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It seems as if Samsung is almost ready to launch the Galaxy S23 FE, especially after looking at all the places the phone has appeared. Over the past few days, multiple variants of the Galaxy S23 FE have appeared all over the internet. First, the Exynos version of the Galaxy S23 FE was spotted in Geekbench’s database. Its Snapdragon version appeared last week, and now, the Canadian version of the phone has been spotted. The Galaxy S23 FE for the Canadian market, bearing model number SM-S711W, has appeared in Geekbench’s…

Derek Malcolm was a brilliantly funny, convivial, professional film critic and memoirist, the last survivor of that great Guardian generation of arts journalism titans that also included Neville Cardus and WL Webb. Derek was simply a legend and an international treasure on the film festival circuit. He was the indefatigably globetrotting president of Fipresci, the international film critics’ circle, and a passionate champion of Indian and south Asian cinema.Well into his 80s, Derek wrote and broadcast about film – and…

Mission: Impossible-Dead Reckoning Part One is upon us now but given the phenomenal success of its predecessors, it was believed that this new entry would tread down a similar path. And it definitely did. Turns out that the film raked in a hefty $7 million in its Tuesday preview before its official release on Wednesday – thereby surpassing all the previous entries. No doubt the theatrical release has created enormous buzz amongst the franchise’s fans and currently, tickets are being sold at the utmost rapidity. As per…

Both the Pixel 6 and 7 had $600 price tags at launch, both the Pixel 6 Pro and 7 Pro were $900. So, how much will the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro cost? Well, the Pixel 7a already set a precedent of being $50 higher than the 6a, so it may be wishful thinking to say that the Pixel 8-series will stick to the $600 and $900 price points. Yogesh Brar reports that the Pixel 8 will be $650 or $700, which is a price hike of $50-$100 compared to the 2022 model. This is for the same base memory configuration with 8GB of RAM and 128GB…

The Samsung Galaxy M34 will launch later this week (on Friday) and we already know some of the key specs thanks to this page on Amazon India. One thing you won’t find on that page (not yet!) is the price – but leakster Yogesh Brar claims to know it. According to the leakster, the M34 will be priced in the ₹18-19,000 range. For reference, the Galaxy M33 was ₹18,000 for a 6/128GB phone when it arrived in April last year. Samsung Galaxy M34 highlights Compared to its predecessor, the Galaxy…

CloseNothing is set to launch its second smartphone, Phone (2) on July 11. This smartphone which will succeed last year’s Nothing Phone (1) will be available in India via the e-commerce platform Flipkart. The Carl Pei-led company has confirmed a few specs of the upcoming smartphone. However, some of the key details about the smartphone (like its pricing) remain unofficial. A French publication named Dealabs has reportedly leaked the European pricing of the Nothing Phone (2). According to the report, the upcoming phone…

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip 5 foldables are expected to launch next month. Samsung confirmed that it will host its next Unpacked event in Seoul, which is scheduled for late July. The Galaxy Z Fold 5 will be a flagship foldable smartphone offering and launch as a successor to last year's Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 (Review). The company has not confirmed any specifications or features of the premium foldable phone. Meanwhile, a tipster has suggested the full specifications of the Galaxy Z Fold 5.Tipster Yogesh…

According to some new information, the Pixel Watch 2 won’t look much different than its predecessor. This info is based on a recent app teardown, let’s take things one step at a time. The beta version of the Google Search app was released this week, version 14.24. That app actually includes new assets which are related to Google’s second-gen Pixel smartwatch. The Pixel Watch 2 is not expected to look much different than its predecessor The watch is being developed under the code name ‘Eos’. You may wonder why is that…

Samsung officially confirmed that the next Galaxy Unpacked event will be hosted in South Korea in the last week of July. The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip 5 are expected to go official at the event. Now, a known tipster has suggested the US pricing details of the Galaxy Z Flip 5 5G alongside its key specifications. The new foldable might cost the same as the Galaxy Z Flip 4 in the US. The flagship is said to debut with One UI 5.1 based on Google's latest Android 13. The 5G smartphone…

Google recently launched PaLM 2, the company’s new large language model (LLM), at Google I/O. The company said that the new model is smaller than prior LLMs, however, a report says that the LLM uses almost five times as much training data as its predecessor, PaLM launched in 2022. This allows the model to perform more advanced coding, math and creative writing tasks.Citing internal documentation, a report by CNBC said that the PaLM 2 model is trained on 3.6 trillion tokens as compared to PaLM's 780 billion tokens.Tokens…