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Philips Easykey Shines at CES 2025, Leading the New Era of Smart Home Security

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Introducing Revolutionary Smart Lock Technology Globally, Crafting a Smarter, Safer Future for Your Home

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — At CES 2025, Philips and Conex Intelligent Technology, the exclusive partnership in smart home industry since 2017, together introduce a series of smart locks, setting new standards for global home security and convenience. These innovations affirm Philips’ commitment to safer, smarter homes worldwide.

Philips Smart Locks: Global Reach, Local Fit

DDL902-MVP: Combines palm vein and facial recognition with 360-degree monitoring via three high-resolution cameras.

DDL505: Designed for extreme temperatures with IP66 waterproof and dustproof capabilities.

DDL611: Built for humid, rainy climates, ensuring durability with IP66 protection.

Philips Sync: Allows simultaneous unlocking of multiple doors for added convenience.

DDL801: A design and functionality masterpiece integrating Philips’ latest security tech.

Award and Enhancements:

Philips’ 5000 Series Palm Vein Recognition Smart Lock won the CES® 2025 Innovation Award as an ‘Honoree’, now upgraded with video capabilities.

About Shenzhen Conex Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.:

As brand license partners of Koninklijke Philips N.V., Conex offers innovative smart home solutions in the smart lock and home security domains. Backed by exceptional customer service, Conex ensures seamless consumer experiences, delivering products that redefine home safety.

Experience Philips at CES:

Visit booth No. 52055 to explore these innovations and their integration into smart home systems.

Contact Us:

Aaron Ma – Public Relations Specialist (Global)Email: publicrelations@cone-x.com 

About Philips:

Philips, a leader in health technology, focuses on improving well-being through innovation. Based in the Netherlands, it excels in consumer products and healthcare solutions. News at www.philips.com/newscenter.

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Halfpricesoft.com Unveils ezW2: No Red Forms For W-2 and W-3 Filing for the 2025 Tax Season

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REDMOND, Wash., Jan. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Halfpricesoft.com offers clients less expensive solution by printing Copy A W-2 and W-3 on plain white paper. No W-2 or W-3 red forms are needed. With the SSA approved ezW2 software, employers and tax professionals can now print an unlimited number of W-2 or W-3 forms in house, easily and inexpensively. Please note: Pre-printed Copy A red forms for 1099-NEC and 1096 Copy A are still required by SSA.

 

“ezW2 2024 tax preparation software gives employers a fast and reliable way to process W-2 and W-3 forms for the January 31, 2025 deadline by eliminating the need for Copy A W-2 and W-3 Forms,” said Halfpricesoft.com Founder, Dr. Ge.

Prices start at only $49 for the single installation small to mid-size business version ($99 for the new enterprise version which will allow for efile and pdf processing) EzW2 2024 software automates the process of completing, printing and filing all the W-2, W-3, 1099-NEC and 1096 forms.

Potential clients can download and test for up to 30 days at http://www.halfpricesoft.com/w2-software-free-download.asp. The trial version prints forms with “TRIAL” watermark and limits e-filing. Once customers download software and enter a purchased license key the software unlocks for unlimited use.

ezW2 is compatible with Windows 11, 10, 8, 7 and other Windows systems. It has been designed as a quality and user-friendly software for US small to mid-size businesses.

The 2025 edition of ezW2 offers businesses everything needed to prepare, print, and e-file W-2, W-3, 1099-NEC, and 1096 forms, helping in complicity with government regulations effortlessly. Key features include:

Print Forms on Plain Paper: Approved by the SSA and IRS, ezW2 eliminates the need for expensive pre-printed forms by allowing users to print W-2 and W-3 forms in black-and-white on plain paper.E-filing Made Easy: With built-in e-filing capabilities, users can electronically submit forms directly to the IRS and SSA, saving time and reducing errors.Support for Multiple Businesses: Ideal for accountants and CPAs, ezW2 supports multiple businesses and unlimited form filings.Flexible Printing Options: Print employee W-2 forms for distribution or mail forms directly to employees.

Potential customers can download this software and test it for compatibility for up to 30 days with no obligation to purchase at https://www.halfpricesoft.com/w2_software.asp. The trial version will print forms with a TRIAL watermark until the license key is purchased and added. 

About halfpricesoft.com

Halfpricesoft.com is a leading provider of small to mid-size business software, including online and desktop payroll software, online employee attendance tracking software, accounting software, in-house business and personal check printing software, W2, software, 1099 software, 1095 ACA form software and ezACH direct deposit software. Software from halfpricesoft.com is trusted by thousands of customers for over 20 years and will allow small and mid-size business owners to simplify payroll processing and streamline business management.

 

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CAIS and Scale AI Unveil Results of “Humanity’s Last Exam,” a Groundbreaking New Benchmark

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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and Scale AI today announced the results of a groundbreaking new AI benchmark that was designed to test the limits of AI knowledge and whether the models are capable of chain-of-thought reasoning. The results demonstrated a significant improvement from the reasoning capabilities of earlier models, but current models still were only able to answer fewer than 10 percent of the expert questions correctly.

CAIS and Scale AI Unveil Results of “Humanity’s Last Exam,” a Groundbreaking New Benchmark

The new benchmark, called “Humanity’s Last Exam,” evaluated whether AI systems have achieved world-class expert-level reasoning and knowledge capabilities across a wide range of fields, including math, humanities, and the natural sciences. Throughout the fall, CAIS and Scale AI crowdsourced questions from experts to assemble the hardest and broadest problems to stump the AI models. The exam was developed to address the challenge of “benchmark saturation”: models that regularly achieve near-perfect scores on existing tests, but may not be able to answer questions outside of those tests. Saturation reduces the utility of a benchmark as a precise measurement of future model progress.

“We wanted problems that would test the capabilities of the models at the frontier of human knowledge and reasoning,”  said Dan Hendrycks, CAIS co-founder and executive director. “We can’t predict how quickly the models will advance. When I released the MATH benchmark—a challenging competition mathematics dataset—in 2021, the best model scored less than 10%; few predicted that scores higher than 90% would be achieved just three years later. Right now, Humanity’s Last Exam shows that there are still some expert closed-ended questions that models are not able to answer.  We will see how long that lasts.”

Testing Methodology

Altogether, CAIS and Scale researchers collected more than 70,000 trial questions. That led to a selection of 13,000 questions for human expert review which, in turn, were finalized to a set of 3,000 questions on the final exam’s public release. The questions were aimed at world-class expert levels and were put to several multi-modal, frontier LLMs including OpenAI GPT-4o, Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI o1.

“We know the AI revolution is being shaped by human ingenuity, and we’re proud to be at the forefront. To help humans measure AI progress, we engineered what might be the ultimate test, meticulously distilled and designed to challenge the world’s most advanced models at the frontiers of intelligence—requiring precise, multi-step logical reasoning and unambiguous answers at a level that pushes even the most sophisticated AI systems to their limits.” Summer Yue, Director of Research at Scale AI said.

Humanity’s Last Exam was a global collaborative effort involving nearly 1,000 contributors from more than 500 institutions across 50 countries, with most contributors being active researchers or professors. The questions spanned multiple formats, including text-only and multi-modal challenges that integrated images and diagrams.

The questions were designed to deeply test the capability of the models across diverse domains. For example, a question submitted in Ecology asked:
“Hummingbirds within Apodiformes uniquely have a bilaterally paired oval bone, a sesamoid embedded in the caudolateral portion of the expanded, cruciate aponeurosis of insertion of m. depressor caudae. How many paired tendons are supported by this sesamoid bone? Answer with a number.”

Additional sample questions can be found here (lastexam.ai).

In the final round of testing, Yue said they saw some of the models begin to answer a fraction of the questions correctly (less than 10%); however, she said variations frequently happen in model testing and could be the result of randomness. CAIS and Scale AI said they will open up the dataset to the research community, to dig deeper into the variations and to evaluate new AI systems while continuing to explore the limitations of existing models. A small subset of questions will be held back to preserve integrity for future evaluations.

Top Questions

CAIS and Scale AI offered financial awards for the best contributions to Humanity’s Last Exam, with $5,000 USD awarded for each of the top 50 questions and $500 USD for the next 500 best submissions, along with the opportunity for coauthorship of the final paper.

“By identifying the gaps in AI’s reasoning capabilities, Humanity’s Last Exam not only benchmarks current systems but also provides a roadmap for future research and development,” said Yue.

About The Center for AI Safety
The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) is a research organization whose mission is to reduce societal-scale and national security risks from AI. CAIS research focuses on mitigating high-consequence risks in areas like monitoring, alignment, and systemic safety. CAIS works to expand the field of AI safety and security by providing compute resources and technical infrastructure to top researchers and engaging with the global research community. Through its CAIS Action Fund, CAIS advocates for safe and secure AI. CAIS was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in San Francisco.

About Scale AI
Scale AI is the Humanity-first AI Company. Backed by our Data Foundry, we generate high quality data and provide technology solutions that allow our enterprise and public sector customers to build, deploy, and evaluate the smartest AI tools and applications. By making data abundant, rigorous, and high-quality, we are accelerating the progress of AI. Scale AI was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco.

Contact:
Richard Crook, richardc@safe.ai
Fiorella Riccobono, fiorella.riccobono@scale.com

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P2P.org Joins Northstake’s ETH Validator Marketplace As Staking Provider

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The partnership will strengthen institutional confidence in Northstake’s solution with secure, scalable, and compliant infrastructure

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Jan. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Northstake A/S has announced that P2P.org, a leading global staking platform, will join its ETH Validator Marketplace as a staking infrastructure provider. This collaboration will see P2P.org provide enterprise-grade node infrastructure, enhancing institutional confidence in Northstake’s staking solution and advancing the broader $2.8 trillion staking market.

Clients using Northstake’s solution will be able to leverage P2P.org’s institutional-grade infrastructure and expertise in operating validators on Ethereum. P2P.org is one of the largest validators on Ethereum surpassing 1 million staked ETH and $7.1 billion in total value locked (TVL) in 2024. 

Jesper Johansen, CEO and Founder of Northstake said: “The institutional staking landscape demands both innovation and scale. By partnering with P2P.org, we can offer one of the largest ETH validators in the Ethereum ecosystem to our clients. This collaboration represents a significant step forward in our mission to unlock institutional staking and total return ETH products.”

As one of the world’s largest institutional-grade staking providers, P2P.org powers the blockchain economy by providing enterprise-grade node infrastructure and staking operations across more than 40 protocols for 130+ institutional clients. Through this partnership, P2P.org’s infrastructure will strengthen Northstake’s mission to deliver compliant staking solutions tailored to the needs of institutional clients.

Alex Esin, CEO at P2P.org added: “Northstake’s ETH Validator Marketplace represents a significant advancement in institutional staking solutions, particularly for regulated financial institutions requiring both liquidity and regulatory compliance. Our partnership will combine P2P.org’s enterprise-grade node infrastructure with Northstake’s innovative marketplace, setting new standards for institutional staking services.”

In recent months, Northstake has demonstrated a new staking model allowing asset managers to trade their ETH validators on an industry-leading marketplace, including GSR, Nonco, DV Chain, and Keyrock. Similarly, Northstake’s ETH Validator Marketplace enabled 3iQ, the leading Canadian investment fund manager of The Ether Fund and the 3iQ Ether Staking ETF, to stake a higher percentage of its assets.

Jesper Johansen, CEO and Founder of Northstake, is available for interviews.

About Northstake A/S 

Northstake A/S is a regulated, EU-based virtual asset service provider offering compliant staking products to institutions. Northstake has demonstrated a new staking model allowing institutional investors to trade Eth validators on a marketplace with industry-leading market markers. Northstake aims to build a tokenized ETH validator marketplace for institutions. Northstake A/S (VASP, FTID: 17520) is regulated under the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority (DFSA). To learn more visit www.northstake.dk

About P2P.org

P2P.org is a leading platform for secure and non-custodial staking for crypto businesses and intermediaries. With over 90,000 delegators and $8+ billion in total locked value, P2P.org democratizes staking access while championing “Staking-as-a-Business.” By making staking effortless and profitable, P2P.org fosters broader participation in securing blockchain networks, which is vital for the sustainability of the crypto ecosystem.

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