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Can AI help improve the lives of wildlife and people who enjoy them. Meta is leading the pack in smart glasses, but people have a negative view of them often causing owners to not wear them in public.
Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Blair Bazdarich, Roger Chang, Joe.
Top Tech Story of the Week:
Apple’s Lawsuit Threatens to Disrupt OpenAI’s Bid to Rival the iPhone
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-13/how-apple-s-lawsuit-threatens-to-disrupt-openai-s-bid-to-rival-the-iphone
Q2 2026 Global Smartphone Shipments Slump to Lowest Q2 Level in 13 Years as Memory Crisis Deepens
https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/global-smartphone-shipments-q2-2026
A Framework for Frontier AI: Dawning of a New Age
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/framework-frontier-ai-dawning-new-age-demis-hassabis-cngse/
Samsung’s Foldable Display Technology Is Harder to Damage and Resists Creases
https://www.engadget.com/2215470/samsung-foldable-display-technology-is-harder-to-damage-and-resists-creases/
OnePlus Is Officially Leaving the US and Europe
https://www.engadget.com/2213731/oneplus-is-officially-leaving-the-us-and-europe/
Discussions:
Scientists uncover whale social network in San Francisco Bay
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-whale-network-san-francisco-bay.html
AI can identify individual birds by their songs
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-ai-bird-individual-song.html
AI cuts wildlife tracking from months to days
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-ai-wildlife-tracking-months-days.html
AI tool identifies wild animals by their unique markings
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-ai-tool-wild-animals-unique.html
How AI is changing life for lab animals
https://phys.org/news/2026-07-lab-animals-ai.html
Researchers find uncanny valley effect in macaques using 3D avatars
https://phys.org/news/2026-07-uncanny-valley-effect-macaques-3d.html#goog_rewarded
Meta’s ‘Pervert Glasses’ Backlash Has People Afraid
https://futurism.com/future-society/backlash-meta-pervert-glasses-afraid
The Meta Glasses Backlash Is Changing How (or If) People Use Them
https://www.engadget.com/2212604/the-meta-glasses-backlash-is-changing-how-or-if-people-use-them/
Kylie Jenner’s Meta Glasses Spark ‘Fascist’ Debate
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kylie-jenner-meta-glasses-fascist_n_6a565e74e4b0540b8c7b111a
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More Discussions:
Nvidia Launches Japan’s Cosmos Coalition to Accelerate Robotics
https://thenextweb.com/news/nvidia-japan-cosmos-coalition-robotics
Boston Dynamics’ Spot Robot Tackles the ‘Porch Gap’ in Deliveries
https://thenextweb.com/news/boston-dynamics-spot-delivery-robot-porch-gap
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Len Peralta
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