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Crowdfunding Site Catches Heat for 'Playground Karen's' Fundraiser— And the CFO Shares Why He Supports Her Cashing In

The Root

Sean Combs Asks For Quick Trial So He Can Get To Part Where Trump Pardons Him

The Onion

Unlike most mainstream social networks, Instagram has failed to scrub Kanye's pro-Nazi song "Heil Hitler", with several posts garnering 1M+ views (Matthew Gault/404 Media)

Techmeme

Clair Obscur’s three female characters make me never want to switch my party

Polygon - All

Samsung’s Music Frame speaker is more of a bargain at 69 percent off

The Verge - All Posts

TikTok launches TikTok AI Alive, which lets users turn static photos into videos in TikTok Stories using Story Camera (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Techmeme

Audible is giving publishers AI tools to quickly make more audiobooks

The Verge - All Posts

Google rebrands Find My Device to Find Hub, which recently added a People tab to track contacts, and adds UWB support to the app for more precise tracking (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

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Andor creator Tony Gilroy ‘had to fight for’ the series’ most crushing moment

Polygon - All

These Trump Controversies Prove Just How Wild His Time in the White House Really Is...

The Root

Sources: Trump's admin mulls a deal to let UAE import 500K of the most advanced AI chips each year until 2027; one-fifth would go to G42, the others to US firms (Bloomberg)

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Fruit Battlegrounds codes for May 2025

Polygon - All

Google will add Gemini to Wear OS 6, Android Auto, Google TV, and Android XR later this year (Guemmy Kim/The Keyword)

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PayPal reportedly launches iPhone NFC payments in Germany, after the EU's DMA forced Apple to open up (Wes Davis/The Verge)

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Former Call of Duty dev wonders if the franchise has ‘run out of ideas’

Polygon - All

Google says Android 16 adds device-level security features for its Advanced Protection Program, including intrusion logging for threat analysis (Il-Sung Lee/Google Online Security Blog)

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Google says that over one billion RCS messages are sent each day in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Why Obama Could've Never Gotten Away With Accepting a $400 Million Jet as a Gift Like Trump

The Root

Is Tory Lanez OK?!

The Root

Google announces its Material 3 Expressive design, which it will roll out to Android and Wear OS, nearly four years after introducing Material You (Mindy Brooks/The Keyword)

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