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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 review
One doubts Samsung’s convictions at their own peril. The company will be the first to point to the O.G. Note phablet as the ultimate expression of this phenomenon. The line may be gone, having been
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 review
I have been carrying both of Samsung’s new foldables on my person when I leave the house for the last few days. It’s mostly for testing purposes, of course, but there’s also a fun game I like to
Looks like time is up for Snap’s Pixy drone
Snap may have flown a bit too close to the sun in its development of the palm-sized selfie drone, Pixy. Following a late-April announcement, the social media firm has already begun pumping the brakes
Paris-based Koolboks closes $2.5M seed round to scale solar refrigeration across Africa
The power grid supply in Africa is erratic and inconsistent, affecting rural and urban households and businesses. For restaurants or neighborhood stores dealing with perishables, frozen foods and beve
Tesla doesn’t need to hit the panic button over China heat wave disruptions just yet
Some parts of China are suffering from record high temperatures in the past few weeks, prompting local governments to halt industrial power use, including those of battery plants. When news reaches th
Do we really need a $340, Wi-Fi enabled toaster?
If you’ve heard of Tineco, it’s probably because the 24-year-old company has been making vacuums and hair dryers for a hot minute. The company’s next product is a $339 toaster that c
Motion capture becomes more accessible as Rokoko raises at $80M valuation
South Korean company Naver Z is the brain behind the popular 3D-avatar app Zepeto. Today, the company announced it made a strategic investment in the Danish animation and motion capture company Rokoko
Daily Crunch: 7 months after emerging from stealth, YC alum Arc secures $20M Series A
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Twelve South adds a collapsible, portable MacBook stand
This is the sort of thing I definitely would have been all over when I still traveled a bunch for work. Twelve South has long been the go-to for MacBook stands and the like, and today the company intr
Mobot secures capital to grow its fleet of robots that bug-test mobile apps
Mobile apps have to be bug-tested across countless devices to ensure they work as intended. Users don’t look kindly on poor experiences — 88% say they’ll abandon apps based on minor
VinFast says preorders ‘will get a $7,500 rebate,’ federal tax credit or not
We wrote that the Vietnamese EV car company VinFast is bringing its EV companies to the U.S. Since then, Congress announced it is making changes to the $7,500 federal electric vehicle tax credit, mean
Daily Crunch: Samsung’s vice chairman receives presidential pardon for bribery conviction
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TrashBot uses AI to sort recyclables
There are a number of startups working to improve trash sorting with robots. AMP Robotics is near the top of the list, coupling a picker and a conveyor belt to sort materials in large, automated facil
Hyundai announces $400M AI, robotics institute powered by Boston Dynamics
When Hyundai acquired Boston Dynamics at the end of 2020, there were plenty of open questions. Chief among them was why we should assume this acquisition would be any different than the past few? The
Maker of the Muse meditation headband raises $9.5M
I’m a mediocre meditator, at best. Some weeks I meditate every morning, and others go by without doing it at all. Turns out healthy habits are a lot harder to develop than good ones. I’ve tried a
SunGreenH2’s nano-scale engineering could double green hydrogen production
If there is ever going to be a national hydrogen economy, we’re going to need to change a few things. One of them is how we produce hydrogen itself, the vast majority of which comes from fossil
Meet Xiaomi’s new humanoid robot, CyberOne
Long gone are the days when a consumer electronics company could simply announce a phone and call it a day. At this morning’s big launch event in Beijing, Xiaomi followed up its foldable news by han
Motorola goes flagship for the latest foldable Razr
Happy unofficial foldables week! An increasingly rare bright spot in the broadly struggling smartphone space, manufacturers are looking toward the emerging form factor to help kickstart them out of th
Xiaomi’s new foldable is thinner than Samsung’s and only available in China
A day after Samsung announced a pair of foldable devices, Xiaomi launched its second-gen foldable, Mix Fold 2, in China. The new phone sports a 6.56-inch outer display, 8.02-inch inner display and a L
Medical simulation platform FundamentalVR raises $20M to help surgeons learn through VR
FundamentalVR, an immersive simulation platform for medical and healthcare professions, has raised $20 million in a round of funding to “accelerate skill-transfer and surgical proficiency”