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In the lead-up to CES on Jan 9, Microsoft has announced that a new Copilot key will appear on Windows PC keyboards starting this year — but stopped short of confirming it’s coming to its Surface line of tablets and laptops for now.For those unaware, Copilot is Microsoft’s take on AI. Since coming to Windows 11 in September 2023, it has enabled users to ask the assistant to look up queries, switch on certain system settings like Magnifier mode, and much more.The company is aggressively pushing Copilot to be used in as…

Rest of World: An in-depth look at how platforms like Shein, Pinduoduo-owned Temu, and TikTok Shop are heralding a new era for Chinese e-commerce by expanding overseas — China is no longer just the world's factory; now, it's also the world's mall. As online shopping slows within China … Rest of World: An in-depth look at how platforms like Shein, Pinduoduo-owned Temu, and TikTok Shop are heralding a new era for Chinese e-commerce by expanding overseas — China is no…

And even among eVTOL developers who bullishly talked up their industry's prospects at the Paris show, some predicted that rivals will run dry of funding before they bring prototypes to market.Just a dot on the horizon at first, the bug-like and surprisingly quiet electrically-powered craft buzzes over Paris and its traffic snarls, treating its doubtless awestruck passenger to privileged vistas of the Eiffel Tower and the city's signature zinc-grey rooftops before landing…

The Succession finale revelled in the nuanced pleasures of the self-own. Overplay your hand and you’re good as dead; grease the pole too fervently and you’ll find yourself stuck at the top with only one, fateful way down. But as far as the weekend in schadenfreude goes, series creator Jesse Armstrong had strong competition from British rock duo Royal Blood.As you will have probably seen by now, at the end of their performance at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Dundee, frontman Mike Kerr unloaded on the audience for being…

“Twitter is ALIVE.”That was Elon Musk's most recent Twitter post at the time of writing, several hours after announcing he would reinstate former President Donald Trump to the site.   It's a move that epitomizes the chaos Musk has wrought at his new social media company, as well as his inability to keep his word or stick to a plan. On Oct. 27, for instance, he promised Twitter's increasingly dubious advertisers that Twitter would not “become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences.” The…