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TimeTeller, a startup spun out of Berlin's Charité clinic, has developed an at-home saliva test to determine a person's circadian rhythm. Founder Angela Relogio sees the main goal as timing cancer treatment, but stresses that the consumer kit does not determine this. The company has partnered with insurer Techniker Krankenkasse and presented at TechCrunch Disrupt.
Sardor QodirovAt the Disrupt 2026 conference in San Francisco, Flock head Garrett Langley said the company has never once 'fired' police department clients, despite reports of abuse of access to the license plate database. During his talk, a protest against mass surveillance was held outside the venue.
Sardor QodirovColossal Biosciences has announced the AI platform GenoMorph, which helps identify genes for editing in de-extinction projects with limited genetic data. The platform is being applied to the dodo project, for which only one genome is available. The company also reported that its Nicobar pigeon colony has grown to 36 birds and that it has created cells that give rise to eggs and sperm.
Sardor QodirovAt TechCrunch Disrupt, Flock head Garret Langley claimed that the Gunshot Detection system's microphones only pick up gunshots. However, materials on the company's website mention detection of fireworks, street takeovers, and crashes. A Flock representative confirmed the contradiction, and criticism of the product is intensifying amid growing distrust of mass surveillance.
Sardor QodirovGoogle announced broad access to the Gemini 4 Argon model, first introduced in late September. From October 13, the model is available to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, via API and in AI Studio. The current API price is $2 per million input and $10 per million output tokens; from December 1 it will rise to $4 and $20.
Sardor QodirovDenver startup Intero Biosystems, spun out of the University of Michigan, grows human gut organoids and sells them to pharma, biotech, food and chemical companies for testing compounds. The flagship product GastroScreen — organoids about 1 mm in size, shipped roughly 100 per tube. The company was founded in 2024, raised $2.3 million pre-seed and generated more than $400 thousand in revenue from the fourth quarter of last year through the third quarter of this year.
Sardor QodirovMunich-based startup CedarDB, founded by alumni of the Technical University of Munich, announced limited access to the cloud version of its database that combines operational and analytical workloads. The company links demand for this approach to the rise of agentic AI and is competing at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield.
Sardor QodirovGudea, a startup presented at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, tracks the spread of stories and rumors across more than 500 platforms and helps organizations respond before escalation. The company raised $7 million in seed funding, bringing total funding to approximately $15 million.
Sardor QodirovOut of 20 startups that presented at Disrupt 2026, the Startup Battlefield finalists are Apate.ai, Flox Intelligence, Intero Biosystems, Industrial Next and Satlyt. The final will take place on Thursday at 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time; the winner will receive the Startup Battlefield Cup and $100,000 with no equity stake.
Sardor QodirovSpeaking on a panel at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco, Flock founder and CEO Garrett Langley said that the risks of widespread adoption of surveillance technologies do not outweigh their benefits and urged people not to stop progress. He rejected criticism, cited misinformation about facial recognition and police staffing shortages, but gave no concrete answers to questions about abuses.
Sardor QodirovAnna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini, who previously created AlphaChip, presented their startup Ricursive Intelligence at TechCrunch Disrupt. The company is developing AI that designs chips, learns from each iteration, and improves subsequent versions. The founders believe more efficient chip design will help cope with growing demand for computing.
Sardor QodirovResearchers at the University of Toronto reported that the Israeli company Discover-Tech, through its advertising platform Controlium, enabled the makers of Candiru and Bindecy spyware to target specific individuals and devices. An attack on at least 45 Al Jazeera computers was recorded in 2024–2025; potentially malicious ads were also shown on networks of the IAEA and the ICC.
Sardor QodirovAt its first Config event in India, Figma announced Figma Specs — a Markdown editor for describing a company's design language, the open beta of code layers, Payload integration with Figma Make, and support for more than 20 new tools in MCP.
Sardor QodirovBee, an Amazon-owned maker of wearable AI devices, announced its first new products since the acquisition: the Bee Frontier wristband at $74.99 and the Bee Eclipse card at $99.99, which magnetically attaches to a smartphone. The devices record conversations, create summaries and to-dos, and integrate with Alexa and Amazon.com. The Bee Pro subscription costs $11.99 per month.
Sardor QodirovOn October 15, 2026, the TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 conference concludes at Moscone West in San Francisco. The final day features more than 10,000 attendees, over 320 startups in the exhibit hall, the Startup Battlefield final with the winner announcement, as well as sessions on AI agents, security, M&A, and startup growth. Tickets are on sale at a 75% discount until the end of the day.
Sardor QodirovYandex Uzbekistan said that services interrupted after the October 11 outage are being restored in stages. Payouts to partners and drivers were processed automatically, but some payments may be executed with errors or delays. Cases of incorrect charges are being reviewed, though the growing number of support requests is slowing down problem resolution.
Sardor QodirovAmerican companies Hypercraft, Forterra and 9 Mothers combined in one vehicle the autonomous Razorback platform, the AutoDrive control system and the Edda turret. The development is designed for delivering cargo along supply routes under fire and countering small drones at ranges of 10 to 100 meters.
Sardor QodirovHackers manually changed refrigerator temperatures in at least 350 supermarkets in France, including the Carrefour, Monoprix, Intermarché and Coopérative U chains, forcing staff to discard spoiled meat and frozen products. There is no ransom demand or claim of responsibility, which has puzzled investigators. Danfoss, Copeland and Dixell systems were affected; thousands of outdated interfaces remain accessible on the internet. In the Netherlands, Ahold Delhaize is restarting systems after a separate incident, which
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