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It works with the company’s new AR glasses and in its own mobile and desktop apps.

We often hear about certain power stations being capable of running your central HVAC system or keeping your large appliances on during an outage, but just because you can doesn’t mean you always should.

When Snap debuted its long-awaited smart glasses, Specs, earlier this year, the reveal was not only underwhelming but a genuine disaster. The glasses — which cost a whopping $2200 and are vaguely reminiscent of scuba gear — inspired jeers online and calls for the company’s CEO, Evan Spiegel, to resign. The company’s stock subsequently nosedived.

Snap has been experimenting with glasses for a decade and AR-enabled frames for the last five years. I’ve tried every pair, and it’s always been clear that the company was working towards something bigger. Specs, the company’s first consumer-ready AR glasses are exactly that.

VC firm Valor Equity Partners, founded by Antonio Gracias, a long-time Elon Musk backer and current SpaceX board member, has opted to simply give away a chunk of its SpaceX stock to its limited partner investors, according to an SEC filing spotted by Bloomberg.

It turns out that the one thing that can apparently bridge Washington’s partisan divide is AM radio. U.S. automakers may be forced to build AM radio into new vehicles within the next year.

Sc. (WTOC) – For National Rehabilitation Awareness Week, Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Bluffton showed Morning Break advance technology to help patients regain their independence

New features like Health Age bring Apple’s app more in line with competitors like Whoop and Oura.

Marketing platform Noise aims to connect brands with content creators at a much lower cost than hiring traditional influencers or running standard ad campaigns. 

In a lengthy essay published over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made a proposal that the AI industry would have rejected instantly even a year ago: embed third-party evaluators inside all frontier AI companies, giving them the power to report safety incidents, assess whether AI models are truly aligned, and share their unvarnished findings…