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TTArtisan’s New 50mm f/2 Full-Frame Lens Costs Only $69

TTArtisan has announced a new 50mm f/2 full-frame manual focus lens. Though not the fastest “nifty fifty” in the company arsenal, the standard focal length lens has a natural viewing angle and the company says it has a fast enough aperture to provide high performance in low light. The 50mm f/2 is constructed of six elements organized into five groups, with two high refraction index…
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Android Auto update seems to tweak wireless network support for some

Over the past week or so, recent Android Auto updates seem to have tweaked how wireless support, specifically with Wi-Fi networks, works for some users. Here’s what seems to be going on. A thread on Google’s support forums calls attention to at least a handful of Android Auto users who noticed that the Wi-Fi icon in Android Auto has disappeared recently. Previously, Android Auto would show…
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Google confirms indexing issue leaving new pages and articles out of Search & News for many sites

Google has confirmed there’s an indexing issue hitting Search, causing many websites to have their new articles and pages left out of the public eye for the past several hours. Confirmed on Twitter, Google says that Search is either not indexing or very slowly indexing “a large number of sites” over the past several hours. Search Engine Roundtable first reported on the outage earlier this…
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1,500 Tesla Powerwall owners have already joined the new virtual power plant in California

PG&E announced that more than 1,500 Tesla Powerwall owners have already decided to joined the new virtual power plant it launched in partnership with Tesla in California. A virtual power plant (VPP) consists of distributed energy storage systems, like Tesla Powerwalls, used in concert to provide grid services and avoid the use of polluting and expensive peaker power plants. Last…
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