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vivo has confirmed Singapore pricing and availability for its X500 Series, two handsets built around long range photography. The Pro Max carries a 200 megapixel ZEISS APO telephoto camera with an 85mm equivalent lens, and the standard X500 steps down to a 72mm equivalent unit. Both ship with OriginOS 7, which now talks to Apple's ecosystem.

Researchers in the Arctic have held video calls with colleagues at China's Qinling station in Antarctica using only Chinese satellites. The trial ran during the country's 16th Arctic expedition, which set out in the northern summer and is due home this month. State media reported the link this week, and analysts read it as the end of a long reliance on foreign operators for polar traffic.

A self taught maker from Badong county in Hubei has flown a homemade electric board over the Yangtze, along city streets and through a canyon. Video of the flight, posted under the handle Ayu, has drawn about four million likes on Douyin and attention from state broadcasters. The board began as a replica of the glider ridden by the Green Goblin in Spider Man.