Samsung has been a top player in the wearable market for a long time now. Initially, the South Korean tech giant started offering earbuds and smartwatches. The company has recently expanded its footprints in the wearable tech market with the launch of Galaxy Ring. Now, it seems Samsung wants to further expand its smart wearable portfolio by adding a wearable projector to it.

Samsung’s latest patent reveals an innovative wearable projector technology

Today, folks over at 91Mobiles spotted a patent from Samsung that includes details about a new device that appears to be a wearable projector. Samsung’s patent reveals that the alleged wearable projector will use the “beam image output” technology. The diagrams shown in the patent indicate that the device can project images from smartphones or other electronic gadgets.

Notably, Samsung has utilized special technology to make it stand out against regular projectors. The device appears to have a unique way of modulating the beam. The innovative way is likely to ensure the quality and accuracy of the projected image irrespective of the surface. In the attached image, the device projects the image of the keyboard when a user places a hand on the tabletop.

Besides, when a user’s palm is facing toward their face, the patented device projects the smartphone’s display. These projection angles and positions are possible because Samsung has included a gimbal inside the wearable projector. It is also possible that these features will contribute to enhancing the brightness, clarity, and size of the projected image.

There’s no surety if the company will ever launch a device using such tech

To catch you up, Samsung introduced a smartphone back in 2010 called Galaxy Beam i8530 that came with a built-in projector allowing users to project photos, videos, and other content to nearby surfaces. Additionally, the company unveiled a portable projector last year that could be ideal for gamers.

So, it is safe to say that Samsung is playing around with a new form factor and could market the new device in the wearable segment. Remember, many companies patent technologies they are working with. However, not all of them are made available for the end user. Therefore, we are still unsure if the device will ever become a reality.

The Federal Communications Commission that it will open a renewed investigation into broadband data caps and how they impact both consumer experience and company competition. The FCC is soliciting from consumers about their experiences with capped broadband service. The agency also opened a formal to collect public comment that will further inform its actions around broadband data caps.

“Restricting consumers’ data can cut off small businesses from their customers, slap fees on low-income families and prevent people with disabilities from using the tools they rely on to communicate,” FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said. “As the nation’s leading agency on communications, it’s our duty to dig deeper into these practices and make sure that consumers are put first.”

This topic has been a hot one of late, and the FCC launched another about the practice of capping Internet access last year. In April 2024, the agency successfully required that ISPs offer clear on their service plans, detailing additional fees, discounts, and upload and download speeds. Data caps could also come under additional fire as the FCC attempts to , which classify broadband as an essential service. Returning net neutrality has not been a simple journey, however, as the agency faces from broadband providers.

Do you use ChatGPT regularly? Do you have the “memory” feature turned on — which allows the chatbot from OpenAI to recall important information about you and your preferences?

If so, navigate over to it when you have a free moment and enter in the following question:

“From all of our interactions what is one thing that you can tell me about myself that I may not know about myself?”

The question was proposed and suggested first on the social network X by Tom Morgan, founder of The Leading Edge newsletter and former director of client communications and marketing at Sapient Capital wealth management.

The answers ChatGPT provides in response to this prompt may surprise and even move you in their insight into your character and work style. Presumably, it could work with other AI chatbots and assistants with persistent memory, such as Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.5.

For example, here’s what it responded when I asked it this very question (using the GPT-4o model, the default paid one).

Other users have reported similarly, moving, insightful responses.

Even OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman remarked on the trend on his account on X, stating “love this” and quote posting Morgan’s original post.

Yet others, such as AI researcher and expert Simon Willison, disagree that the trend reveals anything particularly insightful about the user. Posting on X as well, Willison likened the responses to a “horoscope generator.”

However, I disagree with this take as at least in my case — and presumably for all those who have ChaGPT’s memory feature enabled (read how to turn it on here) — the chatbot is taking into account whatever is stored in its memory to answer you, and even if it does not derive insights from every single interaction you have with it, it clearly knows information about you that it can use to attempt some sort of value-judgement and introspective answer (as evidenced by the fact that my response noted I was a journalist).

Still others have posted variations on the original question proposed by Morgan, noting the curious user would do well to check out the variation in responses by switching the underlying model powering ChatGPT from the default GPT-4o or 4o mini to OpenAI’s new o1 preview reasoning model.

Others have altered the prompt to receive brutal criticism and honesty.

And still others have completely other ideas for questions you could ask the chatbot, such as requesting it “roast” you in the style of a Comedy Central special.

Regardless of which style question you decide to ask ChatGPT, or any AI chatbot for that matter, regular users might find it interesting, amusing, and potentially revealing to learn what the chatbot says it knows about you — and more importantly, it may inspire you to think differently about yourself today.

Altogether, the interest in using AI models to find out more about ourselves and our own habits reveals how much potential they have, far beyond simply assisting with work or school assignments. Indeed, as the generative AI era approaches its 2nd year anniversary (since the November 2022 launch of ChatGPT), this question and the others like it show just how much AI has become embedded into the fabric of our lives and society, and how the more we use it, the more interesting new uses for it people find.

Inversion Space has become the third company to receive a spacecraft reentry license from the Federal Aviation Administration, paving the way for the startup to launch and return its tech pathfinder mission for orbital delivery later this year. 

The three-year-old startup has ambitions of transforming space into a new “transportation layer for Earth” using ultra-fast, on-demand cargo deliveries to anywhere on Earth from orbit. The Ray vehicle is the first hardware Inversion will be sending to space. Mounted on an oven-sized bus, the actual Ray capsule is only about twice the size of a Frisbee — much smaller than the company’s full-scale spacecraft. But the mission will still put much of the final tech to the test. 

According to a draft environmental assessment (EA) of Inversion’s plans released by the FAA in May, the aluminum Ray capsule “contains and is intended to test and demonstrate many of Inversion’s custom developed systems that allow for a decreased cost and increased cadence of reentry space capsules.”  

The FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation issued the vehicle operator license for Inversion’s Ray under new Part 450 regulations designed to modernize spacecraft licensing. It joins SpaceX and Varda on the short list of operators with approval to reenter spacecraft, though only Varda was also approved under Part 450 regs. The new regulatory framework was finalized in 2020 to streamline the licensing process for satellite and rocket operators, though there have been a fair number of critics that question whether Part 450 has achieved that goal. The licensing process for Inversion’s Ray took 18 months, a spokesperson said.

The new license gives Inversion a green light to return the Ray capsule back to Earth for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. Ray, which will launch on SpaceX’s Transport-12 rideshare mission (likely sometime this month), will spend between one to five weeks in space, Inversion CEO Justin Fiaschetti said in a previous interview with TechCrunch. 

The reentry would occur in two stages, the EA says: First, the capsule would deploy a drogue parachute when Ray is traveling at around Mach 2 and help the capsule decelerate from supersonic speed. When the capsule is around 6,000 feet above sea level, the main parachute will deploy, and the capsule will slow to 15.5 miles per hour to splash down. 

The craft will then activate a recovery buoy that will broadcast the capsule’s location to Inversion’s mission control center, and a team will go recover the 41-pound capsule from the water. 

Following the Ray demonstration missions, Inversion plans to introduce a larger vehicle named Arc and launch that as early as 2026, though this will require a separate license. 

Meta is adding an “activity status” to Threads so that you can see who’s actively online as you’re scrolling your feed. In a post, Threads boss Adam Mosseri pitches it as a “way to help you find others to engage with in real-time.” The activity status will show up next to your profile picture in the feed and on your profile, based on screenshots Mosseri shared.

Fortunately, if you don’t want people to know when you’re online, you don’t have to share that. “Only people who have activity status turned on will be able to see when you’re online, and you can turn this off within your settings at any time,” Mosseri says.

I can’t currently find how to turn on the feature. It might be user error, but I’m guessing it just hasn’t rolled out to me yet. Even when I get it, I’ll probably be keeping it off.

The Shazam Band is a new AI-powered collar containing speakers and sensors that lets your pet talk to you, just like the dogs in the Pixar movie UP can. Once your pet is wearing the band you can have a conversation with it, and the band emits a human voice in response to your questions.

You can also use the Shazam Band to track your pet if they wander off, and it will alert you via text message if they get into danger, say from other animals or traffic, or if they got left behind somewhere. You can find them using the Shazam app and the GPS inside the band.

A real life UP