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Tahawul Tech
4 days ago
- Tahawul Tech
Belkin unveils new gaming portfolio featuring power-packed charging accessories, gaming essentials
Belkin's first iteration of gaming accessories will feature products designed to be compatible with Nintendo Switch 2 LOS ANGELES, CA – Belkin, a leading consumer electronics brand for over 40 years, today announced its entry into the gaming accessories space with the launch of a new lineup designed to be compatible with the highly anticipated Nintendo Switch 2. Built on decades of experience in power, connectivity and device protection, and released under Belkin's innovation-focused Future Ventures category, this marks the company's first collection of products tailored specifically for the gaming community. Belkin is 'Leveling up your play' – bringing a new level of reliability to the gaming ecosystem that differentiates through premium materials, timeless design, and in-house engineering. The new range includes elevated accessories designed to enhance the gaming experience, featuring on-the-go charging solutions, audio gear, robust screen protection, and new travel cases built for effortless portability and protection. 'Gaming is a natural extension of the Belkin brand. With our legacy of creating products that empower people to 'be ready for today', we're excited to bring Belkin's trusted accessories into the world of gaming,' said Steve Malony, CEO of Belkin. 'This new portfolio not only allows us to support the next generation of Nintendo Switch, but also reflects our commitment to quality, innovation, and sustainability. It's an exciting step forward as we continue expanding into new categories and delivering meaningful products to meet the needs of our diverse community of users.' Belkin's new gaming accessories include: Charging Case for Nintendo Switch 2 Travel Case for Nintendo Switch 2 TemperedGlass Anti-Reflective Screen Protector for Nintendo Switch 2 Essential power for gaming on-the-go Charging Case for Nintendo Switch 2 The Belkin Charging Case for Nintendo Switch 2 combines protection and power, ensuring your device stays charged while stored. With an included 10K battery pack, it eliminates the worry of a dead device, offering seamless gaming on the go. Designed with premium materials, it provides reliable protection against scratches and drops. Available in Charcoal, Sand and Green. Available now on Price: $69.99 USD / £49.99 / 59,99 € / 199 AED / 199 SAR Travel Case for Nintendo Switch 2 For those looking for a portable case that also offers protection, the Belkin Carrying Case for Nintendo Switch 2 combines protection and style for a sleek look. Designed with premium materials, it provides reliable protection against scratches and daily wear and tear. Available in Charcoal, Sand and Green. Available now on Price: $29.99 / £17.99 / 19,99 € / 99 AED / 99 SAR TemperedGlass Anti-Reflective Screen Protector for Nintendo Switch 2 Protect your Nintendo Switch 2 with the Belkin TemperedGlass Anti-Reflective Screen Protector, designed for ultimate durability, clarity, and reduced glare. This premium screen protector not only shields against scratches and smudges but also minimizes reflections, ensuring better visibility in bright or outdoor environments. The included applicator guarantees an aligned and bubble-free installation, making it easy to achieve a perfect fit. Game with confidence, knowing your screen is protected from daily wear and tear while maintaining a crisp, vibrant display. Available now on Price: $24.99 / £19.99 / 24,99 € / 79 AED / 79 SAR
National Post
5 days ago
- National Post
Belkin Unveils New Gaming Portfolio Featuring Power-Packed Charging Accessories and Gaming Essentials
Article content Belkin's first iteration of gaming accessories will feature products designed to be compatible with Nintendo Switch 2 Article content LOS ANGELES — Belkin, a leading consumer electronics brand for over 40 years, today announced its entry into the gaming accessories space with the launch of a new lineup designed to be compatible with the highly anticipated Nintendo Switch 2. Built on decades of experience in power, connectivity and device protection, and released under Belkin's innovation-focused Future Ventures category, this marks the company's first collection of products tailored specifically for the gaming community. Article content Article content Belkin is 'Leveling up your play' – bringing a new level of reliability to the gaming ecosystem that differentiates through premium materials, timeless design, and in-house engineering. The new range includes elevated accessories designed to enhance the Nintendo Switch 2 experience, featuring on-the-go charging solutions, audio gear, robust screen protection, and new travel cases built for effortless portability and protection. Article content 'Gaming is a natural extension of the Belkin brand. With our legacy of creating products that empower people to 'be ready for today', we're excited to bring Belkin's trusted accessories into the world of gaming,' said Steve Malony, CEO of Belkin. 'This new portfolio not only allows us to support the next generation of Nintendo Switch, but also reflects our commitment to quality, innovation, and sustainability. It's an exciting step forward as we continue expanding into new categories and delivering meaningful products to meet the needs of our diverse community of users.' Article content Belkin's new gaming accessories include: Article content Charging Case for Nintendo Switch 2 Article content The Belkin Charging Case for Nintendo Switch 2 combines protection and power, ensuring your device stays charged while stored. With an included 10K battery pack, it eliminates the worry of a dead device, offering seamless gaming on the go. Designed with premium materials, it provides reliable protection against scratches and drops. Available in Charcoal, Sand and Green. Article content Travel Case for Nintendo Switch 2 Article content For those looking for a portable case that also offers protection, the Belkin Travel Case for Nintendo Switch 2 combines protection and style for a sleek look. Designed with premium materials, it provides reliable protection against scratches and daily wear and tear. Available in Charcoal, Sand and Green. Article content Reliable screen protection for any environment Article content TemperedGlass Anti-Reflective Screen Protector for Nintendo Switch 2 Article content Protect your Nintendo Switch 2 with the Anti-Glare Screen Protector, designed for ultimate durability, clarity, and reduced glare. This premium screen protector not only shields against scratches and smudges but also minimizes reflections, ensuring better visibility in bright or outdoor environments. The included applicator guarantees an aligned and bubble-free installation, making it easy to achieve a perfect fit. Game with confidence, knowing your screen is protected from daily wear and tear while maintaining a crisp, vibrant display. Article content TemperedGlass Blue Light Screen Protector for Nintendo Switch 2 Article content The Blue Light Screen Protector not only shields against scratches and smudges but also helps reduce blue light exposure, minimizing eye strain during extended gaming sessions. The included applicator ensures an aligned and bubble-free installation, making it easy to achieve a perfect fit. Article content Explore Belkin's full gaming collection, including audio gear, charging solutions, and more at Media kit is available for download HERE. Article content About Belkin Article content Belkin is a California-based accessories leader delivering award-winning power, protection, productivity, connectivity, and audio products over the last 40 years. Designed and engineered in Southern California and sold in more than 100 countries around the world, Belkin has maintained its steadfast focus on research and development, community, education, sustainability and most importantly, the people it serves. From our humble beginnings in a Southern California garage in 1983, Belkin has become a diverse, global technology company. We remain forever inspired by the planet we live on, and the connection between people and technology. Article content Article content Article content Article content Contacts Article content Media Contact Article content Article content Article content
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Glass Imaging secures $20m to advance AI imaging tech
California-based technology company Glass Imaging has raised $20m in its Series A funding round to enhance AI-driven digital image quality across various platforms. The funding was led by global software investor Insight Partners with previous investors Google Ventures (GV), Future Ventures, and Abstract Ventures taking part. The company plans to use the investment to further refine and implement its GlassAI technologies, which are designed to enhance camera performance across diverse camera platforms, including smartphones, drones, and wearables. The company leverages AI to extract the full image quality potential on current and future cameras by addressing lens aberrations and sensor imperfections. Glass Imaging collaborates with manufacturers to integrate its GlassAI software to enhance camera performance tenfold. This results in sharper, more detailed images that remain true to life without hallucinations or optical distortions, the company said. In conjunction with the funding, Insight Partners' Jonah Waldman will join Glass Imaging as a board observer, while Akkiraju will join the company's board. Founded by former Apple engineers Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop, Glass Imaging is developing licensable intellectual property, including GlassAI, for new camera architectures and software-based solutions. Glass Imaging founder and CTO Tom Bishop said: 'GlassAI leverages edge AI to transform Raw burst image data from any camera into stunning, high-fidelity visuals. 'Our advanced image restoration networks go beyond what is possible on other solutions: swiftly correcting optical aberrations and sensor imperfections while efficiently reducing noise, delivering fine texture and real image content recovery that outperforms traditional ISP pipelines.' The company exploits Edge AI chips in today's devices, tailoring GlassAI software for current or new cameras to deliver superior photo quality compared to those shipped by OEMs. Additionally, Glass Imaging is using its technology to enable a new class of optical hardware designs that overcome traditional camera architecture limitations. In 2024, Glass Imaging secured $9.3m in an extended seed funding round led by GV, with participation from Future Ventures, Abstract Ventures, and LDV Capital. This followed an initial seed investment in 2021 led by LDV Capital and GroundUP Ventures. "Glass Imaging secures $20m to advance AI imaging tech" was originally created and published by Verdict, a GlobalData owned brand. The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
TechCrunch
13-05-2025
- Business
- TechCrunch
Realta Fusion taps $36M in fresh funds for its fusion-in-a-bottle reactor
Some fusion companies might be hitting a rough patch, but Realta Fusion is bucking the trend with a new fundraising round it says will allow it to finalize the design of its Anvil prototype reactor. 'By the end of our Series A investment period, we'll have said, 'Hey, we have a design. We're shovel ready to go and build Anvil,'' Kieran Furlong, co-founder and CEO of Realta, told TechCrunch. The company hopes to make sufficient progress this year and next so it can pitch investors on a Series B, which would go toward building the Anvil prototype, Furlong said. Realta raised $36 million in a round led by Future Ventures with participation from other investors, including Avila VC, GSBackers, Khosla Ventures, Mayfield, SiteGround, TitletownTech, and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. The startup previously raised $9 million in a seed round led by Khosla Ventures. Last summer, it flipped the switch on a pair of magnets and, within two weeks, set a record for a magnetic field confining a plasma. Fusion has long been proposed as a clean energy source, but so far, only one experiment has been able to hit a major milestone known as scientific breakeven, which describes how much energy fusion reactions are expected to release. That result was still far below what scientists expect a commercial fusion power plant to require. Still, many scientists and engineers are optimistic that commercial fusion power plants will be viable sometime in the next decade. Realta's are among them. Techcrunch event Join us at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot for our leading AI industry event with speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere. For a limited time, tickets are just $292 for an entire day of expert talks, workshops, and potent networking. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you've built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | REGISTER NOW The startup hopes to build power plants cheaply enough to supply power at $100 per megawatt-hour initially with an eye toward lowering that to $40 per megawatt-hour as it refines its technology. Today, the most efficient natural gas power plants cost around $45 to $105 per megawatt-hour to build and run, according to Lazard. Realta spun out of the University of Wisconsin three years ago. Since then, the team, which is now 18 people, has been working alongside university scientists to develop a reactor concept that's been debated for decades. The concept, known as a magnetic mirror, confines plasma in a symmetrical bottle shape. Powerful magnets at both ends pinch high-energy particles known as plasma, pushing it back toward the center. The magnetic fields expand as they head toward the center, where weaker magnets help form a plasma cylinder in the middle. To scale the reactor's output, the company can add more middle sections, which should be cheaper to manufacture because of the less powerful magnets. If the magnets work as expected, the plasma will reach incredibly high temperatures for long enough that the particles will start to fuse, releasing tremendous amounts of energy in the process. Realta is one of a handful of fusion startups that have emerged in Wisconsin in recent years. As energy demands for data centers have ramped up in the region — including a forthcoming Microsoft facility near Foxconn's infamous project — Badger State politicians have begun mulling legislation to lure the nuclear industry, both fusion and fission. 'The state legislature is definitely paying attention,' Furlong said. 'We've talked to both sides, and we think this is an opportunity for bipartisan work here.' Ultimately, Realta and the rest of the fusion industry need to muscle through the coming years to bring their plans to fruition and, if all goes well, prove that fusion power is viable. 'We've had the Gartner hype cycle. We're kind of coming down the other side now,' Furlong said, referring to a tech industry theory that outlines the adoption and reception of new technologies. 'What we want to avoid is seeing a few companies blow up spectacularly and spoil it for the rest of the industry,' he said. 'We wish everyone success. We all want fusion to succeed. I think we all recognize we've got 40 or 50 companies working on it right now. Obviously, not all of them will survive.'
Forbes
12-05-2025
- Business
- Forbes
An AI Space Company Is Born
376713 11: (FILE PHOTO) A view of the Earth appears over the Lunar horizon as the Apollo 11 Command ... More Module comes into view of the Moon before Astronatus Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. leave in the Lunar Module, Eagle, to become the first men to walk on the Moon's surface. The 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon mission is celebrated July 20, 1999. (Photo by NASA/Newsmakers) For a while, we've been hearing about how AI can create its own companies, or take over most of the roles in a given enterprise. You could call it an AI-driven company or an AI-native company, or you could theorize that humans will be completely out of the loop. Now we're getting some first implementations that show us how this works. Let's take an example related to space: Perhaps the most famous private space company is SpaceX. SpaceX has a lot of employees, and although it uses AI, it wasn't an AI-native company, because AI in its present incarnation didn't exist when SpaceX was founded. To contrast that, I have a recent interview I did with Steve Jurvetson and his crew at Future Ventures, where they are investing in new space companies, some of which are fairly AI-native. That resulting article also shows some of what firms are doing in this space. We are realizing the value of having satellites in orbit, and linking them to data that can power insights for tomorrow. Speaking of tomorrow, here's another example – at 150 people are running a company with 10 departments, that's focused on software, satellites and AI implementations in space. VC and others are used to the space companies having hundreds of employees. is doing this with a fraction of the people, managing departments related to weather, space, government operations, and more. Leaders talk about a strategic moat with proprietary satellite data, and suggest that the raft of use cases related to it gets propagated through a very detailed set of processes, with AI largely at the helm. 'We're using AI across the business to be more efficient, more creative,' said Chief Marketing Officer Dan Slagen at a recent Imagination in Action event. 'We spent the last couple of years building our own proprietary satellites and launching them up into space. We now have eight satellites live. We have two going every quarter, (and) proprietary data powers our AI, so that the outputs and the forecasts and the recommendations going to businesses are completely unique.' He also elaborated on how the company evolved and pivoted toward its new model. 'We were a traditional SaaS company selling weather into the enterprise space,' he said. 'And as we started to look at what our strategic moat would be, and where the data would come from, we figured it was space. … we went to the boards and said, 'We're going to need a couple 100 million bucks, and we're going to build satellites and launch into space, and we're a software company, by the way,' and so the board's immediate reaction is, what's this going to look like? But through those conversations, we could prove (the data moat) and what we're going to be able to have coming down from space that then powers our AI is going to be the thing that not only differentiates us, but also unlocks markets globally, whether that's for enterprises or for the public sector, for international governments.' Internal documents show that each of those ten departments has a number of specific AI goals that they need to accomplish each quarter, and that the people involved are focused on building in an AI-native way. There's also a big investment in training at and the company expects to leverage that into the future. ' journey began in 2016 when our three co-founders recognized a critical gap,' spokespersons write. 'Despite the growing impact of weather on businesses and communities worldwide, the weather industry remained vastly underserved. Nearly a decade later, this idea has blossomed into a global revolution, leveraging advanced AI, proprietary satellite technology, and actionable data to transform how the world builds resilience to weather-related threats.' Here's a concrete example of what the company is doing to, in its words, 'unlock the power of next-gen weather data.' Through new satellite systems, the company provides information based on radar, microwave data, and integrated products that is useful for government and public administration clients. If you take a look at the webpage for this particular product, you'll see an example of an air quality report in real time, with an air quality index rated 'very unhealthy' and a primary pollutant identified as PM 2.5. For those who don't know, PM 2.5 consists of ultrafine particles from Industrial pollution, or even woodsmoke, that can get stuck in the lungs and cause respiratory problems. Displaying that detailed information this way is an example of what offers its user base, in the form of, for example, weather for operations planning, custom visualizations, and tools for transportation companies. The company calls it 'Legos in space.' In an interview, engineer Jack Dallimore explains the processes involved in preparing a satellite for lunch – vendor coordination, assembly integration, testing, and more, and a process of 'shaking and baking' the satellite for eventual use (see the video here.) So part of those physical operations involve the satellite life cycle, where AI still plays a role. The company also uses much of its real time information in PDF reports that will make information adjustable to stakeholders. That includes severe weather notifications and various types of broadcast messages, with tools like quick navigation and keyboard shortcuts, and data ported from the company's R1 and R2 commercial weather radar satellites. So all of this is being done with a skeleton crew, which points to the capabilities of artificial intelligence to maintain core positions in a modern business. It gives a new meaning to the phrase 'the sky's the limit,' and makes you think about how satellites will get launched in the years to come. In a world where intellectual property is so important for data science, is inarguably collecting its own data from high above the Earth, and doing everything else using the power of AI. So that's one example of an AI-native company that's built for the future. You'll see a lot of this in various domains and verticals, not just in space, but right here on earth, next to you, and in your community, as AI gets increasingly incorporated into our lives.
