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MTG head designer explains the most difficult part of making Universes Beyond sets

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Jujutsu Kaisen creator’s new manga should surprise fans no matter what

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GSR fund documents: TikTok rival Xiaohongshu, known as RedNote in the US, saw its valuation rise 19% to $31B from $26B in March during recent GSR transactions (Echo Wong/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Why 3-year-olds need smartphones*

Vox - All

Sources: Alibaba, ByteDance, and other Chinese tech companies remain keen on Nvidia's AI chips despite Beijing strongly discouraging them from such purchases (Reuters)

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Microsoft open-sources its 6502 version of BASIC from 1976

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IFA 2025: the biggest tech and gadget announcements

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Philips Hue unveils a major product refresh at IFA 2025, including a $90 Hue Bridge Pro, updated $25 smart bulbs, and the $169 Hue Secure doorbell, its first (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

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Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.

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Tencent releases HunyuanWorld-Voyager, an open-weights AI model that generates 3D-consistent video sequences from a single image, trained on 100K+ video clips (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

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Huawei’s second trifold adds stylus support and purple pleather

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What the panic about kids using AI to cheat gets wrong

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Roborock’s Curv 2 Pro can drop its mop pads to keep your carpets dry

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Roborock graduates from vacuuming your house to mowing your lawn

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The US v. Google ruling signals a cautious antitrust approach by courts and a reluctance to intervene too deeply, ahead of other Big Tech antitrust rulings (Steve Lohr/New York Times)

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Samsung unveils the $650+ Galaxy S25 FE and $800+ Tab S11 series in 11" and 14.6", offering thinner, lighter designs alongside modest upgrades, shipping now (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

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Sources: DeepSeek is developing an agentic AI model that can carry out multi-step actions with little direction as well as learn and improve, set for a Q4 debut (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

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Samsung takes another stab at an FE phone

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The newest Samsung SmartThings hub ditches Z-Wave

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Samsung’s Galaxy S25 FE and Tab S11 are thinner, lighter, and otherwise about the same

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