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Imaging startup Light is exiting the smartphone business

Light’s push into smartphones was an inevitability. Sure, the startup turned heads with its pricey L16 camera, but these days mobile photography is almost exclusively the domain of the handset. Earl

What top enterprise VCs are thinking, using data effectively, ethics, Light, and Flipkart

Top VCs on the changing landscape for enterprise startups TechCrunch had our debut confab for enterprise types this week at Yerba Buena Center in SF, where we heard from Aaron Levie, CEO of Box, Apple

Light’s new minimalist phone is available now for $350

There’s that pesky catch-22 you’ve got to get out of the way when discussing the Light Phone and its successor. There’s an inherent irony to a piece of technology created with the express purpos

Microbiome testing service uBiome puts its co-founders on administrative leave after FBI raid

The microbiome testing service uBiome has placed its founders and co-chief executives, Jessica Richman and Zac Apte, on administrative leave following an FBI raid on the company’s offices last w

Light is expanding from smartphone cameras to self-driving cars

This year’s MWC has been very much the beginning of a new phase for Light. Until now, the Palo Alto startup has been best known for its 16-lens DSLR competitor, an utterly fascinating, if not partic

Light raises $121M led by SoftBank as it prepares to bring its camera tech to smartphones

Camera technology company Light is the latest to do the money dance with SoftBank’s massive Vision Fund after it raised a $121 million Series D round. The funding round was led by Vision Fund,

Light is building a smartphone with five to nine cameras

Light, the company behind the wild L16 camera, is building a smartphone equipped with multiple cameras. According to The Washington Post, the company is prototyping a smartphone with five to nine came

Light starts shipping the L16, its 16-camera pocket DSLR challenger

Light's L16 was a radical design concept when it was originally introduced in October, 2015 -- but the concept has become a reality, as the company is now shipping the first production units to its pr

Photojournalists demand encryption, Light is giving it to them

Against the backdrop of falling bombs in Aleppo, the Freedom of the Press Foundation sent an open letter to executives at major camera companies asking them to take responsibility for the lack of en

Light’s multi-lens L16 camera gets wider aperture but longer wait

We're all curious to see whether Light's crazy 16-lens camera can live up to its own hype, but it looks like we'll have to wait just a little bit longer for the already-delayed gadget. On the bright s

New LIDAR package makes it easier to add smarts to your smart car

Osram Opto Semiconductors has announced the availability of a LIDAR package – essentially the spinning laser array found on self-driving and mapping vehicles – that costs $5 and works as w

Light raises $30M and announces L16 camera is delayed until 2017

If you were eagerly awaiting your "late summer" delivery of your pre-ordered Light L16 camera, today will bring an impatient tear to your eye. In parallel with announcing having raised $30 million fro

Linux Light Bulbs Allow Devices To Talk To Each Other With Flashes Of Brilliance

Who’s the leader of the club that’s made for you and me? M-I-C- See? See the visible light carrying data quickly and easily from light bulbs to gadgets! -K-E-Y Why? Because light is ubiqui

TweetDeck Gets A Visual Refresh On All Platforms, Now Looks More “Twittery”

For you hardcore Twitter users, the main app just doesn't cut it. You need multiple windows and notifications and more windows and stuff like that. For me, I enjoy the simple original web version of T

New Compass Finds Its Way With Light

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Jaeger_LeCoultre_Compass.jpg" />The compass has been around, pretty much forever. Currently technology isn't really that far from a magne

New LED lightbulb will last 17 years

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/GE-LED.jpg" />CFL bulbs are great, but the mercury they use can be harmful. LEDs don't use mercury, but the technology is still pretty ro

Desktop lamp powered by hamster cells

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/laarman-chair-lamp.jpg" />This seems a bit odd, but here's another take on alternative power; Dutch designer Joris Laarman came up with a

270g: JVC announces world's lightest and smallest HDD camcorder

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/GZ-HD620_1-620x387.jpg" /> JVC Japan announced <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/12/02/vicor-jvc-japan-announces-new-everio-camcor

Victor / JVC to present the world's lightest 32-inch LCD TV at CES

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/victor_lcd-560x420.jpg" /> Victor JVC has <a href="http://www.victor.co.jp/english/press/2009/display.pdf">today unveiled a next-generati

NEC Japan puts out ultra-light and "full flat" notebook

NEC today announced a new notebook that will hit the Japanese market in the middle of next month and costs $1,600. The main selling point of the VersaPro UltraLite Type VC is its design (which NEC cal
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