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Boulevard, which provides business management software for the self-care sector, raised an $80M Series D led by JMI Equity at an ~$800M post-money valuation (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

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I tested 12 Switch 2 cases and these are the best

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Netflix’s Assassin’s Creed series is finally coming together

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Mistral adds new features to its Le Chat chatbot, including a new "deep research" mode, native multilingual reasoning, and advanced image editing (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

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Firestorm Labs, which has contracts with the US DOD for its 3D printed drones, raised a $47M Series A and plans to grow its fleet of airliftable xCell factories (Colin Demarest/Axios)

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Who is Rhys Darby playing in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds?

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Donkey Kong Bananza’s chaotic co-op gives your kid way too much power

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AMD’s new 96-core Threadripper CPU will set you back $11,699

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Elgato brightens up its Stream Deck and mics with four new colors

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A US judge rules that three authors suing Anthropic can bring a class action on behalf of all US writers whose books Anthropic allegedly pirated to train its AI (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

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Lenovo Legion Go S review part two: you were the chosen one!

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Wacom’s new MovinkPad drawing tablet doesn’t need a PC

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Waymo responds to Tesla’s dick joke with a bigger Austin robotaxi map

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Spotify expands audiobook access to family plan members with two new plans, including Audiobooks+ that offers more listening hours, in the UK and 10+ countries (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Apple launches new emoji word game to take on Wordle and the NYT

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Q&A with Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on the browser as AI's killer app, AI talent wars, why users may eventually pay thousands for a single prompt, and more (Alex Heath/The Verge)

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Apex Legends’ narrative breadcrumbs make me miss its golden age of lore

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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is selling out IMAX theaters a year in advance

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Substack raised a $100M Series C from Chernin Group, a16z, and others, sources say at a $1.1B valuation, as it builds its social network and warms up to ads (New York Times)

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A gritty Pac-Man reboot makes for surprisingly solid Metroid-style action

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