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  • Meta CTO explains the cause of its embarrassing smart glasses demo failures

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    When Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta’s latest smart glasses at the company’s Connect 2025 keynote, he encountered two glitches that prevented him from properly demonstrating some of the devices’ features. Now, Meta’s Chief Technology Officer, Andrew Bosworth, said in an AMA on Instagram that they were demo failures and not actual product failures. The first glitch took place in the middle of a live demo with a cooking content creator, who asked Live AI for instructions on how to make a Korean-inspired steak sauce on his Meta glasses. Instead of giving him detailed instructions, his glasses’ AI skipped ahead by several steps and continued glitching. The chef told Zuckerberg that the “WiFi might be messed up” in the venue.

    Bosworth said, however, that it was not the case. Apparently, when the chef said “Hey Meta, start Live AI,” it fired up every single Meta Ray-Ban’s Live AI in the building. And since the event was all about the company’s smart glasses, there were a lot of them in the venue at the time. The company had also routed Live AI’s traffic to its dev server to isolate it, but it ended up routing the Live AI traffic of everyone’s glasses in the building to its server. “We DDoS’d ourselves, basically,” he said. He continued that it didn’t happen at rehearsal, because there weren’t as many people wearing the glasses when they tested it out.

    Zuckerberg also ran into an issue when he tried demonstrating taking WhatsApp video calls on the Meta Ray-Ban Display. The audience could see him getting calls on the glasses’ HUD, but he couldn’t answer them to start the call. Bosworth said that it was caused by a “never-before-seen bug” that had put the display to sleep at the very instant that the notifications came in that someone was calling. Even after Zuckerberg woke up the display, there was no option to answer the call. The CTO said Meta had never come across that bug before the demo and that it has since been fixed. “You guys know we can do video calling… we got WhatsApp, we know how to do video calling,” he said, but admitted that it was a missed opportunity to be able to show on stage that the feature actually works.

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  • Andrew Lippert Joins Edmentum as Chief Technology Officer

    Andrew Lippert Joins Edmentum as Chief Technology Officer

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    Seasoned and Highly Regarded Education Technology Executive to Lead Next-Generation Innovation at Edmentum


    BLOOMINGTON, Minn., January 4, 2024 (Newswire.com)
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    Edmentum, a global education leader in K-12 learning technology solutions, has added Andrew Lippert to its Executive Leadership Team as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). With decades of technology leadership experience, Lippert brings deep expertise in product strategy, system architecture, software development, global operations, and executive management to his role at Edmentum. 

    “Andrew’s extensive education technology background combined with his leadership experience, including with start-ups and complex global organizations, will have immediate and sustained impact on Edmentum’s vision and long-term growth strategy,” said Jamie Candee, President and CEO of Edmentum. “Over the course of his career, Andrew has demonstrated the technology leadership, particularly in learning innovation, that aligns directly with our focus in providing evidence-based learning acceleration and intervention programs that meet the unique needs of each and every one of our learners. We are thrilled that Andrew shares our passion for servant leadership, and building and maintaining a culture that puts students and educators first. I’m pleased to welcome him to our team.” 

    As CTO, Lippert will be responsible for leading Edmentum’s global technology, data science, enterprise business systems, and security operations teams. He also will be instrumental in designing and scaling enhanced learning technology solutions that will help support Edmentum’s strategic growth objectives.

    Prior to joining Edmentum, Lippert served as Chief Technology Officer for McGraw Hill, the world’s second-largest educational publishing company. Previously, he held numerous executive leadership positions including as a founding member of Redbird Advanced Learning (which was acquired by McGraw Hill in 2016) and Ednovate, a non-profit that developed the USC Hybrid High School. Lippert’s lengthy career in learning technology also includes leadership roles at Apex Learning, Biznik, and ZooKazoo. 

    “I’ve been fortunate to build my career in technology, most recently focused in EdTech,” said Andrew Lippert, Chief Technology Officer, Edmentum. “As a proud father of six, I have a personal, vested interest in improving education through technology, and look forward to continuing that at Edmentum.” 

    About Edmentum

    Edmentum is a leading provider of K-12 digital curriculum, assessments, and services to more than 43,000 schools, 420,000 educators, and 5.2 million students in all 50 states and 100+ countries worldwide. Building on its 60-year history of impact, Edmentum creates innovative, proven learning technology, partnering with educators to ignite student potential. For more information, visit edmentum.com.

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