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Humane warns AI Pin owners to “immediately” stop using its charging case (www.theverge.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Humane warns AI Pin owners to stop using charging case due to potential fire safety risk from certain battery cells.
Issue isolated to specific battery cells in Charge Case Accessory, not related to hardware design.
Ai Pin, Battery Booster(s), and Charge Pad not affected, as disqualified vendor does not supply components for those products.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 5 months ago (9 children)

As recompense, the company is offering two free months of its subscription service

Didn't realise it was a subscription service too. How dim would you have to be to pay 700 dollars for a device on the understanding that it won't work unless you keep paying 24 more dollars every single month?

People that buy subscriptions like this are a bigger problem than the companies that offer them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

The game console industry proved this was a viable business plan a couple of decades ago.

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