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guard your card.com. Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Tuesday, February 11th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

Apple's AirPods Pro 2 can be used as hearing aids. We'll tell you what users have been saying about them.

Plus, what's next for TikTok? We'll get you caught up on the latest in the negotiations over the app's fate in the U.S., where things stand and what role President

Trump is taking in the dealmaking.

First up, Apple took a big step in its health care push last fall when it rolled out a software

update that enabled a clinical grade hearing test and hearing aid capability for its AirPods Pro 2.

The feature could be a game changer for millions of people who live with mild to moderate hearing loss.

WSJ's personal tech columnist Nicole Nguyen spoke to people who have tested Apple's top-selling headphones

as hearing aids over the past several months. She sat down with my colleague Pierre BNMA

to talk about some of the pros and cons. Here's their conversation. Nicole, how do people feel

about AirPods Pro 2 as hearing aids? I think the big question on a lot of these folks' minds was,

are $249 hearing aids too good to be true?

Apple's AirPods Pro 2 cost about that much,

and hearing aids can run from several thousand dollars to several hundred dollars.

Typically on the lower end of that spectrum,

you're buying an over-the-counter hearing aid,

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