Science Corporation CEO Max Hodak announced that the company has implanted its vision-restoring chip, PRIMA, into its first patient with Stargardt disease, an inherited eye disease that gradually destroys central vision. Hodak, the former president and co-founder of Neuralink, the brain implant company, explained onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt how the company’s work with PRIMA fits…
Blueprints AI, a bootstrapped startup based in Santa Monica, developed software that produces code-compliant construction blueprints from a photo, PDF, or sketch…
The U.S. Air Force will buy data collected by WindBorne Systems‘ fleet of autonomous weather balloons under a new contract that could be worth nearly $50 million to the startup. WindBorne currently has about 700 weather balloons flying around the globe, collecting atmospheric sensor readings that the company sells to customers and also feeds into…
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Image Credits:Sony Pictures 1:51 PM PDT · October 11, 2026 “The Social Reckoning,” Aaron Sorkin’s follow-up to “The Social Network,” is on track to make only $5.5 million at the domestic box office this weekend, according to Sunday estimates. That’s below the already underwhelming $7 million to $8 million the studio had projected, and it…
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The startup says its fuel cells are super efficient and cut fuel costs during a time when the tech industry can’t get enough electricity…
12:50 PM PDT · October 10, 2026 Apple revealed in a regulatory filing that it has reached an agreement to bring on team members and technology from personalized audio startup Huxe, in what’s commonly known as a reverse acqui-hire deal. As first reported in MacRumors, Apple disclosed to the European Commission that it has agreed…





