Month: September 2026

Trump backs Flock license plate cameras — but new survey reveals 47% of US public oppose them as 3 police officers are arrested for alleged ‘misuse’ of the tech

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US President Donald Trump says he supports Flock’s license plate cameras Most Americans oppose the installation of the devices, a survey suggests Several police officers have been arrested after abusing Flock tech Flock’s automated license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras are continuing to hit the headlines, with the latest controversy being a series of arrests of … Read more

I tried Meta’s new Muse AI agent — it’s incredibly useful, but handing it my digital life felt deeply uncomfortable

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Meta’s new Muse AI platform would like the keys to your digital life to help run it for you. Muse is a personal AI agent that Meta built to complete tasks on your behalf, including sending emails, filling out forms, shopping, and pretty much any other activity with an online component. The AI is available … Read more

‘The introduction of AI is an accelerator, not a replacement for packaged applications’: Oracle bets on AI to strengthen customer ROI

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Oracle thinks AI will change how we use software, but we’ll still use software for years to come Agents will interact with structured software, humans will manage those agents Overall software revenue dropped 3% but cloud revenue rose 60% Oracle co-CEO Mike Sicilia just declared on the company’s first earnings call of fiscal 2027 that … Read more

The Godox C100 is the weirdest camera and the weirdest light meter I’ve ever used — it’s an intriguing concept, but it misses the mark on both counts

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Godox C100: two-minute review Well, this is a new one. Godox caught everybody by surprise when it announced the C100, a slim, rectangular point-and-shoot camera built around a transparent rectangular screen that also functioned as the viewfinder… and it also worked as a light meter for film photography. What, many asked camera nerds, was going … Read more

‘I did not foresee at all the social-media application, nor its impact on society’: Inventor of the CMOS-based image sensor on how a technology designed to take photos in space has changed the way we view the world

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Camera technology has come on leaps and bounds throughout the 20th and 21st century, but one of the most important developments was the invention of the CMOS image sensor. This invention, dubbed the ‘camera-on-a-chip’, is the technology that allows everyone to carry high-resolution cameras around in their pockets. But the history of the CMOS can … Read more