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Date: 2026-05-30
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Backrooms is a certified blockbuster with a $38 million opening day

The Kane Parsons’ film Backrooms is expected to earn up to $90 million in its opening weekend after pulling down $38 million on Friday alone. That’s not only above expectations , but absolutely obliterates A24’s previous opening weekend record of $25.5 million for Alex Garland’s Civil War .

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I put Google's 24/7 AI assistant Gemini Spark to work, and it's actually pretty useful

Gemini Spark is Google’s new 24/7 agentic assistant , designed to help you help you “navigate your digital life,” which essentially means getting your online to-dos done, summarizing the things you don’t have time to read (like the entirety of your inbox), or organizing something that would have otherwise involved too much screen time-filled manual labor,…

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Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant

Meta is developing an AI-powered pendant that it plans to start testing in the next year, according to a memo viewed by The Information . This device would presumably build on the work of Limitless, an AI device startup that Meta acquired at the end of 2025.

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The Arduboy FX-C is an excellent time killer you might forget you’re carrying

As handheld consoles continue to grow and push the limits of what you can actually hold in your hands , the Arduboy FX-C comes in a refreshingly pocketable package. It manages to squeeze the best features of past models and some welcome upgrades into a handheld that’s still no larger or thicker than a few credit cards.

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Pebblebee’s Halo watches my back and my belongings

I live in a part of Los Angeles where I feel safer bringing pepper spray on walks. The problem is, I don’t always remember to bring it with me, and it’s not legal to carry it everywhere I go.

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As the browser wars heat up, here are the hottest alternatives to Chrome and Safari in 2026

Google Chrome and Apple’s Safari currently dominate the web browser market, with Chrome holding a significant share due to the tech giant’s ongoing innovations, particularly in integrating generative AI into its search functionalities. However, users seeking alternatives will find a variety of browsers aiming to challenge these industry giants.

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Sometimes, a short game hits the spot

Slots & Daggers , a low-key, fantasy-themed slot machine roguelike, was one of my favorite games last year. That may sound like a complicated description, but the game mixes ideas from deckbuilding roguelikes with slot machines to create an engrossing loop, and there’s steady meta-progression that helps you push further with just about every run.

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AI grifters are creating fake Black people to sell Shein junk

Aliyah, a light-skinned Black woman dressed in country-western gear, is struggling to sell metal buckles she handmade on TikTok. In a video for the social media platform from March, she cries to the camera and pleads for views: “Even as a black woman, I have more faith that white women will stay 13 seconds [on this video] to save my belt buckle business,”…

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[AINews] Founders and Forward Deployed Engineers

Most people are still digesting the massive Anthropic news from yesterday. We’re taking the opportunity to solicit the leading AI FDE’s in the world for AIE’s new Forward Deployed Engineer track, mirroring similar pushes from both OpenAI DeployCo and Anthropic DeployCo : as well as AIE’s new Founders program, where we are doing our version of the Startup…

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