went an hour out of her way to pick it up, then documented the gorillaās journey home. Absolutely watch this if you need a smile!
Playing on gaming platform Steam at once, a new record. Whatās popular right now? Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, PUBG, Final Fantasy 16 and Banana, among others. Banana is, I kid you not, just clicking on a JPEG of a banana. I donāt get it. I just donāt get it.
AI can beat online captcha tests designed to stump bots. A researcher trained a bot he called You Only Look Once (yeah, YOLO) on images of roads (paywall link). Now, the bot can ace the āAre you a human?ā quizzes.
