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CES 2026: Follow live as Nvidia, Lego, AMD, Amazon, and more make their big reveals
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CES 2026: Follow live as Nvidia, Lego, AMD, Amazon, and more make their big reveals

Well the AMD keynote was filled with product launches and a ton of guests! A quick recount. OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman, World Labs co-founder Dr. Fei-Fei Li, Absci CEO Sean...

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Amazon revamps Fire TV, launches its own ‘Artline’ televisions with frames at CES
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Amazon revamps Fire TV, launches its own ‘Artline’ televisions with frames at CES

Amazon is rolling out a Fire TV redesign that puts more focus on the content, while also simplifying the navigation and layout. The update represents the first major Fire TV release in years from a...

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Amazon’s AI assistant comes to the web with Alexa.com
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Amazon’s AI assistant comes to the web with Alexa.com

While Alexa-powered devices, including Amazon’s Echo smart speakers and screens, have a well-established footprint with over 600 million devices sold worldwide, Amazon believes that for its AI...

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Google previews new Gemini features for TV at CES 2026
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Google previews new Gemini features for TV at CES 2026

The company is first bringing these Gemini features and others to select TCL televisions before rolling them out more broadly to other Google TV devices in the months ahead. Designed for...

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LG’s new OLED TV is just 9mm thick
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LG’s new OLED TV is just 9mm thick

The South Korean company launched the Wallpaper line in 2017, and is now bringing it back with this model, dubbed OLED evo W6. The company says you can connect the TV to its Zero Connect Box...

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Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference
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Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference

A hacktivist remotely wiped three white supremacist websites live onstage during their talk at a hacker conference last week, with the sites yet to return online. As of this writing, WhiteDate,...

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10 useful gadgets for your first apartment
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10 useful gadgets for your first apartment

Moving into your first studio apartment can be exciting, but it can also feel a bit overwhelming. You quickly realize how much your old roommates helped out with stuff you took for granted, like...

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Clicks debuts its own take on the BlackBerry smartphone, plus a $79 snap-on mobile keyboard
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Clicks debuts its own take on the BlackBerry smartphone, plus a $79 snap-on mobile keyboard

The $499 smartphone is described as being “purpose-built” for people who carry two phones — one for work and one for personal use. That is, the company believes its market will be people who do a lot...

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OpenAI bets big on audio as Silicon Valley declares war on screens
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OpenAI bets big on audio as Silicon Valley declares war on screens

The form factors may differ, but the thesis is the same: audio is the interface of the future. Every space — your home, your car, even your face — is becoming a control surface. OpenAI’s new audio...

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Investors predict AI is coming for labor in 2026
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Investors predict AI is coming for labor in 2026

Concerns about how AI will affect workers continue to rise in lockstep with the pace of advancements and new products promising automation and efficiency. Evidence suggests that fear is...

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The dumbest things that happened in tech this year
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The dumbest things that happened in tech this year

Mark Zuckerberg, a bankruptcy lawyer from Indiana, filed a lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta. It’s not Mark Zuckerberg’s fault that his name is Mark Zuckerberg. But, like millions of...

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The phone is dead. Long live . . . what exactly?
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The phone is dead. Long live . . . what exactly?

True Ventures co-founder Jon Callaghan doesn’t think we’ll be using smartphones the way we do now in five years — and maybe not at all in 10. For a venture capitalist whose firm has had some big...

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12 investors dish on what 2026 will bring for climate tech
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12 investors dish on what 2026 will bring for climate tech

That resiliency is due in part to continued threat of climate change. Perhaps a bigger contributing factor is that many climate technologies have become either cheaper or better than the fossil fuel...

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The best AI-powered dictation apps of 2025
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The best AI-powered dictation apps of 2025

In some ways, 2025 was when AI dictation apps really took off. Dictation apps have been around for years, but in the past they’ve proved slow and inaccurate — unless you speak with particular accents...

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VCs predict enterprises will spend more on AI in 2026 — through fewer vendors
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VCs predict enterprises will spend more on AI in 2026 — through fewer vendors

Enterprises have been piloting and testing different AI tools for the past few years to figure out what their adoption strategy will look like. Investors think that period of experimentation is...

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The top 26 consumer/edtech companies from Disrupt Startup Battlefield
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The top 26 consumer/edtech companies from Disrupt Startup Battlefield

Here is the full list of the consumer/edtech Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on why they landed in the competition. What it does: Helps people find places that are accessible to...

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Here’s what you should know about the US TikTok deal
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Here’s what you should know about the US TikTok deal

The newly formed “TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC” will oversee the app’s operations, including data protection, algorithm security, content moderation, and software assurance. Oracle will serve as...

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How to make your startup stand out in a crowded market, according to investors
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How to make your startup stand out in a crowded market, according to investors

At TechCrunch Disrupt, three investors took the stage to dissect what makes — and breaks — a pitch deck. Jyoti Bansal, a founder-turned-investor; Medha Agarwal of Defy; and Jennifer Neundorfer of...

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Social media follower counts have never mattered less, creator economy execs say
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Social media follower counts have never mattered less, creator economy execs say

“I think that 2025 was the year where the algorithm completely took over, so followings stopped mattering entirely,” LTK CEO Amber Venz Box told TechCrunch. According to the executives that...

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2025 was the year AI got a vibe check
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2025 was the year AI got a vibe check

Money was no object for the AI industry in early 2025. A vibe check crept in the second half of the year. The first half of 2025 matched the fervor, and investor interest, of the prior year. That...

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Plaud Note Pro is an excellent AI-powered recorder that I carry everywhere
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Plaud Note Pro is an excellent AI-powered recorder that I carry everywhere

Amid all this, Plaud is thriving by targeting professional users with a different approach: a credit card-sized recording device that slips into your wallet. The company says it has shipped more than...

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Why the electrical grid needs more software
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Why the electrical grid needs more software

One of the nicest comments people have made about the electrical grid was … nothing. The grid works best when it fades into the background. That low-profile status has changed in recent years as...

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How to use the new ChatGPT app integrations, including DoorDash, Spotify, Uber, and others
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How to use the new ChatGPT app integrations, including DoorDash, Spotify, Uber, and others

To get started, make sure you’re logged into ChatGPT. Then type the name of the app you want to use at the start of your prompt, and ChatGPT will guide you through signing in and connecting your...

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The 32 top enterprise tech startups from Disrupt Startup Battlefield
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The 32 top enterprise tech startups from Disrupt Startup Battlefield

Here is the full list of the enterprise tech Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on why they landed in the competition What it does: Builds systems that use multiple forms of AI to...

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