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Only 14.8% of startup founders in Europe are women, according to the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. This number says less about the ambition of female entrepreneurs or the quality of their ideas and more about the difficulty women-led businesses face in accessing mentors and investors. This gap
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Cognex has agreed to acquire RealSense for about $500 million in cash, adding 3D depth-sensing and robotic perception technology to its industrial machine-vision portfolio. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026, subject to customary closing conditions. Cognex plans to fund the acquisition using cash and
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A SmartThings software update went sour for some owners of Samsung smart fridges in Korea when their devices became unresponsive, as reported by outlets such as ZDNet Korea. Reports found owners complaining about spoiled food due to their refrigerators shutting down and being unable to cool. Samsung said it’s
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Vogue World closed its Milan edition this week with a troupe of robots — perhaps a preview of what’s coming when the event descends on San Francisco next year. Vogue World is the magazine’s annual traveling spectacle, now in its fifth year: part runway show, part celebrity showcase, part
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“It’s going to take them a while. Maybe they don’t know that yet,” Wayve co-founder and CEO Alex Kendall said of humanoid robot makers. Kendall spoke on stage at HumanX in Amsterdam on Wednesday. It was a day after Wayve announced a global partnership with Mercedes-Benz. He said
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You’ve likely noticed AI has increasingly been sneaking into more of your new devices over the past few years, whether you asked for it or not. The next frontier? It’s time to ready yourself for an influx of AI-powered headphones. On Wednesday at its Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii,
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Lately, it seems like everyone is talking about bringing manufacturing back to the United States, especially when it comes to hard tech like drones and robotics. Michael Van Steenburg thinks he’s ahead of the game. Van Steenburg spent the last decade building all kinds of electric motors in the
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Modern life comes with an unending, auto-populating to-do list. It never ceases to amaze me how I can be doing nothing at all, minding my own business, and suddenly something needs to be taken care of. You’re telling me a tree branch fell in the backyard and now I
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Best tech gifts for Dad Turtlebox Ranger The Turtlebox Ranger offers a rugged, waterproof design that makes it the perfect addition to pool parties, boating days and outdoor gatherings. Its magnetic side mount also makes it easy to attach to golf carts, boats or truck beds. If your dad loves
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David Siegel SM ’86, PhD ’91, a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, will serve as the next MIT Innovation Fellow during the 2026-27 academic year. Working with the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, Siegel will explore how artificial intelligence can accelerate scientific discovery at the Institute and beyond. “From the
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The offer is for access to about $200 worth of Anthropic’s Claude Max service. But the real price could be giving scammers access to everything in your Google accounts. A new phishing scam reported by the cybersecurity service Malwarebytes works like this: The scam claims that Anthropic is celebrating
