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There has been a flurry of AI voice recording gadgets like Omi, Bee, and Friend that want to capture your voice and let you converse with an AI chatbot. While Bee was acquired by Amazon, and devices like the Stream ring by Sandbar and a new AI ring from former Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky are set to enter the market next year, the jury is still out on the success of wearable AI devices. 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…

Ai+ is a relatively young tech brand led by former Realme India CEO Madhav Sheth and it is set to launch its first foldable phone – the NovaFlip soon in India. The brand has been teasing the device for some time now and we have a launch time frame to look forward to. NovaFlip is set to make its debut in Q1, 2026. Ai+ NovaFlip is confirmed to launch in Q1,2026 This means we should see the NovaFlip launch in the foreseeable future as we await a proper launch date confirmation. In terms of design, we can see…

If you’ve ever wanted to change your Gmail address at some point in the past (probably to make it sound more professional or less cringe), then you might have already learned that Google generally does not allow users to modify their “@gmail.com” address. That being said though, new information online shows that this might change soon. A recently-discovered support page shows that users will soon be able to switch to a new Gmail username without losing their data—under this new system, a user’s original email address becomes an alias, meaning that they will still receive messages sent to the old…

Money was no object for the AI industry in early 2025. A vibe check crept in the second half of the year.  OpenAI raised $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation. Safe Superintelligence and Thinking Machine Labs raised individual $2 billion seed rounds before shipping a single product. Even first-time founders were raising at a scale that once belonged only to Big Tech.  Such astronomical investments were followed by equally incredible spends. Meta shelled out nearly $15 billion to lock up Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and spent countless more millions to poach talent from other AI labs. Meanwhile, AI’s…

vivo seems to be getting ready to launch the upcoming X300 Ultra outside of China as well, which is very welcome news since that hasn’t been the case for its predecessors. The global version of the X300 Ultra, with the model number V2562, has been certified in Europe ahead of its release. According to a previous certification, the X300 Ultra will support 100W wired charging. Past rumors claimed it would arrive before the end of April with a 7,000 mAh battery, a 200MP main camera using Sony’s IMX09E 1/1.12″ type sensor, a 200MP periscope telephoto camera using Sony’s IMX09A sensor,…

CARROT Weather provides users with a sleek, minimalistic interface, comprehensive forecast reports and details, and humorous, sarcastic comments. You can get the current temperature, see the forecast for the rest of the week or by the hour, and get detailed bits of information like precipitation chance, humidity, and more. Plus, there’s a fun time travel feature if you are curious what the weather was like in the past or even get a prediction for the future, and you unlock many secret locations from all over the fictional world. CARROT Weather is one of the best weather apps available on the…

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 January Ventures shared with the crowd their candid views on what works in a pitch deck — and what doesn’t. Their biggest pet peeve? Buzzword overload. The more a founder says AI in the pitch, Agarwal said, the less AI the company likely uses. “The people who are doing things that are really innovative, they’ll talk about it, and it’s built in, but it’s not the core of their pitch,” she told the audience.   Bansal, who built and sold multiple companies…

At CES in early January, Samsung won’t have a traditional booth. Instead, the company has announced that it’s going its own way, doing its own thing, setting up a standalone exhibition hall at The Wynn. There, Samsung says it will “curate an experience that adopts techniques used in art galleries and museums” to unveil its new products. The company has previously teased new TVs, monitors, and appliances all being revealed at this new location. Aside from being an exhibition space, Samsung’s CES home at The Wynn enables presentations, events, technology forums, and consultations with key clients and partners to be…

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As social media becomes increasingly reliant on algorithmic feeds, creators are navigating a new normal: Just because you post something doesn’t mean your followers will see it. “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. This isn’t news to creators – Patreon CEO Jack Conte has ardently banged this drum for years – but throughout the year, the industry at large has reacted to this phenomenon in different ways, from the influencers to the streamers. According to the executives that TechCrunch spoke to…