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Huawei’s Wide-Screen Phone Sold Out for 60 Days. The Story Is the Software.
Body On October 20, Huawei Mall put Pura X View behind a 60-day reservation. A RMB 5,999 slab phone with a 16:9.5 screen had users waiting two months before delivery. Channel sellers described stock as one unit out, one unit sold. By week 42, cumulative sales reached about 652,300 units. By day 50, sell-in passed 1 million. Weekly sell-out peaked near 100,000 units between October 5 and 24, enough to lead domestic flagship unit sales above RMB 5,000. Shipments rose from 710,000 to 840,000 units between October 16 and 21, a gain of 130,000 in six days.
By Jina day ago in 01
The Closed-Source Moat Is Shrinking Faster Than You Think
Liang Wenfeng said that in the face of disruptive technology, the moat created by closed source is short-lived. The line is often read as an open-source manifesto. That reading is too broad. The claim is narrower. When the technology itself is still being rewritten every few months, what closed source protects, namely a particular set of weights and a particular training recipe, depreciates faster than the company can convert it into a durable advantage. The moat does not disappear. Its half-life shortens.
By Jina day ago in 01
Apple Broke a 16-Year-Old Promise. The $400 Premium Is Not About Touch.
In October 2010, Steve Jobs said touchscreen laptops do not work. “Touch surfaces don’t want to be vertical,” he said at the Back to the Mac event. “It gives great demo, but after a short period of time you start to fatigue, and after an extended period of time, your arm wants to fall off.” Sixteen years later, Apple shipped its first touchscreen MacBook Pro. The 14-inch model starts at $2,899. That is $400 more than the non-touch version with the same core configuration, a 16.01% increase. In China, it costs 22,999 yuan, 3,000 yuan more than the 19,999-yuan mini-LED model.
By Jina day ago in 01
Carbon Fiber Tubing: Materials, Applications, and the Role of Composite Poles in Solar Panel Maintenance
Understanding Composite Materials Composite materials are used across modern industries because they combine the properties of two or more different materials to achieve particular performance characteristics. Instead of relying on a single material, composites use a combination of components that work together to provide qualities such as strength, stiffness, durability, or reduced weight. Their suitability depends on how they are manufactured and the conditions in which they are used.
By charliesamuel3 days ago in 01
Four AI Agents Died 605 Times in Minecraft. Then They Killed the Ender Dragon.
Four Gemini agents entered Minecraft with nothing. To chop trees, they wrote code for chopping trees. To mine, they wrote code for mining. Then they ran it. If the result was wrong, they rewrote the code and ran it again.
By Jin5 days ago in 01
The AI Pioneer Who Thinks We’re Looking at the Wrong Frontier
For two years, public talk about AI has been dominated by bigger models, more data, longer context. Text, code, Q&A, agents. The race has been to stretch the token stream. Fei-Fei Li offers a different read: large language models are one chapter, not the last one. The next frontier, she argues, is spatial intelligence.
By Jin6 days ago in 01
He Built a Hoverboard From a Childhood Dream. Then the Internet Called It Fake.
The reporter met Song Xingyu at an industrial park in Yichang. He was wearing flip-flops and loose, clean casual clothes. His hair was fluffy and curly, and acne marks were still visible on his fair face. He trotted over and knocked on the pontoons of two seaplanes in the warehouse. “Bang, bang… Look, these are my treasures! I bought them online for only 20,000 yuan. Do you know how much new ones cost? 200,000! Aren’t I lucky?” He was as excited as a child.
By Jin6 days ago in 01
Your iPhone Duo Apps Still Show Black Bars. Laziness Is Not the Reason.
After the iPhone Duo went on sale, the first controversy came from the screen, not the price and not the crease. Unfold the 7.6-inch inner display and many common apps still sit in the center with wide black bars on both sides. QQ, some photo editors, and note apps do not turn into large-screen apps. They place a traditional iPhone interface in the middle of a foldable display. In testing, nearly 80 percent of apps do not support a foldable large-screen layout. That number looks like software vendors ignoring the device. The black bars have a narrower cause.
By Jin6 days ago in 01
Samsung's 24-Hour Robot Won't Rewrite Manufacturing Costs. Here's What Will.
Will 24-Hour Robots Rewrite the Cost Logic of Manufacturing? The intuitive objection is correct. If the task is strictly "move 10,000 boxes from Point A to Point B," a bipedal humanoid robot is not the best tool. Wheeled AMRs, automated forklifts and conveyors are faster, more energy-efficient, higher-payload and easier to control. A wheeled platform does not spend compute and control precision on standing upright or taking a step. When it fails, it usually stops where it is. A bipedal robot that loses balance can fall into material, equipment or people.
By Jin7 days ago in 01
REA Took Apart a Game and a Learning App. One Ran. One Stopped Cold.
In October 2026, the open-source project REA moved quickly through technical communities. Its full name is Reverse Engineer Anything. The loudest line around it was “reverse engineer everything, software is dead.” AI commentator Matthew Berman posted that line, and social platforms soon filled with reverse-engineering demos.
By Jin7 days ago in 01
Huawei and DeepSeek Made Ascend Cheap Enough to Use. Training Is Still Nvidia’s Game.
A small change that explains the partnership SemiAnalysis’s The Huawei-DeepSeek Symbiosis includes a detail that is easy to skip. DeepSeek changed FlashMLA on Ascend so that quantized values and scales in the KV cache sit together. Fetching one token used to require two transfer requests. After the change, it requires one. The modification is too small for a strategy slide. It is an engineer counting memory transfers and deciding to send fewer.
By Jin8 days ago in 01
People Worry about AI too much
AI is usually quick entertainment or idea output. The real work is in taking information you may double check and working from there. Today I ran questions about my car through AI. It can tell me near what's wrong with my car so I can describe the situation better to a mechanic but am I going to try to fix it myself? No way. If you don't have the credentials then AI used as if it is an original idea generator can only go so far.
By Seashell Harpspring 8 days ago in 01