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Nilay Patel

Nilay Patel

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    Here’s a peek at some of Meta’s Orion prototypes.

    Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth doesn’t reveal anything particularly new here, but I do love looking at prototypes. There’s much more detail in Alex Heath’s Orion hands-on — perhaps most importantly that Meta doesn’t plan to use these expensive silicon carbide lenses whenever it does produce an actual AR product.

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    Nilay Patel
    Tom Brady also fell for the Meta AI copypasta.

    Meta was using Brady’s face for a goofy and now-discontinued chatbot character program, so maybe he’s just mad about that. No explaining why Kristen Bell, who is part of a current Meta celebrity AI product, also fell for it, though.

    Why Mark Zuckerberg thinks AR glasses will replace your phone
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    Meta’s CEO on his first pair of AR glasses, partnering with Ray-Ban, why he’s done with politics, and more.

    Nilay Patel and Alex Heath
    Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

    The Browser Company cofounder thinks it’s time to modernize the browser and reinvent the web.

    Nilay Patel
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    Nilay Patel
    The most interesting iPhone review is... a chatbot?

    Joanna Stern convinced the Wall Street Journal to do something different for her iPhone review this year: they built a chatbot trained on her previous iPhone reviews and her testing notes for the new models. You can, uh, get pretty deep with it.

    Apple iPhone 16 Pro review: small camera update, big difference
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    I’m not saying you should buy a new phone for a single camera setting... but I’m not not saying that, either.

    Nilay Patel
    How Philips CEO Roy Jakobs is turning the company around after a major recall

    Lightbulbs and electronics defined a century of Royal Philips. Can AI and healthcare define its next era?

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