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Prego Wants to Record Your Dinner Conversations (and Store Them for All Time)

What a time to be alive. 

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It’s a little bleak that every non-tech company now seems convinced the only way to stay relevant, both culturally and to an increasingly nonsensical stock market, is to bolt some kind of gadget onto their product. Even pasta sauce isn’t safe. Prego, the jar you probably outgrew sometime after childhood, is now in the tech biz, partnering with a nonprofit called StoryCorps to sell a device that records your family dinners.

Hot on the heels of shoe company Allbirds radically pivoting to AI in a sad, desperate effort to maintain solvency while simultaneously conning a bunch of sad, desperate Wall Street bros, Prego and StoryCorps have partnered to create The Connection Keeper, a small puck with two microphones designed to discreetly sit at the center of a dining table. At the press of a button, it........

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