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Last year Tecno presented a rollable phone concept called the Phantom Ultimate. This was just a concept, though, seen only in demo videos – but now the company has some actual prototypes and brought them to the MWC. We got some hands-on time with the Ultimate and a couple of other interesting ideas that are brewing over at Tecno HQ. The Phantom Ultimate may never become a retail product, but it is now a real working device. The phone starts off with a 6.55” display that wraps around the left edge. At the push of a…

Danielle Brooks knows The Color Purple’s Sofia inside out. She spent a year as the boisterous wife in the Broadway revival in 2015, and boasts that she knows everything from the character’s Zodiac sign to the color socks she wore. A decade before her fiery onstage performance, a 15-year-old Brooks admired Felicia P. Fields as Sofia in its initial run on Broadway, whose defiant demeanor made her vulnerable to racial violence. Despite her lifelong ties to the role, she still had to prove herself for the big budget movie…

The first software update for the Galaxy S24, Galaxy S24+, and Galaxy S24 Ultra took some time to start rolling out, but as of January 23, Samsung has made the update available in several countries around the world. Along with numerous improvements to the camera, the first Galaxy S24 update adds an option for users to adjust how vibrant the display looks. With the Galaxy S24 series, Samsung tuned the displays for more natural color reproduction, but that had the (possibly unintended) side effect of both the vivid and…

The Xiaomi 14 Ultra has surfaced a couple of times thus far, and we’ve seen only two colors of the phone, black and white. Well, a third color just appeared. A blue Xiaomi 14 Ultra surfaced online, confirming that we may get more choices. The Xiaomi 14 Ultra will launch in a blue color too The thing is, this color could be exclusive to China, unfortunately. If you check out the image below, in which the phone appears, it poses with the other two colors, and these are obviously Chinese promo materials. You can see some…

Last updated: February 20th, 2024 at 15:28 UTC+01:00 Even though the Galaxy S24 series stands out through the exclusive Galaxy AI features, the Galaxy Z Fold 5 arguably is the most high-tech smartphone in Samsung's portfolio, even without clever AI. The Z Fold 5's foldable display can make one stand in awe, and it is the only phone with an Under-Panel Camera. Even if image quality can't match a regular sensor, UPC is still impressive for what it is. This high-end tech cost a significant amount of money, and the…

Roots Community Health Center was slammed in 2020, with lines for its COVID-19 testing stations stretching around the block and exam rooms full of people struggling to breathe.Patient after patient at the East Oakland clinic extended their fingers so that healthcare workers could clip on a pulse oximeter, a device that measures the degree to which red blood cells are saturated with oxygen. For healthy people, a normal “pulse ox” reading is typically between 95% and 100%. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had…

We’re about five months past the launch of the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro so, guess what time of the year it is? It’s time to start talking about the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro…well, again. iPhone 16 rumors started last year so we’re just adding to the list today.When Apple unveiled the iPhone 15 Pro, the company revealed that it was ditching the longstanding stainless steel materials it used in its Pro iPhone lineup and opting for titanium instead. For me, titanium has been great. It’s just as protective and…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDanielle Brooks knows how you’re meant to react to an Oscar nomination. The tears. The shock. The “Oh my gosh, I can’t believe it,” the Orange Is the New Black star mimics, dryly. “But,” she says, “I do believe it. This has been a culmination of so many years of hard work and patience; not getting discouraged, not quitting.”The 34-year-old is speaking from New Zealand, where she’s…

2. LUTsThis is where it gets serious. I'm going to simplify this, so you don't get bogged down in terminology or the science of it all.LUT stands for Look Up Table and they make it very easy to change the look of your clips. LUTs use predetermined sets of mathematical formulas to make adjustments to gamma, contrast, saturation, luminance, and hue to alter the look. With LUTs you can achieve very dramatic effects without having to go through hours of manually altering the various values for color. Essentially, you load…

While the most topical discussions about the Forza franchise at large usually have something to do with the latest game’s many fumbles and stumbles, now’s the time to take a look at something different. Did you know that the Forza community maintains a humongous list of real-world car paint specifications? Indeed, there’s a small, but extremely dedicated community of Forza players that’s spent hundreds, if not thousands of hours meticulously recreating real-world car paint swatches for virtual use. It’s widely accepted…