The Infinix Smart 10, unveiled last month, has landed in India. It comes in a single 4GB/64GB configuration, priced at INR6,799, and has four color options – Iris Blue, Twilight Gold, Titanium Silver, and Sleek Black. The Smart 10 will go on sale in India starting August 2 through Flipkart and retail stores.
The Infinix Smart 10 is powered by the Unisoc T7250 SoC and runs Android 15-based XOS 15.1 out of the box. It’s built around a 6.67″ 120Hz HD+ LCD and packs a 5,000 mAh battery that charges through a USB-C at up to 15W. The smartphone also supports reverse wired charging.
The rest of the Infinix Smart 10’s highlights include an 8MP rear camera, an 8MP front camera, a side-mounted fingerprint scanner, and an IP64 rating. The Smart 10 also has a dedicated microSD card slot for storage expansion of up to 2TB and comes with dual speakers and DTS Sound Processing.
Further in-depth analysis, meticulously combining data from TESS with high-precision observations from powerful ground-based instruments, led to the exciting confirmation of a fourth planet (L 98-59 e) and, most notably, a fifth planet, L 98-59 f. This newly confirmed super-Earth, estimated to be nearly three times the mass of our own planet, receives a similar amount of energy from its host star as Earth does from the Sun, placing it firmly within the zone where liquid water, a cornerstone of life as we know it, could theoretically exist.
KARACHI: Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD, plans to roll out its first car assembled in Pakistan by July or August 2026 to capture growing demand for electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles in the region, a company executive said.
BYD, the world’s top EV maker, has been expanding rapidly outside its home market, where it is in a strong price war. The Pakistan plant addresses rising demand from emerging markets and allows the company to take advantage of incentives offered by the government.
The plant has been under construction since April near Karachi in a partnership between BYD and Mega Motor Company, a subsidiary of Pakistani utility Hub Power, Danish Khaliq, vice president of sales and strategy at BYD Pakistan, told Reuters.
It would initially have the capacity to produce 25,000 units a year on a double shift.
The plant will start by assembling imported parts, with some local production of non-electric components, Khaliq said, adding it would initially produce vehicles for the domestic market, with potential to export to right-hand drive countries in the region depending on freight costs and business economics.
“We do not foresee excess capacity in our system as demand in Pakistan will catch up,” he said.
BYD started delivering imported EVs in Pakistan in March. Khaliq did not give an exact sales number but said the sales of a few hundred cars had exceeded internal targets by 30%.
Khaliq said he expected the market size of EVs and plug-in hybrid cars in Pakistan to grow three to four times in 2025 from around 1,000 total units in 2024.
BYD is targeting a 30-35% share of the segment, Khaliq said.
BYD has launched its Shark 6 plug-in hybrid pickup truck in Pakistan on Friday.
China’s MG already sells a PHEV SUV, while rival Haval is set to join the segment soon.
Plug-in hybrids offer a more practical option in Pakistan as the country faces a lack of charging stations for all-electric vehicles. The government slashed power tariffs for chargers by 45% in January to encourage EV uptake and private charging stations.
A European Space Agency spacecraft on its way to Jupiter’s moons has tested out one of its science instruments on our own Moon.
And it’s focussed on the same patch of the lunar surface seen in one of the most iconic images in science.
Artist’s impression of the Juice mission exploring Jupiter’s moons. Credit: ESA/ATG Medialab, Getty Images
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is headed to Jupiter to study its icy moons to search for signs of alien life, or conditions that could support alien life.
And as it flew past our Moon in August 2024, its Radar for Icy Moon Exploration (RIME) instrument listened to radio wave echoes bounced off the Moon to determine the height of the lunar surface.
A view of Ganymede captured by NASA’s Galileo probe, 26 June 1996. Credit: NASA/JPL
Juice and the search for life
Scientists interested in the search for signs of life beyond Earth, and for signs of habitable worlds beyond Earth, say the icy moons of our Solar System are some of the most promising places.
That’s because moons like Enceladus at Saturn or Europa at Jupiter have liquid oceans beneath their icy, frozen surfaces.
And liquid water being a prerequisite for life on Earth as we know it, the presence of liquid water on these moons means they are potentially habitable.
Material in this oddly-shaped region on Jupiter’s moon Europa has the appearance of frozen slush, and could be caused by the up-swelling of icy lava from a subsurface liquid ocean. Credit: NASA/JPL
Juice is on its way to study Jupiter’s moons Ganymede, Europa and Callisto.
It will arrive there in July 2031 and begin its exploration of these frozen worlds.
But in the meantime, flybys of other worlds – including our Moon – are giving science teams back on Earth the chance to test Juice’s instruments are working properly.
RIME’s radargram on the Moon
Juice’s Radar for Icy Moon Exploration, or RIME, undergoing vibration testing at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 27 April 2020. These tests help ensure the instrument can survive the rocky road that lies ahead. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
One of Juice’s instruments is the Radar for Icy Moon Exploration (RIME), which is a radar sounder that will give scientists information about what’s going on beneath the surface of the icy moons, as deep as 9km (5.5 miles) into their liquid subsurface oceans.
As Juice passed on our Moon, RIME captured this image of a section of the lunar surface.
A view of a patch of the surface of the Moon, captured by the RIME instrument on the Juice spacecraft. RIME sent out radio waves and listened out for their echoes from the Moon’s surface 750 km away. Credit: ESA/Juice/RIME. Acknowledgement: University of Trento
Scientists say RIME’s first-ever radargram of a patch of lunar surface matches an elevation model of the same area captured by NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA), seen below.
The bright pink and yellow line that waves across the dark purple background shows the height of the Moon’s surface.
The bumps and dips in the RIME data match up the height of the land in LOLA’s elevation map.
Elevation model of the patch of the Moon visible in the Earthrise image, captured by NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter. Credit: LOLA Science Team
The test was an important stepping stone for RIME, as electronic noise coming from the rest of the spacecraft has been disturbing its readings.
During the flyby of the Moon, all of Juice’s instruments were switched off for 8 minutes, giving RIME the chance to observe in silence.
RIME scientists were then able check how the electronic noise affects the performance of the instrument.
Based on the data collected, they’ve been able to create an algorithm that counteracts disturbances to RIME caused by the rest of the spacecraft.
The team are satisfied the test worked, and RIME is up to the job of providing accurate information on what’s going on beneath Jupiter’s icy moons.
Not just any old patch of the Moon
Annotated image of the Moon captured by astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission in December 1968. The crater since named ‘Anders’ Earthrise’ is labelled. Credit: NASA, annotation added by ESA
The patch of the Moon studied by RIME is the same patch that can be seen in astronaut William Anders’ ‘Earthrise’ photo, which was captured on 24 December 1968 during the Apollo 8 mission.
Anders’ Earthrise photo is considered one of the most important images in science, as it gave humanity an unprecedented glimpse of what it would be like to see our home planet from the surface of another world.
The biggest crater, seen in the foreground of the image, was later renamed from ‘Pasteur T’ to ‘Anders’ Earthrise’.
Credit: NASA
So what next for Juice? The European Space Agency says the spacecraft is due to fly by Venus in August 2025.
This is a gravity assist manoeuvre, using Venus’s gravity to give Juice a boost on its journey.
Onwards to Jupiter, and the chance to find out whether Jupiter’s icy moons do indeed have the potential to host life.
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An international team of scientists has, for the first time, directly detected sulfur in both its gas and solid phases in the interstellar medium — the gas- and dust-filled space between stars. This breakthrough was made possible by the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) satellite.
To detect sulfur, a team of researchers led by Lia Corrales — an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor — studied X-rays from two binary star systems, GX 340+0 and 4U 1630-472. The Resolve instrument aboard XRISM allowed the scientists to measure the energy of the X-rays, revealing sulfur signatures in both gas and solid phases.
While past missions have studied sulfur in space, they have only directly detected it in its gaseous state. Brian Williams, the XRISM project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, described XRISM’s measurements of space sulfur as “the most detailed yet.”
The solid sulfur detected by XRISM could only be accurately modeled when combined with iron, suggesting the two elements are likely mixed together in space. This finding raises further questions about how elements bond and travel through cosmic environments.
The iron-sulfur model, though needing further studies, isn’t strange; as iron-sulfur compounds are often found in meteorites. Elisa Costantini, a senior astronomer at the Space Research Organization Netherlands and the University of Amsterdam, shared that new sulfur measurements will soon be available to compare with XRISM data.
Sulfur plays a crucial role in the functioning of cells in our bodies. Hence, understanding its distribution in the galaxy holds significant importance. XRISM’s latest discovery is unraveling sulfur’s hiding place in space, providing more insights into the chemical composition of the galaxy we call home.
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The U.S. dollar rose slightly against the Vietnamese dong on the black market Saturday morning.
Unofficial exchange points sold the greenback 0.04% higher at VND26,460.
Vietcombank kept its rate unchanged at VND26,320.
The State Bank of Vietnam’s reference rate was stable at VND25,164.
Globally the U.S. dollar advanced on Friday, bolstered by solid economic data that suggested the Federal Reserve could take its time in resuming interest rate cuts, while tariff negotiations showed more clarity that eased some uncertainty in the market, Reuters reported.
“The dollar regained some ground the past two days, after being on the defensive earlier in the week … supported mostly by an encouraging set of U.S. economic data that argues for continued patience at the Fed,” said Elias Haddad, senior markets strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman in London.
The greenback was set for its biggest weekly drop in a month, ahead of more tariff dialogue and central bank meetings next week, while sterling dipped after softer-than-expected British retail sales data.
Falls against the euro and yen leave the dollar index, which measures the dollar against six other currencies, at 97.45, on track for a drop of 0.8% this week, its weakest performance in a month, though it bounced back 0.2% to 97.663 on Friday.
