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-TikTok announced that an ad-free option will roll out to UK users over the coming months, available to anyone with an account who is 18 or older. The monthly subscription will cost £4 ($5.40) per month.

-The big change is that Samsung is adding support for Google Gemini, which has several important implications. By combining Samsung's existing on-device object recognition with Google's cloud-based models, the total number of identifiable foods is increasing from just over 100 items to more than 2,000.

-Lime, which is officially known as Neutron Holdings, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, after teasing ambitions of going public back in 2021.
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Plus - Samsung says its Galaxy Watch can predict fainting with 'high accuracy'
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-ShinyHunters, the extortion group that infiltrated cloud-based educational tech provider Instructure, claims to have stolen data from 8,809 schools around the world.

-Nintendo is raising the price of its Switch 2 by $50 to $500 in the US as it faces higher memory costs and US tariffs.

-According to an Axios report, rather than asking users to swipe right or left on a profile to confirm their interest or disinterest in a potential match, the dating app is replacing it with something else.
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Google is continuing to revamp its smart home app and the latest change includes an update to the camera experience.
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