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Took out all traffic to port 443 at a time Beijing didn't have an obvious need to keep its netizens in the dark
China cut itself off from much of the global internet for just over an hour on Wednesday.…
Vladimir Cuevas has added a photo to the pool:
Evening foot traffic outside the Namco arcade in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. Warm arcade light spills onto the street while shoppers drift past gachapon displays and game cabinets. I framed it as a small fashion runway—layered outfits, skirts with socks and loafers, oversized totes, and relaxed streetwear—set against the glow of a classic Tokyo game center. The mix of signage (Namco / Bandai, Gashapon, Book-Off) roots the scene in Ikebukuro’s youth-culture strip, where entertainment and everyday style overlap.
Two Harvard dropouts are launching Halo X, a $249 pair of AI-powered smart glasses that continuously listen, record, and transcribe conversations while displaying real-time information to the wearer. "Our goal is to make glasses that make you super intelligent the moment you put them on," said AnhPhu Nguyen, co-founder of Halo. Co-founder Caine Ardayfio said the glasses "give you infinite memory."
"The AI listens to every conversation you have and uses that knowledge to tell you what to say ... kinda like IRL Cluely," Ardayfio told TechCrunch. "If somebody says a complex word or asks you a question, like, 'What's 37 to the third power?' or something like that, then it'll pop up on the glasses." From the report: Ardayfio and Nguyen have raised $1 million to develop the glasses, led by Pillar VC, with support from Soma Capital, Village Global, and Morningside Venture. The glasses will be priced at $249 and will be available for preorder starting Wednesday. Ardayfio called the glasses "the first real step towards vibe thinking."
The two Ivy League dropouts, who have since moved into their own version of the Hacker Hostel in the San Francisco Bay Area, recently caused a stir after developing a facial-recognition app for Meta's smart Ray-Ban glasses to prove that the tech could be used to dox people. As a potential early competitor to Meta's smart glasses, Ardayfio said Meta, given its history of security and privacy scandals, had to rein in its product in ways that Halo can ultimately capitalize on. [...]
For now, Halo X glasses only have a display and a microphone, but no camera, although the two are exploring the possibility of adding it to a future model. Users still need to have their smartphones handy to help power the glasses and get "real time info prompts and answers to questions," per Nguyen. The glasses, which are manufactured by another company that the startup didn't name, are tethered to an accompanying app on the owner's phone, where the glasses essentially outsource the computing since they don't have enough power to do it on the device itself. Under the hood, the smart glasses use Google's Gemini and Perplexity as its chatbot engine, according to the two co-founders. Gemini is better for math and reasoning, whereas they use Perplexity to scrape the internet, they said.
"The AI listens to every conversation you have and uses that knowledge to tell you what to say ... kinda like IRL Cluely," Ardayfio told TechCrunch. "If somebody says a complex word or asks you a question, like, 'What's 37 to the third power?' or something like that, then it'll pop up on the glasses." From the report: Ardayfio and Nguyen have raised $1 million to develop the glasses, led by Pillar VC, with support from Soma Capital, Village Global, and Morningside Venture. The glasses will be priced at $249 and will be available for preorder starting Wednesday. Ardayfio called the glasses "the first real step towards vibe thinking."
The two Ivy League dropouts, who have since moved into their own version of the Hacker Hostel in the San Francisco Bay Area, recently caused a stir after developing a facial-recognition app for Meta's smart Ray-Ban glasses to prove that the tech could be used to dox people. As a potential early competitor to Meta's smart glasses, Ardayfio said Meta, given its history of security and privacy scandals, had to rein in its product in ways that Halo can ultimately capitalize on. [...]
For now, Halo X glasses only have a display and a microphone, but no camera, although the two are exploring the possibility of adding it to a future model. Users still need to have their smartphones handy to help power the glasses and get "real time info prompts and answers to questions," per Nguyen. The glasses, which are manufactured by another company that the startup didn't name, are tethered to an accompanying app on the owner's phone, where the glasses essentially outsource the computing since they don't have enough power to do it on the device itself. Under the hood, the smart glasses use Google's Gemini and Perplexity as its chatbot engine, according to the two co-founders. Gemini is better for math and reasoning, whereas they use Perplexity to scrape the internet, they said.
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Thomas Hawk posted a photo:
AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Met een lichtshow op het water is de eerste dag van SAIL Amsterdam tot een einde gekomen. Rond 22.30 uur begon Waves of Light rond de A'DAM Toren, een 750 seconden durende show met licht, vuurwerkelementen en beelden.
Het nautische evenement wordt dagelijks afgesloten met deze show, die volgens de organisatie bedoeld is als "visueel eerbetoon aan 50 jaar SAIL én 750 jaar Amsterdam".
SAIL begon woensdag met de SAIL-In, een parade van duizenden schepen en plezierbootjes die vanuit IJmuiden naar Amsterdam kwamen. Volgens de organisatie was de eerste dag "druk maar goed beheersbaar".
De politie liet na berichtgeving van AT5 weten dat er woensdagmiddag in elk geval twee schippers van omvarende bootjes zijn aangehouden. Een van hen had gedronken, de ander was agressief. Een overzicht van het aantal aanhoudingen geeft de politie niet.
Old Man Hiking has added a photo to the pool:
Walking through the sparse cypress forest within the Parachilna Gorge in the Flinders Ranges.
Roko is still bad at knitting