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We’re starting to see some PC makers respond to Apple’s MacBook Neo

Chuwi’s $449 “Unibook,” a blessedly nondescript laptop that looks good on paper but may or may not work out in real life. Credit: Chuwi Chuwi’s $449 “Unibook,” a blessedly nondescript laptop that looks good on paper but may or may not work out in real life. Credit: Chuwi Chinese electronics manufacturer Chuwi contacted Ars about one aggressively priced Wildcat Lake laptop, a device called the “UniBook” with a Core 3 304 processor, a 14-inch 1200p IPS display, a backlit keyboard, 8GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, and more ports than the MacBook Neo, for an advertised price of $449. The…

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Volvo Cars wins U.S. approval to keep importing vehicles with ‘connected car’ technology

Tourists visit the Volvo exhibition area at the Auto Expo in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China on April 30, 2026. CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesVolvo Cars, ​majority owned by China’s Geely Holding, said on Tuesday it had received approval from the U.S. government allowing it to continue selling vehicles with Chinese “connected technology” in the country.In January 2025, President Joe Biden’s administration finalized rules effectively barring nearly all Chinese cars and trucks from the U.S. market, as part of a crackdown on vehicle software and hardware from China.The rules included a ban on most Chinese-developed and -maintained software that…

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NASA takes steps toward building Moon Base, including discussing a “perimeter”

“What we are embarking upon is extremely challenging,” Isaacman said. “We know so little from what is a combined 80 hours of lunar astronaut EVA time across the Apollo missions, and that was more than a half century ago.” To that end, one of the central elements of the early Moon Base program is the development of the MoonFall program, which will entail three or four drones each about 1 meter tall, with a mass of 225 kg, including propellant. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is leading development of the MoonFall drones, and these will be delivered to the lunar surface…

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China industrial profits jump 24.7% in April, fastest gain in over two years despite headwinds

BEIJING — China’s industrial profits in April surged by 24.7% from a year earlier, according to official data released Wednesday, marking the fastest growth since November 2023.The increase accelerated from a 15.8% rise in March, according to China’s biggest financial data provider Wind Information.For the first four months of the year, enterprise profits rose 18.2%, up from 15.5% growth in the first quarter.China reported slower economic growth in April, with a 4.1% increase in industrial output and a 0.2% rise in retail sales from a year ago. Fixed asset investment fell for the first four months of the year as…

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European companies double down on China manufacturing despite EU de-risking push

Steam cracker units at the BASF Zhanjiang Verbund site in Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, China, on Thursday, March 26, 2026.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBEIJING — More European companies are maintaining or expanding their supply chains in mainland China to remain competitive globally, according to a survey released Wednesday by the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China.Nearly one-third of respondents said they were onshoring further in China, while 37% said they had not changed their supply chain strategy over the last two years, the report said.The survey was based on responses from nearly 300 members collected from January to February…

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