Investing at the edge of space at Disrupt 2025

    On the Space Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, top investors Celeste Ford, Chris Morales, and Morgan Beller will explore where capital is flowing in the space economy and what startups need to stand out. Together, they’ll dive into what founders must demonstrate to win funding, and how investment strategies are shifting as the commercialization of…

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      Square launches AI voice ordering and an integrated Bitcoin solution for merchants

      Square, Block’s merchant payments platform, has launched new features for merchants, including AI-powered voice ordering for restaurants, enhancements to its AI assistants — such as providing local insights — and an integrated Bitcoin solution to accept and hold the digital currency. The company now lets restaurants and cafes using Square leverage AI to handle incoming…

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      LEGO Star Wars BrickHeadz Phantom Menace Set Packs 6 Figures That Are Practically Free, but Only in Prime Day’s Final Hours

      It’s a fairly safe bet that even if you’re a huge Star Wars fan, you’ve never seen these six characters from The Phantom Menace like this before. That’s because Anakin Skywalker, Queen Amidala, Qui-Gon Jinn, and the others have assumed LEGO BrickHeadz form in this eye-grabbing and fun LEGO Star Wars set that’s marked down by…

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      New Android Trojan “Datzbro” Tricking Elderly with AI-Generated Facebook Travel Events

      Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a previously undocumented Android banking trojan called Datzbro that can conduct device takeover (DTO) attacks and perform fraudulent transactions by preying on the elderly. Dutch mobile security company ThreatFabric said it discovered the campaign in August 2025 after users in Australia reported scammers managing Facebook groups promoting “active senior trips.” Some…

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      Inside Huawei’s automotive sound engineering lab in Shanghai

      Walking into Huawei’s Shanghai Acoustics R&D Centre, I expected a standard facility tour. What I encountered instead was a comprehensive automotive sound engineering operation that challenges the established order of in-car audio systems. The facility, which Huawei has developed since beginning serious audio research investments in 2012, houses three distinct testing environments: a fully anechoic…

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        OpenAI and the race for AI-driven commerce

        OpenAI held its annual dev day on Monday, where the company rolled out its plan to build apps into ChatGPT. The demo was impressive, showing how programs like Spotify and Figma can be called or discovered without leaving the ChatGPT window. With so much of the tech world barreling toward AI integration, OpenAI’s demo was…

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