ByteDance launches its first earbuds, the open-ear wearables called Ola Friend, designed as an audio assistant, shipping on October 17 in China for ~$170 (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)

Coco Feng / South China Morning Post:
ByteDance launches its first earbuds, the open-ear wearables called Ola Friend, designed as an audio assistant, shipping on October 17 in China for ~$170  —  The Ola Friend earphones are linked to ByteDance's self-developed chatbot, Doubao, currently China's most popular GenAI app

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to David Baker for "computational protein design" and Demis Hassabis and John Jumper (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to David Baker for “computational protein design” and Demis Hassabis and John Jumper  —  - Demis Hassabis, John Jumper share half the $1.1 million award  — Remainder goes to David Baker for building new proteins

CamScanner app maker Intsig is the best-performing China IPO stock in 2024 for $100M+ listings, after a euphoric market response to Beijing's stimulus measures (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
CamScanner app maker Intsig is the best-performing China IPO stock in 2024 for $100M+ listings, after a euphoric market response to Beijing's stimulus measures  —  - Intsig Chairman Zhen Lixin's net worth hits $876 million  — Shanghai-listed firm has surged since Sept. 26 debut

Israel compromising Hezbollah pagers shows the West should take hardware security more seriously, especially as most electronics manufacturing shifted to Asia (Chris Miller/Financial Times)

Chris Miller / Financial Times:
Israel compromising Hezbollah pagers shows the West should take hardware security more seriously, especially as most electronics manufacturing shifted to Asia  —  Unreliable suppliers can modify devices, yet companies devote few resources to verifying the origin of components

Dublin-based Appeals Centre, backed by Meta's Oversight Board, launches to moderate disputes between EU users and Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube under the DSA (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)

Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters:
Dublin-based Appeals Centre, backed by Meta's Oversight Board, launches to moderate disputes between EU users and Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube under the DSA  —  Social media users in the European Union will be able to make complaints against Facebook, ByteDance's TikTok and Alphabet's …

SportQuake: crypto companies have spent a record of almost £130M on Premier League sponsorship deals for the 2024/25 season, buoyed by tighter gambling rules (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:
SportQuake: crypto companies have spent a record of almost £130M on Premier League sponsorship deals for the 2024/25 season, buoyed by tighter gambling rules  —  English football club deals with crypto firms are at a record high. … The flood of crypto money into English football is continuing …