Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, November 10th,

2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

More details on that whole humane AI PIN device,

because whatever you think about it, it's the first

radically new take on computing that we've seen since the smartphone. The first

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Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. We need to talk more about Humane. Everything I told you yesterday about their new AI PIN, especially

around the $6.99 price tag plus a $24 a month subscription, panned out.

But we also learned that pre-orders begin November 16th,

and they've apparently made 100,000 of these devices.

So they're expecting something of a demand considering that this is a

brand new device category all by itself. Quoting Wired for even more details.

Humane CEO Bethany Bonjorno is confident of the pins mass appeal

calling it the world's first contextual computer. AI now has become something that

everyone is curious about and really wants to know how it's going to change their life, she says.

We're offering the first opportunity to bring it with you everywhere.

It's really touching people from every background, every age group globally in terms of what we're

feeling and seeing in the feedback."

When Bonjorno and her husband, Imran Chaudrey, founded Humane in 2018, after Long-Spans working on

hardware design and software engineering at Apple, they set strict parameters for their product.

It needed to be a standalone device connected directly to the cell network, transparent about when it's recording,

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