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Are you in the market for a new Android phone but weren’t blown away by Samsung’s Galaxy S24 reveal this week? If so, you might want to wait a few days for a new Pixel 8 colorway set to launch next week. On Friday, Google tweeted a message in binary code that translates to “fresh year, fresh drop.” A video accompanying the message shows a Pixel 8 Pro in Google’s Bay blue being spraypainted over with a minty green phrase: “It’s a living.”At the end of the video, we see the date “1.25.24,” so we can safely assume…

Realme updated its landing page for the 12 Pro announcement on January 29, revealing one more color option of the upcoming phone. The 12 Pro+ will have a cream version with golden trims around the camera island and the body, and it will also have a "polished sunburst dial." Realme 12 Pro colors The company also revealed some more camera specifications by trying to draw comparisons between its upper midranger and the just-announced Samsung Galaxy S24 series. According to the company X account, it…

‘I wasn’t going to show my face,” Fantasia Barrino says, speaking on a video call from Los Angeles. “But I was like: ‘How rude. I can see her pretty face.” Born and raised in High Point, a small city in North Carolina, Barrino, 39, is famous in the US as the teenage single mother who won American Idol 20 years ago. Now, she is going global, playing Celie in the new musical screen adaptation of The Color Purple, produced by Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey. A star could go any which way with that kind of rags-to-riches…

Lund University researchers have uncovered that the genetic color variation in female bluetail damselflies, including a male-mimicking form, originated over five million years ago. This finding deepens our understanding of genetic diversity and evolutionary processes in damselflies and sets the stage for further evolutionary studies.For more than two decades, scientists at Lund University in Sweden have been studying the common bluetail damselfly, a species where females display three distinct color forms, including one…

Samsung If you plan on preordering a Samsung Galaxy S24 or Galaxy S24 Ultra today, you’ll be faced with a very important decision regarding your new phone’s color. If you get an S24 at Amazon, Best Buy, or from your carrier, you’ll find four OK styles to choose from. The S24 and S24 Plus come in Onyx Black, Marble Gray, Cobalt Violet, and Amber Yellow. Want an S24 Ultra? You get to choose from Titanium Violet, Yellow, Black, or Gray. They’re decent choices, and it’s nice to see some symmetry across all three phones.…

Ishihara cards are often used to test for colour blindness. ©  See page for author, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Dr. Mark Lindsay was 5 years old when he first learned that tree trunks were brown. "Up until that point, I believed leaves and trunks were all green. Just lighter and darker shades," Mark…

Fantasia reflects on her journey and her drive in the music video for “Superpower (I),” the end-credits song in the new musical adaptation of The Color Purple. In the video, the actress, who plays The Color Purple’s protagonist Celie in the movie, sings to her younger self, literally, since A.I. technology has created a version of Fantasia in her red dress that she wore when she sang “Summertime” on American Idol in 2004. “Oh, my soul, you’re the reason I made it through,” she sings to her younger self over…

When hitmaking producer The-Dream got the call to write an original song for the remake of The Color Purple, he almost couldn’t do it. He was busy — busy with Beyoncé. “We were working on the Renaissance film, and I got a call from Larry Jackson. He was like, ‘Yo, man, I need a record and I don’t know if you could do this,’” The-Dream tells The Hollywood Reporter. “And I was like, ‘Ah, man, I’m in the middle of this Renaissance thing and I’m doing more.’ I think people have an idea of what they think I…

Tesla has slashed prices on its official car wrap color selection and added a new ‘Satin Abbyss Blue’ for Model 3 and Model Y. After years of teasing, Tesla decided to release its own ‘color paint protection film’, which is more commonly known as a wrap, late last year. The automaker has been known for having a limited choice of paint colors on its electric vehicles. It led many owners to go to third-parties for wraps. Since October, Tesla is now offering its own wraps done by official Tesla…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeOprah Winfrey has shut down rumours of a feud between her and Taraji P Henson after the Empire star claimed she fought to get “stuff I shouldn’t have to fight for” on the set of The Color Purple.Based on Alice Walker’s 1982 novel, Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film and the stage musical of the same name, The Color Purple is a movie musical produced by Winfrey, who starred in the original…