TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2024

CES 2024 will be here before we know it, taking over Las Vegas with throngs of crowds, booths full of products and a lot of companies making claims about how AI is improving their offerings. As noted in our CES preview, though the conference has had its ups and downs of late, it’s increasingly become […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Microsoft has offered a miniscule concession to users determined to install Windows 11 on PCs that dont meet its minimum hardware requirements: you will be able to do it, but on your own head be it should things go wrong.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

It’s Apple event day, and that means lots of new hardware. Are you ready for a new iPhone, new Apple Watch and possibly an update on Vision Pro?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Located in a nondescript building in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood, the office is home to the startup’s hardware design teams. A few hours after this morning’s big unveil, Humane opened its doors to a handful of press. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

As a result, quantum hardware manufacturers develop their own cloud-based operating systems. We are expecting a first consolidation phase led by the 10 leading full-stack quantum hardware players,” said Benno Broer, CEO at Qu&Co. Today, a quantum processor is a complicated device requiring a lab environment.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2024

A year after announcing its own lineup of Roku-branded TVs, the hardware company revealed today a new range of high-end televisions. Roku also introduced Roku Smart Picture, an AI-powered feature that automatically adjusts picture and audio quality.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2024

Aurora and automotive supplier Continental have wrapped up the first phase of a more than $300 million project to mass produce autonomous vehicle hardware for commercial self-driving trucks. The two companies said Friday that the design and system architecture of an autonomous vehicle hardware kit is now complete.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Ledger, a company that makes a widely used and popular crypto hardware and software wallet, among other products, announced on X (previously Twitter) that someone had pushed out a “malicious version” of its […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Word is that various supply chain issues kiboshed plans to announce additional hardware at last month’s iPhone 15 event. Apple’s got one more event to go this year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Welcome back to Chain Reaction. In general, the total crypto market cap steadily rose 14% in the past week as more capital enters the crypto market. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Besides, the headphones didn’t get the same manner of hardware updates. AirPods only got a passive mention during the keynote at Apple’s event. It’s understandable — the iPhone 15 and Apple Watch Series 9 (and Ultra 2) were center stage.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Humane, a stealthy software and hardware company, is clearly milking the media hype cycle for all it’s worth. The company’s origin dates all the way back to 2017, when it was founded by former Apple employees, Bethany Bongiorno, Imran Chaudhri.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe provided more details Thursday on the company’s plans to update the hardware in its EVs next year — under a program internally called Peregrine — that he says will result in major cost savings. One of the biggest payoffs?

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CIO

AUGUST 2, 2024

But it’s time for data centers and other organizations with large compute needs to consider hardware replacement as another option, some experts say. Power efficiency gains of new hardware can also give data centers and other organizations a power surplus to run AI workloads, Hormuth argues.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The devices are housed in Fire TV Cube hardware — a decision Amazon made to […] © 2023 TechCrunch. The company this morning announced the launch of new $195 devices that allow enterprise users to access virtual desktop environments, like Amazon WorkSpaces, over the internet. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

In December, reports suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known as a data processing unit (DPU), for around $190 million. ” A DPU is a dedicated piece of hardware designed to handle certain data processing tasks, including security and network routing for data traffic. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2023

” In its crudest terms, the former category includes businesses focused on things like hardware and manufacturing; the latter, software and financial services. In 2014, investor and entrepreneur Peter Thiel infamously posed the distinction between companies that deal in “atoms” versus those that deal in “bits.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Trezor, a hardware crypto wallet company, debuted two new products this week at the Bitcoin Amsterdam conference — and we got to take a first look at them. Trezor Safe 3, a hardware crypto wallet, and Trezor Keep Metal, a “mistake-proof” backup solution for wallet passwords, launched in celebration of the company’s 10-year anniversary.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Xbox has brought is Cloud Gaming service to Meta Quest VR headset devices, as both companies said it would at the launch of the latest Quest 3 hardware earlier this year. The Xbox Cloud Gaming app has a beta label, and it’s limited to Quest 2, Quest 3 and Quest Pro headsets (sorry OG Quest […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Around a year ago, TechCrunch wrote about a little-known company developing AI-accelerating chips to face off against hardware from titans of industry — e.g. Nvidia, AMD, Microsoft, Meta, AWS and Intel. Its mission at the time sounded a little ambitious — and still does.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

“Through this collaboration, we’re bringing a new generation of reliable quantum hardware to customers by integrating and advancing Atom Computing’s neutral atom hardware into our Azure Quantum compute platform,” Jason Zander, executive vice president of strategic missions and technologies at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post Tuesday.

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CIO

AUGUST 6, 2024

Tech debt can take many forms — old applications, bloated code, and aging hardware among them — and while the issue often takes a back seat to innovation and new technology, it is on the minds of a lot of CIOs. Some organizations may also have the veteran IT workers needed to deal with legacy hardware and code, adds Madan.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2023

setups that move data between high- and low-cost storage hardware), today announced that it secured $118 million in a Series E round led by […] © 2023 TechCrunch. The New York-based startup, which provides a scale-out, unstructured data storage solution designed to eliminate tiered storage (i.e. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

SpaceX flew Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, for the second time today – and even though both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper stage had to be blown up in mid-air, it was still a huge success for the company best known for taking a rapidly iterative approach to hardware development. © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This demonstration mission may prove to be a case study in the difficulties of putting hardware on orbit […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2023

As automakers and technology companies continue to build ever-more sophisticated digital platforms into cars and other vehicles, a startup that’s built a system that makes it easy to connect that hardware to wireless networks around the world has picked up a major round of funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

It’s an effective approach, but new codecs require new hardware specially built to accelerate compression or decompression, making improvements slow to propogate. WaveOne claimed its approach — which was hardware-agnostic — could reduce the size of video files by as much as half, with better gains in more complex scenes.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Because Windows 11 Pro has new hardware requirements, your upgrade strategy must both address hardware and software aspects, not to mention security, deployment plans, training, and more. Assess hardware compatibility Hardware refresh requires careful planning and sufficient lead time.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The hype that started about a decade ago, powering a wave of startups to launch creative and experimental products — pitching parents on dedicated connected hardware and apps to help unlock their kids’ future tech career progression — has faded to […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2023

Microsoft is reportedly facing an internal shortage of the server hardware needed to run its AI, and the scarcity is driving prices up. In a 2019 analysis, OpenAI found that from 1959 to 2012, the amount of power used to train AI models doubled every two years, and that the power usage began rising seven times faster after 2012.

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CIO

AUGUST 5, 2024

In the same way the expertise of an F1 pit crew is essential to success, at HP we have the enterprise know-how, expertise and global reach across hardware, software, and services to be your pit crew as you embark on your journey into the future. Legacy infrastructure : Windows 11 is optimized for modern cloud-based management.

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CIO

AUGUST 21, 2024

Meter is an internet infrastructure company that spent the last decade re-engineering the entire networking stack from the ground up to provide everything an IT team needs––hardware, software, deployment, and management––to run, manage, and scale internet infrastructure for a business, at a fixed monthly rate. Your network.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Private station operators “are going to need an easy LEGO brick to build in space,” he told TechCrunch in a recent interview: versatile, modular hardware to let humanity build in space at scale. He also co-founded Altius Space Machines, which was eventually purchased by Voyager Space in 2019.

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CIO

AUGUST 20, 2024

Analysts note that while Nvidia remains well ahead in ecosystem and hardware traction, AMD is closing the gap quickly, making it increasingly difficult for a third player like Intel to catch up. Building on recent acquisitions The acquisition marks another move in AMD’s recent investment surge.

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CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Dell Technologies devices are produced with a three-pronged approach to cyber defense—software security, built-in hardware and firmware security, and supply chain security—that can mitigate threats as they happen. At the same time, companies are free to scale dynamically their use based on business needs.

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CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2024

If there’s any doubt that mainframes will have a place in the AI future, many organizations running the hardware are already planning for it. In some cases, that may be a better alternative than moving mission-critical data to other hardware, which may not be as secure or resilient, she adds.

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CIO

JULY 11, 2024

AI hardware is an anxious place to be right now unless you are Nvidia. AI is no different, which is why large tech platforms have carefully invested in their own AI chips even as they seem inclined to fill their datacenters with Nvidia hardware. AMD finds itself in the same role once again in AI. So far, it is keeping up.

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