vicmsong.bsky.social
Senior reviewer at The Verge. I write about wearables, health tech, and other gadgets. Previously: Gizmodo, PCMag, Yomiuri Shimbun.
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WAKE UP NERDS
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No clues just yet.
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Project Aura wasn't here today (or a part of the main keynote despite being a pair of glasses...). An yeah, that prototype I saw was something different.
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They didn’t show that demo to press today but i did back in December. Worked, but the demo was on strict guardrails. Live AI translations IRL is a different beast.
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We got SPF and sunglasses too.
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This was super close but a lil over a dollar over
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You sir are the winner by Price is Right rules. It was $29.59.
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10/10 would try.
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How clickity is the clackity
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It’s probably not all that comforting but the bargaining committee asked Jim many of these questions too. Not gonna lie, I didn’t love the answers. Still devastated we lost Polygon but solidarity forever.
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I don’t disagree with you there. I just am keeping all those messages I received in mind — and I’d hope other smart glass makers see this and decide to prioritize privacy AND incorporating a similar dedication to helping low vision and blind people in their products.
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I got real humbled by many low vision and blind users when I was flippant about Meta AI in the glasses once and it was a good wake up call that I can do better. 🙂
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For people with low vision or blindness, the concept of this tech from an accessibility standpoint, neat. The privacy stuff… has never been neat with smart glasses.
It’s a balance, especially since tech reporters often forget to consider accessibility use cases. I include myself in this.l
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So relieved i switched my flight to I/O to JFK.
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95% of my skincare spending is sunscreen. I’m the weirdo who actually reapplies every 2 hours and wears sunscreen 24/7, 365 including cloudy and rainy days.
Right now it’s oil cleanser for makeup days, water-based cleanser, vitamin c, c-pdrn serum, tretnoin, and moisturizer. Occasional sheet mask.
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Our weekend writer hit this on Saturday! But yeah, they backpedaled but... I'm a little hmmm over the whole "this blog shouldn't have been up and this was never our policy." Regardless, that's how people interpreted it to work :\.
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Just switched my flight to I/O from Newark to JFK. I hate JFK lololol.
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Not everyone has to be Shakespeare and I’m open to accessibility uses for AI — but all the things I truly remember 15 years after college ended were things I struggled for hours to articulate in classes.
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I have thoughts about AI evangelists positioning ChatGPT as a “calculator for words”.Calculation isn’t always about self expression but writing is giving form to intangible thought. To write well, you have to think well. When you outsource that, do you really know what you feel about a given topic?
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Not to get too philosophical but wisdom is contingent on experience and can AI even have experiences? I don’t think wisdom has to be human — in some ways my cat is much wiser than I. But wisdom implies learning from *lived* experiences.
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Same.
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Shit I wish it’d let me edit but it’s pictures of the program and the sign at “The Fast and Furious: a Musical Parody.”