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For three days this week, 20 startups participated in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt. Each was selected to represent the best of the Startup Battlefield 200 and competed for a chance to take home the Startup Battlefield Cup and $100,000. After all that intense pitching, we have a winner. These startups were hand-picked to compete in Startup Battlefield, and …

The rise of agentic coding tools has been a sea change for software engineers across the industry — but for Solana Labs CEO Anatoly Yakovenko, it seems to have landed particularly hard. Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Yakovenko said he’s become increasingly comfortable taking a back seat in software development tasks. “AI has been a great force multiplier for somebody who’s …

Few areas of China reflect the country’s decades-long economic transformation more vividly than its cities. Rapid development has turned villages into dense urban landscapes and already sizeable metro areas into some of the world’s largest population centres. As the rate of urbanisation slows and the country transitions into a new economic era, we explore how select Chinese cities are navigating …

EU countries have reportedly seen an influx of young men since Kiev relaxed travel restrictions in August Politicians in Germany and Poland are threatening to slash benefits for Ukrainian migrants to prompt them to return home, Politico has reported. Since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict, millions of Ukrainians have fled to the European Union. Their primary destination, Germany, has …

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 …