This pool cleaning company made a robot turtle to track water quality
Beatbot makes robotic pool cleaners. In fact, the company is showing off a new one with a docking station this week at CES 2025. What really caught our eye on the show floor, however, is RoboTurtle, because, well, it's a robot that looks like a turtle.
The turtle, sadly, seems to very much be
Silicon Valley is so dominant again, its startups devoured over half of all US VC funding in 2024
For all the chatter about the decline of San Francisco, data repeatedly shows that the Bay Area, including the city itself, is still the best place for venture-backed startups.
Startups located in the Bay Area vacuumed up $90 billion of VC investment in 2024, which was 57% of the $178 billion of U
This baseball radar gun plugs into an iPhone
Tucked away in the recesses CES 2025's Eureka Hall startup showcase, CaiqueTech showed off a novel take on the tried-and-true baseball radar gun. After building a stand-alone device, the Korean firm has created a modular version that plugs directly into a phone via the USB-C port.
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AWS says it’ll invest ‘at least’ $11B to expand data center infrastructure in Georgia
On Tuesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, said that it plans to invest “at least” $11 billion in Georgia to expand its infrastructure to support various cloud computing and AI technologies.
AWS estimates that its investment will create roughly 550
FTC accuses gig work app Handy of misleading ads and opaque fees for workers
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and New York’s attorney general have accused Handy, the gig app customers can use to book cleaners, handymen, and more, of making deceptive claims about how much workers could earn through its platform.
In a complaint filed on Tuesday in the U.S. District C
You can plug a second mic into Shure's new MV7i
Announced in 2022, the MV7 is hands down one of the best podcaster mics on the market. Last April, Shure updated the line to include the MV7+, which has USB-C connect and a few new tricks designed to get a cleaner sound.
At CES 2025 on Tuesday, the audio company added yet another entry to the line
Nuclear startup Deep Fission plans to bury micro-reactors to power data centers
Back in the 1950s, the U.S. started detonating nuclear bombs underground to limit the fallout, both radioactive and sociopolitical, unleashed by aboveground testing. Hundreds of feet of rock formed a tidy barrier for the next 40 years as countries continued to bomb the subsurface.
Now a nuclear st
Xpeng Aero HT unveils 'flying car' that's part van, part eVTOL at CES 2025
Xpeng Aero HT, the aerospace company under Chinese EV startup Xpeng, unveiled at CES 2025 its “modular flying car,” the Land Aircraft Carrier. It’s essentially an electric minivan with a small folding eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) vehicle tucked in the back, which can be r
South Park Commons is raising $40M for an India-specific fund
South Park Commons, a Silicon Valley collective of engineers, founders, and researchers, is raising an India-specific fund over six months after entering the South Asian market in June, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week. The exact size of the fun
Telegram reports spike in sharing user data with law enforcement
Newly released data from messaging app Telegram reveals a sharp rise in the number of data demands it fulfilled over the past year for users’ data from requesting law enforcement agencies.
The rise in fulfilled user requests comes months after French authorities arrested Telegram CEO P
Honda reveals its futuristic ‘0 SUV’ prototype at CES 2025
Honda unveiled Tuesday at CES 2025 the latest EV in its 0 Series — a midsized SUV prototype dubbed, surely enough, the 0 SUV. Honda’s take on the SUV will join the 0 Saloon that the automaker showed off at last year’s show.
And while Honda first showed us the 0 Saloon, the SUV will b
Panasonic unveils an AI-powered wellness coach, powered by Anthropic’s Claude, at CES 2025
At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Panasonic unveiled its upcoming digital assistant, Umi, which offers families a personalized, AI-powered wellness coach. Created in partnership with Anthropic, Umi uses the Claude AI model to help families “care, coordinate, and connect” with each other, the co
HR software startup OnPay was inspired by the founder’s family payroll business
In 2007, Jesse Burgess joined his family’s payroll business. He quickly noticed that the business’ six payroll clerks were getting bogged down by repetitive, monotonous tasks. So he sought to streamline those tasks by creating workflow automation tools.
Several years later, Burgess sen
What the heck happened at fintech Bench?
Welcome to technewss Fintech! It's good to be back.
This week, we're looking at the wild ride that was Bench's shutdown and acquisition; dozens of companies that are hiring in the fintech space; lawsuits against PayPal; an IPO update; and more!
This edition is a