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A new startup from Figure’s founder is licensing NASA tech in a bid to curb school shootings

Brian Heater — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 14:55:00 +0000

Cover says what sets it apart is the underlying technology it employs, which has been exclusively licensed from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

C12, a French quantum computing startup founded by twin brothers, raises $19.4M

Romain Dillet — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 20:30:00 +0000

C12 is announcing that it recently raised an €18 million funding round ($19.4 million at today’s exchange rate). Originally founded in 2020 as a spinoff from the Physics Laboratory of the École Normale Supérieure, the company has been working on a unique process to create quantum computers based on carbon nanotubes. While the concept of […]

XReal introduces a $200 device that brings Android apps to its AR glasses

Brian Heater — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0000

The $200 Beam pro looks like an Android phone, but instead it's a mobile device designed specifically for Xreal’s glasses.

Here’s everything Apple announced at the WWDC 2024 keynote, including Apple Intelligence, Siri makeover

Christine Hall — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 19:00:00 +0000

The TechCrunch team runs down all of the biggest news from the Apple WWDC 2024 keynote in an easy-to-skim digest.

Generative AI takes robots a step closer to general purpose

Brian Heater — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 18:44:30 +0000

The push to produce a robotic intelligence that can fully leverage the wide breadth of movements opened up by bipedal humanoid design has been a key topic for researchers.

Friends & Family Capital, a fund founded by ex-Palantir CFO and son of IVP’s founder, unveils third $118M fund

Marina Temkin — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Small VC firms require deep trust, mutual support and long-term commitment among the partners — a kinship that, in many ways, resembles a family dynamic. Colin Anderson (Palantir’s ex-CFO and former research VP at Peter Thiel’s Clarium Capital) and John Fogelsong (the son of IVP co-founder Norm Fogelsong) didn’t need to cultivate a family-like relationship […]

Apple Watch is finally adding a feature I’ve been requesting for years

Brian Heater — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 23:41:17 +0000

The ability to pause your activity rings is a minor feature update for most, but for those of us who obsess about such things to an unhealthy degree, it’s the best Apple Watch update in years.

Light introduces its latest minimalist phone, now with an OLED screen but still no addictive apps

Sarah Perez — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0000

Unlike Light's older phones, the Light III sports a larger OLED display and an NFC chip to make way for future payment tools, as well as a camera.

Flow claims it can 100x any CPU’s power with its companion chip and some elbow grease

Devin Coldewey — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 13:01:00 +0000

A Finnish startup called Flow Computing is making one of the wildest claims ever heard in silicon engineering: by adding its proprietary companion chip, any CPU can instantly double its performance, increasing to as much as 100x with software tweaks. If it works, it could help the industry keep up with the insatiable compute demand […]

Raspberry Pi is now a public company

Romain Dillet — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:08:33 +0000

Raspberry Pi priced its IPO on the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday morning at £2.80 per share, valuing it at £542 million, or $690 million at today’s exchange rate.

Apple confirms plans to work with Google’s Gemini ‘in the future’

Brian Heater — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 21:50:17 +0000

“We’re looking forward to doing integrations with other models, including Google Gemini, for instance, in the future," Federighi said during WWDC 2024.

Watch the Apple Intelligence reveal, and the rest of WWDC 2024 right here

Brian Heater — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 19:45:00 +0000

Apple kicked off its weeklong Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2024) event today with the customary keynote at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT. The presentation focused on the company’s software offerings and the developers that power them, including the latest versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS and watchOS. But the biggest news came with the […]

iPhones will soon text via satellite

Devin Coldewey — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 17:45:44 +0000

"Messages via Satellite," announced at Apple's WWDC 2024 keynote, works much like the SOS feature does.

Apple to release Vision Pro in international markets

Ivan Mehta — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 17:18:56 +0000

The Apple Vision Pro is now available in eight new countries.

What to expect from WWDC 2024: iOS 18, macOS 15 and so much AI

Brian Heater — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Apple is hoping to make WWDC 2024 memorable as it finally spells out its generative AI plans.

Wazer Pro is making desktop water jetting more affordable

Haje Jan Kamps — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 16:44:26 +0000

Before Wazer came along, “water jet cutting” and “affordable” didn’t belong in the same sentence. That changed in 2016, when the company launched the world’s first desktop water jet cutter, pre-selling $1.3 million worth of units. Fast-forward to today, and Wazer says it has over 3,000 cutters in the field across 60 countries, used by […]

Apple’s generative AI offering might not work with the standard iPhone 15

Brian Heater — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 17:09:40 +0000

Apple is set to board the runaway locomotive that is generative AI at next week’s World Wide Developer Conference. Reports thus far have pointed to a partnership with OpenAI that will, among other things, help supercharge Siri. A fresh round of rumors reported by Bloomberg shed more light on the news expected to be unveiled […]

Siri and Google Assistant look to generative AI for a new lease on life

Brian Heater — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 12:28:00 +0000

Voice assistants in general are having an existential moment, and generative AI is poised to be the logical successor.

Humane urges customers to stop using charging case, citing battery fire concerns

Brian Heater — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 21:32:51 +0000

The warning for the Ai Pin was issued “out of an abundance of caution,” according to Humane.

Raspberry Pi partners with Hailo for its AI extension kit

Romain Dillet — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:46:03 +0000

Raspberry Pi has released a $70 AI extension kit with a neural network inference accelerator that can be used for local inferencing, for the Raspberry Pi 5.