All of Humane's AI pins will stop working in 10 days
All of Humane's AI pins will stop working in 10 days
AI hardware startup Humane has given its users just ten (10!) days notice that their Pins will be disconnected. The AI startup is discontinuing its AI Pin and selling out to HP.
Both people will be very upset.
Lmao, did anyone expect something different? Never buy a product that becomes a brick when the company that made it goes under.
Unless it's a brick. Those are still OK to buy.
If a company making bricks goes under, I'd be pretty worried about the quality of their product.
Never buy anything with ai in the sales pitch. Absolute garbage
So don't buy any new electronics at all? Bold move considering the incoming tariffs.
Nah im not saying you cant buy new. But I like to look for second hand stuff that fits my needs.
Tariffs in some sense are a counterweight to exploitative factories in China, Bangladesh, etc. If we think about worker rights, then that's it, worker rights are being defended when workers in USA are pulling their weight too to fight for their rights in industries where it's actually hard, not pretending that imported goods come from some black box.
I don't know how these tariffs are supposed to work, of course. With steel or with manufacturing there's no real problem in replacing import with domestic production. It's a bit Soviet-style, but if it doesn't devolve into hard protectionism, then OK. Fabs - something really space-age for consumer hardware is, ahem, an enormous undertaking for a decade at least, but controllers for cars and elevators and talking toys - much easier.
Why did I say that in a thread about internet-connected toys ...
Not very humane of them if you ask me 🤭
My understanding is that they didn't really work to begin with
And they just got partially acquired by HP.
Real "got money, I'm out" energy, there.
I knew that thing was B's the moment I saw their demo.
I lost a lot of respect for Ted Talks when these guys were allowed to use theirs as an ad.
Bees?
BEEEEEEEEEES!
Didn't they do that already?
Googling their hardware?
Like it was ever going to be a thing 😂
Lmao