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Poco X8 Pro Launch Seems Imminent as Smartphone Reportedly Bags RRA Certification in South Korea

Poco is expected to launch the Poco X8 series globally in March. The lineup is said to include the Poco X8 Pro and Poco X8 Pro Max. The Poco X8 Pro has reportedly appeared on South Korea’s RRA certification database with model number 2511FPC34G. It is expected to be powered by MediaTek’s Dimensity 8500 chipset and feature an IP68-rated design for dust and water re...

Oppo Find N6 Launch Date and Colourways Leaked as Company Executive Teases Upcoming China Debut

Oppo Find N6 will be launched in China and select countries in South Asia and Europe on March 17, according to a tipster. The smartphone is said to be offered in Titanium and Orange colour options. This comes soon after Oppo Product Manager Zhou Yibao teased the launch of a new foldable smartphone. The upcoming handset will reportedly feature a 200-megapixel camera on...

Xiaomi 18 Pro Leak Hints at Presence of Dual 200-Megapixel Cameras, Just like Oppo Find X10 Pro

The Xiaomi 17 series was launched in China in September 2025, comprising the standard, Pro, and Pro Max models. Leaks about its purported successor have already begun surfacing. According to a tipster, the company could introduce notable camera upgrades with the Xiaomi 18 Pro. The China-based OEM is tipped to be testing dual 200-megapixel cameras for a compact 6.3-inc...

Jack Dorsey’s Block Is Reportedly Planning to Lay Off Hundreds of Employees

Jack Dorsey’s Block (formerly Square) is reportedly planning a large-scale layoff in the coming days. As per the report, the financial services tech platform might cut down as much as 10 percent of its workforce, as part of its upcoming annual performance reviews. The company reportedly has just shy of 11,000 employees, which means the potential layoffs can affect h...

Apple’s First iOS 26.4 Beta Said to Release Later This Month With Siri Updates

Apple is expected to release iOS 26.4 in the coming weeks, bringing the first wave of delayed Siri and Apple Intelligence upgrades. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says the developer beta could arrive during the week of February 23, followed by a public beta in late February or early March, with a final rollout expected by end of March. Reported features include personal co...

Gordon Brown by James Macintyre review – a very different kind of politician

A new biography reveals Brown to be a man of exceptional vision and probity – what a contrast with today’s politics

For a while, during the 13 years when Gordon Brown was at the apex of British politics, it became fashionable, and then a cliche, to depict him as a Shakespearean protagonist. He was the Scot who would be king, consumed by vaulting ambition for the throne, or else the powerful man of action, devoured by envy of his onetime friend. But in an illuminating new biography by the political journalist James Macintyre, Brown emerges as something closer to the hero of a Victorian novel: a man who leads an epic life shaped by early misfortune and later tragedy, driven onward by a moral purpose that burns to the very end.

His is a compelling story. Bill Clinton was once described as the most psychologically complex occupant of the Oval Office since Richard Nixon; the same is surely true if you substitute Brown, Downing Street and Winston Churchill. Macintyre hails him as a “titan”, brimming with both intellectual firepower and the urge, rooted in Christian faith, to do good. (When the former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams was asked to identify who in the current era most closely incarnates the values of the pastor and legendary anti-Nazi dissident Dietrich Bonhoeffer, he answered: “Gordon Brown.”) But Macintyre also describes his subject as “famously flawed”, with a volcanic temper, a talent for grudges – he stops speaking to Robin Cook and can barely remember why – a tendency towards “needless suspicion towards his perceived opponents” and a willingness to rely on a phalanx of “sometimes thuggish spin doctors”, expert in the blackest arts.

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