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Maximizing Privacy? New Apple Home Security Cameras Reportedly Won't Record Video - CNET

From Flock AI-powered security cameras to Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, people are getting frustrated with their everyday movements being recorded and tracked. Apple likely smells a market opportunity to do something different.

According to Bloomberg News Managing Editor and Apple insider Mark Gurman, the company is developing a home security camera that can detect and notify about intruders — without capturing video footage. The device would be a companion to the new AI-powered home hub the company is slated to launch Oct. 13.

A representative for Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Speaking on his brand-new Power On podcast, Gurman said the cameras would be smallish cylinders — “like a metal ChapStick” — and could be placed anywhere and everywhere in the home. Acting more like sensors than video recorders, the cameras would reportedly use AI facial recognition to determine who and...

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Amazon says it has stopped using NDAs with county officials for data center projects and acknowledges community backlash is leading to data center moratoriums

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Tech bills of the week: AI research competitions; Prohibiting federal use of biometric tech; and more

Incentivizing AI research A bipartisan House measure introduced on Wednesday looks to create federally-funded research competitions to enhance AI security and understanding of the technologies. Led by Reps. August Pfluger, R-Texas, and Josh Harder, D-Calif., the Reliable Artificial Intelligence Research Act would create two national competitions operated by the Department

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iPhone 18 Pro Max Can't Make a Call on AT&T? Apple Says It Will Replace It for Free - CNET

Some owners of Apple’s new iPhone 18 Pro Max may be enjoying the new camera system and improved battery life. But if they’re AT&T customers, they could find the phone unable to perform its most essential task: making calls. That also includes being able to dial

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Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Oct. 3, #1210 - CNET

Looking for the most recent NYT Connections puzzle answers? CNET publishes daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. In Connections, you look at a grid of 16 words and pick four words that have a connection to each other.