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Qualcomm wants to be the chip inside whatever replaces your smartphone, and it just announced two products toward that end

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said Tuesday that the company is working on over 40 different AI wearable devices β€” including jewelry, earbuds with cameras, pins, and watches β€” a sign of how aggressively the chipmaker is betting that the next major computing platform won't be a phone.
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One day after discovery, Meta pulls facial recognition code from its smart glasses

One day after WIRED revealed that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased face-recognition system into an app installed on more than 50 million phones, the company removed it, according to a WIRED analysis of the latest version’s code.

The most recent version of Meta AI, a companion app for its line of smart glasses, strips out the unactivated software components that powered the system Meta internally called NameTag. The version published the day of WIRED’s report included several code libraries explicitly named for face recognition. Friday’s release includes none of them.

Andy Stone, Meta's vice president of communications, told WIRED on Monday that the feature is purely exploratory, adding: β€œNo final decision has been made on what to do here, if anything.”

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