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The new Pebble watch’s mobile app will also work with some old Pebble watches

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The Army Reserve launches Detachment 201, an innovation corps with Palantir CTO, Meta CTO, and other tech execs advising on AI and tech as lieutenant colonels (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)

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Switch, Xbox, and the portable future of games

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Google just released the first major Snapseed update in years

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The spiritual sequel to Coraline is getting a 3D release for Halloween

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Google plans to shut down Android's Instant Apps, which let users launch apps without installing them, later this year citing low usage and engagement (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

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Switch 2 is the continuity candidate that might just win

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Sources: Tencent is in early talks to acquire Nexon, the South Korean gaming giant behind Dungeon & Fighter Mobile; Tencent pursued a Nexon acquisition in 2019 (Dong Cao/Bloomberg)

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Google is shutting down Android Instant Apps over ‘low’ usage

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Tesla’s minor Model S and X refreshes cost $5,000 more

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Sources: Walmart, Amazon, and Expedia have recently explored issuing or using stablecoins in the US to potentially save fees from cash and card transactions (Wall Street Journal)

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is getting a fifth and final season

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PCIe 7.0 is coming, but not soon, and not for you

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Nintendo Switch 2 review: great build quality, better haptics, and improved performance for Switch 1 games, but weak battery life and only a few launch titles (Matt Swider/The Shortcut)

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Betting platform Kalshi aired a fully AI-generated 30-second ad during the NBA Finals, reportedly made in 2-3 days with 300-400 generations using Google's Veo 3 (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Opinion: Space startups are pivoting to defence. That’s great for innovation

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Garmin unveils the $799 Venu X1 smartwatch with a 2" square AMOLED screen, a titanium body, an eight-day battery, and a blood oxygen monitor, coming on June 18 (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Sources: China delays approval of Synopsys' Ansys deal as the US moved in late May to ban chip design software sales by US firms, including Synopsys, to China (Financial Times)

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Customs data shows Foxconn exported $3.2B worth of iPhones from India between March and May, with an average 97% to the US, up from a 2024 average of 50.3% (Reuters)

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A senior Trump administration official projects that Huawei's Ascend AI chip output will be at or below 200,000 for 2025, in a hearing with US lawmakers (Bloomberg)

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