Amazon’s Ring cancels partnership with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police
This news comes less than a week after Ring’s Super Bowl commercial stoked controversy over the company’s capacity for mass surveillance.
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Meta’s Quest 3S is $50 off, and includes Batman: Arkham Shadow for free
Meta’s VR strategy is in a bit of an uncertain place right now, with the company recently cutting many jobs at its Reality Labs, and discontinuing new content drops in beloved experiences like Supernatural. Even so, there’s still a lot of fun to be had with its Meta Quest 3S if you’ve been curious about […]
ICE moves out to the suburbs
We sat in a parking lot and waited. We watched, knowing we were being watched in return. Two men, masked and presumably armed, idled in a gray SUV. “They’re all on this fucking street now,” Lety, a lifelong resident of the Minnesota suburbs, told me. ICE had been spotted at a gas station and a […]
Meta reportedly wants to add face recognition to smart glasses while privacy advocates are distracted
Meta aims to introduce facial recognition to its smart glasses while its biggest critics are distracted, according to a report from The New York Times. In an internal document reviewed by The Times, Meta says it will launch the feature “during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to […]
Cohere’s $240M year sets stage for IPO
Cohere surpassed $240 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025, highlighting strong enterprise AI demand as the Canadian startup positions itself for a potential IPO amid intensifying competition from OpenAI and Anthropic.
Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, report claims
The feature, internally known as “Name Tag,” would allow smart glasses wearers to identify people and get information about them via Meta’s AI assistant.
There’s a tiny digital camera inside these retro 35mm film rolls
Following the popularity of the Kodak Charmera, it was inevitable that other retro-inspired digital toy cameras would start popping up. While the Charmera’s design was inspired by the ’80s single-use Kodak Fling camera, the OPT100 Neo Film crams a basic digital camera into a 35mm film roll that comes inside a plastic canister and a […]
Score, the dating app for people with good credit, is back
Two years ago, a controversial dating app was launched and quickly shuttered: for people with good-to-excellent credit. Now, the founder is relaunching it, open to anyone.
HP’s laptop subscriptions are a great deal — for HP
There’s been some hullabaloo over HP’s laptop subscription service, recently brought to light by a Linus Tech Tips video. And for good reason: it feels like everything is a subscription these days. But it’s not just the dystopian feeling that companies are happy to sell you access to movies, music, games, phones, printers, and now […]
The hottest indie game is about breeding cats with ADHD and dyslexia
When the Mewgenics team announced in 2024 that it had added autism to the list of disorders the game’s cats could inherit, developer Edmund McMillen – best known as the co-creator of Super Meat Boy – was unprepared for the reaction. “It was like the most positive response I’ve ever had to anything I posted,” […]