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I Took a Vision Test in 90 Seconds With a Robot and Saw the Future of Vision Care

Getting a prescription for glasses has always been the same: You schedule an appointment with an eye doctor, sit in an exam room while someone flips the lenses and asks you which is best, and wait at least a week for your new glasses to arrive. Not to mention paying out of pocket if you don't have vision insurance.

Eyebot, an AI-powered health tech company, wants to make that process optional and make vision tests more accessible.

The Boston-based startup has built a self-serve kiosk that delivers a doctor-reviewed prescription for glasses in under 90 seconds with no appointment or insurance required. I got to test it out, and the experience was much more seamless than I expected.

What is Eyebot?

Simply put, Eyebot is a kiosk that offers non-invasive vision tests on a touchscreen. The process starts with an intake that asks whether you currently wear glasses or...

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Jensen Huang Didn’t Name His Own Replacement as One of Tech’s Most Powerful Women

The most powerful woman in tech at this very moment is Colette Kress, the new interim CEO of Nvidia—but her predecessor, Jensen Huang, failed to mention her in a recent back-and-forth about the topic. Earlier this fall, WIRED published a feature story exploring the complex topic of power for

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Jensen Huang was having a third affair, Reuters reports

Nvidia founder Jensen Huang was having a separate affair with an employee that has not been previously reported, Reuters reported on Thursday. Huang stepped down as CEO and board member for the company earlier today, in the wake of news of extramarital affairs with accused spy Alice Huang and Nvidia

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Mona, the AI running a Stockholm café, still can’t turn a profit

The Andon Café is pictured in Stockholm on April 27, 2026. It looks like any other coffee shop, but this Stockholm cafe is entirely run by an AI chatbot - with a human barista following orders. Andon Labs, the company behind the experiment gave a lease to Mona the AI

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Major Microsoft Outlook Outage Leaves People With Email Jobs Unable to Email

It’s not just you. Microsoft’s 365 business and enterprise services suffered a major outage on Thursday, preventing users of its popular cloud suite from accessing their accounts. Around 10:40 am ET on Thursday morning, Microsoft posted on its 365 status page on X that it was “investigating

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Jensen Huang Didn’t Name His Own Replacement as One of Tech’s Most Powerful Women

Jensen Huang was having a third affair, Reuters reports

Mona, the AI running a Stockholm café, still can’t turn a profit

Major Microsoft Outlook Outage Leaves People With Email Jobs Unable to Email