An investigative report reveals that Meta licensed face recognition from Rank One, a Pentagon contractor, and built a system called NameTag into an app on 50 million phones before deleting it.
The gadget often criticized for seeing too much is about to help thousands of blind veterans see the world a little differently.
Meta terminated its contract with Kenyan AI training firm Sama shortly after workers alleged they were exposed to graphic footage captured through its smart glasses.
Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses have a growing privacy problem, but blind artist Clarke Reynolds is using them to do something remarkable — run a full marathon guided by strangers from around the world.
The new Conversation focus feature on Meta smart glasses amplifies voices you’re facing and filters environmental noise. You can activate it with a voice command, but it works best within 1.8 meters.
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