No camera, no microphone but it can sense your sleep patterns and work side by side with Alexa to do your bidding. Might be a good idea to leave it unplugged if you engage in sexual activity, unless you want Amazon to know that as well. Amazon intends to completely take over home surveillance from the inside out.
As the price falls and speed picks up, there will be a time in the next few years where everyone's genome could be mapped and stored. This is a Transhumanist dreamscape because analyzing and comparing everybody's gene structure would be a goldmine of data, which would be viewed as a pathway to immortality.
Bill Gates poured millions of dollars in venture capital funding into Beyond Meat and its competitor Impossible Meat, both manufacturers of fake meat. Silicon Valley vegan techs that started the fake meat stampede in the first place have peaked and demand elsewhere is falling like a rock, leading critics to observe, "Go woke, get broke".
The undue influence of Bill Gates, who smiles with benevolent charm but behaves like a giant vampire squid, desperately needs to be removed from public policy everywhere in the world. Gates learned his monopolistic ways at the feet of his eugenicist father and through his company, Microsoft. Now, even left-leaning Politico admits that Gates is out of control.
The head of Google's lab says, "Quantum mechanics is one of the best theories that we have today to experience nature. This is a computer that speaks the language of nature." This is a key development to advance Technocracy and Transhumanism, that seek to completely reengineer physical systems as well as humans themselves. Remaking the world at the hands of Google should set people's hair on fire.
The total takeover of all genetic material on earth will spawn projects like this, to use weaponize nature against humans to control human health. This will fit well with Biden's new Executive Order, National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative, that institutionalizes research and development of genetic modification across all branches of government and with billions in grants.