Microsoft Lets You Uninstall Copilot; Next Year’s iPhones-‘Radical’ New Design; SpaceX Pressed Pentagon to Pay More for Starlink; Google Smartglases Xreal Thinks It Has Cracked Smartglasses Code

After only getting about 3.3% of users to pay for Copilot, Microsoft is finally letting users and administrators fully uninstall the Copilot app from Windows 11. Thenextweb.com reports that the April 2026 update is the one that allows this. The removal is a bit complicated for IT admins, but for home users, just go to Settings, then Apps, then Installed Apps, search for Copilot, and tap Uninstall. Microsoft notes that it can be reinstalled later from the Microsoft Store if you should ever want it. 

There have been rumors for months about next year’s 20th anniversary iPhones getting something of a major facelift…including a curved display on all 4 sides, and under-display FaceID. Now, according to 9to5mac.com, the rumors have come into better focus. Earlier reports had an iPhone 20…or whatever they end up calling it…would be a brand new model. Now, supply chain reports indicate that the whole iPhone line will get the so-called ‘quad-curved screen’. Mark Gurman of Bloomberg had originally reported that the redesign would only apply to the iPhone 19 Pro and Pro Max. It does look like there will be a second generation iPhone Ultra…the folding phone…if hinge issues can be worked out, as well as a new iPhone Air coming in 2027 in addition to the iPhone 19 Pro models.

SpaceX has reportedly been using its market leverage to push the Pentagon to spend more on satellite internet. Reuters.com notes that weeks after the US military began its campaign against Iran, SpaceX executives reportedly met with Department of Defense officials to talk about pricing. The message from Elon Musk’s company was essentially: You’re paying about $5,000 per Starlink terminal monthly, but you’re using it like a higher-tier aviation subscription that costs $25,000 per month. Time to upgrade. After some haggling, the Pentagon caved, and now it has nearly doubled the cost of using LUCAS kamikaze drones. A DoD spokesperson told Reuters that the agency is shopping around for Starlink competitors…but the pickens are slim…with almost 10,000 satellites that account for about 60% of the global total in orbit, SpaceX has the upper hand…for now.

Smartglasses are about to replace smartphones…we’ve been hearing that for years now. TechCrunch.com reports that Google’s partner on smart glasses…Xreal…believes it has mastered what’s needed to do the trick. The thought is that some lightweight smart glasses could pull people away from staring at their smartphone screens, and just get the info they want or need by looking at the glass they are already wearing. So far, ‘everybody’s losing money,’ according to Chi Xu, the founder and CEO of Xreal. Major issues have been thought to solve with glasses…they are most all large, bulky, and need either an outside computer like a smartphone, plus an outboard battery pack…not exactly svelte. Xreal has solved part of the problem…the glasses aren’t thick and ugly, but Xreal’s newest model Aura is wired smart glasses that have OLED displays embedded within them, meaning that you can watch high-resolution videos within the frames themselves. Somewhat awkwardly, Aura comes tethered to a “puck” — essentially a phone-shaped mini-computer that powers the experience behind the glasses. When using it, you can ostensibly just slip it into your pocket. The glasses are available for developers now, and should be out to the public later this year. Xu thinks they may actually be able to break even on them next year.

I’m Clark Reid and you’re ‘Technified’ for now.