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Chi Xu, the founder and CEO of XREAL, thinks the smart glasses business has finally reached a turning point.

From a robot stirring your soup to a bread machine that kneads your dough, here are 6 gadgets that may make you feel like you’ve won adulthood.

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

Like other AI wearables, Amazon's Bee offers an odd combination of convenience and privacy anxiety.

What sets Dreamie apart from all of the other fancy alarm clocks is laughably simple: It can play podcasts.

SolarSquare could be valued at up to $500 million in the financing expected to close next month.

Apple, Meta, and Google offer special security modes that provide your devices more secure against targeted spyware attacks. Here are how those modes work, what they do, and how to switch them on.

IBM and Scuderia Ferrari HP take TechCrunch inside how they are redefining the fan experience.

Deep Fission is seeking an IPO that could raise $157 million, though investors may have trouble buying the nuclear startup's story.

Elon Muks's xAI has gone all in on natural gas, while SpaceX is obsessed with orbital data centers. What happened to the "solar-electric economy" he promised?

Peec, which helps brands track their presence in AI searches, offers proof of a key trend among European startups.

People used AI on a spectrogram image of cockpit recordings to reconstruct them, forcing the NTSB to temporarily block access to its docket system.

The company had a mostly successful first launch of its upgraded Starship V3, which it needs to power its many ambitious goals in the years to come.

Jeff Bezos' rocket company confirmed an engine failure led to the loss of an AST SpaceMobile satellite last month, but offered little detail.

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