Generalist, a robotics startup, is now valued at $3 billion after raising additional capital led by 8VC, according to two people with knowledge of the funding. The fresh capital totals nearly $200 million according to a regulatory filing. That additional capital is an extension of a $400 million Series B led by Radical Ventures that
Wearables like fitness trackers and smart rings traditionally focus on collecting health data at the individual level, but the AI-powered intelligent family care system Luffu is expanding that scope. Launched by Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman in February, Luffu started out as an app where family members could log health information, including medications,
Garmin just took the wraps off its new line of rugged Fenix 9 smartwatches, with the base model featuring an OLED display with a brightness of up to 3,000 nits, making it twice as bright as its predecessor. Starting at $999.99 for the 43mm case option, the Fenix 9 has 50 percent more RAM and
At the San Diego City Council’s most recent budget meeting, Sith Lord Darth Vader had some points to make. Between gasping breaths, Vader praised the council’s recent votes to renew its contract with the surveillance company Flock Safety, which has been making headlines recently as more and more stories of police officers abusing its tools
Nitter, an open source project that allowed people to read X posts without logging into or even opening the X app, has received cease-and-desist letters from X demanding that it shut down. The news was shared via a brief message posted to the project’s website, and follows X’s earlier attempts to knock Nitter offline by
Apple’s iCloud Private Relay is back to private status, after an apparent fix in iOS 26.6.1 patched the vulnerability that would expose a person’s IP address even when the feature was enabled. iCloud Private Relay is a paid feature available only to those with an iCloud Plus subscription. When it’s active, it routes web traffic