This baseball radar gun plugs into an iPhone

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

Tucked away in the recesses CES 2025’s Eureka Hall startup showcase, CaiqueTech showed off a novel take on the tried-and-true baseball radar gun. After building a standalone device, the Korean firm has created a modular version that plugs directly into a phone via the USB-C port. The PI SpeedGun module has radar built in. While […]
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Feds investigate Tesla’s ‘Actual Smart Summon’ after several crashes

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into 2.56 million Tesla vehicles after several crashes involving the automaker’s “Actual Smart Summon” remote parking feature. Tesla released Actual Smart Summon, or ASS for short, via software update in September. It allows Tesla owners to use their app to command the vehicle drive itself […]
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Meta employees criticize Zuckerberg decisions to end fact-checking, add Dana White to board

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

Meta employees internally criticized the company’s decision to end third-party fact-checking two weeks before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

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Nuclear startup Deep Fission plans to bury micro-reactors to power data centers

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

Deep Fission’s small modular reactors would be lowered on cables down a 30-inch, one-mile deep borehole.
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Chinese VCs are hounding failed founders to claw back their investments

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

In the U.S., it’s accepted that most startups fail — and when that happens, VCs (generally) accept their losses and move on. But that’s not the case in China, where VCs are trying to claw back their investments in failed startups by pursuing the personal assets of their founders in court, The Financial Times reports. […]
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Dell Phases Out XPS Branding for New Pro and Pro Max Laptop Tiers

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

Named brands like XPS and Inspiron will now fall under size categories. Plus, Dell expanded its partnership with AMD.

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Anthropic reportedly in talks to raise $2B at $60B valuation, led by Lightspeed

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

OpenAI rival Anthropic is in talks to raise $2 billion in new capital in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to The Wall Street Journal. The round, which The Journal reports would value Anthropic at $60 billion, would bring Anthropic’s total raised to $15.7 billion, going by Crunchbase’s data. It would also […]
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Xpeng Aero HT unveils ‘flying car’ that’s part-van, part-eVTOL at CES 2025

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

Xpeng Aero HT, the aerospace company under Chinese EV startup Xpeng, unveiled at CES 2025 its “modular flying car,” the so-called Land Aircraft Carrie. It’s ssentially an electric minivan with a small folding eVTOL (vertical takeoff and landing vehicle) tucked in the back, which can be rolled out and launched into flight.  The company says […]
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Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have ‘Mental Illness’

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

Meta rolled out a number of changes to its “Hateful Conduct” policy Tuesday as part of a sweeping overhaul of its approach toward content moderation.

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Meta’s Fact-Checking Partners Say They Were ‘Blindsided’ by Decision to Axe Them

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Techme101

Fact-checkers claim they had no idea the company was going to end their partnerships and are scrambling to figure out the financial implications of the move.

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