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2025-12-18

Palona goes vertical, launching Vision, Workflow features: 4 key lessons for AI builders

Building an enterprise AI company on a "foundation of shifting sand" is the central challenge for founders today, according to the leadership at Palona AI.

Today, the Palo Alto-based startup—led by former Google and Meta engineering veterans—is making a decisive vertical push into the restaurant and hospitality space with today's launch of Palona Vision and Palona Workflow.

The new offerings transform the company’s multimodal agent suite into a real-time operating system for restaurant operations — spanning cameras, calls, conversations, and coordinated task execution.

The news marks a strategic pivot from the company’s Discover Copy

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The best ergonomic mouse for 2025

Those of us who work at a desk for long periods know it is not the best thing for our bodies — and research supports that notion. Standing up and taking breaks is the best way to combat the ill effe [...]

Match Score: 156.15

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2025-11-03

Apple Vision Pro M5 review: A better beta is still a beta

Everything new about the revamped Apple Vision Pro can fit in a single sentence: It has a far faster and more efficient M5 chip, it comes with a more comfortable Dual Knit Band and its display looks s [...]

Match Score: 127.59

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2025-04-25

The Morning After: The Switch 2 pre-order struggle

Nintendo may not have enough Switch 2 consoles for everyone, it seems. It’s struggling to meet demand both in Japan and the US, where pre-orders were already delayed due to the tariff fiasco. The of [...]

Match Score: 68.24

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2025-10-22

Samsung Galaxy XR hands-on: A smarter, more open take on Apple's Vision Pro for half the price

Apple's Vision Pro was meant to usher in a new era for headsets. However, its high price and somewhat limited utility resulted in what may be the company's biggest flop in years. Now it' [...]

Match Score: 54.69

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2025-04-24

Razer has a vertical mouse now

Razer has unveiled two new iterations of its Pro Click mouse with an eye toward comfort. The Pro Click V2 is a standard mouse model, while the Pro Click V2 Vertical Edition is the first vertical mouse [...]

Match Score: 49.85

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2025-02-21

Apple Intelligence is headed to the Vision Pro in April, dev beta available today

The rumors are true: Apple confirmed today that the Vision Pro will get Apple Intelligence features in April with the arrival of visionOS 2.4. A developer beta is also rolling out today for the less p [...]

Match Score: 48.45

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2025-01-30

Former Google, Meta leaders launch Palona AI, bringing personalized, emotive customer agents to non-techie enterprises

Palona’s approach suggests that customer relationships don’t have to be sacrificed for automation—instead, AI can enhance personalization. [...]

Match Score: 46.58

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2025-10-30

What's next for Vision Pro? Apple should take a cue from Xreal's smart glasses

Forget Samsung's $1,800 Galaxy XR, the Android XR device I'm actually intrigued to see is Xreal's Project Aura, an evolution of the company's existing smart glasses. Instead of bei [...]

Match Score: 43.99

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2025-10-16

The Vision Pro will get an iPad app in upcoming iPadOS update

Buried in the press release for the upgraded Vision Pro headset that Apple announced yesterday was the news that the dedicated Apple Vision Pro app is making its way to iPad via iPadOS 26.1 later this [...]

Match Score: 43.28