1. 애플 워치 시선 인식 시스템 특허 - '의도'를 읽는 웨어러블카메라 기반의 주의력 감지: 스마트워치에 내장된 카메라를 통해 사용자의 머리 자세, 시선 방향, 얼굴 특징점을 분석하여 실제로 화면을 보고 있는지 판단 후 인터페이스 활성화불필요한 프로세싱 억제: 단순히 팔을 드는 동작이 아니라 사용자의 '상호작용 의도'가 확인될 때만 화면을 밝히거나 콘텐츠를 스크롤함으로써 배터리 효율과 기기 성능 극대화센서로서...

Apple is exploring a new class of attention‑aware interactions for wearable devices, according to a recently published patent filing. The technology centers on using a camera integrated into a smartwatch to determine whether the user is actually looking at the device before activating certain interface elements or expending processing power.The system analyzes images captured by the watch’s c...

Three-in-ten Americans at least sometimes get news from newsletters, but many don’t read most of the newsletters they getEmail newsletters have become a familiar format for news. But this pathway to news remains somewhat niche, and even among Americans who get news from email newsletters, a majority say they don’t end up reading most of the newsletters they receive.Three-in-ten U.S. adults sa...

Deal agreed to acquire British secondhand fashion resale app from Etsy as eBay attempts to fend off Amazon.The online retailer eBay has agreed to buy the British secondhand fashion resale app Depop from Etsy for about $1.2bn (£890m) in cash, as eBay targets younger fashion-loving consumers.The deal comes at a time when secondhand marketplaces continue to soar in popularity, especially among ge...

Braintrust lands $80M funding round to become the observability layer for AI.Artificial intelligence-native observability startup Braintrust Data Inc. believes it’s on a fast track to becoming an essentially infrastructure layer for AI models and agents in production after raising $80 million in a middle-stage funding today.The Series B round was led by Iconiq and saw participation from high-p...

In September, Alfred Stephen, a freelance software developer in Singapore, purchased a ChatGPT Plus subscription, which costs $20 a month and offers more access to advanced models, to speed up his work. But he grew frustrated with the chatbot’s coding abilities and its gushing, meandering replies. Then he came across a post on Reddit about a campaign called QuitGPT. The campaign urged ChatGPT...

While robots continue to transform global manufacturing, handling tasks - such as picking, placing and moving materials - remain by far the leading industrial automation application. According to estimates from Statista Market Insights, this segment accounted for over half (51 percent) of all industrial uses worldwide in 2024. In comparison, that same year, the two other more popular applicatio...

As Toronto was blanketed by over 60 centimetres of snow in a single storm, Stella Artois found a way to turn the extreme weather into a branded moment worth braving the cold for.In a timely OOH activation, the beer brand unveiled a giant Stella chalice at the intersection of York and Front Streets.As the snow fell, it filled the oversized glass, creating the illusion of frothy beer foam spillin...

There’s something oddly comforting about the idea behind Lens AR Smartwatch. It doesn’t start from screens or interfaces, but from that old habit of lifting something to your eye and looking through it. Like a telescope, or a cheap monocular you’d bring on a hike just in case. That feeling seems to be the core of the design, not an afterthought. As a watch, Lens is almost deliberately boring...