Tech News & Gadgets TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Countdown: Final Days to Secure Discounted Passes as San Francisco Prepares for Global Tech Convergence October 8, 2026 Azzam Bilal Chamdy The global technology ecosystem is officially in the final countdown to one of the industry’s most anticipated annual gatherings. Just five days remain before industry pioneers, visionary founders, venture capitalists,…
Tech News & Gadgets Mecka AI Secures $60 Million Series B Led by Sequoia to Fuel Humanoid Robot Training Data October 8, 2026 Evan Lee Salim The race to teach robots how to navigate the physical world just got a major financial boost. Mecka AI, a rising startup that specializes in collecting and analyzing human motion…
Tech News & Gadgets Nous Research Secures $90 Million Series B at $1.5 Billion Valuation to Scale Open-Source Enterprise AI Agents October 7, 2026 Iffa Jayyana Nous Research, the artificial intelligence startup behind the widely popular open-source Hermes agent, has officially closed a $90 million Series B funding round at a valuation of $1.5 billion. The…
Tech News & Gadgets Amazon Unveils Smart Lock with Manual Emergency Power Generation Alongside an Expanded Lineup of Retinal Vision 4K Security Cameras October 7, 2026 Muslim Amazon has announced a significant expansion of its smart home ecosystem, headlined by its first-ever smart lock designed to completely eliminate the need for a physical backup key when its…
Tech News & Gadgets Ring’s first smart lock can be hand-cranked when its battery dies October 7, 2026 Nana Wu The announcement, which marks a significant expansion for the smart home titan, introduces a device built to solve one of the most frustrating and persistent pain points plaguing the consumer…
Tech News & Gadgets OpenAI Releases Batch of Manuscripts Containing Solutions to Hundreds of Long-Standing Mathematical Problems October 7, 2026 Siti Muinah OpenAI has released a massive batch of manuscripts containing solutions to a vast array of long-standing mathematics problems. Generated by an unreleased frontier artificial intelligence model, the release comprises 722…
Tech News & Gadgets Amazon Knows Way Too Much About You—And Its Profile Page Might Just Call You Out October 7, 2026 Sagoh It should not come as a massive surprise that Amazon collects data about you based on what you buy. If you purchase a high volume of cat litter, the e-commerce…
Tech News & Gadgets From Apple Watch Coder to Thiel Fellow: Sigil Wen Launches Underdog, a Privacy-First AI Assistant Backed by Silicon Valley Heavyweights October 6, 2026 Pevita Pearce When self-taught coder Sigil Wen was just 17 years old, he made a life-altering move to Silicon Valley, immersing himself in an AI hacker house alongside renowned researcher Andrej Karpathy.…
Tech News & Gadgets The Pixel Watch 5 is a better value at $65 off October 6, 2026 Dwi Wanna During the ongoing October shopping event, Amazon has slashed $60 off the standard retail prices for both size configurations of the smartwatch. The smaller 41mm version of the Pixel Watch…
Tech News & Gadgets Pinterest Introduces AI-Powered ‘Beauty Guides’ to Bridge the Gap Between Digital Inspiration and Salon Reality October 6, 2026 Raul Delapena Setiawan Pinterest is taking its long-standing reputation as a digital mood board for hair and beauty a step further, bridging the often frustrating gap between saved online inspiration and the reality…
