American wearables firm Realwear has acquired Swiss augmented reality (AR) startup Almer Technologies. Almer’s AR headset — the Arc-2 — overlays digital information onto the wearer’s field of view, allowing them to access real-time data, instructions, or assistance from an engineer seated anywhere in the world. The glasses are targeted…
Servers consume a lot of energy in data centers, but it’s easy to forget their carbon footprints begin before they’re ever placed on racks inside air-conditioned mega-warehouses. After all, it takes energy to extract minerals and manufacture them into things like processors, motherboards and memory modules. These “embodied” carbon emissions…
Like many nations, Singapore faces rising rates of chronic diseases like hypertension and hyperlipidemia — as well as an aging population that increases pressures on the…
German tech darling DeepL has (finally) launched a voice-to-text service. It’s called DeepL Voice, and it turns audio from live or video conversations into translated text. DeepL users can now listen to people speaking a language they don’t understand and automatically translate it to one they do — in real-time. The…
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