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Madonna partnered with Grindr to promote her new album, leveraging the app's LGBTQ+ user base through in-app advertising, exclusive content, and a surprise Times Square concert.

NASA expects to begin stacking the SLS rocket this summer for next year's Artemis III launch.

The Make America Healthy Again campaign is promoting American-grown cotton as a natural alternative to synthetic fabrics, despite the complexities and challenges facing domestic cotton farmers.

Withings' new smart scale is marketed as built for GLP-1 users to monitor muscle mass.

Quilty, an AI startup, claims to predict a film's box office success by analyzing scripts and generating detailed reports.

Safety officials gained valuable data on big rocket explosions from Blue Origin's recent New Glenn rocket blast.

Google Chrome tests sending users straight to AI Mode instead of standard Search.

The Trump phone is only assembled in the US, not fully made there due to stringent FTC regulations.
Google shuts down its AI-powered Pixel Studio app with the latest update, directing users to Gemini instead.
Meta has enabled Android Debug Bridge on its deprecated Portal devices, allowing users to sideload apps and access developer options on the discontinued hardware.

Founders Fund, a venture capital firm, launched "MAFIA the GAME," a game show featuring tech leaders like Sam Altman and Palmer Luckey, as companies increasingly use media for marketing and influence.
Alibaba Group open-sourced Open Code Review, an AI-powered command-line interface tool that combines deterministic engineering with an agent to identify code defects and generate structured review comments.

Researchers found that transformers with shared query-key-value projections perform comparably to or better than standard QKV transformers, significantly reducing KV cache size for on-device inference.

Google Health 5.01 is rolling out with 16 bug fixes and additions across nutrition, fitness, and sleep tracking, including improved third-party food logging and corrected workout labels.

Valve announced the delayed Steam Machine PC and Steam Frame VR headset are now set to launch this summer, with new Verified programs to ensure game compatibility.

Anthropic files confidentially for an IPO amid strong private demand and rapid growth.

Google Keep on Android updates its floating action button to a larger variant ahead of a new AI voice feature.

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky plans to launch a new AI lab focusing on user interaction and design.

Robot demonstrations can distort public perceptions of robotic capabilities by showcasing impressive feats that may not translate to real-world reliability.

Filtr blocks ads in almost every iPhone and Mac app using iOS and macOS's new URL filters feature.
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Flesh-eating screwworms have entered the US, with a confirmed case in a calf in South Texas, marking their first detected breach of the US-Mexico border.

The StrictlyVC Los Angeles event on June 18 will feature discussions on defense technology, physical AI, and venture capital's evolving role in identifying durable companies beyond short-term hype.

The US Supreme Court upheld FCC fines against AT&T and Verizon for selling user location data without consent.