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iOS 26’s new Liquid Glass design looks like a major win for Apple

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-08-15 13:29:17

Apple has a new Liquid Glass design coming to iOS 26, macOS 26, and every other software platform. And whether you love it, hate it, or are indifferent, Apple’s new design seems like a major win in several key ways. Software redesigns are risky, but Apple accepted the challenge Whenever software gets redesigned, it’s a risky move. Apple knows that from last year’s big Photos app revamp, which many users were not a fan of. Because of the risks associated with big changes, I wasn’t sure we wou

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These Transcribing Eyeglasses Put Subtitles on the World

wired.com Boone Ashworth 2025-08-17 02:00:00

I knew the AI on these smart glasses worked pretty well once it told me that someone else in the conversation was being the socially awkward one. TranscribeGlass are smart eyeglasses that aim to do exactly what it says on the tin: transcribe spoken conversations and project subtitles onto the glass in front of your eyes. They’re meant for the Deaf and, primarily, the hard-of-hearing community who struggle to read lips or pick out a conversation in a loud room. Most face computers are graceless

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Amazon Echo Frames drop to a new record-low price, saving you $200!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-17 13:13:51

Summer is coming, and you might want to get some glasses. Why not get some smart ones? Especially when they can be pretty affordable if you catch a good deal like today. The Amazon Echo Frames are cheaper than ever, reaching a record-low price of just $129.99. The regular retail price is $329.99, so you are saving a whopping $200! Get the Amazon Echo Frames for just $129.99 ($200 off) This offer is available from Amazon, but it is exclusive to Amazon Prime subscribers. It’s pretty much an early

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These May Be the First Leaked Images of Meta’s $1,000-Ish AR Glasses

gizmodo.com Raymond Wong 2025-08-18 17:56:33

Meta is one step closer to releasing AR smart glasses with built-in displays. These will not be the Orion smart glasses that the company showed off last year (glasses that reportedly cost $10,000 to make a single pair, but more likely a watered-down version, according to leaked images and videos of the so-called “Meta Ceres” (codenamed “Meta Hypernova”) AR glasses. X user @Lunayian (via RoadtoVR) shared several images and videos of what they claim are the Cerese smart glasses and their correspo

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Waste into Construction Materials: Geopolymers from Recycled Sources

news.ycombinator.com Cigala 2025-08-18 20:53:33

1. Introduction 3,4,5,6,7, The construction industry stands as a major contributor to global waste generation, with the accumulation of construction and demolition debris (C&D) posing a significant environmental challenge [ 1 ]. This ever-increasing waste volume necessitates a fundamental shift towards sustainable practices, driving research and development into innovative, eco-friendly construction materials [ 2 ]. Among these promising alternatives, geopolymers have emerged as a compelling su

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Leaked render reveals Meta’s Hypernova smart glasses and wristband controller

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-19 01:06:07

TL;DR A newly leaked render shows off Meta’s upcoming “Hypernova” smart glasses alongside its wrist controller accessory. Hypernova is expected to feature a screen in the right lens, an upgraded camera, and the ability to launch apps for taking photos and accessing maps. Users will also be able to see notifications. The “Ceres” neural wristband will reportedly power gesture-based controls for the device. Hypernova is expected to cost $1,000–$1,400 and is said to be coming by the end of the ye

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Analyst Says Apple Has Big Vision Pro Plans For 2027, Including Smart Glasses

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-20 04:42:35

Apple will release multiple head-mounted AR and VR products in 2027, with an upgraded Vision Pro headset dropping later this year, according to a report from respected analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities on Monday. There are three Vision series products currently in development along with four pairs of smart glasses. A Ray-Ban Meta-style smart product will see 3-5 million shipments in 2027. Apple expects to ship out more than 10 million AR/VR products in 2027, suggesting the com

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Apple is reportedly working on a bunch of new XR devices

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-21 05:49:47

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Apple seems to have big plans to expand its lineup of extended-reality (XR) devices by launching new Vision series headsets and smart glasses, according to a report from supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. In his report, Kuo shares Apple’s potential roadmap for seven new head-mounted wearables, which could include the release of Meta Ray-Ban-like sma

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Kuo: Apple working on 7 head-mounted products, roadmap starts in 2025

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-21 15:26:04

In a blog post today, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo detailed his updated roadmap forecast for Apple’s headset and smart glasses markets. According to him, the company has at least seven head-worn devices in development across two product families, one coming in 2025. According to Kuo: Apple views head-mounted devices as the next major trend in consumer electronics. The company currently has at least seven projects in development, comprising three Vision series products and four smart glasses variants.

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New Smart Glasses Block Out All Real-Life Advertising

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-21 13:15:24

When you're online, a browser plugin can block all those annoying ads that pop up and clutter up your screen — but unfortunately we can't do that to ads in real life. Yet, at least. That could all change after an enterprising software engineer posted an experiment with a pair of smart augmented reality glasses. When you don a pair of the specs and look at a billboard, or even the label on a food container, a red rectangle pops up to block the offending visual clutter from your view. "It’s stil

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These XR glasses gave me a 200-inch OLED screen to work with - and they're priced well

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-08-21 10:30:15

ZDNET's key takeaways The RayNeo Air 3S is available for $269 These XR glasses provide advanced micro-OLED screens, dual speaker chamber design, and a 201-inch screen visual experience There are no light-blocking shades or electrochromic dimming capability, and productivity support is limited to native MacOS and Windows support. View now at Best Buy View now at Amazon more buying choices Just about every person to whom I demonstrate XR glasses ends up buying a pair for airline travel, commuti

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My favorite XR glasses for traveling got a peformance boost - and a big discount

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-08-21 12:00:14

ZDNET's key takeaways The Viture Pro XR glasses are available for a retail price of $499 in black. The display is larger, brighter, and smoother with the same form factor, fit, and excellent construction. An additional accessory is needed for devices without USB-C and multiple pieces are required for gaming. View now at Amazon Right now, you can save $60 on the Viture Pro XR glasses on Amazon, bringing the price down to $399. After buying the Viture One XR glasses early last year, they have

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Glass nanostructures reflect nearly all visible light, challenging assumptions

news.ycombinator.com Singapore University Of Technology 2025-08-18 12:23:48

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Nanoscale 3D printing of glass. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adv0267 A research team led by SUTD has created nanoscale glass structures with near-perfect reflectance, overturning long-held assumptions about what low-index materials can do in photonics. For decades, glass has been a reliable

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These Smart Glasses Are Already Kicking Meta Ray-Bans’ Ass

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-08-24 09:40:26

Meta clearly has more competition than ever in the world of smart glasses, and that field of competitors isn’t getting any slimmer. The most recent company to join the smart glasses fray is China’s Xiaomi, which just unveiled a pair of frames that, if I’m being totally honest here, puts Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses to shame—at least on paper. The first thing I noticed about Xiaomi’s AI Glasses, which costs around the same price as Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses at $280, is that it does something that I’ve be

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I've worn the Meta Ray-Bans for half a year, and these 5 features still amaze me

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-08-26 03:45:12

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET As a tech reporter, I attend events and conferences with other gadget aficionados. A telltale sign that a product is good is when reporters and attendees rave about it and even use their money to buy it. And no matter where I went, I couldn't escape the glowing Meta Ray-Ban reviews. Also: Meta's new $399 Oakley smart glasses beat the Ray-Bans in almost every way These experiences weren't just ones that I noticed; sales told the same story. EssilorLuxottica, the glasses pro

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How to Clean a Beer Glass for Perfect Pours

wired.com Parker Hall 2025-08-27 13:06:00

These bubbles and foam are vital to a proper drinking experience for many reasons, but the primary one is that they are a huge vehicle for aroma (which is itself a huge vehicle for perceived flavor). This is also why brewers nearly always recommend drinking beer out of a glass, rather than a can or bottle: Your sense of smell is a huge part of your sense of taste, and the more you can smell your beer the better it will taste. Many folks (guilty as charged) even have specific beer glasses for spe

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The xMEMS 'fan on a chip' is ready for smart glasses

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-30 05:00:32

As AI reignites Big Tech's push for smart glasses, here's a tech that could play a central role. xMEMS, which debuted a solid-state "fan on a chip" last year, has a new one for wearables. This could help future smart glasses melt your face figuratively — and not literally. Founded in 2018, xMEMS specializes in micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) technology. The California-based company started with solid-state speakers. Last year, it introduced its µCooling "fan on a chip" for phones and oth

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Apple read your mean tweets about Liquid Glass and Finder

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-31 01:22:30

The more things change, the more they stay the same. After unveiling some new visual elements to the next generation of its operating systems during WWDC 2025, Apple has already walked back some of the proposed design revisions. 9to5Mac noticed that the most recent developer betas included changes to the new Liquid Glass operating system appearance and to the Finder app icon. Liquid Glass was divisive from the start . The idea of layering transparency in the user interface appealed to some, whi

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Transparent Ambition

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-29 02:32:47

Translucent user interfaces is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. Aside from movie visual effect trickery, it started out in Mac OS X's Aqua, followed by Windows Vista's Aero, followed by (then) OS X's Vibrancy, followed by Windows 10's Acrylic. Over time, more and more of the user interface has become translucent similar to foggy/privacy-preserving sheets of glass. The unstated goal has always been to "look cool". The stated goal has always been to "give more pixels to your content"

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These XR glasses gave me a 200-inch screen to work with - and they're well worth it

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-08-31 17:52:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The RayNeo Air 3S is available for $269 These XR glasses provide advanced micro-OLED screens, dual speaker chamber design, and a 201-inch screen visual experience There are no light-blocking shades or electrochromic dimming capability, and productivity support is limited to native MacOS and Windows support. View now at Best Buy View now at Amazon more buying choices Just about every person to whom I demonstrate XR glasses ends up buying a pair for airline travel, commuti

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Transparent Ambition: on translucent user interfaces

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-30 08:32:47

Translucent user interfaces is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. Aside from movie visual effect trickery, it started out in Mac OS X's Aqua, followed by Windows Vista's Aero, followed by (then) OS X's Vibrancy, followed by Windows 10's Acrylic. Over time, more and more of the user interface has become translucent similar to foggy/privacy-preserving sheets of glass. The unstated goal has always been to "look cool". The stated goal has always been to "give more pixels to your content"

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Meet Google Martha, the company’s Android XR smart glasses prototype

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-01 09:19:57

TL;DR Google demoed its Android XR smart glasses prototype at Google I/O 2025. We now learn that this Android XR prototype is called “Google Martha.” Its companion app handles connected features like notifications, settings access, video recording from the user’s perspective, and more. After over a year of teasing with Project Astra, Google showed off its Android XR glasses on stage at Google I/O 2025. My colleague C. Scott Brown even got to try them on, and he was impressed with the demo. Si

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You'll Be Flabbergasted to Learn Which Contains More Microplastics: Plastic Bottles or Glass Bottles

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-01 18:15:35

You'll Be Flabbergasted to Learn Which Contains More Microplastics: Plastic Bottles or Glass Bottles "We expected the opposite result." Bottom of the Bottle French government scientists have discovered something startling about the microplastic content in glass and plastic bottles. As the Agence France-Presse reports, scientists at the country's food safety regulator found that glass-bottled drinks contained about 100 microplastic particles per liter, which amounts to roughly 25 particles pe

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Load Test GlassFlow for ClickHouse: Real-Time Dedup at Scale

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-29 19:56:10

Load Test GlassFlow for ClickHouse: Real-Time Deduplication at Scale By Ashish Bagri, Co-founder & CTO of GlassFlow TL;DR We tested GlassFlow on a real-world deduplication pipeline with Kafka and ClickHouse. It handled 55,00 records/sec published by Kafka and processed 9,000+ records/sec on a MacBook Pro, with sub-0.12ms latency. No crashes, no message loss, no disordering. Even with 20M records and 12 concurrent publishers, it remained robust. Want to try it yourself? The full test setup

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Low-Temperature Additive Manufacturing of Glass

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-28 22:13:49

Researchers used the low-temperature additive manufacturing process to build the glass cups above. The optical behavior of the printed cups can be tailored by altering the chemical components of the inks. Additive manufacturing (3D printing) holds promise for fabricating complex glass structures that would be unattainable with traditional glass manufacturing techniques. Lincoln Laboratory’s innovative approach allows additive manufacturing of multimaterial glass items without the need for costl

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These XR glasses gave me a 220-inch screen to work with - and I can't go back

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-09-01 19:10:31

ZDNET's key takeaways The Xreal One Pro is available for $649 ($599 special pre-order price through the end of June), and the Xreal Eye accessory is priced at $99. Thanks to the X1 chip, no special software is required for advanced functionality, the FOV is the best available, the glasses are comfortable, and the display is bright and clear. The glasses are rather expensive, and two sizes for your eye width make them fit best for individuals. View now at Us.shop.xreal For the past two weeks,

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Meta's Oakley AI glasses start at $399 with 3K video recording, longer battery life, and IPX4 water resistance

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-09-01 13:36:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Something to look forward to: Weeks after updating its Ray-Ban smart glasses with real-time translation and other AI-powered features, Meta has unveiled a new pair in collaboration with Oakley, offering enhanced camera functionality and additional upgrades. Pre-orders begin on July 11, with the standard model starting at $399 and the limited-edition version available for $499. The new Oakley Meta H

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Meta's new $399 Oakley smart glasses beat the Ray-Bans in almost every way

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-09-01 15:00:13

Mark Zuckerberg Several months ago, reports emerged that Meta was looking to expand beyond its current smart glasses lineup into sportier versions. Now the glasses are officially here. On Friday, Meta launched limited-edition Oakley Meta HSTN model glasses. Staying true to the brand, the Meta version of the glasses keeps the form factor Oakley is known for, with a more flexible and rugged design that still allows athletes to take advantage of the smart glasses' capabilities, such as filming, l

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Meta held talks to buy Thinking Machines, Perplexity, and Safe Superintelligence

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-09-02 01:53:47

is a deputy editor and author of thenewsletter. He has been reporting on the tech industry for more than a decade. At this point, it’s becoming easier to say which AI startups Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t looked at acquiring. In addition to Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence (SSI), sources tell me the Meta CEO recently discussed buying ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab and Perplexity, the AI-native Google rival. None of these talks progressed to the formal offer stage for variou

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Do athletes need smart glasses? Meta and Oakley think so

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-03 01:03:04

TL;DR Meta just launched the Oakley Meta HSTN, a new pair of AI-powered smart glasses for athletes. The glasses feature a 3K camera, open-ear speakers, IPX4 water resistance, and built-in Meta AI. A $499 limited edition arrives July 11, with cheaper models and broader availability to follow. Smart glasses haven’t gone mainstream yet, but Meta’s not giving up. After targeting the fashion crowd with its Ray-Ban Meta lineup, the company is trying to convince us that the eyewear is a must-have fo

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iOS 26’s new Liquid Glass design looks like a major win for Apple

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Leaked render reveals Meta’s Hypernova smart glasses and wristband controller

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These XR glasses gave me a 200-inch OLED screen to work with - and they're priced well

My favorite XR glasses for traveling got a peformance boost - and a big discount

Glass nanostructures reflect nearly all visible light, challenging assumptions

These Smart Glasses Are Already Kicking Meta Ray-Bans’ Ass

I've worn the Meta Ray-Bans for half a year, and these 5 features still amaze me

How to Clean a Beer Glass for Perfect Pours

The xMEMS 'fan on a chip' is ready for smart glasses

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Transparent Ambition

These XR glasses gave me a 200-inch screen to work with - and they're well worth it

Transparent Ambition: on translucent user interfaces

Meet Google Martha, the company’s Android XR smart glasses prototype

You'll Be Flabbergasted to Learn Which Contains More Microplastics: Plastic Bottles or Glass Bottles

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These XR glasses gave me a 220-inch screen to work with - and I can't go back

Meta's Oakley AI glasses start at $399 with 3K video recording, longer battery life, and IPX4 water resistance

Meta's new $399 Oakley smart glasses beat the Ray-Bans in almost every way

Meta held talks to buy Thinking Machines, Perplexity, and Safe Superintelligence

Do athletes need smart glasses? Meta and Oakley think so

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