China is giving every humanoid robot a 29-character ID code, and over 28,000 already have one

Summary: China has launched a national ID system for humanoid robots, assigning each a 29-character code that tracks it from production to recycling. Over 28,000 robots across 200 models already have IDs. The system logs real-time performance data i…

Only 3.3 per cent of users pay for Copilot, so Microsoft is finally making it optional

Microsoft has added the ability to fully remove the Copilot app from Windows 11. The change arrived in the April 2026 update and applies to both enterprise administrators using Group Policy and regular users who can now uninstall it through Settings…

I found 11 surprise Memorial Day Apple deals: Get the M5 MacBook Air for a record price, save $50 on AirPods and iPads

Looking for the best Memorial Day deals on Apple products? You can score the M5 MacBook Air for $899 and the AirPods Pro 3 for under $200.

Reallusion’s new AI Studio pairs 3D scene control with ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 to give filmmakers what pure AI video cannot: precision

Reallusion, the 3D animation software company behind iClone and Character Creator, has launched AI Studio, a production platform that pairs traditional 3D scene-building with generative AI video models. The centrepiece is a direct integration with B…

Holy moly, the M5 MacBook Air finally dropped below $900 for Memorial Day

The Apple M5 MacBook Air finally dropped below $900 at Amazon for Memorial Day, marking its biggest price drop to date.

Hopes for WWDC 2026: Health for Mac, Wallet everywhere, and other OS 27 dreams

WWDC 2026 is two weeks away. Here’s a grab-bag selection of things I hope to see from Apple’s new OS 27 updates that aren’t really rumored. more…

PerPlant raises €1M to put AI cameras on tractors, and 200,000 hectares in the bank

The Copenhagen agtech has already mapped nine times more European farmland than every Danish agricultural drone combined. Two well-known Nordic investors want the United States next. The pitch behind PerPlant is one a farmer can grasp in a sentence:…

Get Microsoft Office 2024 for Mac or PC for $130

This discounted lifetime license to Microsoft Office Home & Business for Mac 2024 is a great alternative to pricey monthly fees. (via Cult of Mac - Your source for the latest Apple news, rumors, analysis, reviews, how-tos and deals.)

Today in Apple history: Apple probes Foxconn suicides

On May 25, 2010, Apple opened an investigation into a string of suicides at Foxconn, its Chinese partner for manufacturing iPhones. (via Cult of Mac - Your source for the latest Apple news, rumors, analysis, reviews, how-tos and deals.)

Apple could silence most Magic Mouse criticism with one change

Apple could make the Magic Mouse even easier to charge with a design tweak — and it's not add a visible USB-C port. (That'll never happen.) (via Cult of Mac - Your source for the latest Apple news, rumors, analysis, reviews, how-tos and deals.)

All of the best Apple Memorial Day deals: AirPods Pro 3, M5 MacBook Air $199 off, MacBook Pro, Series 11, more

The clock is now ticking with less than 24 hours remaining in the Amazon 2026 Memorial Day sale alongside sale events at M5 MacBook Air at $199 off, as much as $400 of iPad Air models, and $300+ off the lists prices on the M5/Pro/Max MacBook Pro lin…

Why EU business AI adoption is rising and still not catching up

Eurostat published  last December a release that, on a different continent, would have been front-page news. They were saying that 20% of European Union enterprises with at least ten employees now used artificial intelligence in some part of their b…

Microsoft’s quiet Claude Code retreat and the real cost of enterprise AI

In December of last year, Microsoft told thousands of its engineers, product managers and designers that they could use Claude Code, Anthropic’s command-line coding agent, on the company dime. By spring, the tool had spread well beyond engineering: …

UK venture funding doubled to $10.5bn in the first four months of 2026, on the back of three giant rounds

GlobalData’s count puts the country well clear of the rest of Europe and inside the global top five, but more than 40% of the total came from just three companies: Nscale, Wayve, and Ineffable Intelligence. UK-domiciled companies raised $10.5bn of v…

Ericsson is leaving Kista for central Stockholm, in the largest office lease in Swedish history

The 71,000-square-metre Hagastaden campus, signed with Atrium Ljungberg and Castellum, ends more than two decades in the suburb once branded Sweden’s Silicon Valley. Ericsson is moving its global headquarters out of Kista. The Swedish telecoms-equip…

Pope Leo XIV tells the Vatican to disarm AI, in the first encyclical of his pontificate

Magnifica humanitas calls for breaking up monopolistic control of the technology, rules out algorithmic warfare, and is being presented alongside Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah. Pope Leo XIV used the first encyclical of his pontificate, published i…

Tap Out review: tik ‘m aan en versla je iPhone-verslaving

Herpak je rust en ervaar het leven zonder online belemmeringen, met Tap Out. Op een willekeurige lentedag trek ik de voordeur achter me dicht. Warme zonnestralen schijnen op mijn gezicht terwijl ik een wereld in stap die na een lange winterslaap in …

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Blue Origin commits another $600m to its Florida campus

Project Horizon adds an 830,000-square-foot upper-stage factory at Cape Canaveral, weeks before SpaceX’s record IPO and a month after the April New Glenn payload mishap. Blue Origin will spend $600m on a new upper-stage manufacturing facility at its…

Huawei unveils ‘Tau Scaling Law’ as China’s workaround for US chip sanctions

He Tingbo used a Shanghai keynote to argue that cutting signal-propagation time, not shrinking transistors, is the new frontier, and that Huawei has been quietly building chips around the idea for six years. Huawei used the opening day of the IEEE I…

SoftBank hits a fresh record as Tokyo bets the OpenAI IPO is finally coming

The Nikkei broke 65,000 for the first time on Monday, and SoftBank, the listed proxy for both OpenAI and Arm, did much of the lifting. SoftBank Group shares hit a record high in Tokyo on Monday, carrying the Nikkei 225 above 65,000 for the first tim…