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Best Online Hearing Tests Available in 2025: Make Sure Your Ears Are Working Properly With These Services

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 12:00:00

CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review products and services. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. As we get older, our ability to hear may start to diminish. While many people are quick to get glasses for better vision, the ears are often overlooked. Let’s be honest: It’s probably been a long time since you’ve had your hearing checked, if you've had it checked at all. It's easy to take your hearing for granted, and while it's

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This Threshold-Climbing Robot Vacuum Overcame Every Obstacle in My Home and It's $440 Off for Labor Day

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 12:54:00

Labor Day deal: It's still Labor Day weekend, which means Amazon and other retailers have dropped their prices on all kinds of items from tech to mattresses, including the one of the top rated robot vacuums on the market. Right now the Dreame X50 Ultra is $440 off the regular price at Dreame, which brings the price down to $1,260. New customers can also save an additional 10% by entering their emails. If you prefer to do your shopping on Amazon, the Dreame X50 Ultra is currently $400 off there,

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Premier League Soccer: Livestream Liverpool vs. Arsenal From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 13:30:03

Arsenal face a stern test of their title challenge credentials on Sunday as they travel to Merseyside for a blockbuster clash against defending EPL champs Liverpool. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services for watching Premier League games as they happen, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. Arne Slot's Reds come into this key fixture on a high after their thrilling 3-2 win over Newcastle at St. James' Park on Monday, in a ma

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Extreme Heat Makes Your Body Age Faster

wired.com Javier Carbajal 2025-10-24 12:30:00

It is well known that heat causes exhaustion in the body due to dehydration. But aging? A recent study concluded that extreme heat accelerates the aging of the human body, a worrying fact given the increasing frequency of heat waves due to climate change. The researchers are not talking about the effects of solar radiation on the skin, but biological aging. Unlike chronological age—that answer that you give when asked how old you are—your biological age reflects how well your cells, tissues, a

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9 great PDF scanner apps you should use instead of Microsoft Lens

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-25 14:00:29

Andy Walker / Android Authority There comes a time when all great apps must die, especially if Microsoft owns them. Redmond has taken many tools away from me, from Sunrise Calendar to Wunderlist, and now it’s hooking Microsoft Lens from the stage. The PDF scanner app made it easy to grab physical documents and transform them into digital copies without a bulky scanner. It was nothing fancy, but it did its job effortlessly. While Lens is undoubtedly one of the more useful tools Microsoft has gi

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I tested smart glasses with built-in hearing aids - and they worked surprisingly well

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-25 14:30:18

Nuance Audio Hearing Glasses ZDNET's key takeaways The Nuance Audio hearing glasses are available in two styles and colors for $1,200 at participating retailers. They provide a stylish and discreet way to aid mild to moderate hearing loss. However, they provide six to eight hours of battery life and a three-hour charging period, which might frustrate power users. View now at Nuance Audio Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Since the US Food and Drug Administration approved

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Bitwig Studio 6 details revealed, and editing gets a big boost

news.ycombinator.com Peter Kirn 2025-10-21 18:39:44

We get it. After years of DAWs leapfrogging in similar directions, the new generation of music tools made it easier to start projects, get inspiration, and improvise. But sometimes they played catchup on editing and automation. Bitwig Studio 6’s details are here, and it feels like editing automation, clips, and more are looking as fresh as those other tools, all in an updated UI. The beta is out now. Beta testing is free now if you’re ready to give this a look. You’ll need an active Upgrade Pla

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Meta is reportedly looking at using competing AI models to improve its apps

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-25 09:22:09

Meta may be interested in more than Google and OpenAI's employees when it comes to artificial intelligence. According to The Information, Meta is considering using its competitors' models to improve its own apps' AI features. The report said that leaders at the Meta Superintelligence Lab have looked at integrating Google Gemini into its Meta AI chatbot to help it provide a conversational, text-based solution to its users' search questions. Not only with Google Gemini, Meta has also had discussi

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FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'

news.ycombinator.com Jessica Lyons 2025-10-25 03:43:44

China's Salt Typhoon cyberspies hoovered up information belonging to millions of people in the United States over the course of the years-long intrusion into telecommunications networks, according to a top FBI cyber official. "There's a good chance this espionage campaign has stolen information from nearly every American," Michael Machtinger, deputy assistant director for the FBI's cyber division, told The Register. "There's a thought among the public that if you don't work in a sensitive area

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GAO warns of privacy risks in using facial recognition in rental housing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 06:53:05

RENTAL HOUSING Use and Federal Oversight of Property Technology Report to Congressional Requesters July 2025 GAO-25-107196 United States Government Accountability Office Highlights For more information, contact Alicia Puente Cackley at [email protected]. Highlights of GAO-25-107196, a report to congressional requesters RENTAL HOUSING Use and Federal Oversight of Property Technology Why GAO Did This Study Some policymakers have raised questions about the use of property technology tool

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The Default Trap: Why Anthropic's Data Policy Change Matters

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 08:12:06

Read the terms of service. Don’t make assumptions. Don’t pick defaults. Yesterday, Anthropic quietly flipped a switch. If you're a Claude user, your conversations are now training data unless you actively say no. Not when you give feedback. Not when you explicitly consent. By default, from day one. Here's what changed: Previously, Claude didn't train on consumer chat data without your explicit thumbs up or down. Clean, simple, respectful. Now? Everything you type becomes model training fodder

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Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy

news.ycombinator.com Andrew Marder 2025-10-25 02:26:35

This checklist will walk you (and me) through the settings and extensions I use to improve my privacy when using Firefox. If you’re looking for a web browser that offers a high degree of privacy out of the box with minimal setup, Brave is a common choice. However, I prefer Firefox for several reasons: Firefox is developed by the nonprofit organization Mozilla. I value Mozilla’s commitment to open source software. Firefox is not based on Chromium. Brave, like most browsers, is based on Chromi

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Anduril: Amusement Park for Engineers

news.ycombinator.com Adnan Esmail 2025-10-25 10:14:15

This article features first-ever photos taken from inside Anduril’s R&D facilities in Costa Mesa, California. All photos by Ryan Young. On a Saturday afternoon in April 2024, I was on the rooftop pool deck of a Marriott hotel, setting up radar equipment aimed above the Hollywood Hills in Burbank, California. My five-year-old son, still damp from swimming, darted around as I calibrated the system. “What are you doing?” he asked, touching the electronics with wet hands. “Tracking … flying o

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You Have to Feel It

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-25 05:38:33

August 30, 2025 You see a series of checkboxes checked. Schedules met. Requirements satisfied. Demos delivered. It's a good day. Good job, you, good job! A promotion is in sight. But you didn't feel it. You didn't feel it. We, as people, feel something with every interaction. Frustration, joy, relief, confidence. A feeling. A person interacts with our work. Our work evokes a feeling. The feeling matters. The feeling is part of the work. The desired feeling is part of the requirements. When y

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What Tech Jobs Don’t Drug Test? That Might Depend

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-25 09:20:51

Workers who live in states where cannabis is legal often face a conundrum. Can they continue using a substance deemed by lawmakers to be fit for public consumption, even if they may have an employer who might drug test? Or do they avoid it all together, because they don’t know what their employer’s drug policy is? And does that policy include only “hard” drugs like cocaine, opioids or methamphetamines, or does it test for cannabis too? These days, the answer is a lot more flexible than it was

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Premier League Soccer: Livestream Man United vs. Burnley From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 02:00:03

Manchester United will look to ease the pressure on beleaguered manager Ruben Amorim on Saturday as it faces newly promoted Burnley at Old Trafford in the English Premier League. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services for watching Premier League games as they happen, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. Amorim's role as the Red Devils' boss has come under increased scrutiny following its shock penalty shoot-out defeat in the

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The Dyson Labor Day sale knocks $500 off the 360 Vis Nav robot vacuum

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-25 10:31:27

Labor Day sales might have just what you're looking for in the home cleaning department. Dyson is having a big sale for the holiday that discounts vacuums, hair care devices and more by up to $500. One of the best discounts is on the 360 Vis Nav robot vacuum, which is 50 percent off and down to $500. That's a seriously great deal and the lowest price we've seen for this product. The Vis Nav made our list of the best robot vacuums, primarily based on the unit's superior suction power. This thing

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No Amount of Money Can Make People Want to Work for Zuck

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-25 07:30:33

How much would you have to get paid to spend any amount of time with Mark Zuckerberg? For some of the folks who have joined Meta’s AI team, millions of dollars simply is not enough. According to a new report from the Financial Times, the Meta AI lab is such a mess (and presumably, Zuck is such a bad hang) that recent hires have threatened to quit within days of joining, and promotions have been handed out just to keep people from leaving. FT points to Shengjia Zhao, Meta’s “chief AI scientist,”

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Premier League Soccer: Livestream Tottenham vs. Bournemouth From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 07:00:04

Tottenham has the chance to claim top spot in the English Premier League on Saturday as it faces a Bournemouth team that has also made a bright start to the new season. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services for watching Premier League games as they happen, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. Spurs come into today's game having followed up their season-opening win at home to Burnley with a convincing victory over Man City l

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Premier League Soccer: Livestream Wolves vs. Everton From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 07:00:05

It's back to business in the English Premier League for Wolves and Everton on Saturday, with the two teams looking for another positive result at Molineux after they both claimed morale-boosting Carabao Cup wins in midweek. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services for watching Premier League games as they happen, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. Wolves set aside their disappointing start to the new Premier League season by

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Premier League Soccer: Stream Leeds vs. Newcastle Live From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 09:30:03

Two sides looking for positive results after testing weeks go toe-to-toe in an intriguing clash on Saturday, as Leeds host Newcastle in the English Premier League. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services for watching Premier League games as they happen, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. Leeds come into this match following a humiliating midweek Carabao Cup exit to crisis club Sheffield Wednesday, who fielded a starting 11

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Your Body Ages Faster Because of Extreme Heat

wired.com Javier Carbajal 2025-10-25 08:30:00

It is well known that heat causes exhaustion in the body due to dehydration. But aging? A recent study concluded that extreme heat accelerates the aging of the human body, a worrying fact given the increasing frequency of heat waves due to climate change. The researchers are not talking about the effects of solar radiation on the skin, but biological aging. Unlike chronological age—that answer that you give when asked how old you are—your biological age reflects how well your cells, tissues, a

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Discounty adds some bite to cozy life sims

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-10-25 09:00:00

There’s a pleasing rhythm to cozy life sims. The virtual days pass, filled with chores of tending crops or running a business, punctuated by strange mysteries or evolving relationships. At their best, these games merge busywork with exploration and storytelling, in a way that makes them hard to step away from. Discounty, from developer Crinkle Cut Games, applies this idea to running a small-town supermarket. And while in many ways it can still be considered “cozy” like its contemporaries, it als

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A look at XSLT 3.0 (2017)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 14:07:11

A look at the upcoming XSLT 3.0 release, and why it matters beyond the XML community Eighteen years ago, the originators of XML specification faced a problem: how to use the new language to generate a book-publishing format. What emerged were two new languages, the first for describing the various functional parts of a publication in XML called the XML Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects (ultimately XSL-FO) and the XML Stylesheet language (XSLT) for transforming XML-formatted content into th

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The Grammar According to West

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 14:51:05

The Grammar According to West by Douglas B. West Summary I have been accumulating observations about writing mathematics for many years. These conclusions arose both from writing textbooks and from noting writing errors commonly made by my thesis students and in papers submitted to journals. My first objective was to train my students, thereby reducing the time needed to edit their theses. As the document grew, I made it publicly available in the hope that others may find it useful. I have r

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Premier League Soccer: Stream Chelsea vs. Fulham, Live From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-25 09:30:03

Chelsea heads into another London derby on Saturday, knowing that a win over neighbor Fulham could send the club to the top of the English Premier League. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch Premier League games as they happen, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. Enzo Maresca's Blues followed their opening weekend stalemate against Crystal Palace with a far more convincing 5-1 thrashing of West Ham at the

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Trying to get error backtraces in Rust libraries right

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 04:02:29

Error handling in Rust is one of those topics that can spark passionate debates in the community. After wrestling with various approaches in the iroh codebase, the team has developed some insights about the current state of error handling, the tradeoffs involved, and how to get the best of both worlds. The Great Error Handling Divide The Rust ecosystem has largely coalesced around two main approaches to error handling: The anyhow approach: One big generic error type that can wrap anything. It

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How Sakana AI’s new evolutionary algorithm builds powerful AI models without expensive retraining

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-10-25 11:14:14

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A new evolutionary technique from Japan-based AI lab Sakana AI enables developers to augment the capabilities of AI models without costly training and fine-tuning processes. The technique, called Model Merging of Natural Niches (M2N2), overcomes the limitations of other model merging methods and can even evolve new models entirely from scra

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I put my Shokz away within seconds of testing these bone conduction headphones

zdnet.com Matthew Miller 2025-10-25 12:30:18

Suunto Wing 2 bone conduction headphones ZDNET's key takeaways The Suunto Wing 2 is available for $179 in black and coral orange. The fantastic audio quality, new voice prompts, and long battery life combine to make this a compelling headset. The lights are mounted on the top of the headset, so if you have long hair or wear a hat, they could be obscured. View now at Suunto I need music when I work out. Specifically, classic rock. It motivates me to keep going, so having a headset paired with

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AI’s coding evolution hinges on collaboration and trust

news.ycombinator.com Rina Diane Caballar 2025-10-25 02:24:13

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed the coding sphere, with AI coding tools completing source code, correcting syntax errors, creating inline documentation, and understanding and answering questions about a codebase. As the technology advances beyond automating programming tasks, the idea of full autonomy looms large. Is AI ready to be a real coder? A new paper says not yet—and maps out exactly why. Researchers from Cornell University, MIT CSAIL, Stanford University, and UC Berkeley hi

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Latest Tech News

Best Online Hearing Tests Available in 2025: Make Sure Your Ears Are Working Properly With These Services

This Threshold-Climbing Robot Vacuum Overcame Every Obstacle in My Home and It's $440 Off for Labor Day

Premier League Soccer: Livestream Liverpool vs. Arsenal From Anywhere

Extreme Heat Makes Your Body Age Faster

9 great PDF scanner apps you should use instead of Microsoft Lens

I tested smart glasses with built-in hearing aids - and they worked surprisingly well

Bitwig Studio 6 details revealed, and editing gets a big boost

Meta is reportedly looking at using competing AI models to improve its apps

FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'

GAO warns of privacy risks in using facial recognition in rental housing

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Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy

Anduril: Amusement Park for Engineers

You Have to Feel It

What Tech Jobs Don’t Drug Test? That Might Depend

Premier League Soccer: Livestream Man United vs. Burnley From Anywhere

The Dyson Labor Day sale knocks $500 off the 360 Vis Nav robot vacuum

No Amount of Money Can Make People Want to Work for Zuck

Premier League Soccer: Livestream Tottenham vs. Bournemouth From Anywhere

Premier League Soccer: Livestream Wolves vs. Everton From Anywhere

Premier League Soccer: Stream Leeds vs. Newcastle Live From Anywhere

Your Body Ages Faster Because of Extreme Heat

Discounty adds some bite to cozy life sims

A look at XSLT 3.0 (2017)

The Grammar According to West

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Trying to get error backtraces in Rust libraries right

How Sakana AI’s new evolutionary algorithm builds powerful AI models without expensive retraining

I put my Shokz away within seconds of testing these bone conduction headphones

AI’s coding evolution hinges on collaboration and trust

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