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Fitness startup Ladder comes after Peloton for allegedly copying their app

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Ladder, an Austin, Texas-based fitness startup that makes a popular strength-training app, is accusing Peloton of ripping off its work with the launch of Peloton’s new Stength+ app, which exited beta on Wednesday. After receiving feedback from Peloton’s beta testers that the app looked, felt, and functioned much like Ladder’s own, the company says it […]

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Apple to shell out $1 billion on a manufacturing plant in Indonesia

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Negotiating with one of the largest companies in the world doesn’t sound easy, but that’s precisely what Indonesia has been doing for the past few weeks with iPhone maker Apple. The backstory here is that after the country required smartphones which are sold domestically to be made of at least 40% locally manufactured parts, Indonesia

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The OpenWRT One router is designed with ‘software freedom and right to repair’ in mind

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A new router designed in collaboration by the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) and OpenWRT Project is touted as the first router “designed and built with your software freedom and right-to-repair in mind.” OpenWRT is an open source, customizable operating system based on the Linux kernel, designed primarily for networking devices — such as routers. While

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Akhetonics gets fresh funding for a contrarian bet on all-optical chips

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Photonics — a field that underpins light-based systems for manipulating data — has a bright future, as the rise of AI demands better computing performance, but it has yet to be fully applied to a new generation of chips. German startup Akhetonics hopes to change that. It’s raised a €6 million seed funding round (approximately

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DIY and synth-curious? Try putting together the analog POM-400 from Teenage Engineering

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The Pocket Operator Modular 400 from Teenage Engineering is an analog modular synthesizer that you put together yourself. If you’re at all interested in DIY kits or synths, this might be a great weekend project. You bend the bright yellow chassis into shape to start, mounting the various modules into place with tiny little screws.

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FTC finds that smart device makers fail to make clear how long their products will be supported

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A new paper from the Federal Trade Commission found that many smart device makers fail to disclose to consumers how long they will provide software updates for their products. The agency looked at 184 different smart devices, ranging from hearing aids to security cameras, and found that nearly 89% of them don’t provide buyers with

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Corning offers bundle of commitments in bid to settle EU antitrust probe

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After the European Union opened a competition investigation into Corning earlier this month, citing concerns over alleged exclusive dealing, the Gorilla Glass maker has offered a raft of changes to its contract clauses aimed at settling the probe. The U.S. company is a supplier to major electronics brands including Apple’s iPhone, and the changes could

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Raspberry Pi releases the Pico 2 W, a $7 wireless-enabled microcontroller board

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Meet the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, a tiny board designed around a microcontroller that lets you build hardware projects at scale. Raspberry Pi is once again using the RP2350, its own, well-documented microcontroller. But what is a microcontroller again? As the name suggests, microcontrollers let you control other electronic components or devices. Regular Raspberry

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