Panasonic Projector & Display has introduced the ET-C1U090, an L-shaped ultra-short-throw lens designed to help projection teams make the most of challenging spaces. It joins the ET-C1 Series for Panasonic’s PT-REQ and PT-REZ 1-Chip DLP projectors.
With a 0.308:1 throw ratio, the ET-C1U090 creates a large image from close range – up to 200 inches from just 1.3m with the option of up to 1,000 inches. Its L-shaped design allows the projection direction to be changed through 90° or 180° lens rotation, giving designers options for floor projection, ceiling installations and other spaces where a conventional position is difficult.
To help installers position images without moving the projector, motorised peripheral focus makes it easier to bring the edges of a large image into sharp focus. The lens also gives installers room to fine-tune the image, with ±50% vertical and ±23% horizontal shift. The ultra-short-throw of the lens means a projector can be installed within a depth of just 885mm, including the required exhaust clearance, making it suitable for installations where space and distance is at a premium. For ceiling mounted applications, the optical axis is positioned on the projector’s centreline, allowing the image to start directly at the ceiling line. This eliminates the need for a gap between the ceiling and the image, and avoids costly ceiling modifications.
To simplify immersive and 360° applications, the 90° or 180° rotation allows installers to position projectors close together while directing exhaust airflow away from adjacent projector intakes. This simplifies deployment in spaces where multiple projectors are used in close proximity. Peripheral brightness uniformity reportedly exceeds 90%, minimising hotspots and uneven illumination across the image.
The ET-C1U090 uses all-glass lens elements, including large, high-precision aspherical elements. An optimised anti-reflection coating helps maintain even colour across the image, while a strengthened lens mount reduces the effect of external vibration and still allows lens shift.
As more travelers head to airports ahead of the long weekend, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) said that passengers whose flights were rescheduled or canceled due to the ASEAN Summit are entitled to a full refund, free rebooking, or conversion to a travel fund.
Donald Trump Jr. has left his role as an advisor to the prediction market Kalshi, the company confirmed to Bloomberg.
The timing of the personnel change is striking given that Trump first joined Kalshi as an advisor shortly before the November 2024 election. Now, his departure comes as tech leaders and their companies move to distance themselves from right-wing politics and the second Trump Administration ahead of Democrats taking back Congressional power in 2027 — with a broad mandate from voters to crack down on government corruption.
Trump Jr.’s investment firm, 1789 Capital, is invested in Kalshi and its rival Polymarket. He’s held advisor roles with both companies, and as Bloomberg notes, he received hundreds of thousands of dollars in equity from Kalshi in exchange for his work. (Kalshi has said that Trump Jr.’s said work has involved giving advice about its “marketing strategy.”)
Though the Trump family has pledged to keep business dealings away from politics, Trump Jr. urged state attorneys general against moving to limit or regulate prediction markets in a closed-door meeting earlier this year, according to The New York Times.
A Kalshi spokesperson told Bloomberg that the decision to part ways was due to Trump Jr.’s investment in its rival, which wasn’t at all a secret that would suddenly be an issue post-midterm.
“We have mutually agreed to end Don’s advisory role after his firm’s significant investment in a competitor this past summer,” said the company. “We are grateful for his contributions in helping us market Kalshi to more customers.”
Democrats have vowed to launch investigations into corruption once in power, and should they follow through, the Trump family’s relationships with Kalshi and Polymarket will certainly come under Congressional scrutiny. Even now, Kalshi may already be in the government’s crosshairs: Politico reported yesterday that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a top financial regulator, is preparing to file charges against Kalshi for allegedly failing to notify the oversight agency about dozens of new products it was preparing to release to consumers.
Kalshi also continues to face pressure on the state level and is fighting a lawsuit brought by the state of New York, which has accused Kalshi of running an “illegal, unlicensed gambling operation.” Kalshi and Polymarket have also drawn concern over fears that the bet-on-anything platforms are worsening America’s gambling addiction crisis.
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Case Size: 40mm, Thickness: 14mm, Lug-to-Lug: 48mm, Movement: Seagull ST1901 Hand-Wound Chronograph, Water Resistance: 100m, Crystal: Domed Sapphire with AR, Price: $469 USD
The Bridgehampton is Islander’s first mechanical chronograph, named after the Long Island race track that closed in 1999. It runs the Seagull ST1901, the Chinese hand-wound column wheel chronograph that has powered most of the affordable mechanical chronographs of the last decade, visible through an exhibition caseback. The tachymeter sits under the crystal, which frees the bezel for a luminous 12-hour scale, and it comes on a bracelet with a leather racing strap in the box. At 14mm thick it is not a thin watch, but a mechanical chronograph with a sapphire crystal for under $500 is a short list, and most of the other chronographs I would recommend cost several times as much.
The Bridgehampton costs $469 USD. All four dials were sold out when I checked, so you may have to wait for the next run.
Are Islander Watches Good?
Yes, and for the money they might be the best. I cannot think of another brand that puts a sapphire crystal, a ceramic bezel, a Japanese automatic and a solid bracelet with a micro-adjust clasp into a watch for $329 USD and backs it with a retailer that answers the phone. If you want the most watch per dollar, this is where the math ends up.
With that being said, you should know what you are not getting. Original design is not the point here. The Islander 43 is an SKX, the Manhasset is an Explorer and the JFK is a GMT-Master, and the brand does not pretend otherwise. The sizes on the divers and the GMT run big, with the 43mm and 42mm cases wearing like it. And with more than 200 references, half the work is figuring out which one you actually want, which is part of why I wrote this.
I would also say the Northport and the Brookville are where Islander is most interesting. They are the brand’s own designs, they use the better Miyota 9015 movement, and they show what the catalog looks like when it stops leaning on Seiko’s old case.
How Much Do Islander Watches Cost?
Islander watches cost between $229 USD and $595 USD, with almost everything in the $300 USD to $450 USD range. Here is how the main models break down:
Manhasset 36mm: $229 USD on a strap, $299 USD on a bracelet
Mitchel Field: $249 USD
Islander 43mm Automatic Dive: $329 USD to $369 USD
Islander 38mm Automatic Dive: $329 USD
Brookville: $379 USD to $429 USD
Northport: $449 USD
JFK GMT: $449 USD
Bridgehampton Chronograph: $469 USD
Where should you buy one? Long Island Watch is the answer, and for most models the only answer, since Islander is its house brand and ships from New York. Windup Watch Shop carries a handful of the popular models as well. Prices are the same, there are no retailer markups to shop around, and the thing to watch for is stock. Popular dial colors on the Northport and Brookville sell out and come back in batches, so if you see the one you want, buy it.
All-in-all, Islander is the brand I would send a friend to when they ask what to buy instead of a Seiko. It just happens to be run by the guy who used to sell them the Seiko.
A construction worker with undiagnosed type 2 diabetes who faced complications from a seemingly minor foot injury has received much-needed medical assistance from the GMA Kapuso Foundation.
TL;DR: The Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration Elite Trainer Box is available for $59.99 at Amazon. That’s way under TCGplayer’s $109 market price.
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After weeks of growing excitement and preorder wars, the Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration Elite Trainer Box is out in the wild. And Amazon is celebrating by bringing back its stunning $59.99 deal.
As of Nov. 13, the Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration Elite Trainer Box is on sale for just $59.99 on Amazon. Everything is handled directly by Amazon, but Amazon is still routing orders through its “request invite” system. We can see these are selling fast, so it’s clearly a system that’s working for many shoppers. Don’t be discouraged by the invitation process.
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Amazon’s deal is way under TCGplayer’s $109 market price. We rarely see deals this far below market price, so we understand the hype.
The 30th Celebration Elite Trainer Box contains nine 30th Celebration booster packs, an exclusive full-art foil Nidorina promo card, 16 foil Basic Energy cards, 65 custom card sleeves, damage-counter dice, a condition marker, card dividers, a collector’s player guide, and a code card for Pokémon TCG Live.
Shop the Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration ETB for $59.99 at Amazon, while supplies last.
The pace at which the defense panel of Vice President Sara Duterte is presenting its witnesses in her impeachment trial makes it likely that it will finish presenting its case before the end of November, the spokesman of the tribunal has said.
In one synthetic image published to X-formerly-Twitter, the singer Billie Eilish looks terrifyingly thin. In another, the model and reality TV star Kendall Jenner is pictured heavily pregnant as she carries a bottle of liquor. In yet another, the rapper Jaden Smith holds and kisses a “mystery man.” All of the images are AI-altered deepfakes — and they’re picking up traction on platforms like X, which engage in little moderation and are deeply integrated with AI tech.
Welcome to the new era of viral AI tabloid fodder, delivered straight from the uncanny valley and completely unburdened from the confines of reality.
Engagement baiters on X are spreading fabricated and often sensational clickbait about famous people by way of deepfaked paparazzi shots and social media posts, editing existing images to alter celebrities’ bodies and surroundings to suit concocted narratives. The images can be alarmingly convincing due to the fact that they’re slightly-altered versions of real images, rather than AI-generated whole cloth, meaning that much of the original picture remains intact.
The motive, it seems, is money: the accounts publishing this kind of content tend to be verified, meaning that they stand to get a financial kickback from X if their content goes viral, as in the case of deepfaked images claiming to show billionaire Jeff Bezos with a hair transplant.
The posts are farcically shameless. One prolific account, which currently goes by the handle “Prince Uk,” published a pair of images on November 2 depicting the singer Miley Cyrus — a frequent target of these posters — looking unhealthily skinny, claiming that her ill appearance was the result of her “divorce from Liam Hemsworth.”
“Some broken bonds change you forever, and it shows,” Prince Uk editorialized. (In the real photos that were modified for the exploitative posts, Cyrus looks completely normal.)
Just days later, on November 9, the same account published more images of Cyrus. This time, though, she was several sizes larger. A reverse-image search shows that the original photo is actually a paparazzi picture of the writer and actress Lena Dunham altered to replace Dunham’s face with Cyrus’.
“How did her body change this fast?” Prince Uk wondered in the image’s caption.
We found numerous accounts posting similar images in which celebrities’ bodies have been altered to appear larger or smaller, or to lie that a given famous person has had a body-transforming surgery such as a Brazilian butt lift, or “BBL.” Among the celebrities who have been targeted are Addison Rae Easterling, Jenna Ortega, Camila Cabello, Kylie Jenner, Ariana Grande, and even famously muscular action stars like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, John Cena, and Jason Statham.
As with the claims about Cyrus, the manipulated images are often paired with a sensational story about why a celeb’s body has transformed, speculating based on the fake images that a star must be ill, struggling amid a breakup, or perhaps on drugs.
“Billie Eilish was spotted smoking and looking extremely malnourished just weeks after her split from Nat Wolff, amid reports that she’s struggling to cope with the breakup, which was triggered by her breast reduction surgery,” reads the completely ridiculous caption of a deepfake post shared by an account that currently goes by the name “BUSTED [troll emoji].”
In the edited images, Eilish is depicted as scarily skinny, and the deepfaker has even replaced the water bottle in her hands in the real photos from that day with a cigarette.
Faux pregnancy content is also a common tactic of the engagement-seeking posters. Kendall Jenner has been a repeat target of this kind of content, as has Cyrus and Hailey Bieber, among other famous women. Some of these posts are outfitted with salacious claims about infidelity or pregnancy post-breakup, or show stars who have been edited to look pregnant clutching bottles of alcohol. Particularly appalling posts even claim to have knowledge of a celebrity’s alleged miscarriages.
Yet more deepfaked posts claim to show proof that celebrities are transitioning genders, for example depicting the singer Sam Smith with breasts. Another post claimed to show the actress Mia Goth looking barefoot and “homeless” — while the original photos show that Goth was clearly wearing shoes.
One common genre of celebrity deepfake slop is imagery of celebrity couples altered to make it look as if one partner is cheating with another person. Several accounts have posted images of actor Jacob Elordi with a roster of women who aren’t his girlfriend, Kendall Jenner, with one poster called “Tee” even going as far as to show Elordi in the embrace of Kim Kardashian, Jenner’s sister. Another post shared by Prince Uk claims to show Cyrus “kissing a mystery woman in Miami,” but the real photos show Cyrus canoodling on a sidewalk with Maxx Morando, her real-world fiancé. Incredibly, the images’ creator didn’t even change Morando’s outfit — meaning that the fake “mystery woman” not only apparently stole Cyrus’ boyfriend, but took his clothes, too.
While some of the images are completely ridiculous, others are egregiously dark. One deepfaked image, for example, was edited to show Shiloh Jolie, the 20-year-old daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, holding a bottle of liquor and crying. The caption suggests that Shiloh’s behavior is the result of poor parenting. This image, however, is fabricated.
Elsewhere, posters have even gone as far as to alter photos of minor children of celebrities, for example sharing a synthetic image of 14-year-old Blue Ivy Carter — the daughter of Beyoncé and Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter — smoking a cigarette. In the real image, there are no cigarettes in sight.
Many of the accounts posting the deepfakes are based in Africa, frequently Nigeria, according to account information on X, despite some of the posters claiming on their profiles to be based in the US. The accounts are verified, allowing for the use of X’s monetization tools. While reviewing the content, we also noticed that many of the same accounts were consistently commenting on each others’ digitally-altered images, a tactic that suggests a coordinated effort and which may be geared at boosting each post’s chance of virality.
We reached out to several accounts publishing the deepfakes, but haven’t heard back. In one case, a poster going by “Hisom” deleted a post containing images we’d flagged as an example of deepfake content. (The image had been altered to show music producer Benny Blanco with hickeys on his neck.)
X didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Ridiculous tabloid fodder running the spectrum from bizarre to destructive and outright abusive is far from new. These synthetically-altered images, however, represent a new online world of celebrity clickbait that, remarkably, manages to lower a bar that was already at rock-bottom. Now, those wishing to earn a few bucks by peddling nonsense can simply DIY reality with the few clicks of a button and disseminate it to the masses — throwing noxious spaghetti at the wall until they find what sticks.
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