Aina opens pre-orders for $399 AI ring with screen, joystick and speaker
Backed by $5.5 million raised in July, Aina pitches its new ring as a controller for AI agents and everyday apps, with shipping slated for January 2027.
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RadianX raises $5M seed to build perovskite solar power packages for devices
The startup says its perovskite cells capture indoor light twice as well as existing panels, targeting electronics that rarely or never need charging.
Discovered Materials puts $1M in prizes on five materials problems AI has not cracked
The Y Combinator startup will pay $200,000 per solution to open problems defined with university academics, from superconductivity to chip interfaces.
Box builds Nvidia Nemotron embeddings into new retrieval feature for AI agents
Box Content Retrieval uses Nvidia's open-weight embedding models to hand agents the most relevant document passages, with a rollout planned for early next year.
Democrats' sweep of Congress puts AI companies and data centers in the spotlight
With both chambers won, Democrats are signaling hearings for AI executives, stricter data center rules and probes into Elon Musk's DOGE role.
Nintendo leaned on younger developers to trim Ocarina of Time for Switch 2
Producers Eiji Aonuma and Hidemaro Fujibayashi describe a remake that adds camera control and free jumping while cutting clutter.
MIT memory system lets robots flag and repair mislabeled objects on the fly
UQ-DAAAM scores how unsure a robot is about what it saw, then draws on extra camera viewpoints to rewrite object captions it cannot trust.
Titan OS secures $46 million in equity and debt as smart TV user base hits 30 million
The Barcelona startup, now backed by $110 million in total funding, plans to push into new markets and sign more TV maker partnerships.
Northeastern study finds Vizio, Samsung and Roku TVs keep tracking after ACR opt-out
Researchers tested 12 smart TVs and found most stopped sending viewing data once users opted out, but several brands did not.
Revolut valued at $115B in secondary sale as it readies a US bank launch
Existing shares changed hands at a price 53% above last year's sale, giving the British fintech a higher valuation without raising new capital.
Sam Altman says he wants more RAM for everyone after podcast remarks
The OpenAI CEO renamed himself Ram Altman on X and said his comments about consumer DRAM had been taken out of context.
SpaceX taps Qualcomm Dragonwing gear for Starlink Mobile 5G cell sites
A multi-year agreement will put Qualcomm infrastructure at tens of thousands of US sites from 2027 as SpaceX builds out a rival mobile carrier.
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