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• Game, Set, Match!

  Game, Set, Match!

• Could You Still Pass School Today? Prove It With These 26 Questions | Bored Panda

  This 26-question general knowledge quiz covers everything from science to geography, math to art, and is designed to test how much you really remember from school. From what the closest planet to the sun is to who won the 2008 U.S. presidential election, this challenge will push your brain across multiple subjects and reveal how sharp your knowledge really is. Curiosities

• This Is Why American Immigration To Canada is Spiking

  Canada has granted thousands of new citizenship certificates since late last year, although half of them were for Americans.

• 10 bands who peaked with the first song on their first album | Louder

• DuckDuckGo's booming anti-AI search just got a Chrome extension | PCWorld

  DuckDuckGo's no-AI search page is growing fast. These new Chrome and Firefox extensions make it your default in seconds.

• I held the MacBook Neo in one hand and the new XPS 13 in the other — and Dell’s affordable laptop is surprisingly lighter | Tom’s Guide

• 10 Platforms Offering Free AI Courses in 2026

• Proton Mail now lets you send email from your Gmail address

• Gemini's wild new Avatar feature is now rolling out more widely

  Google is now widely rolling out Gemini's new Avatar feature that lets users create eerily believable digital clones of themselves.

• Ubuntu 26.04 is the OS for the AI agentic era, says Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth – here's why | ZDNET

• Why Ubuntu won when every other "easy" Linux distro failed

  Stability is not flashy, but it tends to age better than hype.

• I Used ChatGPT to Build Complex Spreadsheets Fast. Here’s How You Can, Too | PCMag

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