While much of the tech world’s focus has been drawn to AI in 2024, smartwatches and fitness trackers continue to become more and more important to our everyday lives. As we hit the halfway point of the year, it’s time to look back at the biggest smartwatch launches so far in 2024 – and what’s coming … Read more
Adept, a startup developing AI-powered “agents” to complete various software-based tasks, has agreed to license its tech to Amazon and the startup’s co-founders and portions of its team have joined the ecommerce giant. Geekwire’s Taylor Soper first reported the news. According to Soper, Adept co-founder and CEO David Luan will join Amazon, along with Adept … Read more
When Apple announced the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max last year, I raised an eyebrow at the so-called Action button. While I like that Cupertino’s clever folks baked in more… errrr action into a somewhat redundant mute slider, I was less sold on the limitations of the button; after all, you could … Read more
As a foreigner, navigating health insurance systems can often be difficult. German startup Feather thinks it has a solution and raised €6 million to help some of the 40-plus million expats working and living in Europe. It is not that there are no options for foreign nationals to get insurance; there are plenty. But it … Read more
AMD has officially pushed out FSR 3.1, the latest version of its upscaling and frame generation box of tricks that offers better quality – and a key ability that PC gamers are going to love – with initial support for five games. You might remember that FSR 3.1 was announced back at GDC 2024 in … Read more
When Ironspring Ventures launched in 2020 to back startups in industrial sectors like construction and manufacturing, it was one of very few early-stage venture firms paying attention to those capital-intensive sectors. Now, the firm is doubling down. The Austin, Texas-based firm raised $100 million for its second fund to focus on industrial startups. This is … Read more