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Samsung's Android XR smart glasses hands-on: stylish with good privacy protections like local face redaction and nice Gemini features like real-time translation (Victoria Song/The Verge)

It's a weird time to launch a new pair of smart glasses. — These last few years, Meta has been the dominant player in pushing a fragile smart glasses resurgence.

We haven't written up this one. Techmeme has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

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The checklist we go through before shipping AI features to real users

Every AI feature looks good in a demo. You show it to the team on Friday, everyone's impressed, and then on Monday real users start typing things into it that nobody on the team would ever type.

  • Team evaluates necessity of AI model for feature
  • Considers user response to AI errors and potential outcomes
  • Checks cost per user and optimizes AI feature performance

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