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iRobot’s founder is working on a new kind of home robot

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Parafin, a startup run by ex-Robinhood staff offering spend management and savings tools as well as loan products, raised a $100M Series C at a $750M valuation (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)

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Nvidia’s $249 dev kit promises cheap, small AI power

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A San Francisco jury convicts tech consultant Nima Momeni of second-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of Cash App founder Bob Lee on April 4, 2023 (New York Times)

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Blackmagic Design Now Taking Pre-Orders for Vision-Pro–Optimized Immersive Camera

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Atlanta-based Slip Robotics, a robot-as-a-service startup whose robots speed up the loading and unloading of truck trailers, raised a $28M Series B led by DCVC (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

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The best animated movies of 2024

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iRobot’s mop-equipped Roomba Combo j7 Plus is nearly matching its best price to date

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Pokémon Go ‘Holiday Part 1’ 2024 event guide

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Some tech leaders say they're optimistic that Trump will increase visas to highly skilled foreign workers, despite Trump curbing such programs in his first term (New York Times)

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Google adds support for third-party tools to Gemini Code Assist, letting the service access real-time data and information from outside apps (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Skibidi Toilet and Plungerman are coming to Fortnite

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Astronaut Don Pettit shows how to take long-exposure photos from the ISS

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Mufasa would’ve been a banger DTV prequel, but on the big screen, it’s a dud

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James Wan is making a Pacific Drive TV show

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Walmart starts its own Game Informer-style gaming site

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Amy Klobuchar isn’t done with antitrust reform

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Sources: OpenAI is working to sever the nonprofit's control while compensating its board, possibly in the billions, and promised investors a two-year schedule (New York Times)

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Grammarly unveils a deal to buy collaborative tools startup Coda and bring on its co-founder and CEO Shishir Mehrotra as CEO; Coda had a $1.4B valuation in 2021 (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)

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Kissing ghosts is hard work in the Helltaker dev’s new free game on Steam

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