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Volkswagen has opened presales for the ID. Aura T6 in China, and its headline price is the kind that will make American EV shoppers wonder what exactly they are paying for at home. The new five-seat electric crossover starts at 135,900 yuan, or about $20,225, according to CarNewsChina. That price is especially striking because the ID. Aura T6 is not a bare-bones city car. It is a midsize electric SUV with a choice of two battery packs, a large central display, driver-assistance hardware and a claimed range of up to 660 km under China’s CLTC testing cycle. The question, of…
Meta is trying to fix one of the biggest problems hanging over its smart glasses: the uncomfortable possibility that the person wearing them could be recording you without your knowledge. The company is rolling out a privacy update designed to close a loophole that allowed wearers to keep recording even after covering the glasses’ front-facing capture LED. The change comes as Meta’s AI-powered glasses face growing scrutiny over privacy, harassment and the increasingly blurry line between wearable technology and covert surveillance. Meta closes a loophole that let users keep recording Meta’s smart glasses already use a built-in capture LED that…
If you are stuck with the same five prestige dramas everyone’s already talking about, here are three that got criminally overlooked. For this weekend, we have a yakuza thriller, a finance drama, and a televangelist saga that still delivers after four seasons. All three underrated shows are streaming right now on HBO Max, and deserve a spot on your watchlist. If you don’t have the time or the appetite to commit to multiple seasons, I have created a list of the best limited series on Netflix that’s worth checking out. We also have guides to the best new movies to…
Apple TV has emerged as the quiet winner of the streaming wars over the past few years, but it seems the growing slate of its critically-acclaimed films and TV shows is going to cost you more going forward. Apple has just raised the subscription price of its streaming platform. The monthly plan now costs $14.99, up from the previous $12.99 fee. Apple TV now costs three times what it did at launch The annual plan, on the other hand, has climbed from $99 to $199 for users in the US. This is the fourth price hike for Apple TV in…
We have entered the age of biohacking now. And no, I am not talking about the extreme cases like Bryan Johnson, who is spending millions of dollars on ambitious health and de-aging goals. The average audience for wearables is now asking for more. They are feeding the sensing data collected by smartwatches, bands, and rings to AI agents, and pulling in more insights about their bodies. I created one such dashboard for myself using Claude in less than 10 minutes to make sense of the data collected by my smart ring. But there is only so much you can do…
South Korea wants to make access to artificial intelligence as easy as electricity or public transit. Instead of leaving premium AI tools behind a subscription, the government plans to pay for them, giving every citizen free access through a new initiative called ‘AI for All’. According to the Wall Street Journal, the program is designed to boost the use of homegrown AI chatbots while reducing the country’s dependence on models developed in the US and China. ‘AI for All’ aims to put premium chatbots in everyone’s hands The AI tools will go well beyond answering questions. They will integrate with…
Meta’s smart glasses have a nickname now, and it’s not a compliment. People are calling them “pervert glasses,” a label earned through months of secret filming, harassment, and creeps using the camera to record strangers without consent. Now Meta appears to have a fix in the works. Buried in a newly granted patent is Meta’s possible answer, and it’s about time. What Meta’s new patent promises The patent describes a “hardware privacy mute circuit,” filed earlier this year and granted just last week. It never names Meta’s glasses directly, but the illustrations look unmistakably like the Ray-Ban partnership currently on…
Meta’s smart glasses have already started facing restrictions in pubs, restaurants, theaters, and courtrooms across the UK. Now, one of New York City’s better-known nightclubs is bringing the same privacy fight to the US. Basement has announced that smart glasses are not allowed inside the venue because of its existing no-photo and no-video policy (via Futurism). Anyone who brings them in, whether they are wearing the glasses or simply carrying them in a bag, will be asked to leave and could even be permanently banned. People generally do not like being filmed by strangers. Being recorded without realizing it is…
Smartphone cameras have become remarkably good at squeezing detail out of difficult scenes, but there is still one familiar enemy: darkness. When the light disappears, even expensive phones can produce grainy images, muddy shadows and smeared fine details. A new AI-based image enhancement technique could offer a different way forward. Researchers from Wuhan University in China have developed LL-Refiner, a two-stage machine-learning system designed to improve ultra-high-definition low-light images without sacrificing the small details that make photographs look natural. The work was reported by Tech Xplore and published in the IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica on July 3, 2026. Instead…
Drive down almost any main street in the US, and chances are an AI-powered camera is taking notice. Over the past few years, police departments across the country have quietly installed thousands of automated license plate readers to monitor daily traffic. But while law enforcement pitched these as simple crime-fighting upgrades, growing fears over constant location tracking and unauthorized police misuse have triggered a massive backlash. At the center of the conflict is Flock Safety, an Atlanta-based company whose roadside units scan and log billions of vehicle details every month. Police departments argue these automatic license plate readers are vital…