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Valentina Agudelo and her two best friends created Salva Health to create a portable device that would be able to detect breast cancer early, especially in areas underserved by the latest medical advances. And now, , taking home $100K for their noble cause. Gecko Materials, from founder Capella Kerst which is working to go beyond Velcro with a super-strong dry adhesive, won the runner-up prize.
And with that, after three days of panels, discussions, insights shared and difficult questions answered, this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt comes to an end. We’ll continue to have coverage coming from the conference’s goings-on throughout the week, but for now, go read through the rest of our coverage, or go and enjoy your post-event hangouts or pre-Halloween celebration.
As for what’s in store for Disrupt 2025, stay tuned, we’ll have plenty more news to share on that front soon!
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As Perplexity AI deals with a number of legal challenges from news publishers — including — concerned about how the company summarizes and utilizes their content to inform its answers for users, Senior Editor Devin Coldewey came out swinging during CEO Aravind Srinivas’
When asked how Perplexity defined “plagiarism,” Srinivas wouldn’t say, but was adamant that the company “always cites its sources” and doesn’t claim ownership of any content. Srinivas also mentioned several times during the interview that Perplexity is including Time, Fortune, and Der Spiegel in a revenue-share program.
You can watch the full conversation on YouTube below.
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The Zoox co-founder and CTO doesn’t believe in California (or anywhere else) next year despite what
The “fundamental issue is they don’t have technology that works,” Levinson said. “And by works, I want to differentiate between a driver assistance system that drives most of the time — except when it doesn’t, and then you have to take over — versus a system that’s so reliable and robust that you don’t need a person in it.”
Read more about and watch the entire discussion on YouTube below.
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Pei sat down with Hardware Editor Brian Heater to discuss why the company’s smartphones do so well in India and — including potentially making its own operating system.
During the conversation, Pei joked that he dropped out of business school because he was playing “a lot of League of Legends” and how he, thinks a lot about the Roman Empire.
Watch the full discussion on YouTube below.
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