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For founders, Startup Battlefield 200 is one of the biggest moments of their careers. For everyone else in the TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 audience, it’s one of the best ways to learn how great companies are actually evaluated by VCs. This startup pitch competition is as intense as you’d
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Today, I’m talking with Mark Gurman, who is the world’s best-sourced Apple reporter — both as Bloomberg’s chief Apple correspondent and the host of the upcoming podcast Power On. Earlier this month, Apple hosted its annual iPhone hardware event, virtually every detail of which was reported ahead of
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In late 2010, an up-and-coming Google executive named Sundar Pichai took the stage in front of a bunch of reporters and explained that Google had a big new idea about laptops. In the future, he said, the only thing you’d need on your computer was a web browser — that
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Android Auto will run right on your tablet's screen with the Open Headunit app. Max Miller for Engadget When a tablet gets old, it can often become nothing more than an expensive coaster. That's doubly true of Android tablets, which run the gamut from premium to
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Abode's new sensors are a winning combo. / Tyler Lacoma/CNET Art Abode Security Sensors 2026 8.0 Pros & Cons * Accurate and speedy sensors for areas other security sensors aren't made for * Tests showed excellent performance on garage door and fence gate * Abode's hub
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The Dreame X60 Pro Ultra Complete is about as close as you can get to putting all your vacuuming and mopping duties on full autopilot. This hugely ambitious robot cleaner combines exceptional suction, clever dirt detection, rock-solid navigation, threshold crossing, impressive extendable mopping technology, and an elaborate and very handsome-looking
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Two power walls, twenty-two years apart In May 2004, Intel cancelled Tejas and Jayhawk. The chips worked on paper. They just couldn't be cooled. Dennard scaling (the rule that let you shrink transistors, drop voltage, and keep total chip power flat) had stopped holding, leakage current was climbing
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* 85% of employees are being encouraged to use AI in the workplace * Incredibly, 42% don’t know why AI is being used in the first place, raising questions about company strategies with the technology * Some 112,000 people responded to the survey globally “Why are we using AI?” That seems
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For the past couple of weeks we’ve been seeing how Reality Fracture will conclude the multiverse-tearing Omenpath saga of Magic: The Gathering’s story. Jace’s domination of his Echoverse rings through his presence on seemingly every other card as the Empower Jace mechanic — which brings forth a Planeswalker
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If your shed tends to sit unloved and unused during the darker months, adding power will make it much more useful year-round — whether you want to use a heater, add lights, charge power tools, or just keep your phone and laptop charged up. You don't have to go
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From NFC movie cards to a washing machine that knows when it's done, Home Assistant gives a Pi plenty to do. myboys.me/Shutterstock Home Assistant can start innocently enough. Maybe you simply need the bedroom lights to turn off automatically, but that's just a gateway
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Touchscreens are one of the most deceptively simple-looking technologies. A simple tap on a piece of glass can make countless things happen. In reality, touchscreens involve various complex electronics and manufacturing processes. Scientists have created a new touch technology using only PVC, laser printing, and regular printer toner. Researchers at
