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Extreme right-wing views and the wellness community are not an obvious pairing, but ‘conspirituality’ is increasingly pervasive. How did it all become so toxic i t was the afternoon of 4 July 2020, and Melissa Rein Lively’s video was about to go viral. A PR executive in Arizona, she already had the appearance of a person for whom a viral video was part of the plan, but with the super-groomed blondeness better suited to a branded beauty tutorial than a clip of face masks being torn from their racks. “Finally we meet the end of the road. This shit is over, we don’t want any of this any more!” she screams, holding the phone camera in one hand and tossing face masks with the other, in a video that swiftly became known as QAnon Karen. When two employees at the Scottsdale branch of Target confront her, she continues, “Why? I can’t do it cause I’m a blonde white woman? Wearing a [CENSORED] $40,000 Rolex? I don’t have the right to [CENSORED] shit up?” Rein Lively had always thought of herself as a spiritual person. Her interests were grounded in “wellness, natural health, organic food”, she lists for me today from her home in Arizona, “yoga, ayurvedic healing, meditation, etc.” When the pandemic hit she started spending more time online, on wellness sites that offered affirmations, recipes and, on health, the repeated message to “Do your research.” She’d click on a video of foods that boost immunity and she’d see a clip about the dangers of vaccines. “A significant number of influencers previously focused on wellness and spirituality,” she noticed, “seemed to become dominated with what we now understand to be QAnon content.” QAnon is the conspiracy theory that Donald Trump is fighting a deep-state cabal of Satanic paedophiles. It originated on far-right message boards before entering online wellness communities, where it found a largely female following, who continue to share phrases like “Save the Children”. The phrase was first used by QAnon believers spreading the false claim that Hillary Clinton abused children and drank their blood. Today that phrase is seen on social media posts by yoga teachers and wellness influencers speaking out against human trafficking. “Much of what I read took a hard stance against the pharmaceutical industry and western medical philosophy, and was particularly critical of individuals like Bill Gates, who seemed to have an incredible amount of influence and involvement in public health policy,” continues Rein Lively. At first, she enjoyed what she was reading. She liked learning. She liked the community. She liked the idea that there were patriots in the government who were working quietly to help save the world. But as she clicked on and read about imminent genocide under the guise of a health crisis, she felt herself changing. In 2011, sociologists Charlotte Ward and David Voas coined the term “conspirituality”. Ward defined it as “a rapidly growing web movement expressing an ideology fuelled by political disillusionment and the po[CENSORED]rity of alternative worldviews”. It describes the sticky intersection of two worlds: the world of yoga and juice cleanses with that of New Age thinking and online theories about secret groups, covertly controlling the universe. It’s a place where you might typically see a vegan influencer imploring their followers to stick to a water fast rather than getting vaccinated, or a meditation instructor reminding her clients of the dangers of 5G, or read an Instagram comment explaining that vaccines are hiding tracking devices. It’s a place where the word “scamdemic” might comfortably run up the side of a pair of yoga pants (88% polyester, £40, also available in “Defund the Media” print, “World Hellth Organisation” and “Masked Sheeple”, in millennial pink). While the overlap of left-wing, magazine-friendly wellness and far-right conspiracy theories might initially sound surprising, the similarities in cultures, in ways of thinking – the questioning of authority, of alternative medicines, the distrust of institutions– are clear. But something is happening, accelerated by the pandemic – the former is becoming a mainstream entry point into the latter. An entry point that can be found everywhere from a community garden to the beauty aisle at a big Tesco. Part of what makes a successful influencer is the ability to compel their followers to trust them, and they do that by sharing their lives, their homes, their diets, their concerns. It’s become clear, both by the products they buy and the choices they make, that many people trust their influencers more than their own doctor. The wellness industry today is reportedly worth $4.5trn, with Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop brand worth $250m alone; in May, on the Goop site Paltrow curated a list of products recommended by her “functional medicine practitioner” to help ease long Covid, including an $8,600 necklace, for “hiking in”. This is a growth market, an industry that draws on ancient traditions to offer solutions to people who fee There are, however, silver linings. One benefit of the rise of conspiracy theories is the rise of conspiracy-theory explainers. Dr Timothy Caulfield works tirelessly, occasionally with a note of weariness, to explain and debunk misinformation. He’s studied the subject for decades, but has never seen it taken as seriously as it is right now; the World Health Organisation is calling this an “infodemic”. “The toleration of wellness pseudoscience has helped to fuel the current situation,” he says. The key to changing minds is to debunk it before it takes on an ideological spin. “There is a strong correlation between the embrace of ‘wellness woo’ and being susceptible to misinformation. And as conspiracy theories and misinformation become increasingly about ideology, it becomes easier to sell both wellness bunk and conspiracy theories as being ‘on brand.’ In other words, if you are part of our community, this is the cluster of beliefs you must embrace – Big Science is evil, supplements help, you can boost your immune system, vaccines don’t work…” He could go on. “I truly hope that one of the legacies of the pandemic is a greater understanding of the harm that tolerating pseudoscience can do. The good news is that we are seeing more and more individuals get involved in the fight against misinformation.” Like Abbie Richards, a chirpy Lena-Dunham lookalike whose disinformation videos have gone viral on TikTok. She has become famous for her “conspiracy theory pyramid”, which she uses to lead viewers away from reality, through things that really happened (like the FBI spying on John Lennon), to “the antisemitic point of no return”. She is fabulous. In the “Monological thinking” section, she explains how everything is connected to a rejection of authority. “If you don’t believe in climate change, you’re saying you don’t trust the scientists. If someone is feeling discontented, these ideologies provide them with a sense of community, and someone to blame,” she says. Where Richards simplifies big ideas, offering them sugar-coated with a glass of Coke, the Conspirituality podcast, presented by a journalist, a cult researcher and a philosophical sceptic, goes deep, unravelling the “stories, cognitive dissonances and cultic dynamics” in the yoga, wellness and new spirituality worlds every week over a soft-spoken hour. It is dense and fascinating, and moves in and out of topics alternately Instagramable and apocalyptic within two breaths. Certain thoughts stay with me. “If you keep getting enlightened, are you ever really enlightened? When you attempt to integrate a holistic practice into a capitalist society, more is always demanded.” And, “Conspirituality is an ideology, but it’s also a financial racket and it’s also a way of being with other people.” As I listen, I become aware of how the intimate nature of a podcast encourages me to think about the subjects with a particular empathy – aside from the words spoken, the speaking itself encourages the listener to consider their own vulnerability to misinformation. Watching Melissa Rein Lively’s videos is disturbing. In one she calls police Nazis, in another she uses the N-word repeatedly. That summer, she says now, she’d begun, “to experience a rapid mental health spiral. On 4 July, I experienced a mental break that peaked at a Target store.” Mental illness is not uncommon in conspiracy theorists. In February, the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism reported that over two-thirds of the 31 QAnon followers who’d been charged around the January insurrection in Washington, DC experienced severe mental health conditions. Many of the women sampled became involved in QAnon after learning their child had been abused. Rein Lively was hospitalised for 10 days. Her husband filed for divorce. “I was shamed and harassed online as the internet called for me to be ‘cancelled’. I was close to the edge of suicide.” In hospital she worked with therapists unpicking unresolved trauma, including the death by suicide of her mother. “The instability and chaos of the pandemic brought back all of those life experiences. I was forced to re-experience them and ultimately seek help.”Today, she is reunited with her husband, her Instagram a rainbow of bikini shots and videos about mental health. Does she feel differently about wellness and spirituality now? “I do. I think it is very easy to get drawn into that world. People fail to realise that wellness and spirituality is ultimately an industry. There are a lot of useful lessons,” she says, but, “I think it’s best to take them with a grain of salt.” Caulfield sees Rein Lively as “a good example of how we need voices within the communities. People who understand the values and experiences of people who have embraced wellness and conspiracies.” It’s never been more important, he believes, for wellness influencers to use their influence well. Link: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/17/eva-wiseman-conspirituality-the-dark-side-of-wellness-how-it-all-got-so-toxic

France's ambassador to Belarus has left the country after the Belarus government ordered him out, AFP news agency reports. An embassy spokesperson confirmed to AFP that ambassador Nicolas de Lacoste left the country on Sunday. He had been told to leave by Monday. Mr de Lacoste, who is 57, was posted to Minsk late last year. Local media have suggested that he had failed to present his credentials to President Alexander Lukashenko. France, like other EU countries, has not recognised Mr Lukashenko's claim to a sixth presidential term after last August's elections amid widespread claims of voting fraud. Mr de Lacoste instead met the Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei last December. In a statement to AFP, a French embassy spokesperson said: "The Belarusian foreign ministry demanded that the ambassador leave before October 18."He said goodbye to the staff of the embassy and recorded a video message to the Belarusian people, which will appear tomorrow morning on the embassy's website," the spokesperson added. The EU has repeatedly said that it does not consider the August elections to have been "free and fair" and has imposed sanctions on Mr Lukashenko's regime. The president launched a post-vote crackdown on dissent in Belarus after the country erupted in historic protests against his rule. However, despite Western sanctions, Mr Lukashenko has so far dismissed all attempts to oust him and enjoys the backing of his ally in Moscow, President Vladimir Putin. Belarus crackdown fails to crush opposition spirit The 67-year-old leader, who has ruled Belarus since 1994, has responded by accusing European governments of having instigated the protests and has cut ties with a number of Western nations in recent months. In March, his regime expelled the entire staff of Latvia's embassy, including its ambassador, after Latvian authorities used a Belarusian opposition flag at an ice hockey championship. In August, Minsk revoked the appointment of the US ambassador - career diplomat Julie Fisher - who was to be the first US envoy to the ex-Soviet country since 2008. Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58949524

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Samsung Galaxy S21 FE, the purported handset from the South Korean smartphone maker has been in rumours for quite a while now. Samsung was earlier speculated to unveil the much-awaited Galaxy S21 FE at the Galaxy Unpacked Part 2 2021 event — set to be held on October 20. Now, multiple leaks suggest that the handset will be launched in January next year. The new Samsung Galaxy S21 FE will be a successor to the Galaxy S20 FE that was unveiled in September last year. Multiple tipsters took to Twitter to leak the launch date. Ross Young (@DSCCRoss), Max Weinbach (@MaxWinebach), and Jon Prosser (@jon_prosser) tweeted saying that the Galaxy S21 FE will be launching in January. According to Jon Prosser, Samsung Galaxy S21 FE will be unveiled on January 11, 2022, which Weinbach also confirmed in the tweet's comments. Since there's no confirmation from the company yet, this information should still be considered with a pinch of salt. Samsung is scheduled to host the Galaxy Unpacked Part 2 event on October 20, but the company has not shared any information regarding which products could be expected. Over the past few weeks, Samsung Galaxy S21 FE has been tipped multiple times. According to past leaks, the handset is said to come with Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC. It is said to feature a 6.4-inch AMOLED display with 120Hz refresh rate. The smartphone was seen listed on the support page of Samsung's German website with model number SM-G990B/DS. The ‘DS' in the number suggests dual-SIM capability of the smartphone. Tipster Evan Blass earlier suggested that the handset will come in Blue, Grey, Green, Violet, and White colour options. The smartphone has been spotted on China's 3C certification website and the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) website as well, indicating its 45W and 25W fast charging features. A separate report also suggested that the handset may come with a 4,500mAh battery. Samsung Galaxy S21 FE is likely to get the same rear camera module design as the Galaxy S21 models. The smartphone is said to feature a triple rear camera setup and a hole-punch flat display at the front.

Windows 11 doesn’t boast Microsoft’s promised native support for Android apps yet, as those keen to have it have doubtless noticed if they’ve adopted the new OS, but the good news is that it looks like this much-awaited feature could be coming before too long. Or at least we’ve caught a glimpse of Android apps now running under Windows 11 in testing, going by a leak from Bilibili (China) as highlighted by Windows Latest. Download the best Windows 10 antivirus Check out all the best PC games We'll show you how to build a PC The theory is – and naturally, take this with some degree of caution, as with any leak – that Microsoft is now testing the Android Subsystem for Windows 11, and that’s exactly what these spilled screenshots (which include a glimpse of WeChat) show. If testing is underway internally, this indicates that pretty soon we can expect the feature to make its way to the regularly released preview builds of Windows 11 (and subsequently on to the full version of Microsoft’s OS). It’s a good sign, at any rate, and it’s backed up by the fact that Amazon’s App Store has been present in the Microsoft Store since about a month ago (though it’s not yet available for download, of course). Amazon’s store is how Microsoft will deliver Android apps in Windows 11 (rather than Google Play – and obviously with the limitations therein, as not every app is carried by Amazon, by any means). What’s also interesting here is that the spilled screen grabs show multiple Android apps open in different windows at the same time, so multi-tasking will be facilitated here, as you might expect. Furthermore, any Android application will act like Windows software, in terms of being able to resize windows and so forth (and they’ll work with the Notification Center too). The more seamless the integration, the better, naturally. Support for Android apps was something that was expected to debut with the initial version of Windows 11, as mentioned, but as soon as we started getting close to the release of the new OS, with no sign of the feature in test builds, it became clear enough that it wasn’t going to make the cut. Since then, the question has become exactly how long are we going to have to wait for Android apps to grace the Windows 11 desktop? And at least seeing tangible evidence that testing is underway suggests that we might not have all that long to go – at least until Android support hits the official Windows 11 preview builds. Testing is expected to start before 2021 ends, of course, so we might just see something happen in the next month on that front. The road to release for the full version of Windows 11 could be a longer and windier one, though, and we must remember that Microsoft has dropped to a cadence of just one major feature update per year – so the next OS upgrade isn’t coming until the second half of 2022. Because this is such a big feature, it may not pitch up until then, but you never know, there’s always the possibility of a feature pack update arriving beforehand, earlier in 2022. We’ll just have to see. Meantime, Android apps can still be used with Microsoft’s OS as long as you go through the Your Phone app, but that’s a limited way of doing things, and hardly the same as having native support built-in.

Galax is back with more themed PC components, this time we're looking at a Lego inspired DDR5 RAM kit that puts a whole new meaning to the term '3D stacked memory.' Now that a new generation of super-fast memory is on the way, Galax must have thought it time for a nostalgia trip. Expreview reckons we're looking at 4,800MHz, which is in line with some of the top DDR4 kits today. The initial config will come in 16GB pairs, and the lineup is soon to include 8GB and 32GB pairs, as well. There's no note on OC speeds or pricing as yet, but there will be several designs available—a pink or blue blocky look, at the very least. The design will allow users to attach genuine Lego parts to the top, with RGB LED goodness shining up through the translucent bricks. They're part of the Galax Gamer series, which also includes designs such as the Lego compatible Galax Gamer RTX 3090. Sadly, like the Galax Gamer RTX 3090, this kit is only likely to be available in China. That doesn't meant we can't drool over the concept, though. Just think, someone might make a more modern version of that PC case made entirely of Lego (modders, take a hint). Crossovers like these are interesting whether or not we can get our hands on them, and hopefully they'll inspire more designers to take on cool Lego projects, such as this classic, working Lego dashboard computer, or this Lego Nvidia GeForce 256.

The latest trailer for Rocksteady Studio's Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, which debuted at DC FanDome, does not include any gameplay footage. It does, however, have some shout-outs to the Batman: Arkham games, which it's weirdly a kind of sequel to. (It also has some banging music, decent editing, and some of the jokes land.)For starters, the opening recreates the beginning of Arkham Asylum with the drive past the "hitchhikers may be escaping patients" sign, and the scene of Amanda Waller recruiting the squad is set in the game's first combat area. (Waller isn't played by the same voice actor as she was in Arkham Origins, but instead is voiced and mocapped by Debra Wilson, who voiced Waller in Telltale's Batman: The Enemy Within. You may also know her from Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order or Mad TV.)During the sequence where the Suicide Squad gears up with help from Gizmo, a kind of evil MacGyver from the comics, a couple of items from the Arkham series appear. King Shark puts on the bowler hat the Riddler wore in Arkham City, and Harley Quinn fires Batman's grapnel gun. Seems like Gizmo has a collection of trophies and gadgets belonging to Arkhamverse characters, including a bat-glider and the super-speed boomerang Captain Boomerang uses to zip around. Later on there's a junker Batmobile with a repurposed Batsignal for a headlight, which has the same X shape across its face as the version on top of the GCPD building in Arkham Knight, though there's no hint as to who's driving it. Two more villains from the series also return: Poison Ivy is apparently alive and well if her vines appearing at the 2.10 mark are anything to go by, and the Penguin's regrown some of his hair but still has that beer-bottle monocle embedded in his eye. Last year, Rocksteady creative director Sefton Hill described Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League as a hybrid between the Arkham games and some "powerful, awesome gunplay" in an open-world Metropolis. It'll have drop-in/drop-out co-op for up to four players, but can apparently be played solo too, with AI controlling whichever characters you don't pick. It's due in 2022. Link: https://www.pcgamer.com/suicide-squad-kill-the-justice-league-trailer-has-a-bunch-of-callbacks-to-the-arkham-games/

The Model Y fills a niche in the Tesla line-up that means it will appeal to a large number of buyers. It features all of the tech of the Model 3, but the larger body means it's more spacious inside, while overall the car is more manageable than the larger Model X on tight UK roads. You pay a bit of a premium over the Model 3, and the Model Y’s driving range isn’t quite as long, but it’s still an electric SUV front-runner, and access to Tesla’s Supercharger network still gives it a clear advantage over its rivals. With the arrival of the Tesla Model Y in the UK, company founder Elon Musk’s ambition to create a ‘sexy’ line-up of electric cars, alongside the Model S, Model 3 and Model X, has finally been realised. It’s the small SUV of the range, and it’s based on the same platform as the Model 3. Tesla claims that 95 per cent of that car’s tech has been carried over to the Model Y. From the outside, there’s no mistaking the Model Y for a car from any other manufacturer. Its design is a progression of the Model 3’s, with a chunkier body below the window line and a taller roof, which results in more space inside. All versions of the Model Y are four-wheel drive, courtesy of a two-motor set-up with one fitted to each axle. The Long Range model delivers the instant hit of acceleration that’s so familiar from Tesla’s models. Four-wheel drive means there’s plenty of traction, and Tesla quotes a 0-60mph time of 4.8 seconds, which is among the fastest in the class. Grip in the corners is strong, too, but while the Model Y has fast steering, it doesn’t do much more than point the wheels in the right direction. There’s little in the way of feedback, while the car’s two-tonne kerbweight also means direction changes aren’t as swift as the speed of the steering would suggest. The Model Y’s taller body delivers some compromises to the driving experience when compared with a Model 3, too. The suspension has been stiffened to cope with the extra weight and height, so it delivers quite a firm ride. Our car’s 20-inch wheels didn’t help matters, either, and while this stiffness won’t cause issue on smooth tarmac, the UK’s bumpy and potholed roads sees the car crash and thump.Try to avoid big bumps, and refinement is largely as you’d expect from an electric SUV. The Model Y cruises in near silence, with hardly any wind or road noise, while mid-range acceleration is just as responsive as it is from a standstill. Keep things smooth, and you and your passengers can take comfort in Tesla’s typically minimalist cabin. There’s lots of room inside for all five seats, and boot space is generous for a medium-sized electric SUV, too - there's up to 854 litres laden to the roof in five-seat form. A 117-litre 'frunk' also gives some good extra storage space. Link: https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/tesla/model-y/106311/new-tesla-model-y-2021-review

We lived double lives as kids, raised in both city and country. I was born in Alabama, but grew up in Detroit, returning to my grandparents’ southern farm every summer. They had an outside bucket toilet; we called it the slop jar. My earliest memory is of a rooster attacking me while I played by it. I could easily have been blinded for life. Ever since, God’s been protecting me. Music was always a family affair. My grandfather played the banjo; Dad used a guitar to court my mum. When I sing, I try to imitate the powerful voice of my mother. My first performance was as a three-year-old at a church talent show with my two older brothers, which we won. When it comes to music, I have my family to thank. Racism has been a constant presence in my life. In the 60s we had to fight and work far too hard to convince people we should be allowed to bring Motown to diverse crowds in auditoriums. Rocks were thrown; abuse was shouted. People denied us access to public toilets. When we made it to the stage, we’d wipe off the dust and put on our fancy clothes. However we felt, we’d always step out and shine like royalty. I’ve walked down the aisle twice, but I’m not sure either time the man standing opposite me saying “I do” truly meant it. Both marriages were annulled. They tried to marry not just Martha but the Vandellas, too – getting with me while also trying it on with my backup singers. Instead, show business has been my husband and to each other we’ve been committed and faithful. I was offered all sorts of drugs when I became well known. Fame should come with a warning. “Your nose is really made for cocaine,” they’d say. LSD was dropped in my champagne. My doctors gave me all sorts of addictive drugs. At one point I wound up in a straitjacket in a facility. My father came to see me in New York – he saw all my pills on the windowsill. When I saw his tears, I knew there was a problem. When I sing I feel my spirit set free. I’m one person on stage and another one entirely off it. My mum taught me at a young age to only sing songs you can feel in your heart. If you can’t do it with love, find another. I was reborn in 1977, though I wish I’d found salvation sooner. I’d been living in LA and witnessed Janis Joplin’s overdose and John Belushi’s demise. I needed to find safety and get out of California. I was taken to a prayer retreat and found a way. I still pick up my Bible and read words from heaven – it’s as addictive as any earthly substance. Why wait until death to celebrate a life? After Aretha Franklin passed, she had theatres, streets and movies in her name. If only she could have seen and enjoyed it. If there are to be accolades for me, please do it all while I’m here. Give me those flowers while I can smell them; the praise while I can still hear it. Marvin Gaye asked me to sing Dancing in the Street – a song he wrote. When I opened my mouth, something happened. I feel that same magic today as I did back then, I can’t stop myself from moving and shaking. Not that I need to sing it much now – I just hold my mic out to the crowd, smile and listen. Link: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/16/martha-reeves-this-much-i-know-we-fought-to-bring-motown-to-diverse-crowds

The killing of Conservative MP Sir David Amess is being treated as a terrorist incident by police.Sir David was stabbed multiple times at his constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex on Friday. The Metropolitan Police said there was a potential link to Islamist extremism. A 25-year-old British man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder.Home Secretary Priti Patel paid tribute to Sir David as a "man of the people" who was "killed doing a job he loved".Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer laid flowers at the scene together on Saturday morning. Ms Patel and Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle also paid their respects outside Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea. The killing of Conservative MP Sir David Amess is being treated as a terrorist incident by police.Sir David was stabbed multiple times at his constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex on Friday. The Metropolitan Police said there was a potential link to Islamist extremism. A 25-year-old British man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder.Home Secretary Priti Patel paid tribute to Sir David as a "man of the people" who was "killed doing a job he loved".Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer laid flowers at the scene together on Saturday morning. Ms Patel and Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle also paid their respects outside Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea. The Met said officers are carrying out searches at two addresses in the London area and are not seeking anyone else over the death. The force believes the man, who is in custody in Essex, acted alone but inquiries into the circumstances of the incident are continuing. Government sources have told the BBC he is a British national who, from initial inquiries, appears to be of Somali heritage. BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner reports Whitehall officials are saying the arrested man was not on a database of terror suspects. Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58935372

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Realme Q3s has been confirmed to launch on October 19, along with the Realme GT Neo 2T. Alongside, Realme has teased a few specifications of the upcoming smartphone. The Realme Q3s will come with an LCD display with variable refresh rate of up to 144Hz and HDR10 support. Furthemore, the smartphone's Snapdragon 778G SoC was confirmed by a Realme executive last month and it has also been spotted on Geekbench. A TENAA listing hints at the model number for Realme Q3s. Through a post on the Chinese microblogging platform Weibo, Realme confirmed that the Realme Q3s will be launching on October 19 at 2pm CST (11:30am IST) — along with the Realme GT Neo 2T. The launch date post also shows that the Realme Q3s will be offered in two colour options — Blue and Purple. Another post on Weibo by Realme mentions that the upcoming Realme Q3s will sport an LCD display with variable refresh rates. The smartphone will get seven refresh rate options — 30Hz, 48Hz, 50Hz, 60Hz, 90Hz, 120Hz, and 144Hz refresh rates. These variable refresh rates can be automatically matched to the usage of the smartphone, switching between smooth and power-saving modes. The display will also get DCI-P3 movie wide colour gamut, ensuring a rich and vivid colour depiction. Realme Q3s also gets HDR10 support with 4096 levels of fine dimming. Realme UI 3.0, Based on Android 12, Brings Several Customisation Features Realme Product Director Wang Wei Derek teased through a post on Weibo last month that Realme Q3s will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G SoC. Derek also mentioned that this will be a significant upgrade to the smartphone, as the Realme Q3 — launched in April — is powered by the Snapdragon 750G SoC. Last month, a Realme smartphone was spotted with a TENAA listing with the model number RMX3461/ RMX3463. The listing — spotted by Playfuldroid — leaked many key specifications of the smartphone. As per the listing, the Realme smartphone will sport a 6.59-inch full-HD+ (1,080x2,412 pixel) LTPS display with a hole-punch cutout. The processor is said to be paired with up to 12GB of RAM and 512GB of onboard storage - expandable via a microSD card. The listing shows that the Realme smartphone will feature a triple rear camera with a 48-megapixel primary sensor and two 2-megapixel sensors. As per the listing, the RMX3461 smartphone will have a battery with 4,880mAh rated capacity and a side-mounted fingerprint scanner. RMX3461 is speculated to be the Realme Q3s. Realme Has Launched 6 New Products in India: All You Need to Know Earlier this week, Realme RMX3461 was spotted on Geekbench and scored 791 points and 2783 points in single-core and multi-core tests, respectively. The smartphone is shown to run Android 11 and pack 8GB of RAM. The listing shows a 1.80GHz octa-core ARM Qualcomm processor.

In order to further protect users of its browser from unwanted tracking online, Brave Software has announced in a new blog post that it will add debouncing protection to Brave. Bounce tracking is yet another technique websites use to follow users around the web. The technique itself works by injecting additional sites between a site a user is currently visiting and another site they want to navigate to. Over time these intermediate sites learn what websites a user has visited which allows them to perform tracking in a similar way to using third-party cookies. Beginning with version 1.32 of Brave on desktop, the browser will protect users against bounce tracking by automatically recognizing when they are about to visit a known tracking domain, skipping visiting the tracking site all together and instead directly navigating a user to their intended destination. We've put together a list of the best browsers available These are the best VPN services on the market todayAlso check out our roundup of the best proxy Brave Software's new debouncing feature is currently available in nightly versions of Brave but will be rolled out to all users soon. With its new debouncing feature, Brave not only protects users against bounce tracking on websites but also bounce-tracking URLs used in other places across the web including links in affiliate marketing emails.In order to know which URLs employ bouncing tracking, the company maintains a list on GitHub that is drawn from a mix of crowd-sourced and existing open source projects including the URL Tracking Stripper, Link Clearer and Clear URLs extensions. However, additional rules are also maintained by Brave Software and the company plans to keep this list up to date and add more bounce-tracking URLs to it going forward.Debouncing isn't the only bounce tracking protection in Brave though as the browser utilizes query parameter stripping and warns users when they are about to visit a suspected bounce tracking site.In addition to bringing debouncing to its browser, Brave Software is also working with the W3C to help standardize protections against bounce tracking so that they can be implemented by other browsers as well.

Microsoft released a patch for Windows 11 build for Windows Insiders that addresses several issues, most notably the L3 caching issue that reportedly hampered the performance of certain AMD Ryzens processors after upgrading to Windows 11. This caching issue causes up to a 15% performance drop-off when playing games. AMD and Microsoft have said that the two bugs for Ryzen chips linked to Windows 11 installation were resolved, and fixes were coming sometime next week. The news comes after the first official Windows 11 Update did not address the Ryzen bugs, making some AMD users understandably nervous. AMD took to Reddit to assure users that fixes were on the way. If the fix is rolling out for Insiders, this hopefully means everything is on track for next week's update. Testing saw a functional L3 latency nearly triple which had an adverse effect on any apps that relied on memory and cache latency, like games, as soon as they made the move to Windows 11.We are still checking to see if the CPPC (Preferred Core) bug would be getting a similar Insider release, but nothing has been announced at the time of this article. The bug in question prevents users from being able to install (?) apps to the fastest core on the chip (or your preferred core, get it?), which also caused some performance issues. You can download and install the latest Windows 11 build under the usual Windows Update options if you're currently a Windows Insider. If you are still on the fence about making the move to Windows 11, take a look at our review before you decide to take the plunge and upgrading from Windows 10.

Activision unveiled its new secret weapon against Call of Duty cheaters earlier this week, a kernel level anti-cheat called Ricochet that will finally (hopefully) do something about the plague of hackers in Warzone and future Call of Duty games. But then yesterday, disaster appeared to strike when Anti-Cheat Police Department, a Twitter group dedicated to "gathering intelligence on cheats to detect and disrupt cheating vendors," claimed that the driver had leaked. "P2C [pay to cheat] devs are already reverse engineering it, this is already very bad," the group said. Fan site Modern Warzone also claimed to have seen "proof of the source code being scrubbed through." According to Vice, however, it wasn't a leak at all. Activision had said Ricochet would initially roll out with Call of Duty: Warzone's Pacific update, which is scheduled for early December, but two sources told the site that the system had already been released for some players for testing purposes, and the inevitable happened. Activision later confirmed that Ricochet is in the wild, but didn't seem too bothered. "Ricochet Anti-Cheat is in controlled live testing," the Call of Duty account tweeted. "Before putting it on your PC, we're testing the hell out of it. Testing includes providing a pre-release version of the driver to selected 3rd parties [and] readying server-side upgrades for launch." That it's a pre-release version of the driver is important, according to Epic Games technical director Paul Chamberlain, who was previously product head for game security on Riot's competitive FPS Valorant. Speaking to Vice, Chamberlain said that Activision probably didn't want the early driver in the hands of cheat makers, but it's almost impossible to avoid with public testing, and probably worth the headaches in the long run."So as long as they weren't testing with a non-release ready version (for example a non-obfuscated version or a version with debug symbols available) the only impact is that the cheat devs get a small head start," Chamberlain said. "Running a public test is likely to be more valuable to Activision than the extra secrecy."Phantom Overlay administrator Zebleer said the original report of a Ricochet leak was technically accurate because it wasn't meant to be in the hands of non-testers just yet, but acknowledged that it's not really a big deal because, as Chamberlain said, they'll have access to it soon enough anyway. "The only difference that the leak makes is that we have a head start, before implementation, to begin reversing & analyzing now."Call of Duty's new backend anti-cheat features will go live with the launch of Call of Duty: Vanguard on November 5. The kernel level driver will roll out later this year with the Pacific update for Call of Duty: Warzone. Link: https://www.pcgamer.com/cheat-makers-already-have-call-of-dutys-new-anti-cheat-driver-but-activision-isnt-bothered/

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Oppo A54s specifications, design, and colour options have leaked ahead of the phone's launch. The upcoming A-series smartphone from Oppo has been listed on a retailer site ahead of it being officially announced by the company. The Oppo A54s smartphone is listed with a 6.5-inch IPS LCD display, a MediaTek Helio G35 octa-core processor, and 4GB of RAM. The smartphone, which is speculated to be the successor to the Oppo A54, is shown to feature a triple rear camera setup headlined by a 50-megapixel main sensor and a 5,000mAh battery. Oppo A54s got listed on a New Zealand e-commerce website Harvey Norman. The handset is listed on the website featuring a 6.5-inch (1,600x720 pixels) IPS LCD display. The Pearl Blue colour variant of the smartphone is shown on the site. Oppo A54s is said to run on the Android 10 operating system. The e-commerce listing suggests the Oppo A54s will feature a MediaTek Helio G35 octa-core processor under the hood with 4GB of RAM and a 128GB of storage option. The storage can be expanded up to 256GB with a microSD card. In terms of optics, the smartphone is listed to feature a triple camera setup at the back with a 50-megapixel main sensor and two 2-megapixel secondary sensors. For selfies, the Oppo A54s is seen with an 8-megapixel front camera. The latest Oppo A-series smartphone is said to offer 4G connectivity, with no mention of 5G. Oppo A54s is listed to get Wi-Fi 5, Bluetooth v5, NFC, USB Type-C, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The dual (nano) sim handset is said to have an IPX4 rating for water resistance and measure 163.8x75.6.8.4mm. Oppo A54s is tipped to weigh 190 grams. Tipster Sudhanshu Ambhore also shared the specifications of the purported handset on par with the e-commerce listing via Twitter.

The macOS 12 Monterey is bringing a host of updates and new features to Macs and MacBooks, and Apple users are getting excited. The new macOS, which was announced at WWDC may not be out yet, but it’s already set tongues wagging by promising a substantial upgrade that most weren't expecting – including Shortcuts, a redesigned Safari, and Universal Control. Luckily, folks won’t have long to wait. macOS 12 Monterey is expected to launch on October 18 at the company’s Fall 2021 event alongside the rumored MacBook Pro 16-inch (2021) and MacBook Pro 14-inch (2021). As with its predecessors, it’s going to be available as a free upgrade, with its public beta already on hand for download if you’d like a head start on what's new. If you’d like to hold on until the final version of macOS 12 Monterey is released, which we would recommend when most bugs and problems have been identified and fixed by early testers, it is slated for public release ‘this fall’ so you won’t have long to wait. In the meantime, here’s everything we know about Apple’s upcoming macOS. Cut to the chase What is it? macOS 12 Monterey, the successor to macOS 11 Big Sur When is it out? Later this year How much will it cost? It will be free macOS 12 Monterey system requirements The list of Macs that will be able to run macOS 12 Monterey has been announced, with Apple promising that "macOS Monterey will support the broadest lineup of Macs in history, including the latest iMac, MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini, as well as Apple’s Intel-based Macs". Here are the devices that can run macOS 12 Monterey: iMac late 2015 and later iMac Pro 2017 and later MacBook Air early 2015 and later MacBook Pro early 2015 and later Mac Pro late 2013 and later Mac mini late 2014 and later MacBook early 2016 and later macOS 12 name: Monterey Apple has announced macOS 12's new name: Monterey, picked due to it being part of Big Sur by the Californian coast. macOS 12 Monterey release date This was announced at WWDC, with a developer preview of macOS Monterey released alongside the announcement. This is only available to developers, but there will be a public beta version for you to try out in July. While a September event traditionally confirms release dates for iOS and iPadOS, which happened, for the Mac it's been known to be a month later. Especially with rumors speaking about an upcoming M1X MacBook Pro, we may hear about a release date for Monterey in October.

Anyone who has ever tried to drag their TV outside at a party to watch the big game or have an impromptu Street Fighter tournament will tell you that it's fruitless labor on a bright day. Turns out that your fancy gaming TV is not bright enough to contend with the sun. Thankfully, if you don't want to spend thousands of dollars on an all-weather outdoor TV, you can just build one yourself on the cheap with some fairly easy-to-find parts. Matt from DIY Perks decided to build himself a crazy bright outdoor 4K TV for less than $400 using a faulty 4K TV with a bad backlight, a glass top from an old coffee table, a bunch of aluminum, and intensely bright LED panels. The rest of the parts for the build can easily be found online for cheap. So, if you have the patience and know how to use UV reactive glue, you got this. If that wasn't enough, the entire thing is watercooled using cheap plumbing bits and water pumps. The TV itself will have a built-in reservoir that should keep temps manageable even on the hottest days. As you can see from the video, the final product is a hulking, bright as hell weatherproof TV that'll let you play Rocket League on a clear summer day on the lawn or a rainy Sunday on the deck. The funny thing is we don't know how bright the new TV is because it was so bright, it blew out their instruments, but the rough estimate was around 2000 nits. For context, the latest phones usually have a peak brightness of 1000 nits to view the screens outside. The project costs can range from $250-350 depending on if you went with more expensive LED (or brighter) panels and heatsinks. Most of the parts were from recycled materials or broken electronics. Of course, if you want to go fancier, you can order custom glass to match the exact size of the screen. That way you don't have that thick black border you see on the TV in the video, but again that adds to the overall cost. Until then, instead of tossing old and damaged electronics, you can always find a use for them.