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1. SpaceX Is Finally Going for the Starship Double Catch

   Gizmodo · 21 Oct 2026, 20:50 IST

   Starship's next flight will aim to achieve a major technical milestone.

2. Smart Contracts Connect B2B Workflows to Real-Time Payments

   PYMNTS.com · 21 Oct 2026, 20:31 IST

   In the commercial payments realm, invoices need validation, discrepancies warrant resolution and someone (or an authorized system) ultimately approve the release of funds. Smart contracts are being used to carry approved payment...

3. Helios Investment Partners acquires 49% stake in Merec to scale African agro-Food operations

   Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business · 21 Oct 2026, 20:28 IST

   Abu Dhabi-listed holding company Invictus Investment and leading Africa-focused private equity firm Helios Investment Partners have forged a major strategic business partnership. Through its Helios Fund V , the firm has agreed to...

4. Eternal to pick 4.4% stake in Mygate following divestment of digital ad business

   YourStory RSS Feed · 21 Oct 2026, 19:48 IST

   Eternal, the parent company of Blinkit and Zomato, will acquire a 4.4% stake in Mygate through a share-swap agreement as it divests its stake in outdoor digital advertising business AdOnMo. In a disclosure to the stock exchanges,...

5. UCD joint spin-out Go Eve taps £750,000 for advanced EV charging tech

   Silicon Republic · 21 Oct 2026, 19:58 IST

   Go Eve's technology was developed by a team of researchers led by Prof Robert Shorten at UCD’s School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Read more: UCD joint spin-out Go Eve taps £750,000 for advanced EV charging tech

6. Anthropic could spend $750bn on compute, The Wall Street Journal reports

   TNW · 21 Oct 2026, 19:50 IST

   A new draft of Anthropic’s S-1, the prospectus for its IPO, puts its possible computing spend at $750bn over the coming years. That includes deals it is still negotiating. Anissa Gardizy reported the figures for The Wall Street Journal,...

7. Cairo-based Tactful AI secures strategic funding extension to drive agentic CX expansion

   Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business · 21 Oct 2026, 19:53 IST

   Tactful AI , an Egyptian proptech and customer experience (CX) startup building infrastructure for agentic automation, has secured an undisclosed investment from Hatem Dowidar, former Group CEO of UAE telecom giant e&. The strategic...

8. Sango Capital expands investment team with senior hires Darryn Schovell and Rainer Steinhagen

   Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business · 21 Oct 2026, 19:41 IST

   Johannesburg-based investment firm Sango Capital has expanded its leadership team with the appointments of Darryn Schovell as Principal and Rainer Steinhagen as Vice President. These hires follow a period of significant portfolio...

9. Foursquare co-founder says equity holders saw no returns from the company’s acquisition

   TechCrunch · 21 Oct 2026, 19:33 IST

   Foursquare raised $411 million in funding according to PitchBook data, but its equity holders saw no returns from its final acquisition.

10. AI promises productivity, but for managers, it’s mostly a headache for now

    TechCrunch · 21 Oct 2026, 19:30 IST

    More than 50% of managers say they're finding it harder to evaluate employees' work after adopting AI, according to a new survey.

11. Egyptian proptech Aqar Exit raises $200k following Shark Tank success

    Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business · 21 Oct 2026, 19:15 IST

    Egyptian proptech startup Aqar Exit has secured a $200,000 investment from Ayman Mamdouh Abbas , Executive Chairman of Intro Holding Group, in exchange for a 10% equity stake. Announced by founder and chairman Mahmoud Ammar following...

12. Elon Musk confirms Tesla and SpaceX merger talks, but says a deal isn't certain

    TechSpot · 21 Oct 2026, 19:19 IST

    Speaking during SpaceX's third-quarter earnings call on October 20, Musk said independent directors are examining a potential agreement. He's staying out of their discussions because his position at both firms creates a conflict of...

13. Egyptian unicorn MNT-Halan hits $770 million valuation following mega IPO

    Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business · 21 Oct 2026, 19:06 IST

    MNT-Halan , Egypt’s premier lending and payments platform, officially debuted on the Egyptian Exchange (EGX) on Tuesday under the ticker symbol HALN.CA. Marking the nation’s largest initial public offering (IPO) in at least five years,...

14. iPhone Duo Vs Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8: How Do They Really Compare?

    SlashGear · 21 Oct 2026, 19:00 IST

    Apple is a newcomer to the foldable space. Can it really stand up to the latest Samsung Galaxy Z Fold?

15. Heat pump tech is 170 years old. Pascal thinks it’s time for an update.

    TechCrunch · 21 Oct 2026, 19:00 IST

    Refrigerants startup Pascal has a new take on heat pump and cooling tech using a sponge-like material that promises to be 20% more efficient.

16. Visa Debuts Tools to Keep Fraud Out of Virtual Commercial Card Payments

    PYMNTS.com · 21 Oct 2026, 18:46 IST

    Visa has introduced new capabilities designed to keep commercial virtual card payments safer. Visa Commercial Fraud Solutions are part of a series of new capabilities designed to bring “trust and control” to business payments, Visa said...

17. The importance of adaption in business internet connectivity

    Silicon Republic · 21 Oct 2026, 18:30 IST

    Representatives from Magnet Plus and Culligan Water discuss the challenges and benefits of adapting internet connectivity for a business’s needs. Read more: The importance of adaption in business internet connectivity

18. Design Proteins with RFD4-Proteina Using Reward-Guided Inference-Time Search

    NVIDIA Technical Blog · 21 Oct 2026, 18:00 IST

    Protein design is a search problem. Choose amino acids for an eight-residue protein sequence and more than 25 billion combinations are possible. Protein design is a search problem.

19. Anomalith producer reveals that 'liminal spaces, including things like the Backrooms' inspired the upcoming third-person survival shooter

    TechRadar · 21 Oct 2026, 17:50 IST

    Dash is an experienced tech journalist who specializes in video games, electronic entertainment products, and the wider industry that surrounds them. He currently serves as the Gaming Editor at TechRadar, leading our review, preview,...

20. Here's how SpaceX plans to catch Starship's upper stage for the first time

    Engadget · 21 Oct 2026, 17:49 IST

    SpaceX has released a demo showing how it intends to catch Starship's upper stage, which could happen as soon as next month.

21. After YouTube block, Mumbai Police asks X to remove 24 posts on Modi-Adani video essay

    Medianama · 21 Oct 2026, 17:52 IST

    Access the OCR-parsed version of the legal notice here: text file . After YouTube blocked the 34-minute video essay on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and business conglomerate Gautam Adani, created by Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia, Mumbai...

22. EU opens Digital Services Act investigation into Booking.com over scams

    TNW · 21 Oct 2026, 17:23 IST

    The European Commission has opened an investigation into Booking.com over concerns that the platform is not doing enough to protect users from fake listings and phishing scams. Announced Wednesday, the probe will examine whether the...

23. SpaceX's Starlink Clears Hurdle to Becoming Mobile Carrier

    TechNewsWorld · 21 Oct 2026, 17:30 IST

    Regulatory clearance opens a path to wireless competition, but winning customers will take more than satellites. Indoor coverage and the cost of a ground network remain major tests. The post SpaceX's Starlink Clears Hurdle to Becoming...

24. OpenAI Acquires Pharma Co Orchestra Bio to Build AI Agents for Drug Development

    Analytics India Mag · 21 Oct 2026, 17:21 IST

    OpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio, a platform that helps biopharmaceutical companies coordinate drug development programmes, as the company expands its AI tools for life sciences research. OpenAI has not disclosed the acquisition terms....

25. Enterprise AI Startup AuxoAI Nets $20.7M To Strengthen Its FDE Team

    Inc42 Media · 21 Oct 2026, 17:03 IST

    San Francisco-based enterprise AI startup AuxoAI has raised $20.7 Mn (over ₹195 Cr) in a Series A funding round led by NTTVC, a Silicon Valley VC firm backed by Japanese telco NTT. Industry executives including Norwest Venture Partners’...

26. ChatGPT can now make its own games — so I asked it to reinvent 5 arcade classics

    TechRadar · 21 Oct 2026, 17:01 IST

    Becca is a contributor to TechRadar, a freelance journalist and author. She’s been writing about consumer tech and popular science for more than ten years, covering all kinds of topics, including why robots have eyes and whether we’ll...

27. Foxconn expands Santa Clara operation for AI hardware

    AppleInsider · 21 Oct 2026, 16:55 IST

    Newly published property filings show that Foxconn has bought 110,100 square feet of buildings in Santa Clara, and is believed to be planning to turn them into factories. Foxconn has bought two back-to-back sites in Santa Clara,...

28. The engineer who didn’t write a line of code until she was 25

    Silicon Republic · 21 Oct 2026, 17:00 IST

    Yvonne Coppinger discusses the skills she learned in the early days of her career, the joy of never knowing what skills will be needed next and mentoring the future leaders of the industry. Read more: The engineer who didn’t write a...

29. Gaming Can’t Afford More Games the Size of ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’

    Wired · 21 Oct 2026, 16:30 IST

    Between crushing layoffs, ballooning budgets, and bland end products, video game makers need to stop chasing AAA glory.

30. Tesla-SpaceX Merger Being Considered

    Slashdot · 21 Oct 2026, 16:30 IST

    Elon Musk says a merger between Tesla and SpaceX is under active consideration, with special committees at both companies evaluating a deal that could combine businesses valued at roughly $3.5 trillion. "Do I think it would be a good...

31. Eternal To Swap AdOnMo Stake For Mygate Shares In Proposed Merger Deal

    Inc42 Media · 21 Oct 2026, 15:44 IST

    Zomato and Blinkit parent Eternal has approved a deal to exchange its entire shareholding in digital advertising platform AdOnMo for shares in community management platform Mygate, as part of a proposed merger between the two startups....

32. Italy’s Generative Bionics, AMD team up to train European humanoids

    Silicon Republic · 21 Oct 2026, 15:47 IST

    Digital twins will train humanoid robots at scale before they ever enter the world, CEO Daniele Pucci said. Read more: Italy’s Generative Bionics, AMD team up to train European humanoids

33. Go Eve secures £750K to advance its DockChain EV charging technology

    Tech.eu · 21 Oct 2026, 15:38 IST

    Go Eve , a joint spin-out from University College Dublin (UCD) and Imperial College London, has secured £750,000 in funding from Innovate UK and private investors to further develop its electric vehicle (EV) charging technology. The...

34. Incomar invests in the next generation of flight test engineers

    DefenceWeb · 21 Oct 2026, 15:30 IST

    South Africa’s defence and aerospace industry continues to lose specialist engineering skills to opportunities abroad, with local companies reporting that [...]

35. Tesla and SpaceX consider mega-merger to create multi-trillion-dollar empire

    Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business · 21 Oct 2026, 15:16 IST

    Elon Musk has confirmed that SpaceX and Tesla have established special committees to evaluate a potential merger between the two companies. Announced during SpaceX’s third-quarter earnings cal l in 2026, the exploratory panels were...

36. Nuclear-powered spaceships

    MIT Technology Review · 21 Oct 2026, 14:30 IST

    Just before the Artemis II crew began its historic slingshot around the moon this past April, NASA announced plans to build Space Reactor-1 Freedom. SR-1, the first-ever nuclear-reactor-­powered interplanetary spacecraft, is meant to...

37. Tesla and SpaceX Explore Merger as Elon Musk Backs Deal

    Analytics India Mag · 21 Oct 2026, 14:24 IST

    Tesla and SpaceX have formed independent committees to explore a potential merger, Elon Musk said during SpaceX’s third-quarter earnings call. The billionaire backed the idea, citing opportunities in AI, chip design , robotics, and...

38. SpaceX and Tesla are exploring a possible merger

    Engadget · 21 Oct 2026, 14:10 IST

    SpaceX and Tesla have formed special committees to discuss a merger, but Elon Musk says it's not a certainty.

39. Google rolls out new Gemini tools to help small businesses manage marketing, finances

    Latest InfoTech News, IT, Information Technology News | The HinduBusinessLine · 21 Oct 2026, 13:57 IST

    The new features will allow business owners to connect Gemini with Google services such as Google Business Profile, Google Ads and Google Workspace, as well as third-party applications

40. MPs urge UK government to play venture capitalist with taxpayer-funded tech

    The Register · 21 Oct 2026, 14:00 IST

    Britain is funding the next generation of tech companies without making sure taxpayers get a slice of the action, MPs have warned. In a new report shared with The Register ahead of publication, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has...