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I hope the tracking is better than it was on previous Anker sleepbuds. | Image: Anker Anker just announced its new Soundcore Sleep Earbuds 4 and 4 Pro for side-sleepers. They include the same audio ma
Nanoleaf’s colorful wall panels will work in the Hue app thanks to a partnership between the two companies. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Philips Hue is finally adding wall panels int
The Anker MindBase offers a local solution for advanced AI processing of camera footage and is a smart home hub that supports Matter. | Image: Anker Anker is launching the Eufy MindBase, a local AI hu
After introducing a consumer-friendly UV printer last year capable of printing designs directly on materials like wood, metal, glass, and acrylic, Anker's eufyMake brand is introducing a new machine t
Anker’s first OTC hearing aids, powered by the Thus chip, are expected in coming months. | Image: Anker In what could be fortuitous timing for hearing aid users, Anker announced its first over-the-cou
The Soundcore Space 2 Pro will be the first headphones to run on Anker’s Thus chip. | Image: Soundcore After introducing the Thus processing chip in April and releasing it with the Liberty 5 Pro serie
Peace, man. | Image: Anker Anker's SleepLab speaker promises to track and enhance sleep without a wearable. It uses millimeter-wave radar (60GHz) blasting from your nightstand to track micro-movements
The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations on what it takes to build and scale.
Uber beat out Waymo in launching a commercial robotaxi service in London, the city's first. The vehicles use autonomous driving tech developed by Wayve, a UK-based startup, and will initially feature
The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de-facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers believe.
On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two.
Google has dodged an effort to break up its ad business, but a judge said Wednesday that the company will need to adjust its business to benefit competitors.
OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.
The once-dominant mapping app has surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store after refusing to adopt Trump’s “Lake America” name, drawing more than half of its 2026 U.S. downloads in just six days.
Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, arriving just a few weeks after its predecessor. The company claims the new model "works harder" than Gemini 3.7 Flash by performing more reasoning steps on complex t
An identity theft search site claimed to have more than 150 million driver's license photos stolen from an ID verification service. The crime site has now shut down.
If approved, the combined company would become one of the largest food delivery platforms in the world.
The discounted Garmin InReach 3 Mini can help you stay in touch when you’re out in the wilderness. | Image: Garmin Summer is winding down, but REI’s Labor Day sale is here to help save you some bucks