Hardware

Nothing was founded on a simple premise: phones are boring. This wasn't always the case, of course. There was a time before the smartphone became a commodity when the tech world waited with bated breath for the latest device from Apple and Samsung. Ultimately, however, these companies painted t

Seems we’re in the middle of drone-delivery summer. A few weeks back, Gather AI snapped up competitor Ware following an executive shake-up, and soon after, San Jose-based B Garage brought in a $20 million Series A. Today, Swiss startup Verity announced that it's adding $11 million in fund

Foxconn said on Tuesday it plans to submit an application to access incentives under India’s semiconductor manufacturing policy even as the Taiwanese giant has pulled out of the nation’s flagship $19.5 billion joint venture with local conglomerate Vedanta. “Foxconn is working towa

Not all use cases for AI make sense, but Pano AI makes a life-saving contribution in the “yes” column. Just last week, the company was able to send early warnings of the Kutch Road Fire, which broke out near Kutch Mountain in Yamhill County, Oregon. The company showed me how it was able

You enjoyed his iMacs, his iPhones, his iPads. You thrilled at the way he said “aluminium” [sic]. You admired the typeface. Are you ready for the $60,000 turntable? Better make up your mind fast, because Linn is only producing 250 of these handmade bad boys. A record player doesn't seem lik

How do you follow the news? Websites? Television? Radio? Social media? Maybe you're a real connoisseur who gets the paper delivered, knowing there are few pleasures in this world like cracking open a broadsheet over a cup of coffee on a Sunday morning. Project E Ink won't be replacing any o

Here's a dirty little secret: Consumer electronics can be boring sometimes. Hardware scaling is hard and people love the familiar, both things that have a tendency to disincentive adventurous product design. So it's worth acknowledging when big companies try something a bit different. From

It was only a question of time, I suppose, before someone made a generative AI that can whisper sweet, sweet obscenities at you. Lovense — perhaps best known for its remote-controllable sex toys — this week announced its ChatGPT Pleasure Companion. The company’s newest innovation in sex t

Samsung announced today that it is holding its next Galaxy Unpacked event on July 26, where the company will likely unveil the Galaxy Fold 5 and the Galaxy Flip 5 foldable phones. The company is hosting the event — termed “On the Flip Side” — in Seoul, South Korea for the first time

As Meta sets its sight on introducing its virtual reality headsets to the Chinese market, Mark Zuckerberg’s contentious remarks about Beijing in the past may pose a major obstacle to his China dream. According to a recent report by The Wall Street Journal, Meta is preparing to re-enter China

What would success look like for the Vision Pro? It's still an open question — or, perhaps, a series of interrelated questions. First is how many Apple expects to sell, and what industry analysts are forecasting. Second is who, precisely, is buying. The third is timeline, as in: how slow

I'm sure the team at RoboDeck is sick and tired of people referring to their robot as a “Roomba for decks.” But we did so in our write-up when the Israeli firm competed in Startup Battlefield, and I've just done so above. It's a pretty memorable pitch as those things go. The system

Reliance’s digital arm, Jio Platforms, has unveiled a new mobile handset and associated tariff plans, the latest in a series of years-long efforts from the top Indian telecom operator as it vies to convert users who remain “trapped” in the country’s legacy 2G networks. Named

AI's grabbing headlines, but the robotics field is still making a significant impact in the real world — and this is your briefing on our latest coverage of the growing industry. Before we get into the depths of the past week's noteworthy robotics news, our resident expert Brian Heater do