Month: February 2025
Help your family browse safely with this VPN
We’re all hopelessly online these days, but our kids are more connected to the internet than any generation that came before them. Of course, that connectivity can come at the cost of privacy. It’s natural for parents to want to protect their children and their privacy before sending them out…
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The FDA and EU clear Nuance Audio, smart glasses with built-in hearing aids, for sale
Nuance Audio, new “hearing glasses” from EssilorLuxottica, have received FDA clearance and “a CE marking under the Medical Devices regulation in the EU,” making them officially ready to sell in the US and Europe. The smart glasses are essentially prescription frames with an over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aid built-in. Using open-ear…
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Uber wants to make rides easier for people with service animals
Uber rolled out a new set of features on Monday that could remove some friction for people with service animals. The company now lets handlers automatically notify drivers that they ride with a service animal. In a blog post, Chris Yoon, an Uber Product Manager, wrote that he “joined Uber…
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Meta spends big to make its Ray-Ban glasses a true mainstream hit
Meta isn’t shy about its ambitions to make its Ray-Ban smart glasses a mainstream gadget. So much so, it’s made not one but two Super Bowl ads featuring not one, but two Marvel actors. (And Kris Jenner.) And as a little cherry on top, Meta announced it’s creating a limited…
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EA wants the community to help shape the next Battlefield
EA has announced a new “Battlefield Labs” community testing program to give people the opportunity to test the next Battlefield game. You can sign up for the program now, and EA says that the “first phase” of testing will go live in “the coming weeks” for invited players in Europe…
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DeepSeek R1 is now available on Nvidia, AWS, and Github as available models on Hugging Face shoot past 3,000
Nvidia integrates DeepSeek-R1 as a NIM microservice AWS supports DeepSeek-R1 with a focus on scalable and cost-efficient AI deployment Microsoft also has future local deployment plans for DeepSeek Having taken the AI world by storm in recent weeks, DeepSeek has now made significant strides in expanding the accessibility of its…
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