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US FCC Reportedly Moves to Bar Chinese Labs From Certifying US-Bound Devices Including Smartphones, Laptops

FCC reportedly voted unanimously to ​advance a proposal to bar all Chinese labs from testing electronic ‌devices meant to be used in the US. About 75 percent of all US electronics are tested in China, and the agency wants to adopt a new approval process for devices tested in US labs or labs from other ​countries that are not seen as security risks. Further, the...

iQOO Neo 10 Alpine White, Asphalt Black Variants Go on Sale in India: Price, Specifications

iQOO Neo 10’s new colour variants are now available for purchase in India. Introduced last month, the Alpine White and Asphalt black colourways join the existing Inferno Red and Titanium Chrome finishes, which originally debuted in 2025. It is, however, just a cosmetic refresh, while the handset’s core specifications remain identical. The iQOO Neo 10 is powered by...

Motorola Edge 70 Pro+ Tipped to Launch in India Soon With Three Upgrades Over Motorola Edge 70 Pro

Motorola Edge 70 Pro+ will be launched in India soon with significant upgrades over the Edge 70 Pro model, a tipster claims. These upgrades will reportedly fill the “gaps” in the existing Edge 70 Pro, which was launched in India on April 22. The handset is said to boast a telephoto camera on the back, unlike the Motorola Edge 70 Pro, which features primary and ult...

The Given World by Melissa Harrison review – a stunning tale of rural life for an era of ecological crisis

Eerie omens haunt this absorbing group portrait set over six months in an English village

Sitting stoned on a hill above his village, a young man muses on his place in the world. Connor is proud to have fenced pastures while his mates have been away at university. But it’s overwhelming to think of all their lives being equally real and urgent. Are they part of the same story or separate ones? A phrase comes to him from a book he hated at school: something about “the roar on the other side of silence”. In this fine, subtle and strange novel from one of the most probing writers of contemporary rural life, Melissa Harrison earns that nod to George Eliot, whose words she gives to an anxious and ecstatic labourer clutching a can of Fanta.

The Given World follows the inhabitants of one village in a river valley, a place “as old as anywhere”, for six months between the equinoxes of a year. The time is now, or an imminent future when the seasons seem to have “ceased their metronome”. At first, the central figure appears to be Clare, who knows each flagstone of the ancient priory that has been the centre of her life. The six months are her dying time, from diagnosis to last thoughts. But, in a way that pays tribute to the solitary Clare’s understanding of interconnectedness, the novel goes out from the priory to trace a web of lives. In the breezeblock bungalow next door, a desperate farmer tunes in at dawn to American evangelists on the radio. Like Saj the postman, we call at addresses where literary fiction rarely bothers to ring the bell.

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