The civil liberty and privacy risks of smart glasses should be obvious. They certainly are to me. From this article, "Meta's current AI smart glasses have an LED in the corner of the frame that lights up to signal to others when a wearer is taking photographs or filming. But Meta executives don't want to activate the LED when the super-sensing features are turned on."

That should concern you. It concerns me.

Meta showed Brain2Qwerty v2 this week, a research system that turns brain activity into typed text with no implant and no surgery. A person sits in a magnetoencephalography scanner and types while the AI reads the magnetic signals instead of the fingers. Trained on 22,000 sentences from nine volunteers, it reached 61 percent word accuracy, with one participant hitting 78. The gear is bulky and far from a product. But notice who this is for. Not people skipping the keyboard. People who cannot type, speak, or move. For them, accuracy like that is a way back into the conversation.

This is amazing. Google earthquake alerts reached 11.4 million people seconds to two minutes before two of the strongest quakes in the country’s history. How?

"The trick is the accelerometer inside almost every smartphone. The same chip that rotates your screen can feel the faint tremor of a seismic wave. Google taps more than two billion of them worldwide.

A quake sends out two kinds of wave. Fast primary waves arrive first and do little harm. Slower secondary waves follow, and they cause most of the shaking. The gap between them is the warning window."

Slate is promising a mid $20K EV pickup truck. This is a Jeff Bezos backed company, so they should have plenty of money to get this to market and if the specs are true, this is a very interesting new entry into the US market. China has plenty of truly affordable EV options, but that's not the case here. We need more.

Back when the social web was a kinder, gentler place, I use to love StumbleUpon and how easy it was to share sites you found interesting with your online acquaintances. This segment of my blog, Just Dug Up, is actually my attempt to recreate that experience. I'll be checking Wander out.

And this quote is why this is so funny. "I have been a professional tech journalist for nearly 15 years, and before today, I cannot think of a single time when a Bing search result was more valuable than the Google equivalent. There really is a first time for everything!"

Except you should disregard this post. I just Googled "disregard" in both AI and regular search mode and all is well in the world.