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Ottawa-based Dominion Dynamics, which is building software, sensors, and drones to autonomously monitor the Arctic, raised a CA$139M Series A led by Georgian (Josh Scott/BetaKit)

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Unseen Stranger Things art and secrets revealed in new official guide

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Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, and 140+ companies join Open Standard to launch Open USD, a stablecoin that shares earnings from its reserves (Kyle Baird/The Block)

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Schneider Electric agrees to buy industrial AI company Cognite in a $3.1B all-cash deal, and plans to combine Cognite with its industrial software company Aveva (Frank Connelly/Bloomberg)

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CMA Consultation on Mobile App Steering and NFC Access

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How to extract in Sand Raiders of Sophie

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Action romance anime Marriage Toxin gets season 2 in 2027

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SCOTUS agrees to hear Apple's appeal of a 2025 contempt ruling in its Epic case after a district judge found Apple violated an order to make App Store changes (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)

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Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite, a low cost text-to-image model that delivers outputs in four seconds, and rolls out Gemini Omni Flash to developers (The Keyword)

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Love and Deepspace dev cancels new love interest amid fan backlash

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The Bose Soundlink Max is $120 off ahead of the July 4th weekend

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What is a quantum computer good for? Absolutely nothing — yet

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Filings: Microsoft's Ireland hub generated $47B in pretax profits for FY 2025, or 38.1% of its global total; new EU rules require country-by-country reporting (Wall Street Journal)

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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie lands July streaming release date

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U.K. Regulator Considers Requiring App Store to Allow Steering to the Web, and iOS NFC to Be Open

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'Choose Your Path Charged Embers' June 2026 Timed Research in Pokémon Go

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MDOTM, which makes AI software for asset and wealth managers, raised $27M led by Expedition Growth Capital, bringing its total funding to $36.5M (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

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Libby will filter out AI content, kind of

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Obsession is officially now available to watch at home

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Cybersecurity company Aikido Security acquires Root, which has raised about $37.6M and develops an AI platform for securing open-source components (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

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