2026-07-28
New York school pauses humanoid robot ‘Sally’ after state and union pushback
A humanoid robot named Sally was due to take a seat in a Western New York high-school classroom this autumn, silicone skin, long brown hair, and all. Instead she is on hold. A plan that had quietly cleared the Salamanca school board back in June turned, over the following weeks, into a public fight over […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-28
Apple’s incoming CEO wants to build on the company’s film and TV run
John Ternus has spent 24 years engineering Apple’s hardware, and when he takes over as chief executive on 1 September, he inherits a company defined by iPhones and silicon rather than prestige television. Yet one of the first things Apple’s incoming boss chose to talk about in public was neither. Speaking to reporters at the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-28
China’s homegrown DUV chip tool now has a name: Shanghai Aishengna
The state-owned company at the centre of China’s newest chipmaking push finally has a name. Reuters reported on Tuesday that Shanghai Aishengna Electronic Technology Group, a little-known state-owned group, is leading the effort to mass-produce domestically developed immersion deep-ultraviolet (DUV) lithography machines, according to a person familiar with the matter who declined to be identifie [...]
