Uber will test using drones for Uber Eats deliveries in some U.S. markets by the end of this year, part of a new partnership with Israeli startup Flytrex. The partnership will also include a small investment in Flytrex, though Uber told Bloomberg News the investment amount was not material. The deal comes at a time when Uber has been re-engaging …

Google is making it possible to now share your Gemini Gems — custom AI assistants and experts designed for specific tasks — the company announced on Thursday. The feature launched last year, initially as part of the Gemini Advanced paid subscription, allowing users to write instructions to create an AI chatbot for different scenarios. For instance, Google launched with premade …

US President Donald Trump’s administration asked the US Supreme Court on Thursday to let him move ahead with firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook – a move without precedent since the central bank’s founding in 1913 – in a legal battle that imperils the Fed’s independence. The Justice Department asked the justices to lift US District Judge Jia Cobb’s September …

If you can’t resist the urge to check your phone over and over, even if you’re out with friends, Meta has a solution: check your glasses instead. “The promise of glasses is to preserve this sense of presence that you have with other people,” said CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the Meta Connect 2025 keynote. “I think that we’ve lost it …

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that his administration was moving to retake control of Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, claiming that such a move was necessary because of the facility’s proximity to nuclear weapons sites in China. Bagram, located 44 kilometres (27 miles) north of Kabul, was the largest US military base in Afghanistan and the central hub …

The do-or-die clash between Sri Lanka and Afghanistan in the Asia Cup 2025 turned into a pace-bowling masterclass, thanks to Nuwan Thushara’s fiery opening spell. Played at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi , this Group B encounter carried high stakes as both teams fought for a Super 4 berth. Afghanistan, after winning the toss and electing to bat, soon …

دوحہ پر اسرائیلی حملے کے بعد خلیج تعاون کونسل (جی سی سی) نے مشترکہ فضائی دفاعی نظام کو مزید مضبوط کرنے کا اعلان کردیا، خلیجی ممالک نے دفاعی میکانزم کو بہتر بنانے اور 6 نکاتی ایجنڈے پر اتفاق کیا جب کہ مشترکہ ٹریننگ اور مشترکہ انٹیلی جنس شیئرنگ پر بھی زور دیا ہے۔ قطر کے دارالحکومت دوحہ پر 9 ستمبر …

نئی دہلی میں امریکی سفارتخانے نے کہا ہے کہ فینٹانل بنانے والے کیمیائی اجزا کی اسمگلنگ میں ملوث بھارتی کاروباری شخصیات کے ویزے منسوخ کر دیے۔ برطانوی خبر ایجنسی رائٹرز کے امریکی سفارت خانے نے جمعرات کو جاری بیان میں کہا کہ فینٹانل کی غیر قانونی ترسیل کو روکنا امریکا کی اولین ترجیحات میں شامل ہے۔ امریکی حکومت نے ان …

Google announced Thursday that it’s rolling out Gemini in Chrome to all Mac and Windows desktop users in the U.S. after previously limiting the capability to Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra subscribers. The tech giant also announced that it’s bringing agentic capabilities to Chrome in the future, adding its AI Mode search feature to the address bar, launching …

Google is partnering with the U.K. nonprofit StopNCII to bolster its efforts at combating the spread of nonconsensual intimate images, also known as revenge porn. The search giant will begin using StopNCII’s hashes, which are digital fingerprints of images and videos, to proactively identify and remove nonconsensual intimate imagery on Search. StopNCII helps adults prevent their private images from being shared …

Afghanistan elected to bat first under floodlights at the Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi aiming to qualify for the Super-four spot from Group B in Asia Cup 2025. Early momentum swung in favour of the visitors as Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Sediqullah Atal added 26 and 32 runs respectively, but Sri Lanka struck back with Nuwan Thushara’s triple wicket burst. …

US Donald Trump on Thursday said he does not know the UK’s former ambassador to Washington, Peter Mandelson, who was sacked over links to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. There had been concerns the issue could cast a shadow on the US president’s second state visit to the UK, not least because Trump was also close to Epstein, although they fell out …

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) law enforcement arm Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has signed a contract worth $3 million with Magnet Forensics, a company that makes a phone-hacking and unlocking device called Graykey.   The contract, which appeared on Tuesday in a federal government procurement database, said it is for software licenses for the phone-hacking tech for HSI “to …

OPINION — You’ve probably seen that iconic photo of Senator Frank Church (D-ID) holding up a CIA poison dart gun, right? Or perhaps the one of Senator Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) aiming it at the sky? They came from the Church Committee’s live hearings on intelligence activities some fifty years ago, in September 1975. We know that the Senate’s Church Committee …

Barclays has launched a new market-leading lending facility designed to support UK farmers adopting regenerative and sustainable agricultural practices. The Farm Transition Finance (FTF) proposition offers eligible farmers a 0.3 per cent interest rate reduction on standard term loans, with flexible repayment structures designed to reflect the needs of individual businesses. The facility aims to make investment in nature-friendly changes …