Brynn Putnam, the founder behind the connected fitness startup Mirror, is back with a new startup: a tech-powered gaming console that combines the best of board games and video games, called Board. After selling Mirror to Lululemon for $500 million in 2020, Putnam returned to entrepreneurship to create an entirely new product, which she unveiled Tuesday for the first time …

Netflix is looking to vertical video as a way to experiment with new content types, said CTO Elizabeth Stone, speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 conference on Tuesday. The exec noted the company didn’t want to compete directly with apps like TikTok or other short-form drama apps, but did acknowledge there are more ways that Netflix can take advantage of …

Horrific reports are emerging of ethically motivated mass killings and other atrocities from Sudan after paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took control of El Fasher in the country’s western Darfur region over the weekend. Now, Sudan’s army has claimed that more than 2,000 civilians were brutally massacred at the hands of these paramilitary forces in just 48 hours.  The RSF …

Steven Bartlett, the entrepreneur and Diary of a CEO host, has revealed his business empire has been valued at $425 million (£320 million) following a major eight-figure investment — a deal that cements his position as one of the richest entrepreneurs ever to appear on Dragons’ Den. The 33-year-old investor, who joined the BBC show in 2022, announced the new …

Elon Musk’s company xAI has launched a website called Grokipedia to compete with online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, which he and others on the American right-wing have accused of ideological bias. The site, dubbed version 0.1, had more than 885,000 articles by Monday evening after its launch, compared to Wikipedia’s more than 7 million in English. The launch came with the promise …

OpenAI says its deep learning systems are rapidly advancing, with models increasingly able to solve complex tasks faster. So fast, in fact, that internally, OpenAI is tracking towards achieving an intern-level research assistant by September 2026, and a fully automated “legitimate AI researcher” by 2028, CEO Sam Altman said during a livestream Tuesday.   The ambitious timeline comes on the …

راولپنڈی کرکٹ اسٹیڈیم میں کھیلے گئے پہلے ٹی20 میچ میں جنوبی افریقا نے پاکستان کوشکست دے دی۔ پاکستان نے ٹاس جیت کر جنوبی افریقا کو پہلے بیٹنگ کی دعوت دی تھی۔ پاکستانی کھلاڑیوں کی ناقص بلے بازی کے باعث ٹیم 195رنزکا ہدف حاصل کرنے میں ناکام رہی، بابر اعظم کم بیک میچ میں بغیر کوئی رن بنائے آؤٹ ہوئے۔ سلمان …

US retail and tech giant Amazon has announced thousands of job cuts, citing a need to restructure and a focus on AI. The company will cut about 14,000 corporate jobs, a 4% reduction in its office workforce, according to a statement published on Tuesday, adding that AI is “enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before.” Staff in the …

وزیرِ دفاع خواجہ آصف نے کہا ہے کہ کابل پر اثر و رسوخ رکھنے والے بیرونی عناصر دراصل دہلی کے حکم پر کام کر رہے ہیں اور کابل کے پاس خود مذاکراتی اختیار موجود نہیں۔ افغان طالبان سے مذاکرات کے حوالے سے خواجہ آصف نے کہا کہ کابل کا پتلی تماشہ دہلی سے کنٹرول ہو رہا ہے، مذاکرات کا اختیار …

Vinod Khosla has a bold vision for how society could be reconfigured to share the abundance created by AI technology. Speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 conference on Tuesday, the Khosla Ventures founder suggested the U.S. government could take a 10% stake in all public corporations and redistribute that corporate wealth to the public at large. As Khosla put it, …

The strikes come amid a major U.S. military buildup in the region, most recently bolstered by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s order last week for the USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier and its escorts to deploy from the Mediterranean to Latin America. President Trump says he is also considering military action against land targets in Venezuela, a sentiment echoed recently …

اسرائیلی وزیراعظم نیتن یاہو نے ایک بار پھر غزہ پر حملے کا حکم دے دیا ہے۔ الجزیرہ کی رپورٹ کے مطابق اسرائیلی وزیرِاعظم بنیامین نیتن یاہو نے اپنی فوج کو غزہ پر فوری ”طاقتور حملہ“ کرنے کا حکم دے دیا ہے۔ اسرائیلی وزیرِاعظم کے دفتر سے جاری کردہ بیان کے مطابق یہ فیصلہ اس وقت سامنے آیا جب نیتن یاہو …

During the 1st T20I between Bangladesh and the West Indies in Chattogram, an unusual and unfortunate incident occurred involving Bangladesh’s bowler, Taskin Ahmed, as he attempted to hit the last ball of Bangladesh’s innings out of the park. Taskin, looking to reduce the margin of defeat, faced a bizarre turn of events that resulted in his dismissal in a way …

وزیراعلیٰ پنجاب مریم نواز کی زیرِ صدارت امن و امان سے متعلق چھٹے اجلاس میں صوبے بھر میں غیر قانونی طور پر مقیم افغان باشندوں سمیت غیر ملکیوں کے خلاف فیلڈ سروے کرانے کا فیصلہ کیا گیا ہے۔ اجلاس میں ہدایت دی گئی کہ افغان باشندوں سمیت کسی بھی غیر ملکی کو پراپرٹی کرائے پر دینے والوں کے خلاف فوری …

With a dozen of matches in the group stage already abandoned due to persistent rain, the knockout stages of the ICC Women’s World Cup 2025 are fraught with tension, as the weather poses a significant threat to the upcoming semi-finals. The playing conditions set by the ICC will be critically important in determining which team advances to the final. The …