<p>Aviron’s home fitness equipment operates on a simple principle: People hate working out. But many of those same people love playing video games. Perhaps the only thing standing between them and a more active lifestyle is some healthy competition and well-timed distraction. It’s the same gamification concept that made Nintendo’s Wii and VR games like [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meta has unveiled the next generation of its Project Aria augmented reality glasses for research: Aria Gen 2. Aria Gen 2, which arrives roughly five years after the first-generation Aria device, adds new capabilities to the platform, including an upgraded sensor suite and Meta&#8217;s custom silicon. Aria Gen 2 has a PPG sensor for measuring [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Apple delivered its latest budget handset, the $599 iPhone 16e, without pomp. There was no big event in person, nor was there one online. No journalists scrambled through hoards of colleagues to snap photos of the phone. Instead, CEO Tim Cook tweeted out that new hardware was on the way, days before Apple announced the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Data storage and resilience company Lonestar and semiconductor and storage company Phison launched a data center infrastructure on a SpaceX rocket on Wednesday that&#8217;s headed to the moon. The companies are sending Phison&#8217;s Pascari storage — solid state drives (SSDs) built for data centers — packed with Lonestar&#8217;s clients&#8217; data on a SpaceX Falcon 9 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google announced on Wednesday that it has received FDA clearance for the Pixel Watch 3&#8217;s &#8220;Loss of Pulse Detection&#8221; feature and will be launching it in the U.S. at the end of March. The feature can detect when a user&#8217;s heart stops beating due to an event like primary cardiac arrest, respiratory or circulatory failure, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Proxima Fusion, a two-year-old German nuclear fusion startup, has published plans for a working fusion power plant in a peer-reviewed journal, in what is being touted as an important change in the race to generate limitless energy. Today’s nuclear fission reactors create radioactive waste, whereas nuclear fusion releases vast amounts of energy, with zero carbon emissions [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Amazon is hosting an Alexa-focused press event in NYC on Wednesday. Considering the company hasn&#8217;t held a major device presser in nearly two years — the last one was in September 2023 — we&#8217;re expecting some splashy announcements. The event will not be livestreamed. However, TechCrunch will be reporting on the ground. The festivities, emceed [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Apple Watch shipments in India grew 141% in 2024, while the country&#8217;s overall smartwatch market dipped 30% year-on-year.</p>

<p>The U.S. government is leaning hard on tech companies to make more commitments to building their businesses in the country, and Big Tech is falling in line. On Monday, Apple laid out its own plans in that area: It will spend $500 billion over the next four years in areas like high-end manufacturing, engineering, and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Apple Intelligence is heading to the Vision Pro as part of an upcoming operating system update. Apple confirmed on Friday that its generative AI platform will arrive on the extended reality headset as part of visionOS 2.4. A beta version of the software is currently available for developers. The public version is set for an [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Apple has brought the iPhone 16e to offer a more affordable option within the iPhone 16 lineup, targeting emerging markets including India.</p>

<p>Hours after the acquisition was announced, several Humane employees received job offers. Others were not so lucky.</p>

<p>As anticipated, Apple revealed the long-awaited iPhone SE refresh Tuesday. The fourth-generation device arrives three years after the last major update to the budget-minded smartphone. This one arrives with a twist, however. The SE branding has been dropped to keep the device more in line with the company&#8217;s flagships. The new iPhone 16e starts at [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Data centers consumed 4.4% of U.S. electricity in 2023 and are estimated to use up to 12% by 2028. The majority of the energy that data centers suck up is used to help transfer data from chip to chip. A company called Hyperlume is looking to make that process more energy-efficient while also speeding it [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Murena, the French privacy firm that&#8217;s forked Android to deliver so-called deGoogled smartphones, has repeated the trick with a tablet. So if you&#8217;re keen to get your hands on a shiny Pixel Tablet &#8212; but without the usual bundle of Google apps and services &#8212; Murena has you covered. The Murena Pixel Tablet runs the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Humane announced on Tuesday that most of its assets have been acquired by HP for $116 million. The hardware startup is immediately discontinuing sales of its $499 AI Pins. Humane alerted customers who have already purchased the Pin that their devices will stop functioning before the end of the month &#8212; at 12 p.m. PST [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Level Zero Health, a female-founded medical device startup that&#8217;s aiming to break new ground by developing a device for continuous hormone monitoring, has closed an oversubscribed $6.9 million pre-seed funding round despite being only a little over a year old. The startup wants to do away with the need for invasive blood draws and support [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Broadcom and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) are separately exploring deals to take over parts of Intel, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Broadcom is reportedly considering an acquisition of Intel’s chip-design and marketing business, and would want a partner for the company’s manufacturing business, while TSMC is reportedly looking at controlling [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meta is forming a new team within its Reality Labs hardware division to build robots that can assist with physical tasks, Bloomberg reported. The team will be responsible for developing humanoid robotics hardware, potentially including hardware that can perform household chores. Meta&#8217;s new robotics group, which will be led by Marc Whitten, driverless car startup [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Public semiconductor company Arm will start making its own chips this year after landing a high-profile enterprise customer. Arm, which is majorly owned by SoftBank, will start making its own chips now that Meta has signed on as a customer, according to the Financial Times. The chip is expected to be a CPU for servers [&hellip;]</p>