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Happy Friday! To kick off the weekend, we've got a handful of future-minded stories for you -- including a fresh leak that reveals potential camera specs for Google's next flagship smartphone, as well as a worrying statement from Elon Musk about the future of the Cybertruck. Enjoy! |
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The Google Pixel 6 could be Google's first Pixel to ship with a 5x "ultra tele" camera, a new app teardown from XDA Developers implies. This report comes from code found in Google's camera app in the Android 12 beta, references were found to a toggle for a new zoom lens, likely set for one of Google's next Pixel phones.
In said code, references were found to the "ultratele", as well as 5x zoom more than a few times. More references noted the camera would have an actual optical zoom level — a measure of the number of times the camera can zoom in before it resorts to digitally cropping images — of 4.3x, a major upgrade over the Pixel 4's real optical zoom level of 1.4x.
As for which Pixel would be equipped with the aforementioned camera capability, it is likely to be the larger Pixel, previously said to be the Pixel 6 Pro but more likely to ship as the Pixel 6 XL. |
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Elon Musk says there's a chance the Cybertruck could flop |
Going up against the likes of Ford's popular F-150 pickup and sporting a space-age design that has split opinion, Tesla's Cybertruck could struggle when it hits the market later this year -- and even Elon Musk can't deny it.
Responding to a tweet from Tesla Owners Online that predicted that the all-electric Cybertruck will be "a huge hit," the billionaire entrepreneur said somewhat surprisingly, "To be frank, there is always some chance that Cybertruck will flop, because it is so unlike anything else."
However, standing by the Cybertruck's offbeat design, Musk insisted that it wouldn't bother him if it failed, saying, "I love it so much even if others don't." He added that while "other trucks look like copies of the same thing … Cybertruck looks like it was made by aliens from the future." Certainly, few will argue with that assessment. |
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An increase in extreme weather events is already causing serious alarm across the globe, but to add to the pile, new research from NASA suggests that a periodic "wobble" performed by the moon will combine with rising sea levels to cause increasingly serious high-tide flooding events along coastlines in the U.S. and beyond.
According to a study conducted by NASA's Sea Level Change Team and published this month in the Nature Climate Change journal, the gravitational pull of the moon is likely to cause "dramatic increases in flood numbers" in coastal cities in the mid-2030s.
Painting a grim picture for some communities living close to the sea, NASA said, "When the moon and Earth line up in specific ways with each other and the sun, the resulting gravitational pull and the ocean's corresponding response may leave city-dwellers coping with floods every day or two," adding that such events could also happen in clusters and last for more than a month at a time. |
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TIPS, TRICKS, & TECHNIQUES |
After owning your smartphone for some time, it can quickly become a handheld electronic briefcase. As well as the apps you need to get you through your day, it's packed with photos, videos, files, and other media. While it's all too easy to download a photo or restaurant menu to your mobile device, when it comes to actually finding where downloads reside on your phone, the opposite is true.
In this guide, we'll explain where to find downloaded files on iPhones and Android phones, including Google Pixel and Samsung devices. We'll show you where to look to find your downloaded media, and what to do to access the files. |
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