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All of Humane's AI pins will stop working in 10 days (www.engadget.com)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 180 points 3 days ago (5 children)

HP, which is buying the company’s intellectual property for $116 million... Humane was seeking a $1 billion buyout

🀣 🀣 🀣

[–] [email protected] 98 points 3 days ago (2 children)

HP. Now there's a company with an eye for the future! 🀭

[–] someguy3 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm betting on IBM!

[–] db2 8 points 3 days ago

What's good for Chrysler is good for America!

[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 days ago

That still seems like a wildly high buyout.

[–] Rooty 45 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Even 116 mil is too much for this trash product.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They're not buying the product, they're buying the IP. the article literally says that HP doesn't give a fuck about the product/HW

[–] ramenshaman 20 points 3 days ago

If HP does anything with that IP they will 110% find a way to make it even worse.

[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot 8 points 3 days ago

'I'll give you tree-fiddy'

-HP, probably