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#146: Dutch Retailers Pull Meta Glasses, Corn Disease Detector, Landslide Runout Ensemble — Weekend Light
Impact Signals #146: Dutch Retailers Pull Meta Glasses, Corn Disease Detector, Landslide Runout Ensemble — Weekend Light Two Dutch retailers, Hans Anders and Wehkamp, have paused sales of Meta's camera-equipped AI glasses after press reports of covert filming, with only six formal reports on file at the Dutch Data Protection Authority. In the field, China Agricultural University researchers built a corn disease detector that runs on a phone with no connection, and Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers trained an ensemble on 32,714 global records to predict how far a landslide travels. It is…
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