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DC’s Batman reboot promised hope, but Wonder Woman and Superman delivered

Polygon - All

YouTuber Legal Eagle is suing over PayPal’s Honey extension

The Verge - All Posts

Nvidia’s RTX 5090 leaks with 32GB of GDDR7 memory

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Foxconn reports Q4 revenue of ~$64.6B, up 15% YoY and exceeding analyst expectations for a 13% rise, with December 2024 bringing in ~$19.8B, up 42% YoY (Jane Lanhee Lee/Bloomberg)

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Eerie Warning Black Mom Gave Teen Before Killed in New Orleans Attack

The Root

Get this MTG collection on eBay for just… 2.2 million dollars

Polygon - All

PitchBook: AI startups developing medical note-taking apps raised $800M in 2024, compared to $390M in 2023, as Microsoft and others compete for market share (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

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How to watch Awesome Games Done Quick 2025

The Verge - All Posts

Checking in on 2024’s many primate pictures, from Monkey Man to Better Man

Polygon - All

What if everyone qualified for welfare benefits?

Vox - All

United Airlines now says first flights with Starlink Wi-Fi will take off spring 2025

The Verge - All Posts

The UK CMA is testing an AI tool to help catch companies that collude when bidding for public contracts, amid a "significant risk of bid-rigging" by contractors (Suzi Ring/Financial Times)

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How Huawei is flourishing despite harsh US sanctions, demonstrating the resilience of a company at the center of a worsening cold war between the US and China (Eva Dou/Washington Post)

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CrowdStrike, whose botched software update caused a global IT outage in July 2024, has more than recovered the $30B in market value it shed after the crisis (Stephanie Stacey/Financial Times)

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Douyin, Pinduoduo, and Xiaohongshu vow to improve their algorithms, after China launched a campaign in November 2024 to address "typical issues with algorithms" (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)

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Sources: Reliance writes off its $200M investment in Bengaluru-based hyperlocal delivery startup Dunzo, as CEO Kabeer Biswas looks to sell Dunzo for $25M-$30M (Bismah Malik/Inc42)

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Joe Biden awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Tim Gill, who founded the publishing software company Quark before becoming an influential LGBTQ+ activist (Max Levy/Denver Post)

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Ja Rule Rekindles 50 Cent Beef, Elliott Wilson Criticizes Cam'ron, Trae Tha Truth Reunited with Daughter, Joey Bada$$ Takes Shots at the West Coast and More Music News

The Root

Mother Accused of Brutal Murder of Baby Daughter, Scary Allegations Against Man Accused of Shoving Ex on Subway Tracks, the Alleged New Orleans 'Terrorist' and Other Crime News From the Week

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What to expect at CES 2025: TVs with AI features, laptops built around Nvidia's new 50-series discrete GPUs, Matter smart home devices, and more (The Verge)

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