Topic: tech events
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GITEX GLOBAL: Dubai's Innovation Hub Expands
GITEX GLOBAL and Expand North Star are relocating to Dubai Expo City in 2026, marking a strategic reinvention to align with global tech advancements and enhance the event experience. The move includes a permanent shift to a winter schedule during Dubai's peak tourism season and unifies the events...
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Africa Tech Festival 2025: Cape Town Hosts Top Digital Innovators
Cape Town will host the 28th annual Africa Tech Festival from November 11-13, 2025, featuring discussions on telecommunications, cybersecurity, and sustainable ICT, and expecting over 15,000 attendees. The city is a leading African tech hub with over 60% of South Africa's startups, supported by s...
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Unlock the Future of Deep Tech at StrictlyVC Palo Alto
The final StrictlyVC event of the year in Palo Alto will feature founders and investors at the forefront of deep technology, offering early insights into groundbreaking innovations. Key speakers include Nicholas Kelez, who is developing next-generation semiconductor equipment; Mina Fahmi, present...
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Discover the Future in Palo Alto
The final StrictlyVC event of 2025 in Palo Alto showcases innovators like Nicholas Kelez, who is developing a particle accelerator-based alternative to costly semiconductor manufacturing lasers to bring production back to the U.S. Featured speakers include Mina Fahmi, co-creator of the Stream Rin...
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GITEX Expands to Latin America, Fuels $950B Digital Boom
Latin America's digital economy is projected to reach nearly $950 billion by 2026, with GITEX launching its inaugural Latin American edition in São Paulo in 2027 to accelerate this growth. GITEX LATAM will showcase Brazil as a tech hub, leveraging its digital infrastructure and economic leadershi...
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MSI's Sleekest Laptops: A First Look at Stunning Design
MSI unveils a redesigned Prestige laptop series at CES 2026, featuring thin designs, OLED screens, and new Intel Panther Lake processors in both clamshell and convertible models. The series includes the Prestige 14/16 AI Plus clamshells and Prestige Flip 2-in-1s, all with OLED displays, and the F...
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Ganiga Debuts Waste-Sorting Robots at TechCrunch Disrupt
The global recycling crisis is severe, with only about 10% of plastic recycled, prompting Ganiga Innovation to introduce AI-powered robotic solutions to improve waste sorting efficiency. Ganiga's products include the Hoooly robotic bins and smart lids that use generative AI to automatically separ...
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Affordable Smart Lighting: Upgrade Your Home on a Budget
Smart lighting is now more affordable and accessible, offering an easy entry into home automation for mood setting, energy efficiency, and convenience. Tech updates include the appearance of Hollow Knight: Silksong, an Instagram iPad app, and a new The Office spinoff, alongside insights from Paul...
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SpotitEarly Uses Dogs and AI to Detect Common Cancers
SpotitEarly is developing an at-home breath test for cancer detection that combines the scent-identifying abilities of trained dogs with AI validation for accuracy. In a clinical study, the dogs achieved a 94% accuracy rate in detecting early-stage cancers like breast, colorectal, prostate, and l...
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Samsung's Ballie Robot: Is It Ever Coming?
Samsung's Ballie smart home robot, a CES fixture since 2020, was absent from CES 2026, strongly suggesting the consumer product has been shelved. Samsung describes Ballie as an "active innovation platform" influencing its work on smart home AI and privacy, but its statement made no commitment to ...
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CES 2026's Most Bizarre Tech Revealed
The Consumer Electronics Show featured unusual gadgets like a holographic AI companion for gaming and tasks, which also raises privacy concerns due to its built-in camera. Innovations included an AI-powered panda robot for elderly companionship and a smart ice maker that uses AI to operate quietl...
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Cerca Reveals How Gen Z Actually Dates at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Cerca is a dating app designed by Gen Z to foster meaningful connections by leveraging mutual friends and social networks, reducing the anxiety of meeting strangers online. The app limits users to four anonymous swipes per day to combat swiping fatigue and encourages thoughtful decisions, with pr...
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Toyota Invests $1.5 Billion in Mobility Startups
Toyota is investing $1.5 billion in mobility startups through two new funds to support innovation from early concepts to scalable businesses. The automotive industry saw a surge in EV sales before a key tax credit expired, with Tesla reporting record deliveries, but now faces challenges sustainin...
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CES 2026: Color-Changing Sunglasses Demo Revealed
The Povec C1 sunglasses feature electrochromic technology, allowing users to instantly adjust lens tint from dark to clear with a touch, eliminating the need for multiple pairs of glasses. Designed for outdoor activities like cycling and skiing, these sunglasses offer a sleek, user-friendly desig...
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Elon Musk's Grok AI Imagines the Future of Love
Elon Musk shared AI-generated videos on his platform X, including one featuring a synthetic woman professing love and another of actress Sydney Sweeney delivering a critical line, both created using xAI's Grok Imagine tool. The posts sparked strong reactions from users, with some labeling them as...
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Meta Launches AI-Powered Short-Form Video Feed in Europe
Meta has launched Vibes, a new AI-generated short-form video platform in Europe, offering a continuous feed similar to TikTok but with all content created by artificial intelligence. Users can create videos from text prompts or remix existing ones, with the feed personalizing over time and allowi...
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Anker-Backed Evotrex Unveils Hybrid RV
Evotrex is introducing a hybrid RV travel trailer that combines an onboard battery with a gasoline engine for extended off-grid power, using waste heat for cabin warming to boost efficiency and comfort. The company's market research shows a shift towards younger buyers seeking multi-day remote ad...
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Nscale Partners with Microsoft on Major AI Infrastructure Deal
Nscale has partnered with Microsoft to deploy nearly 200,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs across data centers in Europe and the U.S., significantly expanding AI infrastructure and establishing Nscale as a key global player. The deployment includes 104,000 GPUs in Texas, 12,600 in Portugal, and additional un...
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Enterprises Are All-In on AI, Ready or Not
Businesses are rapidly adopting AI for enterprise applications, with companies like Zendesk, Anthropic, and Google launching new tools and partnerships that offer immediate revenue opportunities. The technology faces challenges, as seen in Deloitte's incident with AI-generated inaccuracies, highl...
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Paid AI raises $21M seed to bill clients only for results
Manny Medina's new startup Paid has raised $33.3 million in total funding, achieving a valuation over $100 million, with its seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Paid introduces a results-based billing platform for AI agents, allowing developers to charge clients based on the tangible v...
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OpenAI Acquires Xcode Assistant Alex Codes Team
The team behind Alex Codes, a tool that integrated AI into Apple's Xcode, is joining OpenAI's Codex division in a strategic acqui-hire. The move follows Apple's update allowing external AI model integration in Xcode, which reduced the need for third-party tools like Alex Codes. Alex Codes will co...
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Meet Your Laptop's Auto-Adjusting Stand: Lift, Tilt & Turn
Lenovo's Smart Motion Concept is an innovative laptop stand that automatically adjusts its position to maintain an optimal ergonomic viewing angle by tracking the user's movements. The stand includes practical features such as built-in cooling fans, a USB hub for connectivity, and is powered exte...
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PraxisPro Secures $6M Seed Funding to Train Medical Sales Teams
PraxisPro, an AI-powered sales coaching platform for life sciences, has secured $6 million in seed funding to transform how sales representatives are trained for critical client interactions with healthcare providers. The platform uses specialized small language models to simulate realistic conve...
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Parloa Soars to $3B Valuation After $350M Funding Round
Berlin-based AI customer service startup Parloa raised $350 million in a Series D round, reaching a $3 billion valuation just eight months after becoming a unicorn. The company operates in a crowded market of AI agents for customer support, competing with well-funded rivals like Sierra and Decago...
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Thinking Machines Lab Co-Founders Depart for OpenAI
Two co-founders of Thinking Machines Lab, including its CTO, have returned to OpenAI, posing a significant challenge to the startup's stability and direction. The talent movement highlights intense competition in the AI industry, with personnel frequently shifting between established giants and w...
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The Folding iPhone: Is a Creaseless Display Possible?
Samsung Display has unveiled a prototype foldable OLED panel that appears completely free of any visible crease, a significant advancement for the technology. The company clarified this is a research concept with no confirmed timeline for market release, leaving its development stage unclear. Thi...
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Amazon's Alexa+ Brings AI Conversations to Ring Doorbells
Amazon's Alexa+ introduces a conversational AI feature for Ring doorbells called Greetings, which uses visual cues to autonomously interact with visitors, handling deliveries and unsolicited visits without homeowner intervention. The technology relies on visual descriptors like clothing and items...
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TechCrunch's Ultimate Gift Guide: Our Favorite Picks
The article provides a curated list of unique tech gifts, selected by journalists based on real-world use for solving problems or enhancing daily life. Specific recommendations include open-ear headphones for safe outdoor activity, a Brain.fm subscription for focus, and a Focus Friend app for tas...
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Tiger Global Raises $2.2B for Cautious New Venture Fund
Tiger Global is raising a new $2.2 billion venture fund, marking a strategic shift toward a more cautious and selective investment philosophy compared to its previous aggressive, high-velocity approach. The firm's new fund will continue to target AI opportunities but emphasizes discipline, acknow...
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AI's GTM Revolution: OpenAI & Google's Vision
AI is fundamentally transforming go-to-market strategies by enabling companies to achieve greater efficiency and resource optimization, altering traditional sales and marketing approaches. Despite AI's advantages in speed and personalization, industry leaders stress that deep marketing expertise,...
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OpenAI's New AI Device: A Calmer Alternative to the iPhone
OpenAI's upcoming AI device, developed with Jony Ive, aims for a calmer, more focused user experience, contrasting with today's attention-grabbing smartphones through a straightforward, potentially screenless design. The device will feature advanced contextual awareness, learning user rhythms to ...
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Function Health Raises $298M at $2.5B Valuation in Series B
Function Health raised $298 million in Series B funding, valuing the company at $2.5 billion, to advance its mission of transforming personal health data into actionable insights using AI. The company launched a Medical Intelligence Lab with a proprietary generative AI model, trained by doctors, ...
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Inception Raises $50M for AI-Powered Code and Text Models
Inception secured $50 million in seed funding from prominent investors, highlighting that independent AI startups can often attract substantial backing more easily than operating within large tech companies. The company is developing diffusion-based AI models for code and text generation, which u...
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Kevin Rose's AI Test: Would You Punch Someone Wearing It?
Kevin Rose avoids investing in AI hardware that violates social norms or privacy, preferring devices that foster emotional connection and social acceptance rather than intrusive technology. He is concerned about the societal impact of AI, drawing parallels to early social media missteps and highl...
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Lambda's $Billion AI Deal with Microsoft
Lambda has entered a multi-billion-dollar agreement with Microsoft to supply tens of thousands of high-performance Nvidia GPUs, significantly expanding AI computing capacity. The partnership builds on an eight-year relationship and involves deploying advanced Nvidia GB300 NVL72 systems, which Mic...
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Salesforce Launches Agentforce 360 Amid Enterprise AI Race
Salesforce has launched Agentforce 360, an upgraded AI platform featuring new tools like Agent Script for flexible agent programming and enhanced Slack integration, set for beta releases in November. The platform incorporates reasoning models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google Gemini to improve r...
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Datacurve Secures $15M to Challenge ScaleAI
Datacurve raised $15 million in Series A funding to provide high-quality, specialized data for AI training, with backing from investors including professionals at DeepMind and OpenAI. The company uses a bounty system to engage software engineers in creating complex datasets, focusing on user expe...
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Anker's Fastest Airline-Approved Power Bank Is Here
Anker's Prime Power Bank (26k, 300W) offers high-capacity charging at 99.75Wh, staying under the TSA's 100Wh carry-on limit, and is available for $229.99 with an initial promotional price of $184. It features dual 140W USB-C ports for fast laptop charging, a 20W USB-A port, and can recharge rapid...
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Meta's Smart Glasses Need a Display
Smart glasses, particularly Meta's collaboration with Ray-Ban, are transitioning from novelty to mainstream adoption due to their stylish design and accessible pricing. Key factors driving their success include improved audio and camera quality, useful AI features, and a cultural shift towards fi...
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Young Founders Raise $5M to Decode Online Behavior with Vision AI
A new startup called Human Behavior uses vision AI to analyze user session replays, providing deeper insights into engagement and behavior without extensive manual coding. The company was founded by three young entrepreneurs who quickly raised $5 million in seed funding from notable backers like ...
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Anthropic's Claude AI Agent Now Integrates Directly in Chrome
Anthropic has launched a Claude AI agent as a Chrome extension for select testers, offering contextual browsing assistance and task automation, with initial access limited to 1,000 premium subscribers. This development is part of a broader industry trend where companies like Google, Perplexity, a...
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CES 2026: Why Bricks Are My Most Anticipated Tech
Lego is making a surprising appearance at CES 2026, signaling a major shift from its traditional low-tech identity towards blending physical play with digital innovation. The company is rumored to be unveiling a platform called "Smart Play," which would use embedded sensors and scannable tags to ...
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Apple's Creator Studio Pro: AI Empowers, Not Replaces, Creators
Apple's new Creator Studio Pro is a subscription suite that bundles professional creative applications, using AI to handle tedious tasks and free creators for higher-level artistic work, with a focus on augmentation over replacement. The suite, priced at $12.99 monthly, includes upgraded apps lik...
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Waabi Secures $1 Billion for Uber Robotaxi Expansion
Waabi secured a $1 billion investment, including a landmark partnership with Uber to deploy its self-driving technology for robotaxis, marking a major expansion beyond its original autonomous trucking focus. The company's strategy centers on a capital-efficient, generalizable AI architecture deve...
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2150 Raises €210M to Tackle Urban Climate Challenges
Cities are critical hubs for climate action, as they generate most global GDP but also a majority of emissions and waste, making them a primary focus for sustainable investment. Investment firm 2150, which recently raised €210 million for its second fund, targets startups that improve urban effic...
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Sequoia Breaks VC Taboo, Invests in Anthropic Rival: FT
Sequoia Capital is investing in Anthropic, a direct rival to its portfolio company OpenAI, marking a significant departure from traditional venture capital practices of avoiding portfolio conflicts. The funding round, led by GIC and Coatue, aims to raise up to $25 billion for Anthropic at a valua...
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Skild AI Hits $14B Valuation in Robotics Software Boom
Skild AI raised $1.4 billion in Series C funding, led by SoftBank and Nvidia, skyrocketing its valuation to over $14 billion from $4.5 billion just months earlier. The company develops general-purpose robotic foundation models that enable adaptable intelligence for various robots, aiming for syst...
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Skylight Calendar 2: Organize Your Family's Schedule
The Skylight Calendar 2 is a central family organization hub that aggregates schedules from multiple digital services into a unified, color-coded view using AI, which can even scan and digitize paper notices. It extends beyond scheduling to manage shared grocery lists, meal planning, and chores w...
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MayimFlow Prevents Data Center Leaks Proactively
MayimFlow, a startup, provides a proactive leak detection system for data centers using IoT sensors and machine learning to predict failures 24-48 hours in advance, preventing costly downtime. Founder John Khazraee identified a critical industry gap in reactive leak management and built a team wi...
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Naware's Chemical-Free Weed Killer Tech Could Transform Lawn Care
Naware, founded by Mark Boysen, has developed a chemical-free weed control system that uses steam, inspired by a personal family tragedy linked to suspected chemical contamination. The technology combines industrial-grade steam generation with AI-powered computer vision to identify and target wee...
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