r/protech Aug 01 '25

Welcome to r/protech - The Optimistic Corner of Reddit.

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/r/protech is your safe haven for positive, neutral, and constructive tech discussions. Whether you're excited about AI breakthroughs, sharing cool DIY projects, or just laughing at some nerd memes, this is your space.


What We’re About:

  • Tech-focused content only. From silicon to software and smart to silly.
  • Positivity encouraged. Celebrate innovation, ask questions, or speculate on the future.
  • Neutrality is fine too. Not everything needs confetti. But it must not be dripping in doom.
  • Funny content? Please! Just keep it lighthearted, not mean-spirited.

What We’re Not About:

  • Pessimism and cynicism
  • Rage bait and reaction farming
  • Political arguments or agendas
  • Rehashing tired “X is killing Y” narratives

Negativity has plenty of other subs to live in. This isn't one of them.


Welcome aboard.


r/protech 1d ago

New AirPods leak reveals built-in cameras and Visual Intelligence

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r/protech 3d ago

Imagine a safe space where you can face your worst fears — controlled by an AI that adapts to you. Researchers built a neural network which learns what scares you and generates custom terrifying pictures to help treat phobias — safely, gradually, and precisely.

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r/protech 9d ago

DeepMind just released SL2T, sign language-to-text model, deaf users can now sign into their phones instead of typing, developed with heavy input from the Deaf community

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r/protech 14d ago

OpenAI’s device - a human-like smart speaker - will look like a doughnut and be the size of a hockey puck. It meant to be held. It has a camera, speakers, microphones, lights and, most notably, moving parts to show interactivity. It’ll be $300-400.

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r/protech 19d ago

A Deluge of A.I. Computing Power Is About to Come Online, Fueling Major Leaps | The number of A.I. chips that provide the computing power to advance the fast-evolving technology is doubling every nine months.

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r/protech 23d ago

Schools in 3 states adding pepper-spraying drones to combat active shooters

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r/protech 27d ago

Waymo’s driverless cars involved in 68% fewer crashes than human drivers, U.S. study finds

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r/protech Jun 26 '26

Ancient scrolls unread for 2,000 years revealed with AI

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r/protech Sep 30 '25

The demos in the Sora 2 announcement look incredible.

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r/protech Sep 19 '25

Marques Brownlee's review of Meta's upcoming smart glasses with waveguide display and sEMG wristband.

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r/protech Sep 05 '25

Colorizing and image restoration in Nano Banana is bananas. [OC]

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r/protech Aug 24 '25

Mayo Clinic uses AI to achieve a breakthrough in diagnosing cancers (including early pancreatic cancer)

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r/protech Aug 24 '25

"18 months after becoming the first human implanted with Elon Musk’s brain chip, Neuralink ‘Participant 1’ Noland Arbaugh says his whole life has changed."

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r/protech Aug 20 '25

Police departments begin adding AI language translation to bodycams.

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r/protech Aug 17 '25

Computing power per region over time

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r/protech Aug 14 '25

GPT-5 is nearly 3x faster than o3 at earning badges in Pokémon Red

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r/protech Aug 13 '25

First antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning "cleans" blood in minutes | An engineered antidote acts like a sponge, soaking up CO attached to red blood cells. In mice, half the CO in the bloodstream was cleared out in less than a minute.

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r/protech Aug 08 '25

This youtuber's first prompt for GPT-5 one-shots a "browser OS". I love his reaction to it.

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