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The house kind of looked like an early steers sort of kit house that you would order in a catalog in the US in like the 1910s.

And so that sort of drew me down this line of trying to figure out, but then what do these sort of computer vision devices that are being developed for the home, what are they trained on? How do you sort of define this quite subjective and loose and private term of the home for something like a computer vision technology that sort of craves um categories and borders and sort of limits of things right it needs to be able to understand and navigate and function in a world And so that then drew me to a data set called CNET RGBD.

And this is around 2016.

So I think perhaps also something that we'll talk about later, but is that of course, this technology has, I mean, this is almost 10 years later now, right? It's really sort of changed in terms of how these data sets look and how they're assembled.

But so CNET sort of back then, was essentially a bunch of folders, literally, that were filled with 3D models.

And then there were also folders that were textures.

And the researchers, the computer scientists were essentially, they had a really simple algorithm through which they could generate rooms.

They made it public for research purposes.

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A lot of people didn't know about it, but I subscribe to CNET.

Okay.

I appreciate it, Igor.

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I actually enjoyed it when I pissed people off.

So I did that for a while.

Then went to CNET.

I worked there and I kind of led their...

Verizon and EE said they'll add support later this year, and AT&T is noncommittal about the feature.

The spokesman for AT&T told CNET said that the carrier sees potential of an iPhone handoff, but the company remains focused on existing eSIM activation and transfer options.

In other words, sounds like AT&T has no imminent plans to support it, but also didn't explicitly say it was not going to.

I had thought someone actually saw that it potentially was, Ed.

That's absolutely ridiculous, dude.

Thank you CNET for letting me know there's an optic toaster.

I mean, somebody's going to get enjoyment from it somewhere.

There's like, it's one of those things that we make fun of it.

Are we ready for robots to do the mundane tasks around the household? Ajay Kumar is here.

He is, uh, smart home and robotics editor for our friends at, uh, CNET, the go-to source when it comes to everything tech.

And, uh, Ajay, welcome to the show.

How are you?

Mm-hmm.

Uh, and, and the, and the price i- is a big part of it, too.

He's, uh, Jay Kumar from, uh, CNET, and talking about, um, we're seeing robots, you know, v- robot videos online, and now with AI we're starting to get robots in households to do mundane tasks, but we're still a few years away from that.

And, and mainly because, and I think that's fascinating, he said AI, um, you know, and I guess it...