Accel has closed a new $550 million India fund, less than two years after raising its previous India-focused vehicle, as part of a coordinated $3.5 billion global fundraising effort. The new India fund was oversubscribed and closed within weeks, people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. Accel still has more than 55% of its previous…
The number of support requests Kids Help Phone receives at night is increasing across Canada, the e-mental health support service said. Demands for reach-outs via text from the hours of 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. eastern time are 183 per cent higher than those received during the day, Kids Help Phone said in a news…
A football pitch amid the rubble in Gaza City. Photo: AFP GAZA: The Palestinian football association announced on Monday that it would resume activity in September after a nearly three-year pause due to the Gaza war. “We announce the resumption of sports activities and the football association’s league beginning September 4,” association president Jibril Rajoub…
Phia, the shopping startup co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, is once again under fire for its alleged business practices. The latest issue stems from earlier this year when Bloomberg published an investigation that mapped out how Phia was taking credit and commission for affiliate purchases it did not help to generate, known as…
Manitoba’s addictions minister says it’s a special but bittersweet day as the province opens its first supervised consumption site. Bernadette Smith said Tuesday that the site in central Winnipeg is long overdue and will help get people the care they need. “We can’t treat people who aren’t alive,” said Smith. “So this is a place…
Left-handed batsman hits 20th List A century to anchor five-wicket win on opening day A masterclass from left-handed opener Fakhar Zaman illuminated the opening day of the National Champions Cup 2026-2027 as PCB Greens successfully tracked down a 277-run target to defeat PCB Whites by five wickets at the Multan Cricket Stadium on Tuesday. Fakhar’s…
Uber has sold off its entire stake in Serve Robotics, the autonomous delivery robot company that spun out of the ride-hailing company more than five years ago. Uber made the disclosure in a regulatory filing that was first reported by Bloomberg. Uber’s exit from Serve Robotics has been brewing for at least a year, according…
Curaleaf Holdings Inc. says it intends to launch a takeover bid for Edmonton-based cannabis company Aurora Cannabis Inc. Curaleaf said in a news release on Tuesday it plans to make an offer to purchase all of Aurora’s issued and outstanding common shares. If successful, the move would create a combined cannabis company with a footprint…
LONDON: Cricket Scotland and the Royal Dutch Cricket Association (KNCB) have criticised the International Cricket Council (ICC) for changing the format of the 2027 Men’s ODI World Cup less than 18 months before the tournament. The ICC introduced a new Super Series phase under which the teams ranked 12th, 13th and 14th in the qualification…
Video production is shifting as social clips, ad creative and film pre-visualization move from cloud to local GPUs. LTX today released LTX-2.5, an open weights world model for video generation, real-time applications, and physical AI, built for exactly that shift. LTX optimized the model for local inference on NVIDIA RTX GPUs and NVIDIA DGX Spark,…
