Raspberry Pi is now a public company
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. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights...
View ArticleFlow claims it can 100x any CPU’s power with its companion chip and some...
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,...
View ArticleLight introduces its latest minimalist phone, now with an OLED screen but...
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. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal...
View ArticleHere’s everything Apple announced at the WWDC 2024 keynote, including Apple...
The TechCrunch team runs down all of the biggest news from the Apple WWDC 2024 keynote in an easy-to-skim digest. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
View ArticleApple Watch is finally adding a feature I’ve been requesting for years
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. © 2024...
View ArticleFriends & Family Capital, a fund founded by ex-Palantir CFO and son of IVP’s...
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...
View ArticleGenerative AI takes robots a step closer to general purpose
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. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights...
View ArticleXReal introduces a $200 device that brings Android apps to its AR glasses
The $200 Beam pro looks like an Android phone, but instead it's a mobile device designed specifically for Xreal’s glasses. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
View ArticleC12, a French quantum computing startup founded by twin brothers, raises...
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 spin-off from the Physics Laboratory of the École...
View ArticleA new startup from Figure’s founder is licensing NASA tech in a bid to curb...
Cover says what sets it apart is the underlying technology it employs, which has been exclusively licensed from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal...
View ArticleEtched is building an AI chip that only runs one type of model
Etched, founded by Harvard dropouts, is building an AI chip that can only run one type of model: transformer-based models. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
View ArticleCircular will pay competitor Oura royalties to sell its smart ring in the US
Smart ring makers Oura and Circular on Tuesday announced a settlement in an ongoing patent suit. The agreed-upon terms find the French company entering into a multi-year agreement with Oura, wherein it...
View ArticleApple stresses device longevity, extends self-service repair to Europe
The perfect device is one that never breaks in the first place, while still allowing for easy user repair access when needed. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
View ArticlePersona’s founders are certain the world can use another humanoid robot
At this early stage, Persona’s pitch doesn’t stray far from the various humanoid firms with which it’s set to compete. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
View ArticleTechCrunch Minute: The Light Phone III is light on features but heavy on...
Hey, tech detox enthusiasts! If you’re tired of your phone being smarter than you, meet the Light Phone III. It’s a minimalist marvel with an OLED screen and a camera but no social media, internet, or...
View ArticleAustin-based Ironspring Ventures raised $100M to invest in the industrial...
When Ironspring Ventures launched in 2020 to back startups in industrial sectors like construction and manufacturing, it was one of very few early-stage venture firms paying attention to those...
View ArticleFCC rule would make carriers unlock all phones after 60 days
Specifically, according to the FCC, carriers would simply have to provide unlocking services 60 days after activation. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
View ArticleAgility’s humanoid robots are going to handle your Spanx
Digit’s first job will be moving totes around a Connecticut Spanx factory — which is most definitely not a euphemism. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
View ArticleMIT’s soft robotic system is designed to pack groceries
RoboGrocery combines computer vision with a soft robotic gripper to bag a wide range of different items. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
View ArticleVaire Computing raises $4.5M for ‘reversible computing’ moonshot which could...
Vaire Computing, based in London and Seattle, is betting that chips that can do reversible computing are going to be the way forward for the world. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal...
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