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Meta’s smart glasses have already started facing restrictions in pubs, restaurants, theaters, and courtrooms across the UK. Now, one of New York City’s better-known nightclubs is bringing the same privacy fight to the US. Basement has announced that smart glasses are not allowed inside the venue because of its existing no-photo and no-video policy (via Futurism). Anyone who brings them in, whether they are wearing the glasses or simply carrying them in a bag, will be asked to leave and could even be permanently banned. People generally do not like being filmed by strangers. Being recorded without realizing it is…

Smartphone cameras have become remarkably good at squeezing detail out of difficult scenes, but there is still one familiar enemy: darkness. When the light disappears, even expensive phones can produce grainy images, muddy shadows and smeared fine details. A new AI-based image enhancement technique could offer a different way forward. Researchers from Wuhan University in China have developed LL-Refiner, a two-stage machine-learning system designed to improve ultra-high-definition low-light images without sacrificing the small details that make photographs look natural. The work was reported by Tech Xplore and published in the IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica on July 3, 2026. Instead…

Drive down almost any main street in the US, and chances are an AI-powered camera is taking notice. Over the past few years, police departments across the country have quietly installed thousands of automated license plate readers to monitor daily traffic. But while law enforcement pitched these as simple crime-fighting upgrades, growing fears over constant location tracking and unauthorized police misuse have triggered a massive backlash. At the center of the conflict is Flock Safety, an Atlanta-based company whose roadside units scan and log billions of vehicle details every month. Police departments argue these automatic license plate readers are vital…

There’s a specific kind of dread that comes with posting something small and watching it explode to a million strangers who missed all the context. Thankfully, Bluesky just built an escape hatch to avoid this horror. The platform now lets you opt out of its algorithmic Discover feed, meaning your posts stop getting pushed to people who don’t already follow you. How Bluesky’s algorithmic opt-out feature works Even Bluesky’s announcement states not everyone wants to go viral; sometimes you’re just posting for your people. To be clear, this option doesn’t make your account private. Anyone can still visit your profile…

Solid-state batteries have long been promised as the holy grail of energy storage. They promise to double energy density compared to traditional options, slash charging times, and eliminate the risk of thermal fires. Despite that, the technology has yet to achieve widespread commercial adoption, and the main culprit is dendrites. These microscopic, needle-like structures form inside solid-state batteries during charging, bore through the solid ceramic electrolyte, and bridge the electrodes, causing a short circuit. Now, researchers from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have discovered a surprisingly simple fix for this persistent problem. According to a paper published in…

Apple TV is home to a handful of beloved original TV shows and an increasingly wide slate of films, including some classics. On the same day the streaming service is hiking up the fee, we are hearing news of yet another heavy-hitting addition to the content portfolio. According to Deadline, Apple has acquired worldwide rights for streaming “Small Prophets,” which first made its premiere on BBC iPlayer and BBC TV earlier this year. And before we dig into more details, here is the interesting part. Small Prophets currently has a rating of 100% freshness on Rotten Tomatoes, which is pretty…

The megapixel race shows no signs of slowing down. After Oppo and Vivo both packed two 200MP cameras on their latest Ultra flagships, Oppo now appears ready to push the hardware envelope even further. According to leaker Digital Chat Station, the company may equip the upcoming Find X10 Pro Max with three 200MP sensors across its primary, telephoto, and ultrawide cameras. If true, that could make Oppo the first smartphone maker to bring that kind of pixel density to an ultrawide shooter. What a 200MP ultrawide camera could deliver By putting a 200MP sensor behind an ultrawide lens, Oppo could…

Robot vacuums can clean floors on their own, but there is still plenty of maintenance involved. Brushes collect hair, dustbins need emptying, and mops need to be washed and dried between cleaning sessions. Roborock’s new Qrevo 2 Pro is built in a way to reduce some of that work. The robot vacuum offers 25,000Pa of suction, automatic mop removal, anti-tangle brushes, and a multifunction dock that can empty its dust bin, refill its water tank, and clean the mops. The Qrevo 2 Pro launches in the U.S. on August 28 for $549.99 as part of an introductory promotion. Its regular…

If you were hoping to squeeze Grand Theft Auto VI into a quiet weekend, Rockstar may have other plans. The next entry in one of gaming’s biggest franchises could be a seriously long commitment, with its main story and optional activities reportedly pushing some playthroughs beyond the 80-hour mark. According to a New York Times interview, Rockstar Games co-studio head Rob Nelson described Grand Theft Auto VI as “very, very immersive and lengthy.” Nelson said his own playthrough took around 80 hours, including the main story and some optional objectives. The report, shown on page 1 of the attached document,…

Walk into almost any home after a busy day and the floor tells a more complicated story than a vacuum cleaner is designed to handle. There might be crumbs under the dining table, a little water beside the sink, hair near the sofa, and the faint trail of dirt that arrived on someone’s shoes. None of it is particularly difficult to clean on its own. The problem is that it doesn’t arrive one type of mess at a time. HIZERO has built its entire cleaning philosophy around that awkward reality. Instead of asking how much suction a cleaner needs to…