
Omdia says sub-$400 phones shipments fall 22% as RAM costs spike 60% of BOM
Budget makers like OPPO and Xiaomi are stuck eating memory-price pain, or raising retail prices and risking demand.

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Budget makers like OPPO and Xiaomi are stuck eating memory-price pain, or raising retail prices and risking demand.

A citizen-science pipeline turns everyday snaps into coast data, helping researchers track how climate change hits shorelines.

A new theory reconciles two impurity pictures in many-particle systems, with potential impact from ultracold atoms to semiconductors.

A 5:25 a.m. EDT Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral will extend Falcon 9’s flight record with a drone-ship landing.

The renamed Musk AI unit says Grok 4.5 now handles coding, legal work, and Excel, minus the worst past.

Grok 4.5 hits $2/M input and $6/M output, aiming to rattle Anthropic and OpenAI on cost per agentic task.

A Japanese moon company bets its “Mobile Cargo System” on SpaceX’s Starship, aiming for launch no earlier than 2030.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s week-long route signals where India wants leverage in Asia-Pacific politics and trade.

The first outside funding round reshapes Bezos' rocket runway and raises the pressure to match SpaceX’s launch cadence.

The JPL-managed deal builds the descent-stage shield for a nuclear-powered 2028 mission that drops helicopters mid-descent.

Even with extra yield, the market’s appetite looked weaker, flashing a possible caution about the pace of the AI debt binge.
Miami-based City Labs’ Betavoltaic Orbital High-Reliability payload rides SpaceX, signaling the next phase of nuclear power in space.