Meta Is Charging a Subscription for Smart Glasses Features. Welcome to the New Era of Consumer Tech

But it turns out you'll need to subscribe to a monthly plan to unlock all its advanced features. That where AI-powered ...

Samsung’s Smart Glasses Could Team Up With Its Rings and Watches

Samsung’s first pair of smart glasses aren’t even out yet, but we just got a big hint about how they work. The clue comes ...

I built a whole-home ad blocker with a $7 ESP32-S3 board - and it took just minutes

Also: I built my own Wi-Fi router with a Raspberry Pi for Starlink and solar control - here's how. A Pi 5 can use as much as 12 W of power (and that's before you hook up various H ...
Engadget

Meta quietly removes face-recognition code from its smart glasses app

Only a day after a dormant bit of code that seemed to be a facial recognition algorithm was discovered in a companion app for its smart glasses, Meta released an update which removed that code, Wired ...
techtimes

Meta Smart Glasses ‘Faceprint’ Code Can Reportedly Track Faces, Raising Privacy Concerns

Meta is now in the hot seat after a recent discovery has revealed a "Faceprint" code embedded within the software used by its smart glasses wearables. The said code is reportedly capable of using ...
techtimes

Meta Smart Glasses Facial Recognition Code Is Already on Millions of Phones, Wired Finds

A view of a cellphone with which Colombia's presidential candidate Paloma Valencia, of the Centro Democratico party, takes a selfie during a campaign rally in Villavicencio, Meta department, Colombia ...
New York Post

Meta quietly added facial recognition to smart glasses, sparking major privacy concerns: report

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta quietly embedded facial recognition tech in its smart glasses, sparking concern from privacy watchdogs, according to a report. The tech, which Meta hasn’t activated yet, came in ...
AOL

Meta’s smart glasses feature hidden surveillance code within its app

Meta has introduced facial recognition functionality to its smart glasses platform that is designed to identify strangers through their biometric data, security researchers have warned. The ...
Engadget

Wired found code for an unreleased facial recognition feature in Meta's AI app

Code for a facial recognition feature that can run on Meta smart glasses is buried in the company's Meta AI app, according to a new report from Wired. While not currently enabled, accessible to ...
Wired

Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones. Code ...
Digital Trends

Monako Glass turns smart glasses into the strangest new coding workstation yet

The buying picture is still incomplete. Monako has shown a $19 reservation option, but the full price, shipping date, battery life, chip, memory, storage, and supported regions are still not clearly ...
Android Authority

Meta’s smart glasses face-recognition plans may be further along than you realize

Meta has reportedly embedded unreleased face-recognition code for its smart glasses inside the Meta AI app. The feature, internally called NameTag, does not appear to be enabled yet. Meta says it is ...