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How Donald Trump and Ryan Reynolds can easily sell you phone plans

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This smart light has party speaker aspirations

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Framework Laptop 12 review: plastic fantastic

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OpenAI says it's phasing out its work with Scale AI, into which Meta invested $14.3B, and that Scale AI accounted for a small fraction of its overall data needs (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

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Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket

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The whiplash of covering Summer Game Fest 2025 in LA

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Split Fiction players say Switch 2 rumble disabled after ‘prolonged use’

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14 Self-Care to Protect Your Peace During the Scariest News Cycle Ever

The Root

Cannes Lions: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube Shorts now averages 200B daily views, up 186% from the 70B average daily views YouTube reported in March 2024 (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)

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Observability and site reliability engineering startup Traversal emerges from stealth with $48M in seed and Series A funding led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

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This Is How Gary Coleman&#8217;s Ex-Wife Will <i>Finally</i> Answer Suspicions She Was Involved in His Death, Once and for All

The Root

Why are so many straight guys so bad at gossiping? 

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Temu signed a US data storage deal with Oracle last week; Temu offered few details, but says the deal is part of an effort to localize more of its US operations (Shen Lu/Wall Street Journal)

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RFK Jr. is coming for your vaccines

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California Black Man Sues In-N-Out For <i>Big</i> Money For Allegedly Firing Him Over This Quirky Hairstyle

The Root

Intel names new engineering leadership, appointing Srinivasan Iyengar, Jean-Didier Allegrucci, and Shailendra Desai, as part of CEO Lip-Bu Tan's turnaround plan (Ian King/Bloomberg)

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Even Klarna is launching a mobile phone service now

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Tom Cruise receives the ultimate bad review of Mission: Impossible from the Oscars

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Boston-based Maven, which builds autonomous AI agents for enterprises' customer support, raised a $50M Series B led by Dell, taking its total funding to $78M (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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Pauline’s in Donkey Kong Bananza, elevating the game with musical co-op action

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