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Meta gets ready to launch two new Ray-Ban AI glasses

The Verge - All Posts

Cohere launches Transcribe, its first voice model; the 2B-parameter, open-source speech recognition model handles tasks like notetaking and speech analysis (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Techmeme

The US FCC opens a comment period for a proposal to help return outsourced call center jobs to the US; critics say the plan could drive companies to automation (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)

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Where New York’s Lawmakers Split From Their Constituents: Home Ownership

THE CITY - All

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice review: Hulu's new time-travel movie is Looper but dumb

Polygon - All

ByteDance launches its Dreamina Seedance 2.0 audio and video model in its CapCut editing platform, supporting clips up to 15 seconds across six aspect ratios (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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How to solve the Five-Finger Mountain puzzle in Crimson Desert

Polygon - All

A US federal judge dismisses X's antitrust lawsuit that accused the World Federation of Advertisers and a group of major companies of illegally boycotting X (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)

Techmeme

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Taylor Frankie Paul

The Onion

Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, an audio model with improved tonal understanding and lower latency for real-time dialogue, watermarked with SynthID (Valeria Wu/The Keyword)

Techmeme

MTG leaked Secret Lair drop features a $15 card your opponents will hate

Polygon - All

Everyone hates Ticketmaster. Why’d Trump go easy on them?

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Capcom addresses Street Fighter 6's incest controversy

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HBCU Alumni Score Higher in Brain Health Than PWI Peers, New Study Finds

The Root

New Study Says Attending an HBCU is Good For Your Health

The Root

HBCU Grads Outperform PWI Alumni in Cognitive Testing, Study Says

The Root

Wikipedia bans using AI for writing or rewriting articles on its English-language site, citing AI-written articles' tendency to violate "core content policies" (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Techmeme

The Yankees Almost Signed Another P.E.D. Cheater

Daring Fireball

Pokémon Champions finally redeems a bad grass starter 25 years later

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How to solve the Thinker's Meadow mysterious energy puzzles in Crimson Desert

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