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Love on the Spectrum stars call on RFK Jr. to resign

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15 Gangsta Things About Bumpy Johnson, the Real Godfather of Harlem

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Why Black Americans See Something 'Sacred' in Rumi Carter, Beyoncé and Jay-Z's 7-year-old Bubbly daughter

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Wearing three AI-powered devices, the $50 Bee Pioneer, $199 Limitless Pendant, and $159 Plaud NotePin, shows how the wearables can be useful but also creepy (Joanna Stern/Wall Street Journal)

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Polygon Labs spinout Miden, a zero-knowledge proof-based blockchain project focused on high scalability, raised a $25M seed led by a16z Crypto, 1kx, and Hack VC (Zoltan Vardai/Cointelegraph)

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NYC-based Blooming Health, an online coordination network for social service agencies and aging care providers, raised a $26M Series A led by Insight Partners (Aaron Weitzman/Axios)

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Salt Lake City-based Canopy, which provides a firm-wide operating system for accounting, raised a $70M Series C led by Viking Global Investors (FinSMEs)

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Rhode Island-based Utilidata, which develops AI-enabled smart meters and grid control devices with Nvidia chips for energy utilities, raised a $60.3M Series C (Jeff St. John/Canary Media)

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Ookla: Starlink use rose by 35% above average in Spain and Portugal on April 28, as a widespread electricity outage exposed vulnerabilities in telecoms networks (Ian Johnston/Financial Times)

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London-based Navro, which develops APIs to enable businesses to send and receive international payments with various payment options, raised a $41M Series B (Tom Matsuda/Sifted)

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Berlin-based Pliant, which helps corporates combine physical and virtual credit cards with automation tools to streamline spending, raised a $40M Series B (Lucy Adams/Tech.eu)

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Filings: Abu Dhabi-based AI group G42 set up a US company to boost its presence in the country, as the UAE plans to invest tens of billions of dollars in the US (Chloe Cornish/Financial Times)

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Minimus, which offers secure, minimal container images and VMs to let enterprises reduce vulnerability exposure in development workflows, raised a $51M seed (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

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Doppel, which provides an AI-powered social engineering detection service for enterprises, raised a $35M Series B led by Bessemer at a $205M valuation (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)

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An in-depth look at the impact of stratospheric pollution from satellite reentries on the ozone layer, as Starlink and others launch more internet satellites (Bloomberg)

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Duolingo's "AI-first" announcement highlights the unfolding AI jobs crisis, with attrition in creative fields, hiring cuts, declining freelance incomes, more (Brian Merchant/Blood in the Machine)

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Janet Jackson’s ‘Rhythm Nation’ crashed some Windows laptops for years

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Sensor Tower: Temu cut US digital ad spending by an estimated 31% and Shein by 19% in the two week period from March 31 as the de minimis exemption is closed (New York Times)

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Trump Responds to Stephen A. Smith Running for President, Candace Owens Speaks Out Against Trump, 15 Unbelievable Things Since Trump Took Office, Trump Replaces Obama's Portrait in White House, Indiana’s MAGA Lt. Governor Defends Slavery Norm, Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries Take on Trump, Should Black People Sit Out Protesting and More Political News From the Week

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Detroit Man Tries to Sell Dog Back to Owner He Stole It From, More Mysterious Details Arise from Death of Georgia Twins, Sister of Man Who Swallowed Rosary Beads on Plane Speaks Out, Police Find Man Who Framed Another for Murder and All The Juicy Crime Stories You Missed This Week

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