Harbor is building a better baby monitor and an army of night nannies
Like most good startup stories, Harbor began life as a product of disappointment. Kevin Lavelle, the co-founder and CEO of innovative clothing company Mizzen and Main, couldn't find a baby monitor to suit his needs. He and his wife, Jen, had homed in on Nanit, a popular product renowned for its
Kiwibot acquires an ad startup to turn its delivery robots into mobile billboards
From the standpoint of any advertising executive, Kiwibot has left a lot of money on the table since its robots began making food deliveries on the UC Berkeley campus back in 2017. After all, the semi-autonomous wheeled systems tend to traverse high-traffic areas. In 2024, they can still draw a cr
Karman Industries hopes its SpaceX-inspired heat pumps will replace industrial boilers
Industrial heat, which is used by companies as diverse as breweries and food processors to chemical manufacturers and paper mills, is one of the last bastions of fossil fuels. After all, it's pretty hard to beat a flame when you need to heat something up.
But recently, a slew of startups have
EU to tell Apple how to do interoperability, DMA style
The European Union has opened two “specification proceedings” on Apple under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) that will see it instructing the iPhone maker on how to comply with certain interoperability provisions in the market fairness regulation. If Apple fails to meet the C
Picus Security, founded by 3 Turkish mathematicians, raises $45M after simulating 1B cyberattacks
For as long as programming has existed, we have had a plethora of methods to ensure the code works as intended. These days, that entire testing process has been kicked into high gear: The growing sophistication of security breaches has turned software verification into a much more urgent task — a
Brightband sees a bright (and open source) future for AI-powered weather forecasting
With an explosion of weather and climate data that the last generation of tools can’t handle, is AI the future of forecasting?
Research certainly suggests so, and a newly funded startup called Brightband is taking a shot at turning machine learning forecast models into both a business and o
AI governance can’t be left to the vested interests
A final report by the UN’s high-level advisory body on artificial intelligence makes for, at times, a surreal read. Named “Governing AI for Humanity,” the document underlines the contradictory challenges of making any kind of governance stick on such a fast developing, massively i
Phlair’s carbon-sucking technology could lower direct air capture’s costs
When it comes to climate change, there's no such thing as a “get out of jail free” card. But there might be an inexpensive alternative: direct air capture.
The technology isn't exactly an exoneration, but more like community service; it promises to suck massive amounts of carbon dioxid
India weighs easing market share limits for UPI payment operators
The governing body overseeing India’s popular UPI payments rail is considering easing its proposed market share cap for operators like Google Pay, PhonePe, and Paytm as it struggles to enforce limitations, two people familiar with the matter told technewss.
National Payments Corporation of
Palmer Luckey returns to headsets as Anduril partners with Microsoft on U.S. military tech
Palmer Luckey, the Hawaiian-shirt wearing founder who sold Oculus VR for $2 billion before co-founding the military tech company Anduril, is back in the headset business — in a sense.
Anduril will soon embed its software into the Integrated Visual Augmentation System headset developed by Mic
CEO of self-driving startup Motional is stepping down
"">Motional, the autonomous vehicle startup backed by Hyundai, is shaking up its leadership ranks. Karl Iagnemma, an early pioneer in the autonomous vehicle industry whose startup Nutonomy lies at the foundation of Motional, is stepping down as president and CEO.
Iagnemma will move over to a senior
Craig Newmark pledges $100M to fight hacking by foreign governments
Craig Newmark plans to donate $100 million to further strengthen U.S. cybersecurity. The Craigslist founder tells The Wall Street Journal he is addressing what he sees as a growing threat from foreign governments. Half the funds will focus on protecting power grids and other infrastructure from cyb
Bluesky addresses trust and safety concerns around abuse, spam, and more
Social networking startup Bluesky, which is building a decentralized alternative to X (formerly Twitter), offered an update on Wednesday about how it’s approaching various trust and safety concerns on its platform. The company is in various stages of developing and piloting a range of initiat
HTC takes on Apple's Vision Pro and PC Gaming with $1,000 Vive Focus Vision
technewss spent some time with the $1,119 Vive XR Elite portable headset that had Meta's Quest Pro firmly in its sights. The new Vive Focus Vision, which was announced on Wednesday, is a fair bit larger and $1,000 less expensive than that system.
The new headset looks to swim in similar water