Can AI help improve the lives of wildlife and people who enjoy them. Meta is leading the pack in smart glasses, but people have a negative view of them often causing owners to not wear them in public.

Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Len Peralta, Blair Bazdarich, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Top Tech Story of the Week:

Apple’s Lawsuit Threatens to Disrupt OpenAI’s Bid to Rival the iPhone
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-13/how-apple-s-lawsuit-threatens-to-disrupt-openai-s-bid-to-rival-the-iphone

Q2 2026 Global Smartphone Shipments Slump to Lowest Q2 Level in 13 Years as Memory Crisis Deepens
https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/global-smartphone-shipments-q2-2026

A Framework for Frontier AI: Dawning of a New Age
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/framework-frontier-ai-dawning-new-age-demis-hassabis-cngse/

Samsung’s Foldable Display Technology Is Harder to Damage and Resists Creases
https://www.engadget.com/2215470/samsung-foldable-display-technology-is-harder-to-damage-and-resists-creases/

OnePlus Is Officially Leaving the US and Europe
https://www.engadget.com/2213731/oneplus-is-officially-leaving-the-us-and-europe/

Discussions:

Scientists uncover whale social network in San Francisco Bay
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-whale-network-san-francisco-bay.html

AI can identify individual birds by their songs
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-ai-bird-individual-song.html

AI cuts wildlife tracking from months to days
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-ai-wildlife-tracking-months-days.html

AI tool identifies wild animals by their unique markings
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-ai-tool-wild-animals-unique.html

How AI is changing life for lab animals
https://phys.org/news/2026-07-lab-animals-ai.html

Researchers find uncanny valley effect in macaques using 3D avatars
https://phys.org/news/2026-07-uncanny-valley-effect-macaques-3d.html#goog_rewarded

Meta’s ‘Pervert Glasses’ Backlash Has People Afraid
https://futurism.com/future-society/backlash-meta-pervert-glasses-afraid

The Meta Glasses Backlash Is Changing How (or If) People Use Them
https://www.engadget.com/2212604/the-meta-glasses-backlash-is-changing-how-or-if-people-use-them/

Kylie Jenner’s Meta Glasses Spark ‘Fascist’ Debate
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kylie-jenner-meta-glasses-fascist_n_6a565e74e4b0540b8c7b111a

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More Discussions:

Nvidia Launches Japan’s Cosmos Coalition to Accelerate Robotics
https://thenextweb.com/news/nvidia-japan-cosmos-coalition-robotics

Boston Dynamics’ Spot Robot Tackles the ‘Porch Gap’ in Deliveries
https://thenextweb.com/news/boston-dynamics-spot-delivery-robot-porch-gap

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Len Peralta

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