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Back in 2023, Avalanche Studios (also behind Mad Max) let many live their magical dreams of entering the Harry Potter universe once again with Hogwarts Legacy. Players got to experience the magical school of witchcraft and wizardry in next-gen graphics. Now, a new rumor suggests that Hogwarts Legacy 2 may be closer to its first official reveal. But this is one of those leaks that seems more hopeful than real. What does the rumor say? Hogwarts Legacy 2 could appear during Sony’s next State of Play showcase. The post has been interpreted as a tease for a reveal rather than…

If you have ever tried to book a hotel online and found yourself unsettled by the AI chatbot trying to help you, science has your back. New study from Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences confirms that hotel booking chatbots are genuinely creeping people out, and it is actually hurting bookings. What is giving hotel chatbots their creep factor? Researchers surveyed 340 adults in the UK who had used chatbots to book hotels and found three main culprits behind the ick factor: inaccuracy, deceptive behavior, and intrusiveness. Inaccuracy was by far the biggest offender, triggering a negative response…

China has launched a national programme that will assign every humanoid robot manufactured in the country a unique digital identity code, effectively a citizen ID, but for bipedal machines (those that can balance and walk/run on two legs).  The initiative, called the Humanoid Full Lifecycle Management Service Platform, was announced on Friday. It is led by the Humanoid Robotics and Embodied Intelligence Standardization committee, which is under China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (via South China Morning Post). What does a robot ID actually look like? The machine codes are structured in four parts. While a two-digit national code…

Pope Leo XIV signed his first encyclical on May 15, the 135th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum novarum. The document, Magnifica humanitas, was published on May 25 and addresses one of the defining challenges of our time: artificial intelligence and its impact on humanity. The core message isn’t anti-technology. The Pope is clear that technology is neither a threat nor inherently evil. However, he does say that technology is never neutral, because it takes on the values of those who build, fund, and control it. That’s where things get interesting. Is AI becoming a tool for the powerful? A…

I wrote this entire article while seated on an airplane experiencing unusually high turbulence. The software I used to spell-check and grammatically sanitize the draft was built at an airport. The language engine is running entirely on my Mac, fully offline, fixing all my typos and removing the double spaces while I mash the keyboard and sip a sugar-bomb coffee.  Also, I don’t know how to code. I didn’t write a single line of code, and yet, the Mac software I am using right now looks classier and feels snappier than Grammarly ever did. Grammarly, if you don’t know, is…

Microsoft appears to be softening its aggressive AI push in Windows 11 by making it easier for users and organizations to completely remove the Copilot app from their PCs. The move comes after continued criticism from users who felt Microsoft integrated Copilot too deeply into Windows without offering enough control over the experience. According to findings from Windows Latest, Microsoft quietly introduced a new Group Policy option in the Windows 11 April 2026 Update that allows administrators to remove the Microsoft Copilot app system-wide. The policy, named “Remove Microsoft Copilot app,” can be found under User Configuration > Administrative Templates…

Samsung is getting ready to launch two new foldable phones in July, and if a recent leak is accurate, the company is about to flip its naming convention completely, and it’s going to confuse a lot of people. Tipster Ice Universe has claimed on Weibo that the phone we have been calling the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide will actually launch simply as the Galaxy Z Fold 8. The device we expected to be the standard Galaxy Z Fold 8 will instead become the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra.  While I can see why Samsung is considering the new naming…

Lenovo has accidentally confirmed it is working on laptops powered by Nvidia’s yet-to-be-announced N1X chip. The confirmation comes from Lenovo’s own ADFS authentication system, which referenced an “Nvidia N1x Portal” in its internal login page, as first spotted by the folks at VideoCardz.  Earlier support page leaks also listed several unreleased Lenovo systems with N1 and N1X labels, including the Legion 7 15N1X11, which points to a Legion 7 gaming laptop built around the N1X chip.  So what exactly is the Nvidia N1X? According to leaks, the N1X is Nvidia’s upcoming ARM-based chip that combines a 20-core CPU with a…

For years, AirPods Pro users have been asking Apple for something surprisingly basic: a proper place to manage their earbuds — not buried menus or scattered toggles hidden deep in Bluetooth settings. Just a clean, dedicated experience that makes controlling AirPods feel as polished as the hardware itself. Now, according to Mark Gurman of Bloomberg, Apple is finally preparing a major overhaul of the AirPods settings interface in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27. AirPods have evolved far beyond simple wireless earbuds. Features like head gesture recognition, adaptive audio, hearing aid functionality, and advanced noise controls have made them…

Apple is reportedly preparing one of the more surprising changes to iOS in years: support for third-party wireless casting systems as alternatives to AirPlay. According to a Bloomberg report by Mark Gurman, iOS 27 will allow users in the European Union to choose services like Google Cast as their default option for streaming videos, photos, and audio from iPhones and iPads to TVs, speakers, and other connected devices. The move is said to be part of Apple’s ongoing efforts to comply with the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), a sweeping regulation designed to limit the control large tech companies…