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The global smartphone market declined by 18% on a year-over-year (YoY) basis to reach 304 million units in Q4 2022, even as it registered a 1% growth on quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) basis, as per a new report. Apple replaced Samsung as the top smartphone player in the quarter, driven by the launch of iPhone 14 series. Global smartphone shipment declines As per the latest research from Counterpoint’s Market Monitor service, the 2022 global shipments declined by 12% to 1.2 billion units, which is the lowest since 2013, and the revenue declined by 9% to $409 billion, the lowest since 2017. The market research firm said that the global smartphone market remained under pressure in Q4 2022 with a total of 303.9 million units shipped. Furthermore, the shipments for the full year declined to 1.2 billion units. Read Also China's 2022 smartphone sales plunge to lowest level in a decade “The war in Ukraine, inflationary pressures, economic … [Read more...] about apple: How iPhone 14 helped Apple beat Samsung to emerge as number one

Ulysses , the groundbreaking modernist novel by James Joyce, marked its 100-year anniversary last year; it was first published on February 2, 1922. The poet T.S Eliot declared the novel to be "the most important expression which the present age has found," and Ulysses has accumulated many other fans in the ages since. Count Harry Manos, an English professor at Los Angeles City College, among those fans. Manos is also a fan of physics—so much so, that he penned a December 2021 paper published in The Physics Teacher, detailing how Joyce had sprinkled multiple examples of classical physics throughout the novel. "The fact that Ulysses contains so much classical physics should not be surprising," Manos wrote. "Joyce’s friend Eugene Jolas observed: 'the range of subjects he [Joyce] enjoyed discussing was a wide one … [including] certain sciences, particularly physics, geometry, and mathematics.' Knowing physics can enhance everyone’s understanding of this novel and enrich its … [Read more...] about The physics of James Joyce’s

On Friday the US Treasury Department published an update to the way it implements the new clean vehicle tax credit. Introduced in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the new rules restrict the number of EVs that qualify for a federal tax credit of up to $7,500 with income and price caps, as well as a requirement for final assembly in North America and, once the Treasury has written some more guidance, a requirement for domestic content and value in the EV battery. When the new rules came out in January, there were some complaints that some five-seat crossovers—the Cadillac Lyriq, Tesla Model Y, and Volkswagen ID.4—were being counted as sedans, with a $55,000 MSRP cap; anyone buying any of those EVs with a purchase price of more than $55,000 was ineligible for the tax credit, although the seven-seat Model Y was classified as an SUV and therefore only subject to an $80,000 MSRP limit. The reason for that was the Treasury using the US Environmental Protection Agency's Corporate … [Read more...] about Treasury decides Model Y, Lyriq, ID.4, are SUVs after all, not sedans

Audio player loading… The creative director of Dragon Age, John Epler, has revealed that the game’s horses have been lying to us the entire time, thanks to the magic of creative thinking and camera angles. In the lead-up to Dragon Age 4 , more and more gems have been dropping about the beloved action RPG game Dragon Age Inquisition . In a Twitter post (opens in new tab) , Epler dropped some hard truths about how sprinting on a horse didn’t actually make you go faster. In reality, the game engine BioWare used to develop Dragon Age Inquisition called Frostbite “couldn’t stream in levels fast enough,” Epler said. This meant that the team was forced to change the camera angle and add speed lines when you started sprinting on your horse to make you feel as if you were faster. Engine failure This isn’t the only time Frostbite failed the dev team. According to a [report] by Kotaku, the engine was the bane of many devs' existence. “Frostbite is like an … [Read more...] about The horses in Dragon Age were lying to you