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Memory-Chip Squeeze Drives Global Smartphone Shipments to 14-Year Low
Global smartphone shipments fell 20 percent in the third quarter of 2026, their lowest third-quarter level since 2012, as soaring memory-chip costs and supply…
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Wealth departures from Britain test a tougher tax settlement
More than a dozen billionaires have left Britain or substantially reduced their ties to the country over the past two years as tax treatment of wealthy residents tightened,…
Politics
Vance campaigns in Ohio as the final midterm month begins
The vice president campaigned for Ohio Republican candidates this week with less than a month to go before the midterm elections, a deployment that tells its own story…
Business
A $125m film opens at $8m as Warner’s merger endgame arrives
The last film Warner Bros. Discovery releases before its acquisition by Paramount Skydance closes has opened to about eight million dollars against a budget of at least 125…
Technology
Searching medical records without exposing them: the encrypted-query idea
Researchers have developed an encrypted skyline-query scheme that lets patients search medical databases against their own criteria while keeping the contents of the search — and, by design,…
Sports
Division Series check: Guardians and White Sox trade blows, Dodgers strike late
The American League Division Series between Cleveland and Chicago has become this October’s most volatile contest, the teams trading the lead across a week in which a bases-clearing…
Entertainment
Weekend preview: ‘Other Mommy’ eyes $20m, ‘Social Reckoning’ faces $7–8m
Two films opening on 9 October arrive from opposite ends of the commercial map: Other Mommy, launching in more than 3,200 North American theatres with an opening forecast…
Health
Kidney-transplant test Tutivia posts 53% revenue growth as US rollout widens
Verici Dx reports a 53 per cent increase in testing revenue for the first half of 2026 from Tutivia, its kidney-transplant test, with thirty-five United States transplant centres…
Science
Where toddlers look: eye-tracking meets early development scores
Eye-tracking measures of social attention in healthy 18-month-old toddlers were significantly associated with Griffiths-III developmental scores in a study reported this week, researchers say — a correlation between…
