David Jiang, cofounder and CEO of smart glasses company Viture, tells me about how he used to yell at his kid. His 10-year-old son played…
Author: Boone Ashworth
Adopt This Data Center Plushie and Hear Its Piercing Scream
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…
Sonos Has New Devices, a New OS, and Yes, a New App
Sonos has a new app. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The smart speaker company, long a darling of the audio industry, undid…
The New Friend AI Pendant Can Now Talk Back to You
Friend CEO Avi Schiffmann welcomes me into his palace—what he calls his large apartment in San Francisco. He sits on the couch in his living…
Remember Jibo? Its Successor Is a Wearable That Turns Your Life Into AI Slop
Gu and the company aren’t ready to share specific details about what the iKairos will be capable of. In its press release, Lingverse says the…
Halliday’s New Smart Glasses Skip the Camera
There’s a new pair of camera-less smart glasses in town: the Halliday G2, designed to listen to workplace meetings, absorb what happens, and summarize all…
The 1X Neo Robot Has Freaky Fast Fingers
Courtesy of 1X Courtesy of 1X “We love this idea that a robot can be this peaceful and fun and goofy safe presence in a…
These New Smart Glasses From Solos Come With a Privacy Shield for the Cameras
Smart glasses company Solos has long focused on audio-only smart glasses. On Tuesday, it announced two new pairs of glasses, one of which has a…
These Robots Are Making Meals for a Nonprofit in San Francisco’s Tenderloin
These potato-salad-slinging AI chefs aren’t taking anyone’s jobs. Not yet, anyway. They’re just here as volunteers. Project Open Hand, a nonprofit founded in 1985 by…
Everything Announced at Google I/O 2026
Much weirder is voice editing in Google Docs, in a new feature called Docs Live. By describing with your voice what you want to write,…