Having models at camera demo events isn’t all that strange. It doesn’t happen at most of them, but it’s not unusual. Especially with cameras marketed towards fashion and portraits. Somebody at Fujifilm UK, however, decided that just bringing out a model wasn’t good enough for the Fujifilm GFX 50S, though. Oh no, she had to be topless, too. Fujifilm UK held a paid event that would let photographers try out the new medium format GFX 50s....

Firstly, this Geekbench listing confirms that the Galaxy S21 FE (SM-G990E) will come in an Exynos variant. Well, we have been expecting this since the beginning. Previous Geekbench entries had also suggested so. But the ongoing global semiconductor chip shortage has made it all very difficult to predict. Even the Galaxy S22 series was once rumored to come with Snapdragon chips universally. However, that’s unlikely, and the same probably goes for the Galaxy S21 FE as well....

The source of this info states that Samsung hasn’t locked “2,200 nits” as the official rating for peak display brightness on the Galaxy S23 Ultra. The device is still in development and may see more performance optimizations in the coming weeks. But they claim the maximum brightness of the new Galaxy flagship’s screen will be more than 2,100 nits. It could top 2,200 nits as well. Either way, the Galaxy S23 Ultra will have the brightest smartphone screen when it arrives early next year....

On mobile, Quick Phrases seems to have limited functionality. You can use the feature during incoming calls or when an alarm or timer goes off. Google Assistant will be on standby during these situations. When you have an incoming call, you can simply say ‘Answer’ or ‘Decline’ and it will act accordingly. You won’t have to say the hotword to wake up the Assistant. Similarly, when an alarm goes off, you can say ‘Snooze’ or ‘Stop’ without preceding the command with the Hey Google/OK Google hotword....

The company is now accepting volunteers for Project Relate to contribute towards multi-year research with the goal of improving Google’s speech recognition algorithms. Google ultimately wants to make sure Assistant and the rest of its voice-based features are fully capable and inclusive of people with neurological conditions or speech impairments. “Project Relate is a continuation of years of research from both Google’s Speech and Research teams, made possible by over a million speech samples recorded by participants of our research effort,” Google said in a blog post (via)....