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• (AP Photo/John Locher)A person wears Xreal Air augmented reality glasses while taking an augmented reality driving demonstration at the BMW booth during the CES tech show Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, in Las Vegas..
• (AP Photo/John Locher)Xreal Air augmented reality glasses sit in a car during an augmented reality driving demonstration at the BMW booth during the CES tech show Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, in Las Vegas..
• The worst could harm us or our society and the planet in such “innovatively bad” ways that a panel of self-described dystopia experts has judged them “Worst in Show.”The third annual contest that no tech company wants to win announced its decisions Thursday..
• (AP Photo/John Locher)People look in a car used to demonstrate BMW’s in-car personal assistant that uses Amazon’s Alexa large language model to answer questions about its cars at the BMW booth during the CES tech show Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, in Las Vegas..
• “From easily hackable lawn mowers to $300 earbuds that will fail in two years, these are products that jeopardize our safety, encourage wasteful overconsumption, and normalize privacy violations,” says the group of consumer and privacy advocates judging the awards..
• “Then work on making the battery easier to swap.”Sennheiser didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.Nathan Proctor, the national campaign director for U.S. PIRG, a consumer advocacy group, selected as his “Worst in Show” the new video ads on Instacart’s “AI-powered” shopping cart..