How Ford is building more efficient EV batteries with help from a tiny charging startup it bought 2 years ago
Kristin Toussaint / fastcompany - When it comes to EVs, a bigger battery isn’t always better. Ford Motor Company is making that bet as part of its effort to manufacture a new suite of more affordable electric vehicles—beginning with a $30,000-starting-price mid-size electric truck set to …
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Western Digital is Sold Out of Hard Drives for 2026
msmash / slashdot - Western Digital's entire hard drive manufacturing capacity for calendar year 2026 is now fully spoken for, CEO Irving Tan disclosed during the company's second-quarter earnings call, a stark sign of how aggressively hyperscalers are locking down storage s…
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Bedfordshire biotech Tozaro secures £6M from Mercia to scale gene therapy platform
Vignesh R / techfundingnews - Modern medicine is facing a significant pricing crisis. While breakthrough gene therapies offer potential cures for rare genetic…
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TUM spinout Sitegeist grabs €4M for AI robots fixing concrete renovation labour crunch
Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - Europe has a major backlog of infrastructure repairs. Many bridges, tunnels, parking structures, and public buildings need urgent…
Back to Top / Monday, February 16, 2026, 2:20 am / permalink 19226 / 4 stories in 18 days
First PCIe 6.0 SSD enters mass production with 28GB/s speeds, 5.5 million IOPS, and liquid cooling — Micron 9650 Series SSDs support air and liquid cooling
tomshardware - Micron is the first SSD maker to introduce the world's first mass-produced PCIe 6.0 datacenter SSD. The Micron 9650 series is capable of speeds of up to 28 GB/s.
Back to Top / Saturday, February 14, 2026, 7:20 am / permalink 19184 / 4 stories in 20 days
Apple Testing ‘iPhone Flip’ as First Foldable Nears Launch
Nehal Malik / iphoneincanada - Apple may be closer than ever to entering the foldables race — and it looks like it’s not putting all its eggs in one basket. According to a new report from MacRumors, Apple is testing a flip-style foldable iPhone, citing supply chain information shared b…
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simmetry.ai expands AI training platform following €330K funding
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - simmetry.ai, asynthetic data company working across agriculture, food and industrial sectors,has secured €330,000 from NBank, the investment and development bank of theGerman state of Lower Saxony. Th...
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Waymo’s next-gen robotaxi is ready for passengers — and also ‘high-volume production’
Andrew J. Hawkins / theverge - After years of testing and validation, Waymo announced today that it's sixth-generation robotaxi technology is finally ready for passenger trips. The updated autonomous driving system will first be rolled out for employees and their friends in San Francis…
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- On the ground: Ojai robotaxis roll out, production-ready for riders (4)
- Waymo’s push: one‑million weekly rides and rapid market scaling (2)
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Field ops: DoorDash pilots and DC lobbying battle local rules
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Back to Top / Thursday, February 12, 2026, 12:20 pm / permalink 19078 / 14 stories in 22 days
Apple Stores See iPhone 16e, iPad Air Shortages as New Models Near
Tim Hardwick / macrumors - Apple's retail inventory of iPhone 16e and iPad Air models has reportedly dwindled to almost nothing as the company inches towards the release of new versions of both devices. They are expected to launch in the coming weeks.In a post on X (Twitter), Bloom…
Back to Top / Thursday, February 12, 2026, 8:21 am / permalink 19062 / 4 stories in 22 days
Memory price surge of ‘more than 600%’ squeezes China’s device makers
scmp - A global memory supply shock is sweeping through the electronics industry, as surging component costs threaten to squeeze China’s smartphone and broadband equipment manufacturers.New data from TrendForce and Counterpoint Research point to mounting risks a…
Back to Top / Thursday, February 12, 2026, 8:21 am / permalink 19061 / 10 stories in 22 days
Foxconn’s Scrapped LCD Factory Deal Could Hit Apple
Nehal Malik / iphoneincanada - Apple’s supply chain may be facing a new wrinkle in Japan. According to Nikkei Asia, Foxconn has withdrawn from its planned acquisition of Sharp’s second LCD factory in Kameyama, citing weak LCD prices. As a result, Sharp will halt production at the facil…
Back to Top / Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 12:20 pm / permalink 19031 / 3 stories in 23 days
Apptronik raises $520M to produce humanoid Apollo robot commercial deployments
Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - Apptronik Inc., the maker of artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robots, today announced it has raised $520 million more in early-stage funding, bringing the total capital raised by the company to nearly $1 billion. The Series A-X extension round fol…
Back to Top / Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 9:21 am / permalink 19018 / 5 stories in 23 days
2027 Toyota Highlander EV First Look: 3 Rows, 2 Batteries, 1 Big Question
slashgear - Toyota's new Highlander gets a bold design and an all-electric drivetrain. Is it enough to win the growing three-row SUV segment?
Back to Top / Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 10:21 pm / permalink 19002 / 4 stories in 23 days
Allonic nabs $7.2M pre-seed to automate the ‘robot body’ supply chain
Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - Even though robotic intelligence has improved, manufacturing remains slow, costly, and constrained by outdated methods. Manually assembling parts…
Back to Top / Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 5:21 am / permalink 18969 / 8 stories in 24 days
UK chip startup Fractile announces £100m expansion plans
Oscar Hornstein / uktech - British semiconductor startup Fractile has unveiled plans to boost its capabilities with a £100m expansion to its UK facilities. Fractile emerged from stealth in 2024 with a £12m seed investment led by Kindred Capital, the NATO Innovation Fund and Oxford …
Back to Top / Tuesday, February 10, 2026, 4:21 am / permalink 18968 / 4 stories in 24 days
WtEnergy raises €10M to decarbonise Europe’s cement and chemicals
Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - Heavy industries in Europe, such as cement, paper, and chemicals, are under increasing pressure to reduce emissions and…
Back to Top / Monday, February 9, 2026, 8:21 am / permalink 18932 / 6 stories in 25 days
Imec opens NanoIC line for ultra-advanced chips
Berry Zwets / techzine - The Belgian research institute imec opened the NanoIC pilot on Monday. This line, an investment of 2.5 billion euros, is intended to develop ultra-advanced semiconductors. The facility is part of the European Chips Act and should help Europe get closer to…
Back to Top / Monday, February 9, 2026, 7:22 am / permalink 18929 / 3 stories in 25 days
Memory & NAND Prices Surged Over 90% In Q1 2026 & Another 20% Hike Expected In Q2
Hassan Mujtaba / wccftech - Q1 2026 has so far seen memory and NAND prices surge by over 90%, and another 20% hike is expected in the coming quarter of Q2. Both PC & Server Memory+NAND Prices Shot Over 90% In Q1 2026 (So Far), & Latest Reports Suggest Even More Hikes For Q2 Accordin…
Back to Top / Monday, February 9, 2026, 3:20 am / permalink 18923 / 3 stories in 25 days
ETH Zurich spinout Chiral bags $12M to scale robotic platform for graphene chip integration
Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Swiss deeptech startup Chiral has secured $12 million in seed funding to commercialise its robotic platform designed for…
Back to Top / Friday, February 6, 2026, 5:21 am / permalink 18826 / 4 stories in 28 days
Report claims Nvidia will not be releasing any new RTX gaming GPUs in 2026, RTX 60 series likely debuting in 2028
tomshardware - Nvidia's RTX 50 series Super refresh supposedly is design complete, but the GPU maker won't be releasing any new RTX GPUs in 2026, according to a report in The Information.
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