Netanyahu says Hezbollah leader's killing became an "essential condition" for Israel to achieve its war goals

Yahoo News Hezbollah leader vows to retaliate for 2 days of attacks on electronic devices in Lebanon In a televised address Thursday, Hassan Nasrallah said "retribution will come" after attacks on pagers and walkie-talkies carried by members of the Iran-backed militant group this week left at least 37 people dead and thousands of others wounded.

Judge is unimpressed by Apple's deadline extension request in Epic Games dispute Apple faces a looming deadline to produce what it says are more than 1 million documents related to recent App Store changes. On Friday, Judge Thomas S. Hixson denied the company's attempt to extend that deadline, describing the request as "bad behavior." So Apple's deadline is still Monday, September 30: "It's up to Apple to figure out how to meet the deadline, but Monday is indeed the deadline." This is just the latest chapter in the ongoing legal dispute between Apple and Fortnite-maker Epic Games, which has been fighting Apple's App Store rules.

Meta offers a glimpse through its supposed iPhone killer: Orion For years, Silicon Valley and Wall Street have questioned Mark Zuckerberg's decision to invest tens of billions of dollars into Reality Labs. This week, Meta's wearables division unveiled a prototype of its Orion smart glasses, a form factor the company believes one day could replace the iPhone. Through micro LED projectors and silicon carbide lenses (which are quite expensive), Meta seems to have cracked a longstanding AR display challenge.

Robot hand can detach from arm, crawl over to objects, and pick them up "Beyond Manual Dexterity" is one such video. It wows you in the first few seconds with a highly dexterous robotic gripper, and then things start to go off the rails. The video debuted along with a research paper of the same name at IEEE's International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Rotterdam this week.

Why Index Ventures is bulking up its investment team in NYC While online discourse would make it seem that venture has retreated to the Bay Area, with San Francisco being the most important place to build a startup, Index Ventures is looking to bulk up its New York-based investing team. The firm is currently looking to hire another New York-based investor with plans to add three or four new people to the team within the next year, Shardul Shah, a partner at Index Ventures, told TechCrunch. "For a venture fund, that's hypergrowth," Shah said, adding that Index is trying to "capitalize on the ecosystem here, and the energy we have as a team."

WordPress.org temporarily lifts its ban on WP Engine WordPress.org has lifted its ban on hosting provider WP Engine until October 1, after putting a block on it earlier this week. WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, who has been in a tussle with WP Engine for over a week, blamed WP Engine's private equity investor, Silver Lake.