{"id":7666,"date":"2026-09-25T18:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T18:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=7666"},"modified":"2026-09-25T18:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T18:22:22","slug":"vergecast-meta-connect-muse-googlebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=7666","title":{"rendered":"Phones don\u2019t have lights | The Verge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Mark Zuckerberg has a new defense of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses: they\u2019re actually doing <em>more <\/em>to signal they\u2019re taking a photo than phones do. He\u2019s brought this up in at least two recent interviews, noting that the glasses have a light that comes on to signal when a photo is being taken, while phones do not. In one of the interviews, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2cg56uF4hlc\">Joanna Stern<\/a> notes that, while phones do not always emit a light, someone does have to hold a phone up in the air, which is itself pretty noticeable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">On today\u2019s <em>Vergecast<\/em>, we\u2019re talking about Meta Connect, the Muse AI assistant, all the new smart glasses hardware, and Zuckerberg\u2019s response to the privacy uproar around wearable cameras. First, we spend time diving into Muse, which has quickly turned the vibes around on Meta\u2019s progress in AI by making agentic features vastly more accessible than others have in the past. That ties right into Meta\u2019s glasses problem and the question of whether people will trust Meta enough with their privacy to link all their services up to Muse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">There\u2019s also a ton of hardware to discuss. We have thoughts on the new audio-only Ray-Ban Meta glasses and the new Meta VR Glasses. Then it\u2019s onto Googlebooks, which arrived this week with surprisingly refined hardware and compelling integrations between desktop and mobile. It\u2019s going to be a big hurdle to convince people to switch from Windows, but the laptops are full of interesting enough ideas that we\u2019re excited to check them out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Finally, everyone\u2019s favorite podcast within a podcast returns after a brief hiatus. 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