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Chinese PC makers are beginning to respond to Apple's MacBook Neo with aggressively priced laptops. Chuwi's $449 UniBook and Intel's "Project Firefly" initiative — which standardizes designs to cut costs — show early movement, but whether these laptops will be high-quality, widely available, and consistent remains uncertain.
Social media feeds are no longer shaped by who you follow — they're dominated by "clipping," where creators chop content into short viral chunks and flood algorithms to force their way into your consciousness. Attention has...
A robot just danced Swan Lake. And it did it rather well. Chinese robotics company UBTECH unveiled its Walker C1 humanoid robot by having it perform ballet and waltz routines alongside human dancers in a live demonstration....
Engineers and space agencies are racing to build smarter gym equipment for future astronauts, who currently spend two hours daily exercising to prevent muscle and bone loss. A British device called HIFIm could cut that to 30...
Samsung is preparing to launch the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide, a broader foldable phone featuring a super-wide cover screen, with a leaked display component revealing its unusually wide design. The device will reportedly carry two 50MP...
In 1986, BBC's Micro Live followed presenter Lesley Judd using a portable computer and acoustic coupler at a Dutch payphone to send electronic mail internationally — uploading messages typed during her flight and delivering them...
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Huawei claims it can match cutting-edge chip performance without ASML's advanced equipment, which US export controls have blocked it from accessing since 2019. Instead of shrinking transistors further, Huawei is stacking circuit...
Fungible is a keyboard-driven personal finance app that runs entirely in your terminal. It syncs bank transactions through Plaid, imports CSVs, and lets you track spending, net worth, and retirement goals — all without a browser....
Ferrari's first fully electric car, the Luce, was designed by Apple's former design chief Jony Ive. It delivers 1,000+ hp, 0–62 mph in 2.5 seconds, 329-mile range, starting at $640,000, with deliveries in early 2027.
Star Citizen has raised $1 billion over nine years but remains unfinished. Its single-player spin-off, Squadron 42, is reportedly near completion but still has no release date.
Epic Games has given a first look at Unreal Engine 6 by showcasing a rebuilt version of Rocket League running on the new engine. While the demo highlights a major visual and technical upgrade over the current version, Epic has...
The Virtual OS Museum lets you explore over 1,700 pre-installed operating systems — from 1948 to today — spanning 600+ distinct OSes across 250+ platforms, including classic Mac OS, NeXTSTEP, and early Windows. Built over 20...
Starting April 2026, Microsoft will make Copilot fully removable in Windows 11 after only 3.3% of eligible users paid for it, acknowledging poor adoption and widespread frustration from users and IT admins.
MIT's 3D-printed "Y-zipper" realizes a 1985 patent with a three-sided fastener that switches objects between floppy and rigid states, enabling fast tent assembly, adjustable medical casts, and shape-shifting robots—lasting...
Delivery robots are rapidly expanding across Los Angeles, with Serve Robotics deploying 500 new bots across 40 neighborhoods and Coco Robotics operating 300 citywide. Residents have mixed feelings — robots block sidewalks and...
China launched a national ID system giving each humanoid robot a unique 29-character code tracking it from production to recycling, logging performance, maintenance, and AI history. Over 28,000 robots already have IDs. With no...
A robot with four arms and no legs sounds like something out of a science fiction film, but it turns out that's exactly the right design for space. Swiss ETH Focus Project ORBIT Robotics unveiled its Helios robot on May 21st,...
Meta has quietly launched Forum, a standalone app built around Facebook Groups that works like Reddit, offering deeper discussions and community conversations. It includes an AI-powered "Ask" tab for answers pulled from group...
Greece has introduced MARK One, its first domestically built humanoid robot designed for factory work. Created by Greek company Axl Imperial, it can move independently, use two arms for tasks like palletizing and quality control,...
Raspberry Pi engineers held a Reddit AMA revealing the Pi 6 won't arrive before early 2028, offering mainly faster CPU and IO rather than new features. A global DRAM shortage is partly responsible for the delay. Microcontroller...
Fusion energy has long been joked about as perpetually "decades away," but real barriers explain the delay. The biggest obstacles include extreme materials challenges, insufficient and inconsistent funding, and the massive leap...
German researchers have shown that ordinary WiFi signals, combined with AI, can identify people with nearly 100% accuracy — even without a phone or device on them. The system works by reading unencrypted signal data already...
With the International Space Station set to be destroyed as early as 2030, experts are racing to decide what should be preserved before it's gone forever. NASA officials, museum curators, and astronauts gathered in Washington,...
Apple is reportedly testing an iPhone 19 Pro prototype with a curved-edge OLED display that hides Face ID under the screen, but still has a visible hole for the selfie camera. The real challenge is making the camera invisible...