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Mario Kart World Modes And Courses Detailed, Free Roam Features Missions And Collectibles

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Conservatives have a plan for cheaper day care. But is it safe?

Vox - All

UK unleashes drone-zapping microwave weapon amid defence tech drive

The Next Web

TSMC CEO C. C. Wei says "TSMC is not engaged in any discussion with other companies regarding any joint venture", after a recent report of a tie-up with Intel (Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang arrived in China on April 16 and visited Beijing on April 17, a source says to meet officials to discuss Trump's new chip export rules (Financial Times)

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Every New Item And Trick In The Mario Kart World Direct

Game Informer

Polish parcel locker operator InPost acquires UK delivery service Yodel, boosting its UK market share from 2% to ~8% and delivering 300M+ UK parcels annually (Konrad Krasuski/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Nvidia has privately pushed back against new US export rules, arguing China can already make some H20-level chips; Nvidia sold ~$12B of H20s in FY 2024 (Wall Street Journal)

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In Q1 2025, AI and ML startups raised $73.1B, accounting for 57.9% of global VC funding, with OpenAI's recent round led by SoftBank contributing $40B (Jacob Robbins/PitchBook)

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Smashing, an AI-powered news and social media posts aggregation app by Goodreads co-founder Otis Chandler, shuts down, citing its inability to grow quickly (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Konvoy: the gaming industry saw 43 M&A transactions and 77 VC deals in Q1 2025, and the sector is projected to be worth $186B in 2026, a 4.7% YoY jump (Rachel Kaser/VentureBeat)

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Mario Kart World's CameraPlay Lets You Broadcast Your Live Facial Reactions

Game Informer

Workers and researchers say data annotation jobs that many Venezuelans relied on have become scarce and poorly paid with the rise of generative AI (Laura Rodríguez Salamanca/Rest of World)

Techmeme

US community colleges are battling a flood of fake, or bot, students who bilk financial aid by enrolling in online classes and submitting AI-generated work (Jakob McWhinney/Voice of San Diego)

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Study: in South Korea, active YouTube users spent 210 minutes per day on the service in Q4, while Netflix subscribers spent 96 minutes per day on the streamer (Max Goldbart/Deadline)

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TSMC reports Q1 net income up 60.3% YoY to $11.1B, beating estimates, as customers stockpiled chips anticipating global trade disruptions spurred by US tariffs (Jane Lanhee Lee/Bloomberg)

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Paebbl, the startup turning CO2 into building materials, opens first demo plant

The Next Web

China bans automakers from using "smart driving" or "autonomous driving" in ads for driver-assist tech and tightens scrutiny after a fatal Xiaomi EV crash (Reuters)

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Strava acquires massively popular Runna app

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Sources: OpenAI and SoftBank are considering investing in the UK for Stargate as part of an international expansion, if the project proves successful in the US (Financial Times)

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