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Why 2025 has been a banner year for horror movies

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Divergent Technologies, which makes automated assembly systems and 3D printers to make missile parts and other equipment, raised $290M at a $2.3B valuation (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)

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Android’s next flagship processor will be the ‘Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5’

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Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, its next flagship mobile chipset, before its 2025 Snapdragon Summit, and Xiaomi says its 17 series will use it (Adamya Sharma/Android Authority)

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Charlie Kirk was more than a conservative activist

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The London Stock Exchange debuts a blockchain-based platform, initially focused on private funds and increasing efficiency, marking its push into digital assets (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)

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For the first time, more kids are obese than underweight

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Microsoft is changing how Xbox controllers work on Windows 11

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An Anthropic report details how Claude usage varies by country and US state, finding 36% use it for coding, 77% of business uses involve automation, and more (Anthropic)

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Anime and Piracy

Polygon - All

A self-driving car traffic jam is coming for US cities

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Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle makes history with record-breaking box office debut

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Indoor Ban Shuts Down Soup Kitchen at Downtown Manhattan Church

THE CITY - All

OpenAI releases the first detailed public study on how people use ChatGPT: 73% of chats were non-work related, practical guidance was the top use case, and more (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)

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In a preliminary probe, China rules that Nvidia violated anti-monopoly laws by acquiring Mellanox in April 2020, as the US and China negotiate tariffs in Madrid (Bloomberg)

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The SSD version of LaCie’s iconic Rugged drive gets a speed boost

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Apple’s new iPhone charger is a (second) of its kind

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Founders’ takes: Why we need European AI employees

The Next Web

A look at training sessions hosted by robotaxi companies, like Zoox, to teach first responders how to handle emergencies involving self-driving cars (Lisa Bonos/Washington Post)

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A deep dive into the architecture of Nvidia's Rubin CPX chip, which is optimized for long-context AI tasks and the prefill phase of inference (SemiAnalysis)

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