Oct 6, 2026
Sauce's Manu Chandra said he expects larger exits for investors of India's new-age consumer brands. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.
An unnerving story has emerged from southeastern Russia involving the death of 28-year-old woman from pneumonia and fears that she may have been exposed to a form of plague at the lab where she worked. But the
Oct 5, 2026
Reports that a woman had died of pneumonic plague after working at an anti-plague institute in Siberia's Irkutsk region triggered concern over a possible laboratory accident.
A self-proclaimed psychic has been thrust back into the spotlight over his warning about a future pandemic just days before reports of a suspected plague case in Russia surfaced.
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel were recognized for their work on light-gated ion channels and optogenetics, a technique that uses pulses of light to activate neurons in the brain.
Jaishankar said geopolitical tensions were creating new challenges for countries, from energy and food security to fertilisers and trade.
The euro has stumbled to a 17-month low against the US dollar on concern about France's ability to bring its public finances in order. The currency has fallen nearly 7% from its peak in late January. Meanwhile, global oil prices fell despite ongoing tensions around the Arabian Peninsula, after the G7 agreed to release up to 100 million barrels from strategic reserves and oil flows from the Persian Gulf have returned to pre-war levels.
Faced with a president who has called global warming a hoax, officials have filed dozens of suits against oil companies to try to cover the costs of extreme weather.
We asked 100 scientists about unsolved problems in their fields. They sent back provocations — on the origins of life, the possibilities for human progress and much more.
Dorm Room Fund, a program that lets college students invest in their peers, raised a new $50 million fund as the competition for young founders ramps up.
Factory's platform covers planning, code review, testing, security and documentation, areas that Menlo said take up most of an engineer's time. The investment firm said the platform already serves hundreds of thousands of developers at enterprises such as Nvidia and Blackstone.
An appellate court in Arizona threw out the prison sentence of a man convicted of manslaughter after an A.I.-generated video of his victim was played at a trial.
