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5+ min ago (190+ words) Warning! GuruFocus has detected 2 Warning Sign with META. Is META fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. Before, regulators in Italy and Ireland were unsure whether the gadget did a good job of letting onlookers know, but Meta and EssilorLuxottica made the recording indication light bigger. The EU's AI Act and GDPR apply to the glasses, which makes it harder for people to use them. EssilorLuxottica said that smart glasses added more than four percentage points to its sales increase during the last nine months, although they still only make up a modest part of its total income. Analysts claim that its 18,000-store network and strong brand portfolio provide it advantages that early smart-wearable products like Google Glass didn't have. The race is getting faster. In China, Alibaba released a model of AI glasses, and Google plans…...

8+ min ago (100+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. The repair organization iFixit has a free app that makes complicated information about your phone easy to understand and act on. Do yourself a favor and download iFixit's new app. The free app from iFixit, a repair and advocacy organization, has one extremely handy feature for any smartphone model: It shows a personalized "death date" of when you should replace your phone's battery, long before it fails on you....

12+ min ago (1117+ words) Over the last few weeks, I started a structured investigation into industrial cybersecurity across solar and BESS installations. The goal was not to exploit anything. The goal was to understand what is actually happening in the field, what risks are emerging, and where utilities and operators need to focus their attention. This post summarizes what I uncovered through four phases of research: internet-facing device scans, vendor documentation analysis, GitHub configuration reviews, and identifying exposed control interfaces. Taken together, these steps reveal a clear pattern across the industry. It shows how quickly the energy sector has modernized, how rapidly connectivity has expanded, and how security has struggled to keep pace. The first phase was straightforward. I simply used public tools and Google queries to understand what is already visible on the internet. The results were eye-opening. Using common industrial search techniques,…...

13+ min ago (267+ words) Professional cameras today generate enormous amounts of data. A single high-speed burst from a 45-megapixel body can create hundreds of megabytes of RAW files in seconds. High bitrate 4K and 8K internal video recording places even heavier demands on sustained write speeds. If your card cannot keep up with these data streams, the results are immediate and painful. Using a card that is too slow or not designed for your camera can lead to: Speed enables performance, but reliability protects your work. A memory card must handle repeated cycles of high-speed writing, sudden power interruptions, extreme temperatures, and years of use without failing. For professionals, this durability is not optional. The cost of a failed card can be measured not only in lost images, but in the lost trust of a client. These cards are rigorously tested across major camera bodies to…...

13+ min ago (601+ words) By Lewis Wallace " 2:25 pm, December 9, 2025 Apple's HomePod smart speaker rarely sees a discount, but a special holiday deal from B&H cuts the price by $20 for a limited time. The timing is awesome, because a HomePod makes a great gift for the Apple lover in your life. And with this deal, you can scoop up a full-size, second-generation Home Pod for just $279 in either midnight or white. Built for entertainment and utility, high-quality smart speakers let you blast your tunes and listen to podcasts and news briefings. But they also do much more: They can answer questions (sometimes) and control smart-home products. Cupertino introduced the HomePod in 2018 to inject high-quality audio into the Apple ecosystem " and compete with the growing ranks of popular smart speakers from Amazon and Google. The original HomePod sounded great, but at $349 list, consumers didn't view…...

17+ min ago (154+ words) [A person holding a Sony camera equipped with a large white telephoto lens, positioned against a blurred outdoor background.]Viltrox has been busy so far in December. Alongside wide-angle and telephoto conversion lenses for Fujifilm X100 Series cameras, the Chinese lens maker has also launched a new 2x teleconverter for Sony E-mount cameras. The new teleconverter works with the expected Sony lenses, plus Viltrox's 135mm f/1.8 prime. [Read More] However, where Viltrox aims to separate itself from Sony's offering is price. The Sony FE 2x Teleconverter is $598, while the Viltrox option is $280. That's a significant price difference. Viltrox promises that its teleconverter performs similarly to Sony's offering, including in terms of image quality. The Viltrox Teleconverter 2x for Sony E-mount is available to order now for $280. B&H expects it to be available in the next 7-14 days, just in time for the holidays....

17+ min ago (1056+ words) A large-scale analysis of user interactions with an AI-powered web browser reveals that adoption is concentrated among digitally-engaged individuals in wealthier nations, who primarily employ the technology for personal productivity, learning, and shopping tasks. https://quantumzeitgeist.com/wp-content/uploads/hero-image.jpg The increasing availability of AI agents raises critical questions about how people integrate these tools into their daily lives, and a new study sheds light on early adoption patterns. Jeremy Yang, Noah Yonack, and Kate Zyskowski from Perplexity, alongside Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, and Jerry Ma, present the first large-scale analysis of AI agent usage, focusing on Perplexity's Comet Assistant. Their work examines hundreds of millions of anonymized user interactions to determine who adopts these agents, how frequently they use them, and for what purposes. The results reveal a diverse user base with strong correlations between adoption and factors like socioeconomic status and professional background,…...

18+ min ago (246+ words) It's epically thin, lightweight, grippy, and adds MagSafe compatibility. What's not to like? I love the OnePlus 15, but while its display is top-tier and its performance and battery life are simply unmatched, its design needs a lot of help. OnePlus went backward on ergonomics with this release and even replaced the trademark OnePlus Alert slider with a generic AI button. Yuck. Thankfully, Thinborne's minimalist case is finally available at Amazon and solves several problems that I have with the design. First off, it's a minimalist aramid fiber case, which means its primary function is to provide scratch resistance and add grip to an otherwise slippery phone. Second, the Thinborne case adds MagSafe compatibility to the OnePlus 15. All of OnePlus's official cases do too, but this one does it without adding a bunch of bulk to the phone. The Pixel 10 is…...

18+ min ago (290+ words) Trump permits Nvidia H200 exports to China once again President Donald Trump has confirmed that the US will begin supporting certain chip exports to China and other affected countries again " specifically, Nvidia's H200 chips. Exports will only be allowed to approved commercial customers, set out under conditions that are seen to be protecting US national security. The US government also wants to collect a 25% fee on H200 exports. However, Trumps authorization only permits H200 chips to leave the US " China still won't be granted access to other Nvidia chips like Blackwell or Rubin. "I have informed President Xi, of China, that the United States will allow NVIDIA to ship its H200 products to approved customers in China and other Countries, under conditions that allow for continued strong National Security," Trump wrote on Truth Social. Trump argued that the 25% fee per export set to return to…...

22+ min ago (455+ words) Google is rolling out a surprise feature today to its Pixel phones called "Notification Organizer." As the name implies, this is a new setting that will indeed try to organize your notifications in the same way that Gmail attempts to bundle and clean-up your inbox. For me, this......