Apple’s first foldable iPhone goes on sale Oct. 23, from $1,999
The iPhone Duo folds out to a 7.6-inch screen and goes on sale Oct. 23 in more than 70 countries and regions.
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How a hidden implant in some Ledger wallets stole recovery phrases
Ledger says some devices sold by reseller CryptoBilis carried a cellular implant that read the 24-word phrase off the screen.
A year after its $126K record, bitcoin trades about a third lower
Bitcoin is roughly a third below its October 2025 peak, yet its order books are deeper than on last year’s crash day.
Korean chip stocks sink on China DRAM fears; KOSPI ends down 5.5%
China’s CXMT says denser “4F²” server memory is coming by year-end. Samsung shares fell 7.4% and SK hynix 10.1% on Oct. 13.
Uniswap’s Unichain moves to Optimism’s OP Enterprise on Oct. 29
Optimism will run Unichain’s sequencers and core infrastructure; Uniswap says nothing changes for users.
After a 75% jump, dollar stablecoins have barely grown in a year
DefiLlama data show dollar-stablecoin supply up only about 1% since October 2025, after a 75% surge the year before.
Halloween 2026: Americans expected to spend more on costumes than candy
The National Retail Federation forecasts $13.5 billion in US Halloween spending, $4.4 billion of it on costumes.
The 2026 science Nobels: algae, Antarctic ice and mirror-image molecules
The prizes honored work on optogenetics, the IceCube neutrino observatory and molecular “handedness.”
UK clocks go back Oct. 25, US clocks Nov. 1: mind the one-week gap
For one week, the time difference between the UK and most of the US is an hour smaller than usual.
Bits of Halley’s Comet light up the sky Oct. 21–22: how to watch
NASA says the Orionids peak overnight Oct. 21–22; look in the hours before dawn, after the bright moon sets.
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