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Google Pixel Fold review: the slick phone-tablet hybrid with killer camera

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GoogleReviewAndroid maker’s first foldable has sleeker design, simpler software and top camera, but wallet-busting price Google’s first folding phone-tablet hybrid is finally here to give Samsung’s leading Z Fold a run for its money, with different ideas of how such a cutting-edge device should work and a serious camera upgrade. The Pixel Fold costs a colossal £1,749 ($1,799), which is £100 more than the already eye-wateringly expensive rival from Samsung, and more than twice the price of Google’s top regular phone, the £849 Pixel 7 Pro. Read More...

Jorge El Topo Lpez: Argentinian journalist betrayed by authorities

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ArgentinaIn a case highlighted by Pep Guardiola wearing a T-shirt saying #JusticiaParaTopo the wife of the journalist killed in Brazil last year continues to fight for justice As Veronica Brunati awoke on 9 July, 2014 she was greeted by a tweet from Diego “El Cholo” Simeone expressing his condolences to the family of Jorge “El Topo” López, a much loved Argentinian journalist covering the World Cup. “No!” Veronica replied, also on twitter, followed by “Diego, don’t tell me that”. Read More...

Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang review food, sex and morality in the end times

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Book of the dayFictionReviewA private chef for the ultra-rich confronts the inequality of survival, in a sensual novel of ideas that asks difficult questions It’s getting harder to see a difference between dystopian and realist fiction. Land of Milk and Honey, Zhang’s second novel after the deservedly Booker-longlisted How Much of These Hills Is Gold, is set in a near future or alternative present in which smog has covered almost the whole planet, ending agriculture and causing global famine and mass extinction. Read More...