Startup founders, set your sites on TC Sessions: Robotics+AI, which takes place on March 3, 2020. This annual day-long event draws the brightest minds and makers from these two industries — 1,500 attendees last year alone. And if you really want to make 2020 a game-changing year, grab yourself a demo table and showcase your
Month: January 2020
While most of the world agrees that carbon dioxide emissions from human activity are creating a climate crisis, there’s little consensus regarding how to address it. One of the solutions that’s both the most obvious and, seemingly, the most difficult for the international community to agree on is establishing a market that would put a
CES Day 1 brought some major announcements, and the convention floor wasn’t even open yet. Today, Tuesday, January 7, we’ll be able to get our hands on some exciting tech and start playing with all the weird and wonderful toys we’ve read so much about. We’ll be updating this post throughout Day 2 with the
Production on the Willow sequel series is officially underway, according to writer Jon Kasdan. On Twitter, Kasdan shared an image of a cap bearing an animated picture of the title character, effectively confirming that the project is getting made. The office is open. pic.twitter.com/wty5ENi3He — Jon Kasdan (@JonKasdan) January 6, 2020 Ron Howard, who directed
Delta is keynoting CES today and launching a slew of updates to its digital services. Its competitors don’t want to be left behind, of course, so it’s probably no surprise that American Airlines also made a small but nifty tech announcement today. In partnership with Google, American will start trialing Google Nest Hubs and the
One of the new products unveiled at CES this year is a new kind of home security system – one that includes drones to patrol your property, along with sensors designed to mimic garden light and a central processor to bring it all together. Sunflower Labs debuted their new Sunflower Home Awareness System, which includes
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Today we’re digging into seed-stage companies, the vanguard of the venture market. In particular, we’re trying to understand why the ratio of seed deals now favor enterprise startups over their consumer-focused brethren. The fact that
Gaming — with its huge demands on bandwidth, graphics and overall processing power — is likely to be one of the big use cases for 5G networking in the future, and today one of the big players in consumer gaming hardware showed off a 5G router that underscores that trend. Razer, the consumer electronics upstart
Billionaire tech founder Elon Musk made quite a splash in China today, where he took the stage to show off the Tesla Model 3 that’s made at the company’s new multibillion-dollar plant near Shanghai—the first outside of the U.S. The Tesla CEO was so happy, he started to dance. Or, at least we think that’s
Juro, a UK startup that’s using machine learning tech and user-centric design to do for contracts what Typeform does for online forms, has caught the eye of Union Square Ventures. The New York-based fund leads a $5 million Series A investment that’s being announced this morning. Also participating in the Series A are existing investors
Intel, the chip-making giant, has been on the road of refocusing its strategy in recent months. While it has sold its mobile chip operation to Apple and is reportedly looking for a buyer for its connected home division, it’s also been going through the difficult task of rethinking how best to tackle the longtime bread and
Andy Boxall/DigitalTrends Diesel has taken the stunning translucent body and strap design showcased on its best-looking traditional watches over the last few years, and given them a smart makeover, resulting in the beautiful Diesel On Fadelite. Both the case and strap are translucent and come in four different colors, three of which “fade,” hence the
CES is the time for electronics brands to go big, and when it comes to the sheer number of offerings, few companies go bigger than Harman, which owns everything from Harman Kardon to JBL. JBL, in particular, has some impressive offerings this year, and we’ve got the goods on the coolest gear from the brand
What is the Xbox Series X? Consider this: It has been more than six years since the launch of the Xbox One, and Microsoft has changed the platform significantly over that time. With the discontinuation of Kinect, a full redesign of the Xbox One S, and major enhancements of the Xbox One X, the Xbox
While newcomers like Fisker, Rivian, and Faraday Future challenge traditional automakers with unconventional EV designs, the old players are looking up. Literally. At CES 2020, Hyundai announced the S-A1, a flying taxi it hopes to produce “at automotive scale” by 2023. Like rivals Ford and Toyota, Hyundai is attempting to reposition itself as a “smart
“Despite a lot of publicity and social media, number of sign-ups were modest,” reads one of the last monthly reports I sent to my VCs before my startup ceased to exist. “After the initial wave, sign-ups have slowed right down to near pre-launch levels. User acquisition is our number-one priority and my biggest headache.” Like,
Jokes on them, I’d love to spend an hour in the V.I.PEE premium port-john. When it comes to bleeding-edge technology, not every idea is going to be an automatic winner. For every groundbreaking idea you see brought to life there are hundreds of unreleased products deemed too bizarre for public consumption. This is where CES
The lightweight VR glasses offer HDR visuals without the dreaded “screen-door” effect. With CES 2020 set to kick-off tomorrow morning, companies are already hard at work promoting a fresh wave of groundbreaking technology that will soon be available to demo at the annual consumer electronics showcase. This includes legendary Japanese electronics corporation Panasonic, which will
When Lenovo first teased its foldable PC back in May it clearly needed a bit more work—even if it showed a lot of promise. Six months later at CES 2020, Lenovo is ready to debut the world’s first foldable PC and it’s slick as hell. Now I know what you’re saying, aren’t all laptops foldable?
If you’re looking for a high-end Chromebook in 2020, there’s no shortage of devices to choose from. You can pick Google’s own Pixelbook, the newer Pixelbook Go, or one from another manufacturer like Samsung or HP. But never, until now, has there been a true competitor to the Pixelbook. More recently, though, the company announced the
CES 2020 is now in full swing and that can only mean one thing: Retailers are slashing prices to clear warehouse space for the influx of new 4K TVs and 8K TVs announced in Las Vegas, Nevada this week — making this the perfect chance for those of us who don’t need the latest hardware
tech2 News StaffJan 06, 2020 16:47:19 IST How on Earth does someone treat a life-threatening blood clot when you’re in space? Dr Stephan Moll at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine — a doctor and clotting expert — can tell you how. In an unprecedented case, an astronaut on a six-month mission at the
Despite a rocky past, French wearables maker Withings has been able to carve a decent niche for its products. Now, it’s kicking off the year’s biggest electronics trade show, CES, with a new hybrid smartwatch called the ScanWatch. The Withings ScanWatch, at least from the outside, is pretty much identical to its previous premium hybrid
tech2 News StaffJan 06, 2020 08:56:40 IST Astronomers at the Indian National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) in Pune have found a galaxy with a large ring of hydrogen wrapped around it, but no stars. Galaxies comprise of gas, solar systems, cosmic dust and stars. The galaxy observed by the researchers, AGC 203001, is located 260
Two more games for the Wii U are reportedly coming to the Nintendo Switch, and while they remain unnamed, it may be relatively easy to narrow down the possible titles. Reliable Nintendo insider Emily Rogers, who correctly reported that the Nintendo Switch would be unveiled in October 2016, said in a post on the ResetEra forums
Screenshot: Apple.com Apple products are notoriously expensive, but this is just ridiculous. Apparently, Apple’s website is still listing the 2006 iMac 17-inch 1.83-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo for around $1,000—depending on where you’re trying to buy from. The product listing was initially spotted by Twitter user @DylanMcD8 in the Canadian version of Apple.com, where it
Byton is about to win the automotive industry’s touchscreen war by putting a 48-inch unit in the upcoming M-Byte. That’s a lot of real estate to fill, so the Chinese company linked arms with partners from all over the broad technology spectrum to keep passengers connected on the move. It announced the first group of
With Labo VR having proved a success, Nintendo is now eyeing augmented reality as its next venture. During a recent interview with Japanese newspaper Nikkei, Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa expanded on the companies current interests and its exploration of new technologies; and while it sounds as though it could be some time before Nintendo begins
Square Enix will apparently soon release a demo for the Final Fantasy VII Remake on the PlayStation Network, and dataminers who have already combed through the game’s files discovered several interesting details about the highly anticipated RPG. Ahead of its official release, hackers have acquired a playable version of the Final Fantasy VII Remake demo, with
It’s finally here: the world’s leading manufacturers are about to showcase their latest hardware at CES 2020 in Las Vegas. Everything from toothbrushes and refrigerators to smartphones and televisions — and even internet-connected toilets — will be unveiled during exclusive media events starting January 6. Here’s what to expect. What is CES 2020? CES —