Life360's Tile introduces its first new Bluetooth trackers since its acquisition

It's been three years since Life360's $205 million acquisition of AirTag competitor Tile. The company announced Monday its new lineup of lost-item Bluetooth trackers, featuring a sleeker redesign in new colors — aqua blue, green, navy blue, and pink. The devices now have several new funct

Generative AI startup Typeface acquires two companies, Treat and Narrato, to bolster its portfolio

Typeface, a generative AI startup focused on enterprise use cases, has acquired a pair of companies just over a year after raising $165 million at a $1 billion valuation. Typeface revealed on Monday that it has purchased Treat, a company using AI to create personalized photo products, and Narrato,

IBM makes developing for quantum computers easier with the Qiskit Functions Catalog

IBM today launched the Qiskit Functions Catalog, a new set of services that aims to make programming quantum computers easier by abstracting away many of the complexities of working with these machines. “I do think it’s the next big transition since we put the quantum computer on the

AI coding assistant Supermaven raises cash from OpenAI and Perplexity co-founders

Jacob Jackson was all-in on AI early in his career. Jackson co-founded Tabnine, the AI coding assistant that went on to raise close to $60 million in venture backing, while still a computer science student at the University of Waterloo. After selling Tabnine to Codata in 2019 (during his final ex

TeamBridge, founded by former Uber execs, raises $28M to build HR software for hourly workers

Arjun Vora and Tito Goldstein were working on the corporate side of Uber when they realized that HR software largely wasn’t built to manage hourly staff. Many hourly workers lacked a way to complete basic self-service tasks, the pair perceived, like clocking in and changing payment accounts.

Apple Watch sleep apnea detection gets FDA approval

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Monday published approval for sleep apnea detection on the Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Watch Ultra 2. The green light comes four days ahead of the Series 10's September 20 release date. The feature, announced at last week’s iPhone 16 event,

Apple AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation review

I can't recall another consumer electronics product category becoming a commodity as quickly as Bluetooth earbuds. Apple's AirPods played a key role in that growth, of course, recapturing a kind of excitement not seen in consumer music tech since the original iPod. AirPods' fundamental

Myntra bets on 4-hour delivery amid India’s quick commerce boom

Myntra, India’s largest fashion e-commerce platform, is trialing a four-hour delivery service in four Indian cities, two sources familiar with the matter told technewss — a dramatic acceleration from its standard two-three day delivery time frame as the surge of quick commerce reshapes

AWS brings OpenSearch under the Linux Foundation umbrella

AWS today announced that it is transitioning OpenSearch, its open source fork of the popular Elasticsearch search and analytics engine, to the Linux Foundation with the launch of the very aptly named OpenSearch Foundation. AWS first launched the OpenSearch project in 2021, after Elastic changed it

Insight Partners is closing in on a whopping $10B+ new fund

Insight Partners is reportedly on the cusp of closing on more than $10 billion in capital commitments for its 13th fund, per the FT.  The FT report notes that two of Insight's portfolio companies were acquired in the last week. One of these, the threat intelligence company Recorded Future, wh

Flappy Bird's creator disavows 'official' new version of the game

A decade after the wildly popular game Flappy Bird disappeared, an organization calling itself the Flappy Bird Foundation announced plans to “re-hatch the official Flappy Bird® game.” But this morning, the game's creator, Dong Nguyen, posted a characteristically terse comment stating that

Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst's indie band, Good Kid, is almost as successful as his AI company

Nick Frosst, the co-founder of $5.5 billion Canadian AI startup Cohere, has been a musician his whole life. He told technewss that once he started singing, he never shut up. That's still true today. In addition to his full-time job at Cohere, Frosst is also the front man of Good Kid, an indie

A walk through the crypto jungle at Korea Blockchain Week

Blockchain technology is all about decentralization and virtualization. So it’s a little ironic that humans love to come together in person at big blockchain events. Such was the case last week in Seoul, where a record 17,000 people and 300 speakers came together for Korea Blockchain Week. L

'Hot Ones' could add some heat to Netflix's live lineup

Netflix has never quite cracked the talk show formula, but maybe it can borrow an existing hit from YouTube. According to Bloomberg, the streamer is in talks with BuzzFeed to create live episodes of the popular YouTube talk show “Hot Ones.” Netflix did not respond to technewss’s request