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Roku’s Pro Series TVs are now available | TechCrunch
Announced earlier this year , Roku revealed today that its Pro Series TVs , the lineup of high-end televisions, are now available for purchase in the U.S. Starting today, Roku Pro Series TVs are being sold at Best Buy stores and online. There are three sizes to choose...
Buffet’s new app tackles the loneliness epidemic by connecting people in the real world | TechCrunch
If you’ve been feeling lonely over the past few years, you’re not alone. According to a 2023 report from the U.S. Surgeon General, about half of U.S. adults reported feeling lonely , even before the COVID-19 pandemic. The report warns that loneliness and isolation can...
Collaborative Robotics is prioritizing ‘human problem solving’ over humanoid forms | TechCrunch
Humanoids have sucked a lot of the air out of the room. It is, after all, a lot easier to generate press for robots that look and move like humans. Ultimately, however, both the efficacy and scalability of such designs have yet to be proven out. For a while now,...
Muscle tissue harvested from mice cells move ‘biohybrid’ robots | TechCrunch
Sometimes nature provides the best blueprints for building effective robots. It also can provide the best material. Billions of years of natural selection has built some pretty impressive machinery, so you can’t really blame engineers for borrowing a bit of...
Turkish startup ikas attracts $20M for its e-commerce platform designed for small businesses | TechCrunch
It’s easy to assume the e-commerce ship has sailed when you consider we have giant platforms like Shopify, WooCommerce and Wix dominating the sector. But e-commerce’s field remains vast and fertile, since so many smaller businesses continue foraying into the internet...
A $60M venture fund with a twist, and more startup-on-startup acquisitions | TechCrunch
Ah, spring has sprung here in the Northeast United States, and it’s not only flowers that are blooming. No, startup-on-startup deals are the crop this season! Today on Equity’s startup-focused Wednesday show, we dug into the Multiverse-Searchlight deal , which...
eBay enters trading card commercial agreement with Collectors, acquires Goldin | TechCrunch
As eBay continues to invest in the trading card space, the e-commerce company announced Wednesday three significant commercial transactions with Collectors, the parent company of PSA (Professional Sports Authenticator), the third-party authentication and grading...
Meta unveils its newest custom AI chip as it races to catch up | TechCrunch
Meta, hell-bent on catching up to rivals in the generative AI space, is spending billions on its own AI efforts. A portion of those billions is going toward recruiting AI researchers . But an even larger chunk is being spent developing hardware, specifically chips to...
AT&T notifies regulators after customer data breach | TechCrunch
AT&T has begun notifying U.S. state authorities and regulators of a security incident after confirming that millions of customer records posted online last month were authentic. In a legally required filing with Maine’s attorney general’s office, the U.S. telco...
Kiki World, a beauty brand that uses web3 for customer co-creation and ownership, raises $7M from a16z | TechCrunch
If you think that choosing a nail polish color or which ingredients go into your face cream can’t have anything to do with blockchain, think again. Kiki World , a beauty startup launched last year, wants consumers to co-create products and co-own the company with the...