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• World’s first robot Olympics held in China (Quartz)
• AOL to discontinue dial-up internet service (CNN)
• Versailles statues can now talk to visitors with AI (New York Times)
• Instagram’s new map feature raises privacy concerns (CBS News)
• Boston Public Library digitizes archives with OpenAI (NPR)
• ‘Tradwife,’ ‘delulu,’ and ‘skibidi’ among new Cambridge Dictionary words (Sky News)
• 10 surprising things your smartphone camera can do (MakeUseOf)
• Texas A&M researchers map U.S. power outage hot spots (Texas A&M)
• Interactive power outage map (Netlify app)
• Focus Friend app overtakes ChatGPT on App Store (Lifehacker)
• Pomodoro Technique (Wikipedia)
• How to minimize distractions in Chrome (HowToGeek)
• School of Information launches two new AI courses open to all U-M undergraduates

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• Noom wants to be 'the Duolingo of health'
• Robo-Bunnies Are the Newest Weapon in the Fight Against Invasive Burmese Pythons in Florida
• The 7 Best Puzzle Games You Can Play in Your Browser
• ‘The postcard craze’ of historic Michigan: More than 60K postcards digitized at U-M Clements Library
• Say hello to the new emoji coming in Unicode 17.0
• New emojis are coming to iOS 26 soon
• This ancient Hungarian abbey is fighting an infestation of book-eating beetles
• Hugging Face introduces open-source desktop robot for $299
• Imginn Lets You Browse Instagram Pages Without an Account
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• We Made This Film With AI. It's Wild and Slightly Terrifying
• AI thinks like us? UMSI researchers unveil new model to predict human behavior

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• Ars Technica: Microsoft extends free Windows 10 security updates
• Microsoft PC Health Check app
• QZ: Every iPhone model timeline
• The Verge: WhatsApp ads rollout
• Engadget: US House bans WhatsApp
• YouTube: Neccolo video on Grow a Garden
• NYT: Grow a Garden record
• NiemanLab: Social media overtakes TV
• BBC paywall announcement
• Vatican News: Pope Leo on AI
• Mashable: Labubu craze
• Norwegian SciTech News: Predicting tech adoption
• LiveScience: Weird technologies that never took off

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