Daily Authority: 👀 Pixel 7a hands-on photos leak

👻 Hello, and welcome back to Tuesday’s Daily Authority! The sun’s shining, spring is on its way, and I’m headed off on a candlelit tour of a 17th-century haunted house later this week. Wish me luck!

In today’s Daily we’ve got hands-on Pixel 7a photos, Nothing Ear 2 specs and renders, bacteria named after Keanu Reeves (yes, really), and more…

The Pixel 7a hasn’t yet been officially announced, but we’ve already seen specs leak — and now a leaker has got their hands on the budget device to show off a series of hands-on photos.

• Vietnam’s Zing News discovered a Pixel 7a test unit (meant for developers) had fallen into the hands of a leaker.
• The impressive snapshots let us see the device from every angle.
• From a specs leak, we already know the phone’s expected to pack a 64MP main camera from Sony, with a 6.1-inch 90Hz OLED display, powered by the Tensor G2 chip with LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1.
• And we’re excited for its launch, which will likely happen at Google I/O 2023 on May 10, though we’re not sure Google will be able to surprise us much when it comes to the Pixel 7a.
• This is far from the first time Google devices have leaked prior to launch.
• Back in April 2022, someone found a Pixel Watch prototype just lying around in a restaurant and leaked it.
• It’s not the first time we’ve seen leaked Pixel 7a photos either, as a leaker in Vietnam shared images and videos earlier this year, though they’re not a patch on what we’ve seen today.

Dude! Scientists just named a bacterial compound after Keanu Reeves himself (h/t Morning Brew/The New York Times).

• The compounds, which kill fungi by forming holes in their surface so they bleed to death (nice), was named after the actor’s character John Wick.
• These compounds apparently reminded scientists of how deadly Wick is at dealing with bad guys in the movies.
• So what have they been named? “Keanumycins.”

Be excellent to each other!

Paula Beaton, Copy Editor.