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These New Smart Glasses From Ex-OnePlus Engineers Have a Hidden Cost

These New Smart Glasses From Ex-OnePlus Engineers Have a Hidden Cost

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Lots of smart glasses have AI bots inside them now. The one in L’Atitude 52°N’s glasses is called Goya, named after Francisco Goya, the famous Spanish artist who painted renowned masterpieces of romanticism. CEO and founder Gary Chen, who has worked on wearable devices for companies like Oppo, OnePlus, and HTC, says his company’s glasses are focused on travelers, with AI features that act like a tour guide and talk about all the paintings in famous museums. “Basically, you can say, ‘Hey, Goya, what is the story about Mona Lisa?’” Chen says. “You can ask anything and, with your permission, they will take a photo to analyze what’s in front of you.” I ask if you could quiz it about perhaps the most famous Goya painting, the terrifying, Gothic horror-esque image of Saturn devouring his own son. “Yes, yes,” Chen says, “It can also give you some recommendations about restaurants.” Berlin-based L’Atitude 52°N is a new player in the smart glasses space, selling its first pairs on Kickstarter in September 2025, where the campaign surpassed …

Siri Engineers Sent to AI Coding Bootcamp as Apple Prepares to Deliver Siri Overhaul

Siri Engineers Sent to AI Coding Bootcamp as Apple Prepares to Deliver Siri Overhaul

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Apple is sending a large portion of its Siri engineers to a multi-week bootcamp to learn to code using AI, reports The Information. Apple’s decision to teach its programmers to better use AI for coding comes just two months before Apple is expected to unveil a smarter, more capable version of Siri at WWDC. While employees attend the coding bootcamp, around 60 members of the ‌Siri‌ development team will stick around to work on ‌Siri‌, and an additional 60 will evaluate how ‌Siri‌ is performing. Apple is testing to make sure ‌Siri‌ is meeting its safety standards and is able to interpret and execute commands from users. Coding with AI is becoming the standard, but Apple’s ‌Siri‌ team apparently isn’t taking full advantage of AI coding tools. The Information says that some teams within Apple have allocated large parts of their budgets to Claude Code, but the ‌Siri‌ team has a “reputation as a laggard inside Apple.” The ‌Siri‌ team was unable to produce the Apple Intelligence version of ‌Siri‌ that Apple promised would come …

Man Engineers Giant Robot Hand to Smash His Enemies

Man Engineers Giant Robot Hand to Smash His Enemies

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Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech One of China’s preeminent engineering influencers is at it again. Fan Shisan, the Sichuan-based content creator who runs the YouTube account “Sword man Fan 13,” has previously lavished the ‘net with clips of his flying sword swarms and giant sword hoverboards. His latest creation is a little outside the typical blade-themed wheelhouse. But it’s no less ambitious: it’s a colossal remote-controlled robot arm — which, if Fan’s caption is to be believed, weighs in at an incredible 5.5 tons. “I built a 5,000 kg [5.51 ton] giant robot arm just to see if my friend could survive the ultimate slap!” Fan boasts in the video description. “This beast is fully articulated and ready for action. Watch until the end to see the massive uppercut that literally shocked everyone. This is the most insane DIY engineering project I’ve ever filmed!” In the first section of the video, the massive robo-arm appears to be fixed to a rotating base, allowing …

This AI Wearable From Ex-Apple Engineers Looks Like an iPod Shuffle

This AI Wearable From Ex-Apple Engineers Looks Like an iPod Shuffle

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The other goal of the Button is rapid response time. Unlike the Humane Ai pin, which got lots of criticism for taking a painfully long time to reply to queries, the Button is designed to be nearly instantaneous. In a demo via Zoom call, I watched Nolet ask the Button for a recommendation for the best sandwich shops in my neighborhood. While the Button didn’t choose my idea of the best sandwich place around, it did at least answer all the questions within a second. It can also be immediately interrupted by pressing the button, which is a great feature for people like me who cannot tell a chatbot to shut up fast enough. Nolet is unapologetic about the very clear Apple ethos you might be able to suss out in the design. “The Humane pin felt a little geeky to wear, right?” Nolet says. “But the iPod shuffle? Really cool. That’s where the idea started, and then we just put all of our Apple-esque expertise into it and tried to refine it into something …

Software engineers design algorithm to solve pizza topping arguments

Software engineers design algorithm to solve pizza topping arguments

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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Pepperoni or anchovies? Mushrooms or black olives? And what about the ever popular and polarizing pineapple? Pizza topping preferences are as varied as the people who order them. While that’s fine for one or two hungry friends, planning multiple pies for a larger group can quickly turn tense. Most of the time, it feels like diners simply settle on one-topping or cheese pizzas in the hopes of avoiding an argument. From a technical standpoint, it is definitely possible to figure out the optimal pizza toppings based on a group’s various tastes. However, the time it takes to chart out and settle on the most democratically representative dishes may risk devolving into a dreaded “hangry” shouting match. Thankfully, a software engineer has a solution. The recently launched Pizza Voter website is a free-to-use platform that allows you to email a pizza party invitation to every participant in an upcoming meal. Once accepted, each person then clicks whether they Love, Hate, …

MIT engineers built injectable ‘satellite livers’ as an alternative to liver transplants

MIT engineers built injectable ‘satellite livers’ as an alternative to liver transplants

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More than 10,000 Americans are waiting for a liver transplant. Many more never make the list, because they are too sick to handle a major surgery. That gap is why an idea that sounds a little strange at first keeps coming up in liver research: What if you could add liver function without replacing the liver? MIT engineers are pushing that concept with what they call “satellite livers,” small pockets of liver tissue that can be injected and left to do some of the liver’s work while the damaged organ stays in place. “We think of these as satellite livers. If we could deliver these cells into the body, while leaving the sick organ in place, that would provide booster function,” says Sangeeta Bhatia, the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. She is also a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES). In a mouse study, Bhatia’s team showed that injected …

OpenAI’s AI data agent, built by two engineers, now serves 4,000 employees — and the company says anyone can replicate it

OpenAI’s AI data agent, built by two engineers, now serves 4,000 employees — and the company says anyone can replicate it

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When an OpenAI finance analyst needed to compare revenue across geographies and customer cohorts last year, it took hours of work — hunting through 70,000 datasets, writing SQL queries, verifying table schemas. Today, the same analyst types a plain-English question into Slack and gets a finished chart in minutes. The tool behind that transformation was built by two engineers in three months. Seventy percent of its code was written by AI. And it is now used by more than 4,000 of OpenAI’s roughly 5,000 employees every day — making it one of the most aggressive deployments of an AI data agent inside any company, anywhere. In an exclusive interview with VentureBeat, Emma Tang, the head of data infrastructure at OpenAI whose team built the agent, offered a rare look inside the system — how it works, how it fails, and what it signals about the future of enterprise data. The conversation, paired with the company’s blog post announcing the tool, paints a picture of a company that turned its own AI on itself and discovered …

OpenAI’s AI data agent, built by two engineers, now serves 4,000 employees — and the company says anyone can replicate it

OpenAI’s AI data agent, built by two engineers, now serves thousands of employees — and the company says anyone can replicate it

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When an OpenAI finance analyst needed to compare revenue across geographies and customer cohorts last year, it took hours of work — hunting through 70,000 datasets, writing SQL queries, verifying table schemas. Today, the same analyst types a plain-English question into Slack and gets a finished chart in minutes. The tool behind that transformation was built by two engineers in three months. Seventy percent of its code was written by AI. And it is now used by thousands of OpenAI’s employees every day — making it one of the most aggressive deployments of an AI data agent inside any company, anywhere. In an exclusive interview with VentureBeat, Emma Tang, the head of data infrastructure at OpenAI whose team built the agent, offered a rare look inside the system — how it works, how it fails, and what it signals about the future of enterprise data. The conversation, paired with the company’s blog post announcing the tool, paints a picture of a company that turned its own AI on itself and discovered something that every enterprise …

Creator of Claude Code Fears This Could Be the Last Year That Software Engineers Are Employable

Creator of Claude Code Fears This Could Be the Last Year That Software Engineers Are Employable

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Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech The warning signs are piling up for anyone still working as a software engineer in 2026. In a recent episode of former Airbnb guy Lenny Rachitsky’s tidily-named audio show, “Lenny’s Podcast,” the creator of one of the most acclaimed AI coding tools, Boris Cherny, reaffirmed his belief that there are dark days ahead for the world’s software developers. “I think by the end of the year, everyone is going to be a product manager, and everyone codes. The title software engineer is going to start to go away,” Cherny said on the podcast, first spotted by Fortune. “It’s just going to be replaced by ‘builder,’ and it’s going to be painful for a lot of people.” Cherny is the chief architect of Anthropic’s Claude Code, an agentic AI tool that’s said to autonomously execute software production tasks with little oversight from human beings. While it’s debated how effective Claude Code truly is — there’s been a lot of …