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A camera sensor is among the most important components in a smartphone, and Sony is the world's number one camera sensor maker. Samsung's System LSI division also makes camera sensors under the ISOCELL branding, and it is the second-biggest camera maker globally. While Samsung largely uses its own camera sensors in its Galaxy phones, that could change in the future. Future Galaxy phones may use Sony camera sensors According to a new report from ETNews, Samsung could use more Sony camera sensors in its smartphones in the…

The 2024 Oscars was momentarily delayed because of protesters converging in Hollywood to call for an immediate cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war.The Dolby Theatre ceremony, initially scheduled to start at 4 p.m., didn’t get rolling until six minutes after the hour. Once ABC’s red carpet coverage ran a few minutes over, the telecast was delayed by a commercial break — a solution likely to allow more time for any famous guests running behind to grab their seats. The demonstration, which involved about 1,000 protesters,…

A demonstration on Sunset Boulevard started off an awards show filled with nods to the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict The 2024 Academy Awards got to a late start on Sunday, after hundreds of protestors shut down a section of Sunset Boulevard— starting off an awards show filled with nods to the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict. Pro-Palestinian protestors reportedly blocked Sunset Boulevard with Palestinian flags and signs, some including some that said “No awards for genocide” and “Lives have…

The 96th Academy Awards are here, and we bet you’ve seen at least two of the movies nominated for best picture — “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie” — and, quite possibly, a good many more because this might just be the best group of nominated films since the Oscars expanded the category in 2009. So, there’s much to celebrate, and The Times will have you covered throughout the night with our Oscars live blog. Join columnists Mary McNamara and Glenn Whipp as they watch the show, which, hopefully, will feature some exciting moments…

This is a week of anticipation as several high-profile launches have reached the pre-order stage. That said, some of the pre-orders that we looked at last week have graduated to open sales. We’ll start with the Xiaomi 14 series. The two phones – Xiaomi 14 and Xiaomi 14 Ultra – will go on sale on March 11 (Monday). You can already pre-order a unit with a choice of colors. However, when it comes to memory configurations, the only options are 12/512GB for the vanilla and 16/512GB for the Ultra. …

Meme coin enthusiasts are unlikely to be too enamored with this opinion but perhaps, for those seeking to make money in crypto, it’s time to move away from the volatility of the meme coin market that comes with the likes of Floki Inu, Dogecoin and others and instead search elsewhere. One of these alternatives could be Scorpion Casino (SCORP), which is blossoming into an incisive and exciting project. SCORP Hits $6.1m In Presale  In the fast-paced world of cryptocurrencies where things change and churn…

Driving ceremony photo.Suzuki Motor Corporation and SkyDrive Inc. have started manufacturing ‘flying cars’ in Iwata City, Shizuoka Prefecture.Suzuki and SkyDrive concluded a Manufacturing Cooperation Contract for the manufacturing of “SKYDRIVE (SD-05 type)” at a plant owned by the Suzuki Group in Iwata City, Shizuoka Prefecture through SkyDrive’s subsidiary Sky Works Inc in October 2023, and have since been cooperating toward start of manufacturing.On 6 March, a rivet…

To Make My Chemistry Classes More Welcoming, I Start by Making Students UncomfortableScience is becoming more diverse, but to make it more welcoming we need to examine our history and not repeat itBy Stephanie Knezz Credit: Credit: visualspace/Getty ImagesFor the past seven years, I’ve been teaching introductory and organic chemistry to lecture halls full of ambitious students who see my courses as a means to an end—medical school or requirements for a science major. They enter the room on the first day of class with…

We were all sad to see Ash Ketchum go, but his still being the Pokémon anime’s 10-year-old main character after 25 years of adventures was a huge part of why the show seemed stuck in the past. Though Ash never really changed all that much, the larger Pokémon franchise did. And while the anime always took cues from the games, it also became very comfortable sticking to its own straightforward formula. Considering how buggy the most recent generation of Pokémon games has been, it might be hard to imagine the anime faring…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Carbon offsetting—where companies or governments atone for their carbon emissions by buying credits to fund projects that are supposed to remove emissions from the atmosphere—has a bad reputation. In the past few years, wildfires in the US have torn through hundreds of thousands of forested acres associated with…