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Google’s new Play terms reveal something most Android users never know (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-08 | tags: background, google, google play

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An indie developer says Steam's refund policy cost his well-reviewed game 55,000 refunds (techspot.com)

2026-07-07 | tags: collected, collected refunds, culprit doesn

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Wall Street banks are buying the SpaceX hype, but investors remain cautious (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-07 | tags: appear, appear earthbound, banks

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Bethesda, id Software reportedly hit hard by Microsoft layoffs (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-07 | tags: cuts, doom, founder

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Mysterious Compound Detected on Pluto and Titan (wired.com)

2026-07-07 | by Jorge Garay | tags: compound, known, laboratory

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VC firm Chemistry is raising $500M for its second fund (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-07 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | tags: chemistry, firm, fund

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Chemistry Ventures is raising $500M for its second fund (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-07 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | tags: chemistry, firm, fund

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Anker’s noise-blocking earbuds for sleeping are nearly half off (theverge.com)

2026-07-07 | by Sheena Vasani | tags: battery, noise, router

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Research Universities Are Admitting Fewer PhDs, a Bad Sign For Science (slashdot.org)

2026-07-07 | tags: administration, federal, funding

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Microsoft is cutting 3,200 Xbox jobs and spinning off four game studios (techspot.com)

2026-07-06 | tags: additional, additional redundancies, approximately

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Taiganet.com, Home of the WS4000 Simulator (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-06 | tags: associating song, engine, fmod

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Why Your Company’s Success Began Long Before You Launched It (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-06 | by Shalabh Gupta | tags: building, credibility, decisions

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The Coming Commodity Supercycle Is the Biggest Business Opportunity Founders Are Ignoring (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-06 | by Anthony Milewski | tags: commodity, founders, materials

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He Co-Founded an $8 Billion Firm and Signed the Return-to-Office Policy. Then He Got Fired for Ignoring It. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-06 | by Jonathan Small | tags: didn, email, founders

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Germany's massive 60,000-game preservation project collapses after €1.5 million funding dries up — world's largest game archive was entirely publicly available, now abandoned just as Sony kills physical media (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-05 | by Luke James | tags: april, berlin, federal

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Almost 90 new unicorns have been minted so far this year — here they are (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-05 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | tags: according pitchbook, billion, founded

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Intel Nova Lake-S midrange CPUs could be bringing AMD's X3D cache trick to more affordable chips (techspot.com)

2026-07-05 | tags: according post, arctic, arctic wolf

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Infuriating Google commercial imagines the founding fathers embracing AI (theverge.com)

2026-07-05 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: fathers, founding, founding fathers

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New Google Ad Imagines America's 'Declaration of Independence' Written With AI Help (slashdot.org)

2026-07-05 | by Posted | tags: access, asks, founders

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I Love This Floating Anker Speaker, and It’s on Sale for Less Than $100 This Fourth of July (cnet.com)

2026-07-04 | by See Full Bio | tags: anker, bluetooth, boom

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Fable created novel 4D splat format (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-04 | tags: background, bound, chunk

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GoDaddy Sounds Alarm Over How India Law Would Upend Internet Privacy Everywhere (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-04 | tags: alarm, alarm india, godaddy

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Meta Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Pretend to Be Teenagers While Barraging Its Competitors’ AI With Disturbing Content (futurism.com)

2026-07-04 | by Frank Landymore | tags: contractors, hundreds, meta

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This GoPro Hero13 Black Action bundle is $100 off (and it's perfect for documenting summer adventures) (zdnet.com)

2026-07-03 | by Kayla Solino | tags: gopro hero13, action bundle, summer adventures

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Parents warned not to publicly share children’s images amid AI abuse risks (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-07-03 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: ai-generated images, child sexual abuse material, internet watch foundation

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Trunk Tools' stack cut document review from 60 days to 10 by ditching general-purpose models (venturebeat.com)

2026-07-03 | tags: trunk tools, specialized architecture, knowledge graph

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How D.C. looks has always been a political battleground. Here’s why (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-03 | tags: d.c., declaration of independence, washington

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A behind-the-scenes look at Midjourney’s medical scanner leaves many questions unanswered (theverge.com)

2026-07-03 | by Robert Hart | tags: midjourney, ultrasound, raspberry pi

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Video Game History Foundation founder says piracy remains the only viable game preservation method (techspot.com)

2026-07-03 | tags: video game history foundation, frank cifaldi, piracy

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Silo season three is streaming today on Apple TV (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-03 | by Benjamin Mayo | tags: silo, apple tv, hugh howey