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The clock is ticking on Capitol Hill for crypto legislation. The Senate heads out of session in two weeks, and supporters of the Clarity bill are scrambling to line up the votes and procedural moves needed to push it across the finish line before lawmakers scatter for the break. The outcome could define the regulatory landscape for digital assets for years to come.
Shifting to something many Apple fans have been waiting on, the company's smart glasses project is reportedly hitting a significant wall around privacy. Engineers on the team are exploring design changes meant to address concerns about how the glasses capture and handle data about the people wearing them and those nearby. It's a reminder that the hardest problems in wearable tech are rarely about the hardware itself.
And for fans of cyberpunk literature, Apple TV has finally given us a first look at its adaptation of William Gibson's Neuromancer, widely considered the novel that invented the genre. The series now has a confirmed release date of January twenty-second, two thousand twenty-seven, giving audiences something to anticipate even as the project remains a long way off.
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