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From Bloomberg: Supreme Court Upholds Law That Threatens US TikTok Ban

I wrote a lot of words about it here.

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the organizing principle of digital advertising, which is the individual consumer. What Facebook — now Meta — is better at than anyone in the world is understanding consumers not as members of a cohort or demographic group but rather as individuals, and serving them ads that are uniquely interesting to them.

brands are created for cohorts or demographic groups, because they need to be manufactured at scale;

thus the opportunity for an entirely new wave of companies that were built around digital advertising and its deep personalization from the get-go.

from Ben Thompson

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[YouTube] has officially begun rolling out three-minute Shorts to all users

any vertical or square VODs up to three minutes long will now automatically count as Shorts, meaning they’ll appear on the Shorts tabs of creators’ channels and will pop up on the Shorts feed

The race to replace The Clock is on.

via TubeFilter

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2025: rise of the smartglasses?

Halliday Glasses have boarded the smart spectacles hype train, featuring “proactive” AI assistance and a near-eye display that shows information directly in the user’s field of view.

The display appears as a 3.5-inch screen in the upper-right corner of the user’s view with minimal obstruction

The near-eye display is supported on both prescription lenses and if no lens is used at all. The displayed information isn’t visible to other people and can be controlled using either voice commands, frame interface controls, or a ring that features a built-in trackpad.

The number of in-optics display announcements is accelerating.

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Soliddd’s scientifically formulated and user-tested virtual reality smartglasses are lightweight and feel like normal eyeglasses. SolidddVision provides the first true vision correction—and, indeed, sight restoration for those living with vision loss due to macular degeneration.

The smartglasses use Soliddd’s unique and proprietary lens arrays, which resemble a fly’s eye, to project multiple separate images to the areas of the retina that are not damaged. This allows the brain to naturally construct stereopsis (the making of a 3D image in the brain) and a single full-field image with good acuity that feels like normal, in-focus sight.

We’ve already hit the point of wearable-tech-as-health-improvement-device with glasses.