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Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Successor Might Skip the 3x Telephoto Rear Camera, Early Leak Suggests

Samsung Galaxy S27 Ultra will not feature the 10-megapixel telephoto camera, which offers up to 3x optical zoom, an f/2.4 aperture, PDAF, and optical image stabilisation (OIS), which was present on the previous generations of the Galaxy S Ultra series handsets, a tipster claims. However, whether the sensor will be replaced with an upgraded one or the handset will feat...

Realme 16T Geekbench Listing Suggests Possible Performance Downgrade Over Realme 15T

Realme 16T is reportedly under development and is said to hit the market soon. But ahead of it, the handset has appeared on the Geekbench benchmarking site with Android 16 operating system, 8GB RAM and Mali-G57 MC2 GPU. It could run on a MediaTek Dimensity 6300 chipset. For comparison, the Realme 15T has a MediaTek Dimensity 6400 Max SoC under the hood. This chipset h...

Katie Kitamura: ‘Almost every writer changes my mind – that’s the point of reading’

The American author on the magic of Yasunari Kawabata, the hidden layers of Henry James and coming late to the genius of Muriel Spark

My earliest reading memory
I remember reading throughout my childhood, but it’s hard to identify my earliest memory of reading. In a lot of ways, it’s as if my childhood began when I learned to read. I do remember taking a copy of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’s Dangerous Liaisons off the shelf when I was maybe 10 or 11 – far too young to be reading it. I was suitably scandalised and excited by it.

My favourite book growing up
I read a lot of Theodore Dreiser growing up, for reasons that are mysterious to me now. I don’t know how I came to him: he wasn’t assigned in school and no one in my family was reading his books. But his focus was on female characters and perhaps even then, that felt notable. I started with Sister Carrie, then read Jennie Gerhardt and An American Tragedy, but Sister Carrie was the one I returned to again and again.

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