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Clicks Technology has begun shipping its $99 Power Keyboard, a MagSafe-compatible slide-out keyboard for smartphones, with 75% of first-batch preorders shipped as of last week.
Discovered Materials raised a $9 million seed round to use swarms of AI agents and physics simulations to find new materials that keep AI chips from overheating.
A two-month review found the $630 Kindle Scribe Colorsoft fun to use but too large and expensive to be a must-have for most readers.
Wacom's MovinkPad 11, an 11.45-inch Android tablet for digital art, costs $500 — a midrange price between budget and professional options, per a TechCrunch review.
Framework has notified all customers that hackers stole their names, emails, phone numbers, and addresses in a breach at vendor Metabase.
SpaceX said it will build natural gas power plants and battery arrays to power its planned Terafab chip factory in Texas, notably without mentioning solar power.
OpenAI's donut-shaped AI hardware device, developed with Jony Ive's LoveFrom, could reportedly sell for $300 to $400 when it launches in 2027.
Ford is betting its new Fathom EV pickup, starting under $30,000, can succeed even though it's unlikely to become a sales blockbuster like the Taurus or Explorer.
Tesla and SpaceX will invest $16.8 billion to begin building Terafab, a giant chip factory in Grimes County, Texas, that Musk calls the largest building on Earth.
Ford's next electric truck, Fathom, will start at $28,350 when it goes on sale in 2027, with deliveries beginning that fall.
Travis Kalanick's robotics startup Atoms hired former Uber finance chief Gautam Gupta as CFO, continuing a pattern of ex-Uber hires weeks after its $1.7 billion raise.
Amazon-owned Zoox will begin charging for robotaxi rides in Las Vegas on August 10, marking the start of its first commercial operations.
Anthropic is building a team to design its own AI chips, co-designing hardware and models to run Claude faster and more efficiently.
Waymo has opened its robotaxi service in Dallas to all residents and visitors, dropping the waitlist it used since a February public launch that drew about 150,000 riders.
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel dodged investor questions about preorder demand for the company's $2,195 Specs smart glasses on Monday's earnings call, weeks before the device's September launch event.
A global memory chip shortage driven by AI companies' demand is straining MacBook Air supply, with Apple raising prices, sourcing from Chinese suppliers, and delaying its back-to-school promotion, Bloomberg reports.
Uber has struck deals with more than 30 autonomous-vehicle companies in two years, building a global robotaxi network after abandoning its own self-driving program in 2020.
TechCrunch tested four handheld fans, from Dyson and Shark's $99–$149 premium models to a $13 budget pick, and found price didn't decide the winner.
Also, the e-bike company Rivian spun out in 2025, will begin delivering its $4,500 TM-B Launch Edition next week, after months of delays tied to unspecified supply-chain issues.
Samsung expects the ongoing RAM chip shortage to intensify in 2027 and persist until at least 2028, as AI labs lock in long-term supply deals and device prices keep climbing.