Google totally didn't mean to leak the Pixel 8 Pro on its own website

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Google has published a photo of the Pixel 8 Pro before it has even unveiled the device...on the day Apple announced the iPhone 15 launch event on September 12th. An account on X (formerly Twitter) called Android Setting (via The Verge) has spotted a photo of a person holding a beige-colored phone against their ear on a page in the Google Store. We could no longer see the image on the page, which

Mortgage Interest Rates Today | Rates Down a Bit From Last Week

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Mortgage rates have inched down slightly compared to last week. After first spiking above 7% earlier this month, 30-year mortgage rates are back down and hovering just under 7%.

But rates

Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google

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A Bing logo.
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I thought I had malware on my main Windows 11 machine this weekend. There I was minding my own business in Chrome before tabbing back to a game and wham a pop-up appeared asking me to switch my default search engine to Microsoft Bing in Chrome. Stunningly, Microsoft now thinks it’s ok to shove a pop-up in my face above my apps and games just because

The Fairphone 5 is boring… how exciting!

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It’s been years and years since the bleeding edge of the smartphone world was truly exciting. The industry may want us to salivate over its latest 5G, 108-megapixel, folding-screen masterpiece, but my mouth remains bone dry. To me, it’s because the ceiling of what’s possible hasn’t risen much in the last four or five years, but the floor has maintained its slow creep northward. On paper, the just

The Fairphone 5 is a little more repairable and much more modern

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Fairphone 5 disassembled.
The Fairphone 5 with its repairable guts on show for all to see. | Image: Fairphone

The Fairphone 5 is the latest sustainably produced and repairable handset from Dutch smartphone company Fairphone. Like its previous devices, the Fairphone 5 is made with ethically sourced materials by workers who are given a living wage bonus and is designed to be easy to repair with a

Hurricane Idalia's track is unprecedented — and dangerous

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The NHC projects Hurricane Idalia will make landfall in the Florida Big Bend region of the state's Gulf Coast, somewhere such a storm hasn't landed before in the historical record.

How women squirt on camera, according to porn stars

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How do porn stars squirt? What is squirting? How do porn stars prepare for squirting scenes and do things ever go wrong? An investigation into what happens behind the scenes on porn sets.

De-dollarization won't happen anytime soon as 'it's not so easy' to beat the greenback, Indian minister says

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President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of China Xi Jinping, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pose for a BRICS family photo during the 2023 BRICS Summit at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, on August 23, 2023.
The leaders of the BRICS countries at a summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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  • China and Russia have tried to fuel the dedollarization movement over the past year.
  • But the buck is likely to remain the dominant currency in international trade, according to India's oil and gas minister.
  • It’s “not so easy” to displace the greenback, Hardeep Singh Puri told CNBC.

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