SINGAPORE, Nov. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — UGREEN, a leading global tech brand, today announced its first-ever collaboration with POP MART, the pop culture and entertainment company behind HACIPUPU. The collaboration brings the character to life in a new form: The Little Forest Mage, a special edition created around the theme “Activate Your Spark.”
UGREEN × POP MART HACIPUPU: Activate Your Spark!
Where Energy Meets Imagination For UGREEN, this partnership is a natural fit. The company has always believed that technology should give people the energy to do more of what they love. Its chargers and accessories work quietly in the background, keeping the devices people use to create, explore, and express themselves up and running every day.
In HACIPUPU, UGREEN found a kindred spirit. Though a shy and gentle boy, HACIPUPU possesses a great curiosity about the world. That curiosity mirrors what UGREEN’s tech enables: the freedom to follow one’s passion without limits.
The Little Forest Mage is born where these two beliefs meet. HACIPUPU reminds people to stay curious about the world, while UGREEN gives them the power to act on that curiosity and provides the daily support to explore the world. Together, the character stands for something both brands care deeply about – helping people connect with what makes them feel alive.
Who Is The Little Forest Mage? In this special edition, HACIPUPU arrives in the city as The Little Forest Mage, a gentle traveler fresh from a magical forest. He brings a little of the warmth and energy of the forest to city life, and wherever he goes, color and wonder seem to follow.
Though shy by nature, HACIPUPU has never let that stop him. His gentle, innocent curiosity gives him the quiet courage to step forward, explore the unknown, and discover the small joys hidden in everyday life.
The Collection Unfolds What exactly is in The Little Forest Mage’s bag, and what magic could it bring to your everyday life?
The reveal begins to unfold on November 12. Every ten days, a new co-branded product will be revealed on UGREEN’s website, chapter by chapter, until the full collection comes to light.
About UGREEN UGREEN is a global tech brand. Since its founding in 2012, UGREEN has upheld its core values of being user-centric, sincere, and dedicated. With a global presence under the renowned “UGREEN” brand, its business covers over 180 countries and regions, serving more than 300 million users.
About POP MART Founded in 2010, POP MART (09992.HK) is a leading company in the designer collectibles and pop culture entertainment industry. Leveraging our ecosystem built around characters and IPs, connecting with our fans through creative, immersive experiences, POP MART aims to light up passion and bring joy to fans everywhere.
With a core focus on designer collectibles, theme parks & experiential services, and digital entertainment, we manage and represent exceptional artists globally. Our products are available via 670+ stores, 2,800+ roboshops, and on major e-commerce platforms. The company went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2020.
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Apple’s iCloud services went dark for users across multiple regions on Tuesday, with the company’s system status page flagging sign-in, mail, calendar and several other services as unavailable.
The disruption began at 5:49 p.m. ET, according to Apple’s System Status webpage, which listed iCloud Account and Sign In, iCloud Mail, iCloud Calendar, iCloud Contacts, Photos and Game Center as down for some users. Find My was marked as potentially slow or unavailable rather than fully offline. The same advisory appeared on the Japanese, German and Australian versions of the status page, indicating the problem was global rather than confined to one market.
The company’s Japanese-language status page recorded the start of the incident at 7:49 a.m. local time on Wednesday, and by 9:28 a.m. six services were still showing as halted for a portion of users. The outage struck at the start of the business day in Asia, a period when many users rely on iCloud Mail and Calendar to begin work.
Not every service was caught up in the failure. iCloud Drive, iCloud Keychain, iCloud Backup and iMessage continued to operate normally, according to the status page.
Service
Status on Apple System Status
iCloud Account and Sign In
Outage
iCloud Mail
Outage
iCloud Calendar
Outage
iCloud Contacts
Outage
Photos
Outage
Game Center
Outage
Find My
Slow or unavailable
iCloud Drive, Keychain, Backup, iMessage
Operating normally
Note: Status reflects Apple’s System Status page as of 9:28 a.m. Japan time on Wednesday.
Apple did not immediately publish a cause for the failure or an estimate for when service would be restored. The company has not commented publicly beyond the status page updates.
Users affected by the incident reported being unable to sign in to their Apple accounts, and some said they had been signed out of their accounts entirely. Others reported that iCloud Mail would neither send nor receive messages.
The outage lands in the middle of Apple’s fall software cycle. The company recently released iOS 27.2, an update that adds features across six of its iPhone apps, including Suggested Actions in Messages, profiles in the Apple TV app, Dual Capture for Group FaceTime calls, new Home app automation for smart locks, a split Up Next queue in Apple Podcasts and refreshed Games app tabs. None of those features appeared to be connected to the service disruption.
For Apple, whose services segment has become a steadily growing contributor to revenue, outages of this scale carry reputational weight. Cloud-dependent features such as device backups, photo syncing and cross-device sign-in tie customers to the company’s ecosystem, and extended failures can push users toward rival platforms for mail, storage and calendar functions. Investors have generally treated service disruptions as temporary operational issues rather than structural threats, though repeated incidents tend to draw scrutiny of the company’s infrastructure spending.
The status page did not indicate when engineers expected to fully resolve the problem, and it was not clear whether the outage had begun to ease by the time of publication.
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For years now, space trackers have watched as China’s top-secret spaceplane, dubbed Shenlong, has been circling the Earth, releasing mysterious objects as it goes.
But getting an actual look at the experimental craft has proven near impossible — until now. As Ars Technica reports, a satellite owned by commercial operator Vantor (formerly Maxar) snapped a picture of the plane in 2024, which has finally been released two years later.
The photo shows a vehicle with two slim wings and what appears to be a docked satellite featuring two large solar arrays. The overall design is closely reminiscent of the US military’s own spaceplane, the Space Force’s top-secret X-37B.
The image was released as part of the Pentagon’s recently unclassified Defense Intelligence Agency assessment on space-based threats.
Behold: The US Defense Intelligence Agency has released a report on challenges to security in space, including an NEI image of China’s spaceplane from Maxar, taken in 2024. pic.twitter.com/F3msSwoFph
— Andrew Jones (@AJ_FI) October 27, 2026
However, beyond giving us a rare, first-hand look, the report itself offers little in terms of what the spaceplane is actually doing in orbit. China has been extremely secretive about the purpose of its four spaceplane missions over the last six years.
The country’s space agency has previously claimed that Shenlong will “pave the way for more convenient and affordable round-trip methods for the peaceful use of space in the future.”
Beyond releasing mysterious objects while in orbit, experts suggest the spaceplane has also been used to capture other objects, possibly using robotic arms.
Meanwhile, the Space Force’s X-37B, which was developed by Boeing, has spent thousands of days circling the planet over the last 16 years. Its most recent mission launched in August 2025, well over a year ago. In 2024, the plane slammed its brakes in orbit during a risky “aerobraking maneuver” designed to lower itself from a “highly elliptical orbit.”
Beyond getting a closer look at China’s equivalent, the Pentagon warned in its latest report that the Chinese military has “multiple ground-based laser weapons with varying power levels to disrupt, degrade, or damage satellites.”
“By the late 2020s, China may field space-based directed energy systems and higher-powered ground-based directed energy systems capable of threatening satellites in higher orbits,” the report reads.
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Black Clover ended its run on May 1, 2026, with the release of Chapter 392, which wrapped up the story quickly following that chaotic battle between Asta and Yuno. With the end of Black Clover, we finally saw Asta achieve his ultimate dream of becoming the Wizard King. Upon the release of the last chapter, many of us believed that Tabata was done with the franchise and that he wouldn’t expand upon the story anymore. However, Yuki Tabata surprised everyone when he made his return on August 4, 2026, with a brand-new guidebook release.
This guidebook offered us a major lore dump on Asta, specifically the circumstances surrounding his birth as well as his overpowered abilities. In a way, it could be said that Asta has achieved God status in Black Clover, both through his miraculous birth as well as his overpowered Anti-Magic, which can cut through any mana ability thrown at him.
Asta Officially Confirmed As The Biggest Anomaly Born From a Direct Action Of God
Image by Rei Penber created using Black Clover assets
Black Clover’s manga debut came in 2015 with the release of its first manga chapter in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump Issue 12. In Chapter 1, Yuki Tabata, the creator of the story, quickly introduced us to our two main characters, Asta and Yuno. While Yuno was a natural-born prodigy with overpowered magic, Asta was the complete opposite. Asta had to grind his whole life to grow physically stronger. Magic-wise, Asta was at the bottom of the barrel, being born with no mana at all, which, in the world of Black Clover, is a plain anomaly. Even the weakest characters have some mana and affinity to wield some magic. In every way, Asta was a true anomaly, and that pattern was observed quite a few times as Yuki Tabata explored his story.
In Black Clover Chapter 2, Asta unlocked his grimoire, and then again, we saw him rise as an anomaly. While Yuno unlocked the Lucky Four Clover Grimoire, Asta went on to get the Five Devilish Grimoire, housing the Devil itself, which would later on give him access to Anti-Magic, a power that negates mana itself through the devolving anger of Liebe, the Devil living inside of it.
Image by Rei Penber created using Black Clover assets
“What a fragile soul. You’ll never defeat me that way. Good-bye, flaw of the world.” —Lucius about Asta.
While Asta being born without mana was a massive anomaly in and of itself, the new Black Clover guidebook, which was released on August 4th, 2026, revealed to us much more about his mysterious birth. Yuki Tabata revealed in Perfect Grimoire that Asta’s birth was entirely a direct action from God himself. Tabata revealed that Asta was born with no father, meaning technically he should have never been born in the first place. Richita’s miraculous virgin birth makes Asta a one-of-a-kind miracle born via direct divine intervention. Asta’s direct divine parallels already make him a godly entity in the world of Black Clover, but of course he also has the strength to back his status up.
Asta Is An Anomaly With God-Level Powers in Black Clover
Image by Rei Penber created using Black Clover assets
Through the story of Black Clover, Asta was gradually growing and developing in strength. Even without the possession of any mana, Asta was able to distinguish himself through his raw physical strength that he trained years for, as well as newly acquired Anti-Magic through the 5 Clover Grimoire that he received at the yearly Grimoire Ceremony. Asta had a rough start, but eventually he was able to push through and became quite an overpowered individual among the Black Bulls and the Black Clover cast in general.
In the Black Clover manga, we saw Asta’s devilish powers grow with time. When Asta unlocked Devil Union in Chapter 282, it was one of the biggest moments of the manga. Along with his Anti-Magic, Asta was also eventually given the Demon Slasher sword by Yami. The new Black Clover guidebook from August 4 revealed that he has tapped into some of the most overpowered abilities of the Black Clover-verse, thanks to the unique attribute of the Demon Slasher sword, which allows the user to cut through anything its user wants. Coupling it with Anti-Magic and turning it into a new Anti-Magic Weapon, Asta has gained the power to unleash dimensional-scale attacks. Speed and time do not affect his attacks, and he is able to slash through anything, even the soul. After the two-year timeskip of Black Clover Chapter 392, Asta’s power must have grown tenfold as he cements himself as the strongest character in the world.
Asta Stands as the Strongest Wizard King and Character of Black Clover
Image by Rei Penber created using Black Clover assets
Following Asta’s journey from beginning to end was a sensational adventure for fans of the Black Clover series. While we were introduced to Asta in chapter 1 of the series, where he revealed his ultimate goal to become Wizard King, we finally saw him achieve this title in Black Clover chapter 391, which was released on May 1st, 2026, in Jump GIGA’s Spring Edition. Asta achieved this by finally defeating Yuno in a one-on-one battle.
On August 4, 2026, Yuki Tabata released an extra chapter showcasing Asta’s ascension to the throne as the 29th Wizard King after Julius Novachrono. Julius, coupled with his other soul, Lucius, was overpowered and a deadly foe to face. After all, it took both Asta and Yuno fighting together to finally take him down. However, since Lucius’s battle, Asta has had ample time to develop further, mastering his Anti-Magic even more as the new Wizard King. Asta has definitely surpassed Lucius and Julius by now, and probably so has Yuno as well. Through this coronation, Asta has undoubtedly become the strongest Wizard King.
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We all expected Asta to be the most overpowered character at the end of Black Clover, and by the looks of it, Yuki Tabata most certainly delivered on that end. Unfortunately, no further releases for Black Clover are planned for now. While the series is making an appearance during Jump Festa 2027, it is only doing so at the smallest of stages, which means that no major new project is expected for this series. Needless to say, that is disappointing in its own way, but hopefully, at some point later down the line, Black Clover can make a comeback so fans all over the world can enjoy Asta as the Wizard King once more, with godly power at his disposal.
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