Science and Technology

When David De Clercq went to San Francisco this past year, I had a few obligatory parades on your itinerary: They're in Alcatraz. Try new restaurants. And I travel in an autonomous car. The autonomous vehicles, also known as autonomous vehicles or, colloquially, robotaxis, have been circulating on the streets of San Francisco in some form since 2009 and have been operating commercially since last August. The cars also loom as the city's latest tourist attraction. De Clercq, 42, who divides his time between New Jersey and Cerdeña, where there are restaurants and coffins and some villas, is an avid…

In a sign that the tech industry continues to get weirder, Meta soon plans to release a big update that will transform the Ray-Ban Meta, its video-shooting camera glasses, into a gadget only seen in science fiction movies. Next month, the glasses will be able to use new artificial intelligence software to see the real world and describe what you're looking at, similar to the AI ​​assistant in the movie "Her." The glasses, available in various frames starting at $300 and lenses starting at $17, were primarily used for taking photos, videos and listening to music. But with new AI…