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Google unveils Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview I/O Edition with "significantly" improved capabilities for coding and building interactive web apps, before I/O on May 20 (Logan Kilpatrick/Google Developers Blog)

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Google’s iOS app will use AI to simplify jargon

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Trump Comes For Rep. Crockett Again, But Check Out How She Responded

The Root

5 Best Men's and 5 Best Women's Looks from the Met Gala 2025

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Viral Video Shows White Male Karen Chasing and Slapping Black Woman, and You Won't Believe What He Told Her

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Guess What Mo'Nique Had to Say About Shannon Sharpe's Sex Scandal On Stage...

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DeFi company IntoTheBlock and financial services company Trident Digital announce they are merging to form Sentora and have raised a $25M Series A (James Hunt/The Block)

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Wait, Machine Gun Kelly Has a Black Daughter?? Here's What We Know

The Root

What White Celebs Wore to the Blackest Met Gala Ever

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Fans Are Loving Beyoncé's Petty Clapback After Getting A 'Cease and Desist,' Notice

The Root

Opera has new ways for Android users to manage tabs

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The new flying ID restrictions are here, and they’re a mess

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Unblocked, an AI-powered tool that helps devs understand codebases by answering contextual questions, raised a $20M Series A from B Capital and Radical Ventures (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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I want more of whatever spice Rockstar put in the GTA 6 cinematic trailer

Polygon - All

Xbox is selling a lot of games on PlayStation

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Ranking Every Single Rockstar Game

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DOJ asks court to split up Google’s ad tech empire

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Nvidia will release its $299 RTX 5060 on May 19th

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Doom: The Dark Ages headlines Xbox Game Pass in May

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Statsig, which offers a cloud tool for companies to streamline A/B testing of apps and websites, raised a $100M Series C led by Iconiq at a $1.1B valuation (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

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