Five years ago, Facebook shut down the facial recognition system for tagging people in photos on its social network, saying it wanted to find "the right balance" for a technology that raises privacy and legal concerns. Now Meta, Facebook's parent company, plans to bring back facial recognition as a feature in its smart glasses, which the company makes with the owner of Ray-Ban and Oakley. The feature, internally called "Name Tag," would let wearers of smart glasses identify people and get information about them via Meta's artificial intelligence assistant, noted The New York Times. Meta reportedly hopes a "dynamic political environment" will let them get away with a new surveillance network, noted Gizmodo.

  Anniversaries are probably celebrated more by publishers than by lovers—so as a book-lover I’m taking this opportunity to celebrate a book that came into my hands almost ten years ago: Isamu Noguchi: A Sculptor’s World (Steidl 2018).This is a great time to take a deep dive into this exceptional publication, in light of the exhibition, Noguchi’s New York, which just opened at the Noguchi Garden and Museum,. The book went out of print around 2022, but...