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Instinct CEO Noah Shinn says agents will let restaurants give tables to birthdays and anniversaries over whoever clicks first "And traditionally, because of the way that the internet has worked, at least for reservations, it's been first come first serve. So anyone that comes in, no matter how important or how not important it might be, whoever gets in first gets the reservation." "But what if you had the ability for the agent to be able to communicate on both sides, communicate, hey, this is important. This is actually the person's spouse's birthday, the 30th birthday, a very special event is coming up." "And the restaurant too can say, let's actually prioritize birthdays or major decade birthdays or major anniversaries or these certain people, I don't know, whatever it might be, right?" "So now with the ability, with all of the logistical burden of having to describe exactly what your case is and what's happening and why it's important. Now we have the ability to perfectly match what does the restaurant want? What does the user want?" "And that will result in more special events for the users being able to actually have a spot in the restaurant."

Meta announced Muse Charm: a keychain-sized device with a 2-inch touchscreen, a camera, at least three microphones & a fingerprint sensor to wake it. Ships December. No price. The architecture is the interesting part. Meta reportedly gave it built-in 5G, which means it doesn't need a paired phone & on something this size there's no room for meaningful onboard compute. So the device captures, the network carries & the model runs in Meta's cloud. Sensor at one end, intelligence at the other. That's the same admission as the VR Glasses at the same event, where the processor sits in a separate puck. Both say the limit on wearables isn't chips. It's thermal load & battery mass on the body. Zuckerberg's own framing: if you're not wearing glasses, this is the fastest way to show Muse what's going on around you. Which is a camera, on a keyring, in whatever room you're in. The specs that actually matter haven't been published like battery life, whether capture is continuous or on demand & what signals to people nearby that it's recording. Meta says the layout isn't even finalized. Humane's Pin ran hot & died. Rabbit's R1 underdelivered. This one offloads both the heat & the thinking, which fixes the hardware problem but also creates a different one.

cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night: connect your family calendars and explain your kids' interests. every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid's soccer game that afternoon, one kid's upcoming birthday, some news, etc.

Before England’s goal in minute 45+2 against Norway, the sensor in the Connected Ball showed no peak in the 'heartbeat of the ball' when in the air, and therefore no evidence that the ball touched the overhead wire and changed the movement of the ball.

Happy Bin Day to all who celebrate.