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GoPro, Inc. is a Nasdaq-listed maker of wearable and portable action cameras used for sports, travel, and outdoor video capture.
GoPro's firmware update lets the Mission 1 Pro cameras queue photos, where each 50-megapixel RAW had taken nearly four seconds to process, Gizmodo reports. Its review treats the speed problem as fixed and the everything-camera question as open.
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Insta360 opened its first U.S. flagship store in Times Square, courting a market its co-founder says brings in 30% to 40% of revenue. It is moving in as the FCC blocks rival DJI's new drones and cameras, though its own drone brand faces an FCC ban on new foreign-made drones.
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Starman Optical is paying $285 million of cash and clearing $92 million of debt for 90 percent of a Nasdaq listing, which prices GoPro standalone near $317 million and leaves the retained tenth resting on transceiver numbers nobody has published.
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Insta360, which holds 73% of the 360-camera market, spent $298 million on memory chips as it builds mirrorless cameras and smart glasses. IDC gives it 20% of handheld smart cameras to DJI's 73%.
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A former Google XR researcher told Gizmodo the stigma on smart glasses traces back to the camera they were built around. Bars and courts are already acting on that, and Meta's answer so far is a small indicator light.
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The Shenzhen camera maker booked about $298.4m of memory procurement in the first half and stayed profitable by a hair. GoPro cited memory rises of 80 to 115 percent, cut 23 percent of staff and agreed to be bought.
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A UMBC-led team scored Maryland's 1.4-square-kilometer oyster restoration with GoPro video and imaging sonar, and counted fewer fish overall on the restored reefs but more of the individuals longer than 30 centimeters.
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The creator who took 8.5% of GoPro and would collect about $15 million from the Starman Optical deal says he would vote against it, which shows what an economic stake is worth when the founder holds the ballots.
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Engadget's reviewer found image quality between the Luna Pro and DJI's Osmo Pocket 4 close enough to be a matter of taste, which leaves one recording mode and easy US availability carrying the buying decision.
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