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Cloud Imperium Games reached a threshold few titles ever touch. On May 24, 2026, during its DefenseCon event, Star Citizen pushed past $1 billion in total funding. The live tracker now sits at $1,006,338,167 from 6,549,048 registered backers. And the game remains in alpha. No full release date exists for the persistent universe. Squadron 42,

Hotel operators have embraced AI chatbots with enthusiasm. Adoption rates keep climbing. Yet a fresh wave of academic research exposes an uncomfortable truth. Many travelers find these digital assistants unsettling. The discomfort runs deep enough to derail bookings. A study published this month in the International Journal of Hospitality Management delivers clear data. Researchers from

Microsoft opened the gates last December. Thousands of its engineers, product managers and designers gained access to Claude Code. Anthropic’s command-line coding agent ran on the company’s account. Adoption exploded. The tool moved from engineering teams into non-technical roles within weeks. Six months later the experiment is over. Most direct licenses inside the Experiences and

India counts roughly 600 million workers. Only about 200 million possess enough AI knowledge to matter in the economy taking shape. Sandip Patel sees both the opening and the risk. As managing director of IBM India and South Asia, he told Reuters that turning those 200 million into 350 million represents a “phenomenal opportunity.” The

Google’s Pixel Launcher sets a high bar for simplicity. Clean lines. Smooth animations. Material You colors pulled straight from the wallpaper. Yet power users hit the same walls again and again. No icon packs. Fixed widgets you cannot remove. No easy way to hide apps. Clutter builds. Organization suffers. Smart Launcher 6 takes a different

EU businesses have pushed artificial intelligence adoption to nearly 20 percent. The numbers look promising on paper. But scratch the surface and the picture fractures. According to Eurostat data released in late 2025, 19.95 percent of enterprises with at least 10 employees used at least one AI technology that year. The figure climbed 6.47 percentage

Phone makers keep searching for ways to add features without bulking up devices. The latest efforts center on magnetic attachments that snap onto the back. One brand just turned that idea into a real product. Another showed how far the concept could go. OPPO launched the Bubble, a magnetic rear display accessory that pairs with

Zeb Evans did not mince words. Last week the ClickUp chief executive told his followers on X that the productivity software company had reduced headcount by 22 percent. The move, he insisted, had nothing to do with trimming expenses during tough times. Instead it marked a deliberate acceleration into an AI-first operating model. The announcement

Ross Stores just posted its strongest quarter in four decades. Comparable sales jumped 17 percent. Total revenue climbed 21 percent to $6 billion. Earnings per share hit $2.02, beating guidance by a wide margin. Customer traffic drove the gains. Shoppers came more often, spent more per trip, and came from every age group and income

Huawei Technologies unveiled a fresh architectural approach on May 25 that it says will let its high-end chips reach transistor densities equivalent to 1.4-nanometer processes by 2031. The announcement, delivered at a semiconductor symposium in Shanghai, comes as the company and its manufacturing partner SMIC push against years of U.S. export controls that block access