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Apple Announces Ads Are Coming to Apple Maps

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TLC Goes To Court to Shut Down Empower Ride-Sharing App

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Google rolls out its Veo video model globally within Google Ads, allowing advertisers to create 10-second videos for YouTube from up to three static images (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)

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NeurIPS reverses a policy change that would have banned papers from researchers at any entity under US sanctions, after backlash from Chinese researchers (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

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Netflix Raises Prices Again

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Sony Japan temporarily suspends fulfillment of orders for nearly all of its CFexpress and SD memory card product lines due to solid state memory shortages (Jaron Schneider/PetaPixel)

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Sources: Meta plans to debut two Ray-Ban smart glasses models next week intended for prescription wearers, to be sold mainly via prescription eyewear channels (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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These 15 Beloved White Hollywood Icons Have a Racist Past

The Root

These 15 Beloved White Hollywood Icons Have a Racist Past

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Sony temporarily suspends memory card sales due to shortages

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Anthropic adjusts Claude session limits and says users will hit their limits faster during peak hours, amid compute strain due to Claude's new popularity (Brent D. Griffiths/Business Insider)

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Toronto-based quantum computing company Xanadu's stock closed up 15% in its trading debut on Nasdaq; it also began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (Josh Scott/BetaKit)

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Sources: Physical Intelligence, which is developing AI models for robotics, is discussing a new funding round of about $1B that would value it at $11B+ (Bloomberg)

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Ocarina of Time remake would be a bold move for Nintendo

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Court docs: Zuckerberg texted Musk approvingly about his work with DOGE in February 2025, offering to "take down content doxxing or threatening" DOGE staffers (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

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Goodbye, Mac Pro

Michael Tsai

macOS 26.4’s Script Editor Won’t Open Some Older AppleScripts

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Tech stocks suffer their worst week in almost a year, driven by the Iran war and Meta's legal defeats; Meta fell 11%, Alphabet fell ~9%, and Microsoft fell ~7% (Ari Levy/CNBC)

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How to get the Soft Roller pickaxe in Fortnite

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Mercy, Ballerina, Anaconda, and every new movie on streaming this weekend

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