Xiaomi’s Black Shark Gaming Tablet Listed on Global Website With Snapdragon 8s Gen 3, 8.8-Inch 144Hz Display

Xiaomi-backed Black Shark may soon launch its new gaming tablet globally, as the Black Shark Gaming Tablet has appeared on the brand’s global website. It features an 8.8-inch 2.5K display with a 144Hz refresh rate and up to 600 nits brightness. The tablet is powered by the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 SoC, paired with 12GB RAM and 256GB storage. It packs a 7,300mAh battery, ...

Vivo X300 Ultra Tipped to Launch in India With Four Rear Cameras, 7,000mAh Battery

Vivo X300 Ultra will be launched soon with a quad rear camera setup, according to a tipster. The phone is said to feature a 200-megapixel primary camera on the back, along with a 200-megapixel telephoto shooter, a 50-megapixel ultrawide camera, and a 5-megapixel camera for improved colour accuracy. On the front, it might sport a 50-megapixel selfie camera with auto-fo...

The Colour of Home by Sajid Javid review – from one hostile environment to another

The ex-Home Secretary’s memoir of childhood racism is intimate and moving but raises difficult political questions

Sajid Javid’s memoir traces his journey from being a frightened child in racist 1970s Rochdale to becoming a leading member of a political party that attacks and marginalises people like him. However, it is an intimate, and sometimes moving, family portrait as well as a social history of race, class and aspiration in late 20th‑century Britain.

The opening chapters, with their ubiquitous skinheads and “Run, Paki, run” taunts, contain the book’s most arresting scenes. Racism is continuous and targeted: from graffiti on his father’s shop windows to the everyday humiliations at school, and on the buses where his father had bravely fought an informal colour bar to become a bus driver.

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