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CES 2025 Day 1: Honda, BMW, X’s victory lap, and the first show floor gadget reveals

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

CES 2025 is officially underway in Las Vegas. Monday’s press day saw keynotes from Samsung, Nvidia, Toyota, and Sony, among others, while Tuesday was all about the exciting new gadgets on the show floor. TechCrunch reporters are on the ground … Continue reading →

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X hires former WSJ editor and bureau chief to lead news group

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

X, formerly Twitter, wants to make its platform a home to the future and news and journalism. On that front, the company has now hired John Stoll, a former editor and Detroit bureau chief at The Wall Street Journal to … Continue reading →

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This baseball radar gun plugs into an iPhone

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

Tucked away in the recesses CES 2025’s Eureka Hall startup showcase, CaiqueTech showed off a novel take on the tried-and-true baseball radar gun. After building a standalone device, the Korean firm has created a modular version that plugs directly into … Continue reading →

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Feds investigate Tesla’s ‘Actual Smart Summon’ after several crashes

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into 2.56 million Tesla vehicles after several crashes involving the automaker’s “Actual Smart Summon” remote parking feature. Tesla released Actual Smart Summon, or ASS for short, via software update in … Continue reading →

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Meta employees criticize Zuckerberg decisions to end fact-checking, add Dana White to board

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

Meta employees internally criticized the company’s decision to end third-party fact-checking two weeks before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

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Nuclear startup Deep Fission plans to bury micro-reactors to power data centers

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

Deep Fission’s small modular reactors would be lowered on cables down a 30-inch, one-mile deep borehole. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Chinese VCs are hounding failed founders to claw back their investments

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

In the U.S., it’s accepted that most startups fail — and when that happens, VCs (generally) accept their losses and move on. But that’s not the case in China, where VCs are trying to claw back their investments in failed … Continue reading →

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Dell Phases Out XPS Branding for New Pro and Pro Max Laptop Tiers

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

Named brands like XPS and Inspiron will now fall under size categories. Plus, Dell expanded its partnership with AMD.

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Anthropic reportedly in talks to raise $2B at $60B valuation, led by Lightspeed

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

OpenAI rival Anthropic is in talks to raise $2 billion in new capital in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to The Wall Street Journal. The round, which The Journal reports would value Anthropic at $60 billion, … Continue reading →

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Xpeng Aero HT unveils ‘flying car’ that’s part-van, part-eVTOL at CES 2025

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

Xpeng Aero HT, the aerospace company under Chinese EV startup Xpeng, unveiled at CES 2025 its “modular flying car,” the so-called Land Aircraft Carrie. It’s ssentially an electric minivan with a small folding eVTOL (vertical takeoff and landing vehicle) tucked … Continue reading →

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