cenc recorded a magnitude-3.2 earthquake at 11:56 on Oct 24 in Zaduo County, Yushu Prefecture, Qinghai (32.53°N, 93.90°E); depth 10 km.

Head of an Iran free-trade zone said measures have been introduced to simplify imports of industrial raw materials via streamlined customs procedures, with goods clearance taking at most one week to 10 days.

CEIC2026 Consumer Electronics Innovation Conference released its Top 10 consumer electronics trends, highlighting shifts in sensing, spatial computing, edge AI, connectivity, edge–cloud compute and AI-driven design. The ten trends: ubiquitous sensing devices enabling seamless, unobtrusive personal intelligence; immersive spatial interaction making spatial experiences widely accessible; warm, human-like intelligent avatars and routine human–machine collaboration; proactive edge AI and embodied personal assistants; transition from devices to autonomous intelligent agents with accelerated connectivity upgrades; spatial computing and spatial intelligence opening the physical world to agents; edge–cloud collaborative compute bases rewriting terminal capabilities and form factors; networks evolving from access gateways into AI service hubs reshaping AI service rules; interoperability moving from within ecosystems to across ecosystems, unlocking incremental space; and AI remaking the consumer electronics innovation paradigm from engineering design to creative realization.