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6 smart home devices anyone can build with a cheap ESP32 and an even cheaper sensor

These are some great DIY projects that you can do for cheap.

Got a spare PC? How I turned mine into an open-source smart home hub for free

Smart homes make sense. The devices that bring a certain level of automation to your home are exciting, and they can also ...
Hackaday

Time Never Moves Slowly With This Clock

A clock is by its very nature a device for measuring time, and thus it moves forward at a constant rate. But how about in a ...

Motorized Smart Blinds : a New Standard for Matter and Apple Home Automations

Discover how Kincmo smart blinds enhance privacy and energy efficiency with seamless Home Assistant and Google Home ...
GIGAZINE

A summary of examples where Claude and GPT models were replaced with local AI models in routine coding tasks.

A Hacker News social news site's Ask HN post, which asks whether anyone has replaced cloud AI such as Claude or GPT with local AI models as their main tool for everyday coding, is attracting attention ...
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 ...
Futurism

Meta Furious Over Bombshell Smart Glasses Revelation

Code uncovered by journalists revealed that Meta quietly embedded facial recognition tech into its AI-enabled smart glasses — and top Meta executives are fuming. The report made clear that NameTag isn ...
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 ...
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 ...
CNBC

Microsoft and Google are late to AI coding, but 'absolutely critical' they compete for growth

Coding tools are becoming an increasingly big target for Google and Microsoft as they try to catch Anthropic and OpenAI in the red-hot market. Microsoft is gearing up for coding-related announcements ...