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The Humane Ai Pin Has Already Been Brought Back to Life
Humane bricked its pricey gadget on Friday afternoon. A short time later, a hacker got the codes to unlock it and potentially turn it into the true smartphone replacement it was meant to be.
On February 28, shortly after noon Pacific time, Humane switched off its servers supporting its contentious Ai Pin—essentially bricking a$700 device that was less than a year old. Brendan Brannock, a 30-year-old network engineer in Florida also working on a way to connect with his Humane Pin, put together a knowledge base document to help other people in the community start tinkering with their own devices. If they tinkered away quietly, after all the fuss had died down, perhaps invested interests like the remnants of Humane and HP would be less inclined to force another update to undo the access that had been granted.
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