Hardware

Backbone One — PlayStation Edition controller, made by Sony and Backbone, is now available for Android. Last July, both companies partnered to release an iOS version of the controller with a lightning port. The idea of a Backbone controller is to slide your phone into its extended grip and pl

Jeff Cardenas pulls out his MacBook. Apptronik's co-founder and CEO has a slideshow he wants to show, running down the Austin startup's seven-year history. It does, indeed, take a bit of contextualizing. Like many fellow robotics firms, the company was fueled by government contracts in its

Peloton is revamping its workout app to offer users three different tiers, including a new free tier and an upscaled one that costs $24 per month. The company announced on Tuesday that it’s looking to rebrand as a fitness company for all, as opposed to being known as an in-home bike company.

Two things have always felt true about Brooklyn-based 3D display startup Looking Glass. First, their technology is really cool. I've seen it in person several times over the years, and it always impresses. Second, is that I can't quite figure out who it's for. A major pitfall for commer

Amazon launched its biggest tablet today; called the Fire Max 11, it has an 11-inch screen. The company is pricing the device at $229.99 — offering a cheaper option for users than the 10.9-inch iPad and the new Pixel tablet with a similar-sized screen. The tablet’s screen supports 2000 x 12

When someone asks for a tech recommendation, we almost invariably answer with one question: what's your budget? It's as true with vacuums as anything else. You can get a pretty good one for not a lot of money. That's the best option for most people. But those people are not Dyson people

Perhaps I shouldn't have been surprised to see someone skate-walking down the halls of Detroit's Huntington Place convention center. Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of interesting stuff happening at Automate today, but it simply never occurred to me that $1,400 footwear was a pos

Two words jumped out at me while speaking with Opentrons CEO Jon Brennan-Badal and investor Vinod Khosla: reproducibility and repeatability. These are, of course, important concepts in the world of research. They're keys to successful experimentation, but a lot of different variables can stand

China has banned some sales of Micron products after launching a probe into the American memory chip giant for cybersecurity risks in early April. The decision is widely seen as part of the tit-for-tat in the ongoing U.S.-China economic competition, which has started to upend a deeply intertwined g

Back at CES in Las Vegas in January this year, I previewed the Nuwa Pen; a three-camera-containing ballpoint pen that promises to turn your scribbles into digital notes and then apply OCR and AI smarts to pull out the most pertinent data. Write “Meeting with Chris at 6pm Tuesday” on a P

I'm not what one might deem a “swag guy.” I've known plenty over the years — video game and comics shows are a particular hot bed. People beg for extra t-shirts, fidget spinners and anything else they can get their hands on. You see them wandering the halls of convention centers,

One thing you can definitely say about Eric Migicovsky: he seems to be having a lot of fun. The Pebble founder left a three-year stint as a partner at Y Combinator to co-found the chat aggregation app Beeper. During that time, he's been dipping back into his hardware roots. Back in 2017, he lau

First and most importantly: I finally hit Delta Silver Medallion for 2024, courtesy of last week's trip back to the Bay. Like most of you, I came down with a bad case of wanderlust during the lockdown years and couldn't wait to get back on the road. Suddenly I'm back to pre-pandemic wor

At a virtual event this morning, Meta lifted the curtains on its efforts to develop in-house infrastructure for AI workloads, including generative AI like the type that underpins its recently launched ad design and creation tools. It was an attempt at a projection of strength from Meta, which histo