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👓 Meta's Hypernova smart glasses may cost $800

🧠 New brain chip decodes inner thoughts in real time

📅 iPhone 18 launch reportedly delayed to early 2027

🤖 Nearly 90% of game developers now use AI

🎤 Transcription app accused of illegal voice recording

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• Meta is reportedly slashing the price of its upcoming 'Hypernova' smart glasses to around $800, a strategic move to boost consumer demand by accepting lower initial profit margins.
• The device's centerpiece is its integrated display, which will allow people to view photos, explore maps, and read social app notifications directly in their line of sight.
• This wearable is also expected to have an improved camera and a new control scheme that uses a bundled wristband for gesture-based input, packaged with its own carrying case.

• A new brain-computer interface uses microelectrodes in the motor cortex to decode a person's inner speech, translating silent thoughts into text with up to 74 percent accuracy from a large vocabulary.
• Scientists found that inner speech creates neural activity patterns different enough from attempted speech for the BCI to reliably distinguish between the two and only interpret imagined words.
• A password-controlled mechanism prevents the BCI from constantly decoding thoughts, requiring the user to think of a chosen keyword like "chitty chitty bang bang" to unlock the feature first.

• A recent supply chain report claims Apple is delaying the standard iPhone 18 launch from its usual September release, bumping the phone's introduction into the first half of 2027 instead.
• This new schedule would split the lineup, with the Pro, Pro Max, Air, and iPhone Fold models still arriving in the fall while the standard version gets pushed to the spring.
• This release pattern would reportedly begin with the iPhone 18 generation, since the entire iPhone 17 family is still expected to debut together during the fall of 2025 as usual.

• A Google and The Harris Poll study found nearly 90 percent of game developers are now using artificial intelligence tools as part of their standard development and creative processes.
• The research specifically surveyed 615 developers from the United States, South Korea, Norway, Finland, and Sweden, providing a focused look at several key international markets for game creation.
• This data reflects a specific snapshot of the industry, as all of the information was collected from survey participants during a short period in late June and early July.

• A lawsuit claims transcription service Otter.ai records voices from Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams meetings to train its speech recognition AI without securing permission from every participant.
• The suit alleges Otter only informs its accountholders their voices improve the AI, while recording meeting guests who do not have an Otter account and never provided their consent.
• Plaintiffs argue Otter is violating federal privacy laws like the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and cannot shift its legal obligation to obtain consent onto its paying accountholders.

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