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Boone Ashworth

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Sep 23, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Boone Ashworth

    Meta’s Answer to the ‘Meta Creep’? Camera-Free Smart Glasses (opens the original)

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    After months of controversy about the privacy of its smart glasses, Meta has unveiled the next iteration of its product lineup. At its Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced all the new glasses the company is putting out into the world. Its popular Meta Ray-Ban glasses are now in their third generation, but two new models steal the show: a powerful, slimmed-down version of Meta's Quest headsets capable of virtual and augmented reality modes, and a camera-free pair of Ray

  2. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Boone Ashworth

    Meta Pinky Promises Its Smart Glasses Will Be Private Soon (opens the original)

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    Meta knows you probably have some privacy concerns about its smart glasses. At its annual Meta Connect event today in Menlo Park, California, the company announced plans to incorporate its siloed AI processing scheme known as Private Processing into its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The feature, designed for WhatsApp last year, allows the glasses’ AI assistant to get to know you and fulfill your requests without Meta accessing any of your data. “Most of the time, glasses are helping you see well,

  3. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Boone Ashworth

    Adopt This Data Center Plushie and Hear Its Piercing Scream (opens the original)

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    Uh oh, we got a cute alert! It’s Bezzy, your adorable, cuddly, anthropomorphized server-rack and stuffed-animal friend! Give this soft lil’ doll a squeeze, and it shall sing you its telltale song: the piercing, grinding ambient squeals emitted from a real US data center. The Bezzy doll is a stuffed plushie made in a satirical collaboration between the New York–based creative studio Basura and Big Data, the musical project of producer Alan Wilkis, best known for the song “Dangerous,” a 2013 colla

  4. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Boone Ashworth

    People Are Pissed Off and Ready to Own Their Shit (opens the original)

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    The train blasts through right as Louis Rossmann starts to speak. This has happened several times already at the event he’s hosting on a Friday night in San Jose, California. All the speakers before him patiently paused when the train on the nearby tracks roared by, its loud horn blaring, then resumed talking. But Rossmann is mid-sentence in his rapid-fire delivery about the topic he’s fiercely passionate about, and he doesn’t stop. He shouts over the train. This is the penultimate stop of the O

  5. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Boone Ashworth

    I Fixed a Tractor Using John Deere’s Self-Repair Service. Farmers Aren’t Sold on It (opens the original)

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    There is something wrong with the tractor. The water-in-fuel sensor, a small device embedded in the John Deere machine that monitors the integrity of its diesel engine, is disconnected. And I’ve got to fix it. I’m not a mechanic or a farmer. I’m poking at a laptop at John Deere’s corporate office in Santa Clara, California. There’s a cable connecting the computer to a 5130ML tractor sitting on the grass nearby. A bright red notification sits on the screen, telling me something is wrong

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