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#nvidia
Tech industry
fromTheregister
14 hours ago

Nvidia embraces optical scale-up as copper reaches limits

Nvidia plans to integrate over a thousand GPUs into a single system using photonic interconnects by 2028, investing heavily in optics and interconnect technology.
Venture
from24/7 Wall St.
4 days ago

Nvidia commits billions to Lumentum, Synopsys, Nokia, XAI, OpenAI, Intel in March alone

Nvidia is investing heavily to build the operating system for the AI economy, not just a chip company.
Tech industry
fromTheregister
14 hours ago

Nvidia embraces optical scale-up as copper reaches limits

Nvidia plans to integrate over a thousand GPUs into a single system using photonic interconnects by 2028, investing heavily in optics and interconnect technology.
Venture
from24/7 Wall St.
4 days ago

Nvidia commits billions to Lumentum, Synopsys, Nokia, XAI, OpenAI, Intel in March alone

Nvidia is investing heavily to build the operating system for the AI economy, not just a chip company.
#meta
fromFuturism
5 hours ago
Wearables

We Can't Even Imagine the Eating Disorders This New Meta Smart Glasses Feature Will Cause

Wearables
fromThe Verge
5 days ago

Meta launches new 'prescription optimized' smart glasses

Meta has launched new prescription glasses, Ray-Ban Meta Optics Styles, featuring customizable fit and supporting nearly all prescriptions.
Privacy technologies
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Meta Adding Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses That Identifies People in Real Time, Hoping the Public Is Too Distracted by Political Turmoil to Care

Meta plans to deploy facial-recognition "Name Tag" on smart glasses, risking privacy and safety while timing launch to minimize public and civil-society scrutiny.
Wearables
fromFuturism
5 hours ago

We Can't Even Imagine the Eating Disorders This New Meta Smart Glasses Feature Will Cause

Meta's Ray-Ban AI glasses may exacerbate eating disorders with features that track and log food intake automatically.
Wearables
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

I wore Meta's smartglasses for a month and it left me feeling like a creep

Meta's smartglasses integrate AI assistants, potentially transforming computing and daily interactions, but raise concerns about privacy and social acceptance.
Wearables
fromTechRepublic
5 days ago

Meta Expands Smart Glasses Line With Prescription-First Ray-Ban Models

Meta is launching two new Ray-Ban smart glasses designed specifically for prescription users, enhancing its partnership with EssilorLuxottica.
Wearables
fromThe Verge
5 days ago

Meta launches new 'prescription optimized' smart glasses

Meta has launched new prescription glasses, Ray-Ban Meta Optics Styles, featuring customizable fit and supporting nearly all prescriptions.
fromFuturism
1 month ago
Privacy technologies

Meta Adding Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses That Identifies People in Real Time, Hoping the Public Is Too Distracted by Political Turmoil to Care

#ai
fromTechCrunch
4 days ago
Silicon Valley

Cognichip wants AI to design the chips that power AI, and just raised $60M to try | TechCrunch

Digital life
fromFortune
1 day ago

AI's next frontier is the real world | Fortune

AI has transformed digital interactions, yet the physical world still relies on outdated identity verification methods.
Environment
fromFast Company
3 days ago

Critical minerals are required to power AI data center demand

AI is driving unprecedented demand for energy storage solutions, particularly batteries, to support data centers and ensure grid stability.
Silicon Valley
fromTechCrunch
4 days ago

Cognichip wants AI to design the chips that power AI, and just raised $60M to try | TechCrunch

Cognichip aims to revolutionize chip design using AI, significantly reducing costs and timelines in the semiconductor industry.
Science
fromNature
3 days ago

Breakthrough computer chip tech could help meet 'monumental demand' driven by AI

A new light source enables the creation of 8 nm wide structures on silicon wafers, increasing transistor density for advanced computer chips.
fromEngadget
3 days ago

Sony's gaming division just bought an AI startup that turns photos into 3D volumes

Following the acquisition, the Cinemersive Labs team will join SIE's Visual Computing Group (VCG) and contribute to our broader efforts in advancing state of the art visual computing within games. This includes applying machine learning to enhance gameplay visuals, improve rendering techniques, and unlock new levels of visual fidelity for players.
Marketing tech
#ai-glasses
E-Commerce
fromDigiday
3 weeks ago

Best Buy wants to be the hub for AI-powered hardware like glasses, laptops

Best Buy is repositioning itself as an AI-focused retailer, dedicating store space to AI glasses and Meta products while experiencing flat revenue growth in traditional consumer electronics.
Business intelligence
fromComputerWeekly.com
3 days ago

Wireless AI paradox emerges as Wi-Fi evolves into strategic growth engine | Computer Weekly

Strategic investments in wireless and AI are crucial for businesses to achieve operational efficiency and productivity gains.
Roam Research
fromFast Company
4 days ago

How AI-powered echolocation is giving small drones night vision

An ultrasound-based perception system inspired by bat echolocation enables small aerial robots to navigate in low-visibility environments.
fromThe Walrus
5 days ago

The Man Who Put AI at the Centre of America's War Machine | The Walrus

"War is terrible, war is terrible, war is terrible," he intones, holding my gaze and giving voice to a universal chorus.
DC food
DevOps
fromInfoQ
6 days ago

Optimization in Automated Driving: From Complexity to Real-Time Engineering

A production-grade AV stack is a distributed dataflow graph of components, optimized for resource management and real-time constraints.
#robotics
London startup
fromTheregister
6 days ago

Humanoid tests humanoid robot for automotive logistics

Humanoid's robot successfully completed a proof-of-concept test for automotive manufacturing, demonstrating its capability in a production environment.
Science
fromNature
6 days ago

Inside the 'self-driving' lab revolution

Eve, an AI-powered robotic platform, automates early-stage drug design, significantly enhancing efficiency in scientific research.
London startup
fromTheregister
6 days ago

Humanoid tests humanoid robot for automotive logistics

Humanoid's robot successfully completed a proof-of-concept test for automotive manufacturing, demonstrating its capability in a production environment.
Science
fromNature
6 days ago

Inside the 'self-driving' lab revolution

Eve, an AI-powered robotic platform, automates early-stage drug design, significantly enhancing efficiency in scientific research.
#ar-glasses
fromEngadget
2 months ago
Wearables

ASUS and XREAL teamed up at CES to make gaming smartglasses with two important upgrades

Wearables
fromThe Verge
1 day ago

My dream pair of AR gaming glasses needs to have these nine features

Latest AR glasses from Xreal and Viture enhance gaming experiences with features like 3DoF, but no model is perfect for all users.
fromEngadget
2 months ago
Wearables

ASUS and XREAL teamed up at CES to make gaming smartglasses with two important upgrades

#arm-holdings
from24/7 Wall St.
1 day ago
Tech industry

Arm Holdings: The Chip Designer Drawing NVIDIA Comparisons-Is It Justified?

Arm Holdings' AGI CPU release has sparked significant market interest, raising questions about its competitive position in the tech industry.
Tech industry
from24/7 Wall St.
1 day ago

Arm Holdings: The Chip Designer Drawing NVIDIA Comparisons-Is It Justified?

Arm Holdings' AGI CPU release has sparked significant market interest, raising questions about its competitive position in the tech industry.
Artificial intelligence
fromSilicon Canals
3 days ago

The $50 AI revolution: Why smaller models built for sovereignty may matter more than the trillion-dollar arms race - Silicon Canals

Frugal AI is emerging in countries like India and Kenya, focusing on smaller, efficient models due to the high costs of frontier AI.
#physical-ai
European startups
fromTechCrunch
3 weeks ago

Qualcomm's partnership with Neura Robotics is just the beginning | TechCrunch

Neura Robotics partners with Qualcomm to develop next-generation robots using Qualcomm's IQ10 processors and Neura's simulation platform for physical AI advancement.
fromZDNET
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

What's the deal with Physical AI? Why the next frontier of tech is already all around you

fromZDNET
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Nvidia's physical AI models clear the way for next-gen robots - here's what's new

European startups
fromTechCrunch
3 weeks ago

Qualcomm's partnership with Neura Robotics is just the beginning | TechCrunch

Neura Robotics partners with Qualcomm to develop next-generation robots using Qualcomm's IQ10 processors and Neura's simulation platform for physical AI advancement.
fromZDNET
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

What's the deal with Physical AI? Why the next frontier of tech is already all around you

fromZDNET
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Nvidia's physical AI models clear the way for next-gen robots - here's what's new

#smart-glasses
Wearables
fromTechCrunch
4 days ago

Nothing's AI devices plan reportedly contains smart glasses and earbuds | TechCrunch

Nothing is set to release smart glasses next year, featuring AI capabilities and a multi-device strategy beyond smartphones.
Wearables
fromTechCrunch
4 days ago

Nothing's AI devices plan reportedly contains smart glasses and earbuds | TechCrunch

Nothing is set to release smart glasses next year, featuring AI capabilities and a multi-device strategy beyond smartphones.
Tech industry
from24/7 Wall St.
1 week ago

This AI Semi Equipment Maker Has Been Quietly Chewing Up the Competition

Lam Research has outperformed competitors in AI semiconductor equipment with a 321% total return over three years, despite recent stock fluctuations.
Wearables
fromGadgets 360
4 days ago

Nothing Could Launch AI Smart Glasses, New Earbuds in Expansion Push

Nothing is developing AI-powered smart glasses and earbuds, focusing on personalized experiences rather than full augmented reality capabilities.
fromNature
3 weeks ago

A large-scale coherent 4D imaging sensor - Nature

Across various fields, from spatial mapping for reconnaissance and construction to facial recognition, virtual and augmented reality and autonomous driving, accurate 3D representation of dynamically evolving environments is paramount for safe human-machine interaction. Therefore, substantial research efforts are directed towards developing a cost-effective, high-performance and scalable 3D imaging sensor comparable with a CMOS camera.
Photography
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
5 days ago

Is AI's visual understanding mostly a 'mirage'? New research suggests so. | Fortune

Anthropic faces significant cybersecurity risks following multiple sensitive data leaks related to its new AI model, Mythos.
fromWIRED
3 weeks ago

This Digital Picture Frame Wants to Bring People Closer to a Holographic Future

Upload any picture or video, and Musubi uses artificial intelligence to extract the most important part and hover it in space as a 3D image within the frame. That could be a video of a child's first steps or a snapshot of a birthday party. The image will be displayed in 3D form, viewable in all its holographic glory across nearly 170 degrees.
Gadgets
#ray-ban
Wearables
fromZDNET
5 days ago

Meta Ray-Bans vs. Optics: Why glasses wearers should consider the new model

Ray-Ban Meta Optics are new Gen 2 smart glasses designed for comfort and functionality, featuring adjustable components and a slimmer design.
fromTechCrunch
5 days ago
Wearables

Meta launches two new Ray-Ban glasses designed for prescription wearers | TechCrunch

Meta launches new Ray-Ban smart glasses for prescription wearers, designed for all-day comfort and personalized fit, starting at $499.
Wearables
fromZDNET
5 days ago

Meta Ray-Bans vs. Optics: Why glasses wearers should consider the new model

Ray-Ban Meta Optics are new Gen 2 smart glasses designed for comfort and functionality, featuring adjustable components and a slimmer design.
Wearables
fromTechCrunch
5 days ago

Meta launches two new Ray-Ban glasses designed for prescription wearers | TechCrunch

Meta launches new Ray-Ban smart glasses for prescription wearers, designed for all-day comfort and personalized fit, starting at $499.
Tech industry
fromThe Verge
1 week ago

Arm's first CPU ever will plug into Meta's AI datacenters later this year

Arm AGI CPU features up to 136 cores and claims double the performance per watt compared to x86 chips.
Gadgets
fromTheregister
3 weeks ago

Lightmatter says latest photonics will halve DC fiber bill

LightMatter's Passage L20 optical engine reduces datacenter fiber usage by half using near-package integration instead of co-packaging, positioning between pluggable modules and co-packaged optics.
#ai-chips
fromTechzine Global
3 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Meta shifts to AI inference with its future chips

Meta developed four MTIA AI chip generations in under two years, shifting focus from content ranking to GenAI inference, with production and deployment planned through 2027.
Tech industry
fromAxios
2 weeks ago

Nvidia's race to outpace physics

Nvidia CEO projects at least $1 trillion in revenue from newest chips through 2027, though market dominance has declined from 100% to 65% as energy efficiency becomes critical to AI scaling.
fromTechzine Global
1 month ago

ASML wants to go beyond EUV: expansion into advanced AI chips

We look, not just for the next five years, we look at the next 10, maybe 15 years. The focus is on advanced packaging and a possible expansion of the chip size that ASML's machines can handle, positioning the company to capitalize on the rapidly evolving AI chip manufacturing landscape.
European startups
Venture
from24/7 Wall St.
1 month ago

Even Nvidia Sees Lumentum as Lighting the Way Forward

Nvidia invests $2 billion in Lumentum through a strategic partnership to secure advanced optical components for next-generation AI data centers and gigawatt-scale infrastructure.
Artificial intelligence
fromComputerworld
1 week ago

How digital brains for humanoid robots are being built

Humanoid robots have significantly improved in functionality and behavior over the past year, exemplified by Olaf's performance at Nvidia's GTC event.
Mobile UX
fromFast Company
1 month ago

Could robot phones be the next leap in physical AI?

Smartphone design has become a physical constraint on creativity; future devices must rethink form factors, prioritize creation over consumption, and integrate AI into physical space.
fromFuturism
1 month ago

New App Detects the Radio Fingerprint of Smart Glasses and Warns You When Someone Is Using Them Nearby

Covert recording is a lot about power. So, I was worried from the very beginning when Meta announced they were going to revive the Google Glass idea. That might be influenced by my study subject very well, but it might as well be influenced by every report and story I read on digital abuse and hate speech in the last twenty to thirty years.
Privacy technologies
fromGadgets 360
1 month ago

Apple's AI Pendant Said to Use In-House Visual Intelligence Models

According to the latest edition of Gurman's Power On newsletter, the Cupertino-based tech giant is working on its AI visual models to enable the Visual Intelligence features on the rumoured AI pendant, AI smart glasses, and AirPods model with cameras. This will enable the wearables to provide environment-based answers to users and take context-based actions. Gurman adds that Apple intends to make Visual Intelligence and visual models integral to its upcoming wearables.
Apple
fromTechCrunch
2 weeks ago

Memories.ai is building the visual memory layer for wearables and robotics | TechCrunch

AI is already doing really well in the digital world, what about the physical world? AI wearables, robotics need memories as well. ... Ultimately, you need AI to have visual memories. We believe in that future.
Wearables
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
2 weeks ago

AI Data Center Security Guards Are Not Human

AI companies are deploying robot security guards, particularly Boston Dynamics' Spot, to patrol massive data centers and reduce labor costs.
Tech industry
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

Nvidia's spending $4 billion on photonics to stay ahead of the curve in AI

Nvidia invests $2 billion each in Lumentum and Coherent to develop photonics technology for AI data centers, improving energy efficiency and data transfer speeds through optical components.
fromComputerworld
1 month ago

With attention shifting to AI smart glasses, VR faces another reality check

"It's not an overstatement to declare another VR winter," said J.P. Gownder, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester. "I think we might even go as far as to say there's only a handful of successful scenarios where people are using VR." This assessment reflects the industry's struggle to find practical applications beyond niche markets.
Gadgets
Startup companies
fromTheregister
2 months ago

Neurophos bets on optical transistors to bend Moore's Law

Neurophos is developing an optical processing unit using micron-scale metamaterial modulators to deliver 470 petaFLOPS FP4/INT4 compute at much higher density with comparable power.
#facial-recognition
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago
Privacy professionals

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, report claims | TechCrunch

fromTechCrunch
1 month ago
Privacy professionals

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, report claims | TechCrunch

fromSocial Media Today
2 months ago

Meta Announces Funding Grants for Research Into AI Glasses Use

There are two types of grants that U.S.-based organizations can apply for: Accelerator Grants for those who are already leveraging our AI glasses to scale their impact, and Catalyst Grants for organizations proposing new, high-impact applications using our Device Access Toolkit. We will award 15 Accelerator Grants of $25,000 and 10 of $50,000 USD, depending on the scale of the project. We'll also award five Catalyst Grants of $200,000. In total, we'll grant nearly $2 million to more than 30 organizations and developers.
Agriculture
fromThe Drum
2 months ago

A break from reality: Is VR really going to be the next big thing?

According to Digi Capital augmented and virtual reality are about to explode as VCs and corporates get in on the act. Facebook's multi-billion dollar acquisition of Oculus got everyone's attention early last year, but it's only really in the last 12 months that investments have accelerated, with more than $1bn pouring into the sector. Meanwhile Mashable reports Nokia's virtual reality camera is now available for pre-order for a cool $60,000.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
4 weeks ago

AI mastered language. The physical world is next | Fortune

Embodied AI advancement requires world modeling and physical understanding, constrained by scarcity of specific training data rather than compute or architecture limitations.
Wearables
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

A new app alerts you if someone nearby is wearing smart glasses | TechCrunch

Nearby Glasses is an Android app that detects Bluetooth signals from smart glasses and alerts users when recording devices are nearby, addressing privacy concerns about non-consensual surveillance.
from24/7 Wall St.
4 weeks ago

Nvidia Just Made Another Pair of Brilliant AI Bets

Either way, I think the AI boom is alive and well, but with much of the short-term hype fading away, the big question is whether the long-term trajectory is still there and whether it makes sense for investors to hit the buy button now that the near-term is somewhat less hyped while the long-term is as exciting as ever.
Artificial intelligence
Apple
fromComputerworld
2 months ago

Vision Pro - the lull before the spatial storm

Lower-cost visionOS devices—Mac/iPhone-processor headsets and lightweight AR smart glasses—could arrive to target business and education while preserving most Vision Pro experience.
Startup companies
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago

Teradar reveals its first terahertz-band vision sensor for cars | TechCrunch

Teradar unveiled Summit, a solid-state terahertz long-range high-resolution sensor designed to enable automotive autonomy with weather-resistant performance and lower cost than lidar.
fromWIRED
1 month ago

Pico's Project Swan XR Headset Wants to Go Where the Apple Vision Pro Failed

One of the big focuses of the new operating system version is what Pico calls PanoScreen, a feature that lets the wearer run multiple applications at once while also keeping a 360-degree view of the real-world space around them. Other users can pop into the space as 3D avatars while you spin around to see spreadsheets, browser tabs, design software, or whatever else you're working on.
Wearables
fromGSMArena.com
2 months ago

Razer unveils an "AI-native" headset with cameras that see what you see

The Motoko's dual first-person-view cameras are positioned at eye level to basically see what you see, enabling real-time object and text recognition - translating street signs, tracking gym reps, summarizing documents on the fly, all of that. There are also dual far and near-field mics, working together to capture voice commands and pick up dialogue within view.
Mobile UX
Science
fromTheregister
1 month ago

DARPA asks labs to outsmart physics with photonic circuits

DARPA is funding efforts to scale photonic integrated circuits to perform larger-scale computing with light using existing photonic components to overcome current physical limitations.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

How LabOS AI-powered smart goggles could reduce human error in science

Laboratory safety goggles have finally joined the ranks of smart devices. That's the promise behind LabOS, an AI operating system for scientific laboratories built by the Stanford-Princeton AI Coscientist Team, a group led by Stanford University bioengineer Le Cong and Princeton University computer scientist Mengdi Wang, with founding partners that include NVIDIA. Powered by NVIDIA's vision-language models to process visual data, the system is designed to provide AI with real-time knowledge of lab work so it can determine what causes experiments to fail or succeed and rapidly train new scientists to expert levels by guiding them through experimental protocols.
Artificial intelligence
Science
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

The technology that reveals what happens in 0.00000000000000000000001 second

Attosecond-scale light pulses reveal ultrafast electron dynamics, enabling new studies of materials, quantum processes, and biological structures, and have earned major scientific awards.
#mems-audio
fromZDNET
2 months ago
Gadgets

The future of smart glasses is missing a key audio component - and I tried it already

fromZDNET
2 months ago
Gadgets

xMEMS has a secret weapon that makes thinner smart glasses with better audio a reality

fromZDNET
2 months ago
Gadgets

The future of smart glasses is missing a key audio component - and I tried it already

fromZDNET
2 months ago
Gadgets

xMEMS has a secret weapon that makes thinner smart glasses with better audio a reality

Gadgets
fromZDNET
2 months ago

This tiny accessory gives your Android thermal vision superpowers (and works on iPhone, too)

Thermal Master P2: compact, affordable USB-C thermal camera with 25Hz refresh, 15× zoom, sensitive temperature resolution, ideal for equipment and home diagnostic inspections.
Tech industry
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Lidar-maker Ouster buys vision company StereoLabs as sensor consolidation continues | TechCrunch

Ouster acquired StereoLabs for $35 million and 1.8 million shares to integrate vision-based perception with lidar and build a unified sensing platform.
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

Meta will ruin its smart glasses by being Meta

Smart glasses evangelists often tell me this fear is somewhat overblown. After all, the phone in your pocket also has a camera. The government already uses facial recognition tech, and CCTV feeds are everywhere. Anyone who's ever watched a true-crime documentary or an episode of Law & Order knows that these days, it's hard to step out in public and not be recorded.
Wearables
#ces-2026
Artificial intelligence
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago

From invisibility cloaks to AI chips: Neurophos raises $110M to build tiny optical processors for inferencing | TechCrunch

Neurophos developed metasurface modulators enabling optical tensor-core chips that perform AI matrix-vector multiplications faster and more energy-efficiently than current GPUs for inference.
Wearables
fromEngadget
2 months ago

Meta's EMG wristband is moving beyond its AR glasses

Meta's wrist-based neural band enables EMG-based pinch and swipe control of in-car infotainment and could extend to vehicle functions through a Garmin partnership.
fromZDNET
2 months ago

The makers of Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses showed me what's next for AR, and it's wild

The company is building directly on its major success supplying its waveguide technology to glasses, and proving that geometric waveguides work at consumer scale with standard glass. At CES, Lumus showcased a ZOE prototype with a field of view of more than 70 degrees, an optimized Z-30 with 40% more brightness, and a Z-30 2.0 preview that's 40% thinner. David Goldman, VP of marketing, walked me through each demo with clear enthusiasm about the progress Lumus is making.
Wearables
Wearables
fromEngadget
2 months ago

This haptic wristband pairs with Meta smart glasses to decode facial expressions

Aleye is a haptic wristband paired with Ray‑Ban Meta smart glasses that converts facial expressions and gestures into customizable wrist vibrations for blind users.
Wearables
fromSocial Media Today
2 months ago

Meta Announces New Display Glasses Functions at CES

Meta's Display glasses add a heads-up display, wrist control, in-lens teleprompter, and surface-writing messaging to advance AR wearable interaction.
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