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Here’s Everything We Know About Zendaya and Tom Holland’s ‘Wedding’

The Root

Hasbro’s CEO has an AI Peppa Pig help design toys

The Verge - All Posts

No Man's Land preview: Altered Carbon creator returns to the detective noir genre with a dark twist on World War I

Polygon - All

Why Endometriosis Keeps Getting Missed in Black Women

The Root

Nvidia and ABB partner to bring ABB's robot training software to Nvidia's Omniverse simulation platform and build autonomous robots, which Foxconn is trialing (Financial Times)

Techmeme

Stablecoin payments startup KAST raised an $80M Series A; sources say the raise is at a $600M valuation and KAST expects a $100M annual revenue run rate in 2026 (Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Is The Boys: Diabolical canceled? Showrunner explains what actually happened

Polygon - All

Marathon needs its version of the Destiny Companion app

Polygon - All

Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork, integrating Anthropic's Claude Cowork tech into Microsoft 365 Copilot and using Work IQ to ground its actions in work data (Charles Lamanna/Microsoft 365 Blog)

Techmeme

The Outrageous Reason Why a Cali. Teacher Allegedly Gave Little Children Edibles

The Root

The Outrageous Reason Why a Cali. Substitute Teacher Allegedly Gave Elementary Students 20mg Edibles

The Root

Microsoft launches E7, which bundles Office tools and Copilot, for $99/user/month, a 65% jump; of its 450M+ business users in January, ~3% also paid for Copilot (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Tamera Mowry-Housely Opens Up About Rough Time Living With Twin Sister Tia

The Root

iPad Air (M4) review: M4 is powerful, iPadOS 26 improves multitasking, and the hardware is robust, but its screen could be better, no Face ID, and can be pricey (Nathan Ingraham/Engadget)

Techmeme

iPhone 17e review: MagSafe, 256GB of base storage, and the camera are great, but no always-on display and 60Hz makes the iPhone 17 a better deal for $200 more (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

Techmeme

Everything we know about Project Helix, the next Xbox

Polygon - All

Uber expands its Women Drivers matching feature nationwide, including in major US markets like New York City, Philadelphia, and DC, amid mounting assault cases (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Big Walk isn't 'friendslop,' it's an entirely new type of multiplayer game

Polygon - All

It Wasn’t Called ‘The 2008 RV Market Crash,’ Was It?

The Onion

Study Finds Mourning Loved Ones A Huge Waste Of Time

The Onion