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The Xiaomi 17 Ultra has finally been unveiled in China as the brand’s flagship phone. Alongside the standard model, the company also announced a 17 Ultra Leica edition, which gets a unique design and a mechanical zoom ring. Xiaomi 17 Ultra The 17 Ultra comes with a Leica branded triple rear camera setup with a primary 50MP 1-inch size Light Fusion 1050L sensor with support for LOFIC technology. This is paired with a 200MP Samsung HPE 1/1.4-inch periscope telephoto unit that offers continuous optical zoom, and a 50MP ultrawide camera with autofocus. At the front, the phone features a flat…

There’s plenty of hype around AI and robots in healthcare, but the problem that’s actually costing hospitals money right now is operating room coordination. Two to four hours of OR time is lost every single day, not because of the surgeries themselves, but because of everything in between from manual scheduling and coordination chaos to guesswork about room turnover.   Today on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we’re bringing you a conversation that TechCrunch AI Editor Russell Brandom had with Conor McGinn, co-founder and CEO of Akara, the startup that recently landed a spot on Time’s Best Inventions of 2025 and is building what’s essentially air traffic control for hospitals using thermal sensors and…

Oppo is reportedly working on the K15 Turbo and K15 Turbo Pro as successors to the K13 Turbo series. While official details remain under wraps, leaks surrounding the Pro model continue to surface, with a new one revealing new specs. The latest leak comes from reliable tipster Digital Chat Station, who claims that the top-end K15 series model will be powered by the new MediaTek Dimensity 9500s chipset. The Oppo K13 Turbo Pro packs a 7,000mAh battery. In a previous leak, DCS had stated that the K15 Turbo Pro could be equipped with the newly launched Snapdragon 8 Gen 5…

If you’re a parent with young children, then you’ll probably hear this a lot on Christmas Eve: “Where’s Santa right now?” With tracking tools like the NORAD Santa Tracker and Google’s Santa Tracker, everyone can know when Father Christmas will arrive. Plus, there are now some new AI tools to bring the holiday magic. Here’s how to follow Santa’s journey this Christmas Eve with the help of AI. Track Santa Claus with NORAD NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) had the first ever Santa tracker in 1955. While it used to be just a boring animation of Santa’s sleigh and…

Apple is sending out one of its strongest years in recent memory. The iPhone 17 series is one of its best-selling smartphone lineups in recent memory and will help it edge out arch-rival Samsung as the world’s leading smartphone vendor for the first time in over a decade. But 2025 was significant for more than just iPhones as Apple extended its lead in the ARM chipset race with the M5, which is available on a wide variety of devices ranging from iPads, MacBooks and even the updated Vision Pro. The AirPods Pro 3 brought class-leading noise cancellation and upgrades in…

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Italy has ordered Meta to suspend its policy that bans companies from using WhatsApp’s business tools to offer their own AI chatbots on the popular chat app. The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) on Wednesday said it had found enough cause in its ongoing investigation into whether Meta was abusing its dominant position in the market to offer its Meta AI chatbot within WhatsApp to order the suspension of the policy. “Meta’s conduct appears to constitute an abuse, since it may limit production, market access, or technical developments in the AI Chatbot services market, to the detriment of consumers,” the Authority…

Last week, renders of the Motorola Signature surfaced online, revealing the smartphone’s design and color options. The Motorola Signature, reportedly codenamed ‘Urus’ and previously rumored as the Edge 70 Ultra, will be one of the first, if not the first, smartphones in Motorola’s new Signature series. There’s no word from Motorola about it yet, but thanks to Indian online retailer Flipkart, we now know the Signature series is coming soon. Motorola Signature in Carbon colorway • Motorola Signature in Martini Olive colorway (Source: Evan Blass) Flipkart has set up a promo page on its website for the…

Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200 contenders, and from them, the top 20 compete on the big stage for the Startup Battlefield Cup and a cash prize of $100,000. But the remaining 180 startups blew us away, too, in their respective categories and in their own pitch competition. Here is the full list of the agtech and food tech Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on why they landed in the competition. ÄIO What it does: Äio has developed a method to produce edible…

A new rumor from the prolific tipster known as Ice Universe comes to contradict the dimensions of the iPhone Fold that were revealed through purported CAD schematics last week. That’s why we urge you to take this with an extra bit of caution, more than usual. Anyway, according to Ice Universe, the iPhone Fold’s inner, folding screen will measure 7.58″ diagonally and will have a 4:3 aspect ratio, while its outer cover display will be 5.35″ diagonally. Samsung Wide Fold 5.4″/7.6″ 4:3iPhone Fold 5.35″/7.58″ 4:3 pic.twitter.com/9hWLKMIym1— Ice Universe (@UniverseIce) December 24, 2025 At the same time, Samsung is rumored to…