Formlabs on Thursday confirmed that it has laid off a “small number” of employees, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The 3D printing firm says the figure amounts to less than 40 of a total headcount of just under 750 employees. The layoffs occurred in waves over the past two years, and as recently as the last […]
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Right before the mechanical keyboard hobby exploded during the pandemic, Andrew Kannan launched the Satisfaction 75 while still working as an engineer at Klaviyo. Though it took a little while for the first production run of 200 units to sell out, the Satisfaction has become somewhat of a classic. Since then, Kannan co-founded CannonKeys together
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Sonos has laid off 100 employees, 14 months after reducing its 1,800 headcount by 7%. The home audio company confirmed the news with TechCrunch, following an initial report by The Verge. “We made the difficult decision to say goodbye to approximately 100 team members representing 6% of the company. This action was a difficult, but
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VR locomotion is a hard problem that has produced all sort of interesting peripherals, from the Virtuix Omni treadmill to the 3DRudder footboard. There’s been a ceiling on success for these sorts of devices, owing to things like price, size and limited adoption of VR headsets. London-based Roto VR is delivering its own solution to
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Hadrian founder and CEO Chris Power got tired of turning startups away. Since 2020, Power has raised $220 million for Hadrian, a largely autonomous factory that mass produces parts for space and defense companies. While Hadrian has produced parts for major defense companies, it had to turn away some defense tech startups because startups have
On Tuesday at its Made by Google event, Google announced that the new Pixel 9 line is coming to India. The news also finds the company’s new foldable launching in the world’s second largest smartphone market for the first time. Google is expanding its sales channels in the country by partnering with two offline retail
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Pixel Phones dominated Tuesday’s Made by Google 2024 event. In addition to a full refresh for the Pixel 9 line, the company unveiled the successor to its first foldable, the Pixel Fold. Google rejiggered its numbering scheme this time out, jumping to Pixel 9 Pro Fold for what is its second take on the category.
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Tuesday’s Made by Google event cemented Gemini’s place as the Pixel’s default assistant. The company had previously allowed users to opt in to replace Google Assistant with the generative AI platform, and now the newly announced Pixel 9 phones are the first devices to ship that way by default. Google notes that if users are
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Google’s been on a consumer hardware jag in August. Last week, the company announced the long-awaited new Nest Thermostat, along with Google TV Streamer, which replaces the 11-year-old Chromecast line. And today at Made by Google 2024, the software giant will refresh the Pixel line with a slew of new smartphones. Previous years’ Made by
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Last week, Anduril and Palantir delivered the first Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) — picture a tactical military truck designed to sweep up massive amounts of data from sensors in space, as well as across terrains and high altitudes — reaching the first major milestone in its $178 million contract with the U.S. Army.
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