Author: Zach_Wilson
Can the AirPods Pro 2 Really Replace Hearing Aids? We Asked a Grandmother
Apple’s AirPods Pro 2 have some added hearing-aid capabilities. How well do they work in practice? I asked my grandmother, who is in her eighties, to try them for a week. Source
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Hugging Face launches an open source tool for affordable AI deployment
Hugging Face has introduced its latest offering, Hugging Face Generative AI Services (HUGS), aimed at simplifying the deployment and scaling of generative AI applications using open-source models. Built on Hugging Face technologies such as Transformers and Text Generation Inference (TGI), HUGS promises optimized performance across various hardware accelerators. For developers…
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Samsung Galaxy S25 rumored features: the key tipped upgrades on the S25 line
The Samsung Galaxy S25 series has been extensively tipped and rumored at this point, so we have a good idea of what the key features of these phones will be. By ‘features’ we refer here to the major upgrades and new things relative to the Samsung Galaxy S24 series –…
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ICYMI: the week’s 7 biggest tech stories from Samsung’s XR headset reveal to Apple’s 17 favorite App Store apps
Welcome, folks, to a week that has included some of the biggest announcements we might see before CES 2025, in what was an uncharacteristically busy few days so close to the holidays. Samsung dropped a buzzer-beating announcement to keep its promise we’d find out about its XR tech “this year,”…
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Meta asks the US government to block OpenAI’s switch to a for-profit
Dear General Bonta: As a California company that builds Generative AI technology, Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta”) is deeply concerned about OpenAI’s attempt to shed the non-profit status under which it was founded in order to establish a for-profit entity. We urge you to review this proposed transaction, including the nature…
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OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever says the way AI is built is about to change
OpenAI’s cofounder and former chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, made headlines earlier this year after he left to start his own AI lab called Safe Superintelligence Inc. He has avoided the limelight since his departure but made a rare public appearance in Vancouver on Friday at the Conference on Neural Information…
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