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Wireless charging firm Aira raises $12M

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We’ve written about the company’s wireless charging a few times over the years, including the “FreePower” technology it has baked into Nomad’s charging pads, which brings a more streamlined version of the Apple’s abandoned AirPower. Aira takes key investment to build its fantastic smartphone wireless charging pad into vehicles.

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WeLink raises $185M to deliver high-bandwidth wireless internet to the home using 5G

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Taking advantage of advances in 5G in the millimeter spectrum as well as rapidly declining hardware costs, the startup is pioneering a mesh network of wireless base stations that can transmit high-bandwidth signals across entire neighborhoods at relatively cheap infrastructure installation costs. Photos via WeLink.

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Timekettle’s $699 translation hardware handles multiple languages at once

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The technology is increasingly becoming a mainstay of wireless earbuds, and the recent explosion of generative AI platforms will only serve to further these impressive results. Improvements to processing power, machine learning and cloud platforms have all played key roles in this development. It’s easy to […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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From edge to cloud: The critical role of hardware in AI applications

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All this has a tremendous impact on the digital value chain and the semiconductor hardware market that cannot be overlooked. Hardware innovations become imperative to sustain this revolution. So what does it take on the hardware side? Wireless at the edge It goes without saying that our digital experiences today are wireless.

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Qualcomm Ventures invests in four 5G startups

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These companies are private mobile network specialist Celona , mobile network automation platform Cellwize , the edge computing platform Azion and Pensando, another edge computing platform that combines its software stack with custom hardware.

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Indian electronics and lifestyle brand Boat raises $100 million from Warburg Pincus

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Boat, an electronics and lifestyle startup in India, has raised $100 million in a new financing round that many independent investors termed as the most successful hardware startup story in the world’s second-largest internet market. There aren’t many hardware startups in India. and AirPod-like earbuds at $27.

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Microsoft Hires Ex-Apple Exec in Charge of Wireless for Hardware

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s former executive in charge of wireless technologies to work on mixed reality hardware and artificial intelligence technology. Caballero is working on hardware such as the HoloLens mixed-reality headset, according to […]. Microsoft Corp. hired Apple Inc.’s