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alojapan.com/1395869/the-nethe The Netherlands and Australia Top 2026 Safest Destinations List #asia #AsiaSoPacific #AsiaSoPacific #australia #CenSoAmerica #europe #Features #France #Hawaii #HomeTopCarousel #Japan #JapanTrips #LandingTopCarousel #research #SocialMedia #TheNetherlands #TravelNews #trips #uk #WesternEurope The Netherlands, Australia and Austria have been named the safest countries to visit in 2026, according to Berkshire Hathaway Travel Protection’s 11th ann

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Can’t say Jason Mamoa didn’t put in the work to prepare for his role in “Chief of War,” the first major TV series featuring the language and culture of Hawaii’s Indigenous people. The actor used a coach to speak Hawaiian authentically. Did he achieve his goal? @AssociatedPress says, while imperfect, “it’s a successful global-scale contribution to revitalizing and normalizing a language that has endured erasure attempts amid colonization.”

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This image released by Apple TV+ shows Jason Momoa in a scene from "Chief of War." (Apple TV+ via AP)
AP News · Inside Jason Momoa's journey to speak Hawaiian for 'Chief of War'By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher
#Culture#Hawaii#Entertainment
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#SupremeCourt will consider overturning Hawaii's strict ban on #guns on #private property

#SCOTUS said on Friday that it will take up its latest gun rights case & consider striking down strict #regulations on where people can carry #firearms in #Hawaii.

#Trump’s admin had urged the justices to take the case, arguing the #law violates the court’s 2022 ruling that expanded gun rights by finding the Second Amendment generally gives people the right to carry firearms.

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The Supreme Court is seen in the distance, framed through columns of the U.S. Senate at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
AP News · Supreme Court will consider overturning strict Hawaii gun lawBy Lindsay Whitehurst
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And yet, we persist. 👀

@ai6yr My uncle was arrested at gunpoint by US troops with fixed bayonets after spending the whole day as a first responder diving into the burning waters of Pearl Harbor to rescue and recover US sailors and marines on Dec 7, 1941, as a soldier of the Hawai'ian Territorial Guard -- he was suddenly arrested as an enemy Jap. He and his fellow Japanese Americans guardsmen were imprisoned for days in a brig, incommunicado, without a clue what was happening, until a local white officer intervened and white plantation owners vouched for them as loyal US citizens born and raised on O'ahu. He would later volunteer and serve in Europe in the segregated "Purple Heart Battalion" -- the 100th Battalion of the segregated 442nd Regimental Combat Team - the most decorated unit of its size in US Army history. He loved a nation that criminalized him for his race.

#AJA #442RCT #Hawaii #pearlharbor

History repeats itself.

Rob Pegoraro

I’m not sure that the mass market shares the tech industry’s vision for smart glasses

One recent change among early-adopter circles was plain on the faces of many fellow attendees of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Maui this week: “smart” glasses with cameras, microphones, speakers and sometimes screens. But then my flights home Friday reminded me that for the overwhelming majority of people, “eyewear” means electronics-free glasses.

Qualcomm’s invitation-only conference–that company paid my airfare and lodging, as it did on my prior trips to cover it in 2021, 2022 and 2024–allowed me to get some brief face time with Snap’s Spectacles ’24, running newer software than the version I tried at last year’s summit. The event also treated me to a parade of tech execs testifying that smart glasses were the next big computing platform.

But despite all those optimistic assurances and my own earlier, brief tryouts of such smart glasses as Meta’s camera-enabled Ray-Bans and a prototype set of Android XR glasses, I remain unsold on the entire concept. So, it seems, do most customers: A Forrester Research survey released in September found that 79 percent of respondents had no interest in buying smart glasses.

On one hand, smart glasses with cameras, speakers and microphones are not particularly cheap–the Ray-Ban-branded models from the conglomerate EssilorLuxottica cost $379 and up–but perform worse than phones at taking pictures and playing audio.

Plus, they have the potential to annoy friends and strangers who aren’t keen on the possibility of surreptitious photography.

On the other hand, more advanced smart glasses with built-in displays could finally make hands-free augmented-reality overviews of the world a reality, but first somebody has to bring them to market at a not-crazy price. Snap’s Spectacles, which require a $99/month developer subscription, are not there; Meta’s Ray-Ban Display glasses, available starting Tuesday for $799, aren’t that much closer.

And somebody also has to solve battery-life concerns: What’s my motivation to strap a computer to my face, however stylish it might get, if that electronic eyewear will only run six hours on a charge and therefore need recharging much more often than my phone?

Meta championing this cause gives me further cause. That company has shown a history of careless indifference to the consequences of its actions, including repeated episodes of bad-faith behavior towards my own industry, that does not make me want to give it my money.

But Meta has also been so spectacularly wrong about consumer-electronics trends–topped by Mark Zuckerberg renaming Facebook to “Meta” and losing tens of billions of dollars on the delusional notion that people want to spend prolonged time in virtual-reality environments–that Zuck pushing smart glasses itself seems reason to eye the concept skeptically. Through dumb, software-free glasses.

#AndroidXR#ARGlasses#faceComputer
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