Meta's Smart-Glasses App, downloaded by 50 million users, included concealed dormant facial-recognition code that could generate biometric signatures and identify faces instantaneously.

Meta’s Smart-Glasses App, downloaded by 50 million users, included concealed dormant facial-recognition code that could generate biometric signatures and identify faces instantaneously.

Here is the key takeaway Meta would probably prefer you take with you: the code was inactive, it remained unused, and it couldn’t have been activated by users. Within a day of the report that revealed this, much of it was removed. All of this appears to be accurate, and I believe it also misses […]

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"Research by Psychologists Over the Years Indicates That Authentic Happiness Resides in 'Flow': The Condition of Being Engrossed in Demanding Tasks, Rather Than in Leisure and Vacations"

“Research by Psychologists Over the Years Indicates That Authentic Happiness Resides in ‘Flow’: The Condition of Being Engrossed in Demanding Tasks, Rather Than in Leisure and Vacations”

Ask individuals what could enhance their happiness, and the response is often consistent: more time off, reduced demands, a less hectic schedule. Then inquire about the last instance when they felt truly absorbed. That account seldom includes a beach ambiance. It generally represents the opposite: a challenging problem they couldn’t abandon, a performance that pushed […]

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"Experimental Apparatus Sustains Reaction to Illumination in Donor Eyes for 10 Hours without Human Trials"

“Experimental Apparatus Sustains Reaction to Illumination in Donor Eyes for 10 Hours without Human Trials”

**Sealed Device Aims to Preserve Retinal Function for Eye Transplantation** A research team at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, headed by Pia Cosma, has created a device named the Eye-in-a-Care-Box (ECaBox) to tackle the issue of retinal degeneration in eye transplants. The ECaBox delivers oxygenated fluid to extracted eyes through their primary arteries, […]

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