Amid AR Glasses and AI Action Figures, There's Never Been a Better Time for Black Mirror

Life has felt more than a little Black Mirror lately, and the arrival of the latest season of Black Mirror over New Jersey's spring break just felt like a big dose of what life already feels like. But that's OK, at least to one of us. Dark dystopias with a tiny liquid center of hope can sometimes be the therapy we need. In the latest episode of Tech Therapy, we get into Black Mirror's gaslighting trick in one of its episodes, the clever little mobile game they made for another, and why we'd love Black Mirror to get even tricksier in the future. But we also discuss the very Black Mirror things we've been thinking about recently. For instance: Google has suddenly shown off its newest AI-powered smart glasses at a recent TED conference. Scott demoed Google's Android XR tech last December, it's expected to be discussed in more detail at Google's I/O developer conference in May, and he puts it all in perspective. Meta is also expected to have something similar this fall, a more advanced ... Read full article.