We’ve officially entered the mid-December hardware doldrums. Plainly no major hardware maker in its right mind is going to be announcing anything major in the next few weeks, for panic of preemptively cannibalizing holiday marketings. Things will, however, heat up immediately after the brand-new year with the kick off of …
Read More »Tiny Robobee X-Wing powers its flight with light
We’ve seen Harvard’s Robobee flying robot evolve for years: After first study to fly, it learned to swim in 2015, then to jump out of the sea again in 2017 — and now it has another trick up its non-existent sleeve. The Robobee X-Wing can fly employing merely the power …
Read More »EU opens formal antitrust probe of Broadcom and seeks interim order
The European Commission has opened a formal investigation into US chipmaker Broadcom which it supposes of restricting competition via a number of exclusivity practices in markets where it holds a resulting post such as for systems-on-a-chip, front-end chips and wifi chipsets. Earlier this year press reports intimated US powers are …
Read More »Takeaways from F8 and Facebook’s next phase
Extra Crunch gives members the opportunity to tune into conference call conducted and moderated by the TechCrunch novelists you read every day. This week, TechCrunch’s Josh Constine and Frederic Lardinois discuss major announcements that came out of Facebook’s F8 conference and dig into how Facebook is trying to redefine itself …
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