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Shane Collins and Charlie Quentin

The Onion

A’s Fans Unable To Sustain The Wave Over Chasm Of 7,000 Empty Seats

The Onion

Minor League Play-By-Play Announcer Just Sounds Like Normal Guy

The Onion

Study Shows Benefits Of Skin-To-Skin Contact Between New Players, Coaches

The Onion

Your iPhone is about to look way different

The Verge - All Posts

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the US has reached a TikTok deal with China, as Trump cites "a 'certain' company that young people" in the US wanted saved (CNBC)

Techmeme

Apple AirPods Pro 3 review: a significantly better fit, sound quality, noise cancellation, and battery life, but heart-rate monitoring is buried in fitness apps (David Carnoy/CNET)

Techmeme

Matt Reeves confirms The Penguin season 2 is in discussion

Polygon - All

Lego Voyagers Review – A Creative Co-Op Platformer

Game Informer

Dear RPG devs, please let me back into your character creator

Polygon - All

AirPods Pro 3 review: tripling down on a good thing

The Verge - All Posts

Riyadh-based Hala, which offers payment services to 142K+ small businesses in the Gulf region, raised a $157M Series B, a source says at a ~$900M valuation (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Tel Aviv-based Terra Security, which offers an AI-driven penetration testing platform, raised a $30M Series A led by Felicis, bringing its total funding to $38M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Techmeme

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)

Techmeme

Why 2025 has been a banner year for horror movies

Vox - All

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

The Verge - All Posts

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)

Techmeme

Charlie Kirk was more than a conservative activist

Vox - All

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)

Techmeme

For the first time, more kids are obese than underweight

Vox - All