The 2024 runner-up in the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield, geCKo Materials, returned to the stage at this year’s show to debut new products as it pushes deeper into commercializing its tech. Founder Dr. Capella Kerst revealed four new uses of geCKo’s super-strong dry adhesive: a semiconductor wafer handling tool, a robotic gripper for smooth surfaces (like solar panels or glass), …

Vladimir Putin has been warned “Moscow will be wiped off the map” if he were to attack NATO with nuclear weapons. Belgian defence minister Theo Francken said he isn’t concerned about Russian nuclear sabre-rattling as he championed the strength and unity of the military alliance. He said he believes Donald Trump is committed to NATO and its cornerstone Article 5, …

وزیر دفاع خواجہ آصف نے ایک بیان میں کہا ہے کہ طالبان رجیم کو ختم کرنے کیلئے پاکستان کو پوری طاقت استعمال کرنے کی ضرورت نہیں۔ دوسری جانب آج نیوز سے خصوصی گفتگو میں بتایا کہ کابل مذاکرات کے کسی بھی مرحلہ پر مخلص نہیں تھا، دوحا میں معاہدہ طے پانے کے قریب ہوتا تو کابل سے فون پر انکار …

World leaders called for renewed talks to halt the war in Sudan, as reports emerged of widespread atrocities in a city recently captured by the paramilitary group fighting the army-backed government. Since seizing El-Fasher in western Sudan on Sunday, the Rapid Support Forces have been accused of executing hundreds of people, while about 30,000 civilians have fled the famine-hit capital …

Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie doesn’t think AI agents will replace enterprise SaaS (software as a service) companies. Instead, he believes that the more likely future is a hybrid combination of SaaS plus agents, he said, speaking on stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 conference on Wednesday. “Generally, once you have a business process, you want to be able …

Waymo and Zoox robotaxis are a regular sight on San Francisco streets, and soon Uber, through a partnership with Lucid and Nuro, will descend on the city as well. It is exactly how San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie likes it. “I think we should be the testbed for emerging technology and AI and healthcare tech — and all of it,” …

کراچی میں ای چالان سسٹم کے آغاز کے ساتھ ہی دلچسپ صورتحال پیدا ہو گئی۔ شارع فیصل پر نصب کیمروں سے شہریوں کے چالان شروع ہوئے، مگر اس نظام نے ڈی آئی جی ٹریفک پیر محمد شاہ کی گاڑی کا چالان لیاری ایکسپریس وے پر جاری کر دیا، جہاں کیمرے نصب ہی نہیں۔ سندھ پولیس کا نیا ای چالان سسٹم …

آئی ایس پی آر کے مطابق خیبرپختونخوا کے ضلع کرم میں سیکیورٹی فورسز کی کارروائی میں 7 خوارج مارے گئے جبکہ کیپٹن سمیت 6 جوانوں نے جام شہادت نوش کیا۔ پاک فوج کے شعبہ برائے تعلقاتِ عامہ (آئی ایس پی آر) کے مطابق کرم کے علاقے ڈوگر میں سیکیورٹی فورسز نے بھارتی پراکسی فتنہ خوارج کے خلاف خفیہ اطلاع کی …

Microsoft Azure, the cloud computing service provided by the company, is experiencing a significant outage on Wednesday. The problems started around 12 p.m. ET, and Microsoft has acknowledged the issue on the service’s status page. According to Microsoft, “We suspect that an inadvertent configuration change triggered this issue.” The company has not indicated when service will be restored. Multiple Microsoft …

General Motors is laying off thousands of workers across multiple electric vehicle and battery plants in the U.S., according to multiple outlets. Around 1,200 employees at the company’s EV factory in Detroit, Michigan, are being placed on “indefinite layoff.” Further cuts and temporary layoffs are being made at GM’s Ultium Cells battery factories in Ohio and Tennessee. GM will also …

Israel and Hamas have charged each other with breaking an October 10 truce, with both sides now again pledging to uphold it Overnight Israeli airstrikes on Gaza have killed 104 Palestinians, including 46 children, the local health authorities have reported. Despite trading accusations of ceasefire violations, both Israel and Hamas have said they are still committed to honoring a US-brokered …

Peter Williams, the former general manager at defense contractor L3Harris, has pleaded guilty to selling surveillance technology to a Russian broker that buys “cyber tools,” the U.S. Department of Justice confirmed Wednesday.  “The material, stolen over a three-year period from the U.S. defense contractor where he worked, was comprised of national-security focused software that included at least eight sensitive and …

Google announced this week it is working with NextEra Energy to revive a nuclear power plant in Iowa that had closed in 2020. NextEra has been looking for a partner to reopen the reactor for the past year, and it found one in Google, which has been steadily adding zero-carbon energy sources to power its growing data center fleet. Neither …

West Indies continued their impressive run in Bangladesh, securing the T20I series with one match still to play after defeating the hosts by 14 runs in the second T20I at the Bir Sreshtho Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman Stadium. The visitors showed grit with both bat and ball, defending a modest total of 149/9 to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in …

Bending Spoons, one of Europe’s largest mobile app developers, announced on Wednesday that it has agreed to buy AOL from Yahoo, which is backed by private equity giant Apollo. Bending Spoons says it has secured a $2.8 billion debt financing package to support the purchase. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of the year and is subject …