No matter how powerful or sleek a new video game console is, it doesnt matter if there are no good games to play on it. When the Switch 2 was revealed, we learned that it would feature backwards compatibility with the best Switch games to automatically give the library a head start. However, most of us have already played those games and are looking for a shiny new title to make the purchase feel justified. We know of a ton of upcoming Switch 2 games for the rest of 2025 and beyond, but what are the hot new games you have to pick from at launch? Nintendo launch titles are traditionally very good, so lets take a look at every launch title you can play on the Switch 2 and see how it compares.Each game is sold separately, but you can preorder the Switch 2 in a bundle with Mario Kart Worldto save a little bit of money.Recommended VideosNintendoThe Switch 2 launch lineup is quite impressive, featuring both Nintendo first-party games, third-party titles, and some older ports or remasters never seen on a Nintendo console before. There are also some Nintendo Switch 2 Edition games of existing Switch games that improve the visuals, frame rates, and sometimes even add more content.RelatedThese are all the games launching with the Switch 2 on June 5, in alphabetical orderArcade Archives 2: Ridge RacerBravely Default: Flying Fairy HD RemasterCyberpunk 2077: Ultimate EditionDeltaruneFast FusionFortniteHitman World of Assassination Signature EditionHogwarts LegacyKunitsu-Gami: Path of the GoddessMario Kart WorldNintendo Switch 2 Welcome TourNobunagas Ambition Awakening Complete EditionPuyo Puyo Tetris 2SRune Factory: Guardians of AzumaCivilization 7Split FictionStreet Fighter 6Survival KidsThe Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Switch 2 EditionThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Switch 2 EditionYakuza 0: Directors CutEditors Recommendations

OPPO is expected to launch new phones in its Find X8 series on Thursday, April 10. Ahead of the official announcement, its teasing the upcoming Find X8 Ultra camera specifications, which are impressive on paper.From a hardware perspective, the OPPO Find X8 Ultra will feature a five-camera system, which includes four main sensors arranged in a circular layout, along with an additional spectral image sensor. The main camera setup consists of a 1-inch Sony LYT-900 main sensor, a Sony IMX882 ultra-wide camera, a Sony IMX906 3x telephoto camera, and a Sony IMX882 6x periscope telephoto lens. This configuration will provide variable focal lengths of 15mm, 23mm, 70mm, and 135mm.Recommended VideosThe Find X8 Ultra is set to make headlines thanks to its innovative software. It will be OPPOs first phone equipped with Lumo, the companys new image engine specifically designed for portrait photography. This technology combines advanced hardware and software to enhance image quality, especially in challenging lighting conditions.RelatedA standout feature of Lumo is its Danyan original color lens technology. This technology utilizes zone-specific color temperature sensing, which helps achieve more natural skin tones, even in challenging environments like low light or complex lighting situations.Lumo imaging technology will not be exclusive to the Find X8 Ultra; it is also expected to be featured in the upcoming Find X8s and Find X8s+, both of which are scheduled for launch next week. The new technology is OPPOs latest innovation in smartphone camera technology, establishing it as a rival to mobile imaging systems from brands like Vivo, Xiaomi, and Huawei.After next week, the Find X8 series will consist of the Find X8, Find X8 Pro, Find X8s, Find X8s+, and Find X8 Ultra. OPPO typically launches its phones in China first, followed by a global rollout, and we can expect the same pattern for this upcoming series.Editors Recommendations

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Bonus! A bonus from the shingles vaccine: Dementia protection? The study shows a sharp change when the vaccine was introduced in Wales. John Timmer Apr 3, 2025 10:39 am | 0 Credit: Cavan Images Credit: Cavan Images Story textSizeSmallStandardLargeWidth *StandardWideLinksStandardOrange* Subscribers only Learn moreA study released on Wednesday finds that a live-virus vaccine that limits shingles symptoms was associated with a drop in the risk for dementia when it was introduced. The work took advantage of the fact that the National Health Service Wales made the vaccine available with a very specific age limit, essentially creating two populations, vaccinated and unvaccinated, separated by a single date. And these populations showed a sharp divide in how often they were diagnosed with dementia, despite having little in the way of other differences in health issues or treatments.What a dayThis study didn't come out of nowhere. There have been a number of hints recently that members of the herpesvirus family that can infect nerve cells are associated with dementia. That group includes Varicella zoster, the virus that causes both chicken pox andpotentially many years after shingles, an extremely painful rash. And over the past couple of years, observational studies have suggested that the vaccine against shingles may have a protective effect.But it's extremely difficult to do a clinical trial given that the onset of dementia may happen decades after most people first receive the shingles vaccine. That's why the use of NHS Wales data was critical. When the first attenuated virus vaccine for shingles became available, it was offered to a subset of the Welsh population. Those who were born on or after September 2, 1933, were eligible to receive the vaccine. Anyone older than that was permanently ineligible.(The UK NHS considers things like the cost/benefit of treatments, and likely took into account the potential impact of the side effects on the elderly in making this decision.)This created what's termed a natural experiment, in that the populations born a few weeks on either side of this data should be roughly equivalent in terms of health risks and cumulative exposure. The only real difference is whether or not they were likely to get the vaccine. And health records indicated that only 0.01 percent of those in the ineligible group did, while nearly half of those eligible received it.So residents of Wales born on either side of the dividing date were matched according to their use of preventative health services, past diagnoses, and educational level. The incidence of dementia was then compared between people on either side of September 2, 1933. As a first step, the researchers confirmed that the vaccine was effective at reducing the incidence of shingles, with numbers similar to those in the vaccine's clinical trials.Overall, being eligible for the vaccine was associated with a 1.3 percent reduction in the absolute risk of a dementia diagnosis. That translates to a 8.5 percent reduction of relative risk; when scaled to account for the fact that fewer than half of those eligible received the vaccine, that works out to be a 20 percent reduction in relative risk, which is pretty substantial.To make sure that it was real, the researchers repeated the analysis using a difference-in-difference approach and came up with roughly the same numbers. That also eliminates the possibility that people who came in for health care (for shingles or some other condition) were more likely to incidentally receive a dementia diagnosis. They also compared the before-and-after populations in terms of a collection of common health outcomes and found that none of those showed any change in the two populations. And nothing else related to NHS policy was changed based on the September 2 date.Separately, in a draft manuscript the researchers posted on the Med arXiv, the researchers find a similar effect when using UK HNS data to search for a protective effect of the shingles vaccines when it comes to deaths diagnosed to result from dementia. So by all indications, the effect was real.Whats going on?The researchers suggest three potential explanations. One of them is the obvious: Suppressing the reactivation of the varicella zoster virus reduces dementia onset. But it's also possible that the effect is indirectthat dementia is associated with immune activity, and the vaccine alters that in some way. Finally, there's the possibility that being treated for shingles could promote the onset of dementia or increase the frequency of diagnoses.The last question was fairly easy to answer. The researchers note yet again that other chronic diagnoses show a change at around the critical date. And they also adjusted their analysis to control for the frequency of medical care. The subgroup that interacted with the NHS most often showed roughly the same protection by the vaccine as the group as a whole did. Finally, the researchers note that shingles diagnosis and treatment didn't increase the probability of dementia diagnoses.In contrast, there is some evidence that the effect is related to the activation of the virus. People who experienced multiple shingles events were more likely to receive a dementia diagnosis. And people who received an antiviral treatment in response to shingles had a reduced incidence of dementia.But there were also differences that suggest the immune response in general may be involved. Those who are prone to autoimmune or allergic responses (which are more common in women) showed a greater protection from the vaccine, as did women. These effects aren't large, but they may provide a hint that there's something more than a specific response to one virus.Following up on these results, however, will be complicated. While most people associate the onset of dementia in the elderly with Alzheimer's, there are a number of distinct dementia diagnoses, often with risk factors and underlying biology that only partly overlap. In many cases, there's no easy way to distinguish between some of them. So there's the chance that these results represent an even stronger effect that's specific to a subset of the known dementias.But at least from a medical perspective, it doesn't really matter. The vaccine is highly effective at preventing severe cases of shingles, and it seems to significantly reduce the frequency of dementia. There is even less reason to avoid getting it.Nature, 2025. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08800-x (About DOIs).John TimmerSenior Science EditorJohn TimmerSenior Science Editor John is Ars Technica's science editor. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley. When physically separated from his keyboard, he tends to seek out a bicycle, or a scenic location for communing with his hiking boots. 0 Comments

express train to storageville Explaining MicroSD Express cards and why you should care about them Little-used 2019 standard bridges a gap between internal and external storage. Andrew Cunningham Apr 3, 2025 10:00 am | 9 The microSD Express standard has existed for a long time, but it hasn't seen wide adoption in a mass-market consumer device. Enter Nintendo's new Switch 2. Credit: SanDisk The microSD Express standard has existed for a long time, but it hasn't seen wide adoption in a mass-market consumer device. Enter Nintendo's new Switch 2. Credit: SanDisk Story textSizeSmallStandardLargeWidth *StandardWideLinksStandardOrange* Subscribers only Learn moreAmong the changes mentioned in yesterday's Nintendo Switch 2 presentation was a note that the new console doesn't just support MicroSD Express cards for augmenting the device's 256GB of internal storage, but it requiresMicroSD Express. Whatever plentiful, cheap microSD card you're using in your current Switch, including Sandisk's Nintendo-branded ones, can't migrate over to your Switch 2 alongside all your Switch 1 games.MicroSD Express, explainedWhy is regular-old MicroSD no longer good enough? It all comes down to speed.Most run-of-the-mill SD and microSD cards you can buy today are using some version of the Ultra High Speed (UHS) standard. Designed to augment the default speed (12.5MB/s) and high speed (25MB/s) from the earliest versions of the SD card standard, the three UHS versions enable data transfers of up to 624MB/s.But most commodity microSD cards, including pricier models like Samsung's Pro Ultimate series, use UHS-I, which has a maximum data transfer speed of 104MB/s. The original Switch uses a UHS-I microSD card slot for storage expansion.Why have newer and faster versions of the standardUHS-II, UHS-III, and SD Expressfailed to achieve critical mass? Because for most consumer applications, it turns out that 100-ish megabytes per second is plenty. The SD Association itself says that 90MB per second is good enough to record an 8K video stream at up to 120 frames per second. Recording pictures and video is the most demanding thing most SD cards are called upon to dogive or take a Raspberry Pi-based computerand you don't need to overspend to get extra speed you're not going to use.All of that said, thereis a small but measurable increase in launch and loading times when loading games from the original Switch's microSD card instead of from internal storage. And for games with chronic performance issues like Pokmon ScarletandViolet, one of the community-suggested fixes was to move the game from your microSD card to your Switch's internal storageto alleviate one of the system's plentiful performance bottlenecks.The Switch 2's additional power opens the door to more complex games that could lag even more noticeably, especially if they're ported from consoles that expect more than 50 times the storage bandwidth (Sony requires an SSD with read speeds of at least 5,500MB/s for the PlayStation 5).And that's where SD Express comes in. These cards are connected to the same PCI Express/NVMe interface that internal SSDs use in modern PCs and the other game consoles, theoretically giving your SD card access to the same bandwidth as internal storage.Now, you won't actuallyget performance as fast as an internal SSD using this interface. The speed varies a lot based on the PCI Express version your gadget is using (3.0 or 4.0) and how many "lanes" of bandwidth it's allowed to use (these are, in short, the connections between a device's CPU and external accessories like SSDs, Wi-Fi adapters, or dedicated GPUs, and all CPUs and SoCs have a limited number of them to hand out). Depending on these factors, microSD Express can deliver anywhere between 985MB/s and 3940MB/s of theoretical bandwidth.MicroSD cards will also be slowed down because there are fewer physical flash memory chips to write to at a time, a process called "interleaving" that is responsible for much of an SSD's speed. This SanDisk microSD Express card, one of the only ones actually available at retail right now, lists its top speeds as 880MB/s for reads and 650MB/s for writes.But even at its worst, this is several times the amount of bandwidth available to whatever UHS-I microSD card is inserted into your current Switch. Express cards won't make an SD card feel as fast as internal storage, but it will help the microSD card keep pace a bit.At what cost?One other benefit of workaday, plain-old UHS-I microSD cards? The price. Great ones are cheap. Good-enough ones are dirt cheap, even if you stick to major storage vendors like Samsung, Sandisk, and Lexar (please do not buy no-name solid state storage). A quality 256GB microSD card will run you around $20, a pittance compared to whatever you paid for the device you're putting it in.For the SanDisk microSD Express, the same amount of storage will run you around $60. This is not only more expensive than a regular cheap SD card, but it's more expensive than actual internal SSDs. The cheaper name-brand 1TB internal SSDs, including some sold by SanDisk parent company Western Digital, can give you four times as much space for around the same price.These prices should go down over time, and the Switch 2 will be a part of the reason whyat a bare minimum, it will likely prompt the creation of multiple alternate microSD Express options from SanDisk's competitors. But at launch, it may still feel like a raw deal because it's just one ofmany things about the Switch 2 that costs more money than the Switch 1. Compared to the first Switch, you're paying between $100 and $150 more for the console itself, $10 more for each pair of Joy-Cons or Pro Controllers you buy, $50 for a replacement dock, and between $10 and $20 more for first-party games.The Switch 2's relatively generous 256GB of internal storage should help you avoid the need for an SD card, and it could be all you ever need if you manage your storage space carefully. But the extra cost of microSD Express on top of everything else does rankle, even if the technical reasons behind the move are totally justifiable.Andrew CunninghamSenior Technology ReporterAndrew CunninghamSenior Technology Reporter Andrew is a Senior Technology Reporter at Ars Technica, with a focus on consumer tech including computer hardware and in-depth reviews of operating systems like Windows and macOS. Andrew lives in Philadelphia and co-hosts a weekly book podcast called Overdue. 9 Comments

Comment and TechnologyA cost-cutting initiative in the world of passenger aviation could see flight-deck staff reduced to just a captain, with their co-pilot replaced by AI. It may save money, but it's a risk too far, argues Paul Marks 2 April 2025 Adri VoltA dangerous idea is stalking the world of passenger aviation: that of halving, sometime in the 2030s, the number of pilots at the helm of civilian airliners and filling the vacant seats with AI a move experts say could make flying far less safe. Instead of a captain and co-pilot on the flight deck, as big jets have today, Single Pilot Operations (SPOs) will have just one pilot alongside an AI somehow designed to undertake the tough, safety-critical role of co-piloting.This, airlines argue, will address a pilot shortage that has become economically debilitating for the industry. But SPO

Josie FordFeedback is New Scientists popular sideways look at the latest science and technology news. You can submit items you believe may amuse readers to Feedback by emailing feedback@newscientist.com Streisand strikes againSome things are sadly inevitable: death, taxes, another Coldplay album. One such inevitability, long since proved beyond any reasonable doubt, is that if you try to suppress an embarrassing story, you will only draw more attention to it.This phenomenon is called the Streisand Effect, after an incident in 2003 when Barbra Streisand sued to have an aerial photograph taken off the internet. The shot was part of a series documenting coastal erosion in California, but identified her cliff-top mansion. She lost, and in the process drew public attention to the photo. Having previously been downloaded six times (twice by her lawyers) it was then accessed hundreds of thousands of times.AdvertisementAnd so, with weary inevitability, we come yet again to Meta, Mark Zuckerbergs personal empire encompassing Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp and a sizeable chunk of Hawaii. In March, Sarah Wynn-Williams Facebooks former director of public policy put out a memoir of her time at the company, which has the Gatsby-esque title Careless People. Feedback isnt going to repeat the specific allegations in it, because Meta has very high-powered libel lawyers and we dont want to be responsible for New Scientists in-house lawyers all dropping dead of heart attacks. Suffice it to say, it is a real page-turner.Meta responded by taking legal action. By leveraging a non-disclosure agreement Wynn-Williams had signed when she left the company, Meta prevented her from promoting Careless People. Any interviews you may have seen with her were conducted before Meta obtained the injunction.The result? The book has become a global bestseller, and you just read about it in the silly bit at the back of New Scientist.Offensive ParidaeFeedback recently told the story of researcher Nicolas Guguen, who has had some of his papers retracted including one about the advantages of having large breasts while hitchhiking as the result of investigations by data sleuths Nick Brown and James Heathers (15 March).So we were naturally intrigued to get an email from Brown, who came across our coverage because he has a Google alert set up for Nicolas Guguen'. We wondered if we might have got a detail wrong, or otherwise bungled the story.However, he was writing in response to another item in the same column. This related to the perennial Scunthorpe problem: the fact that completely innocent words can contain letter strings that are offensive in isolation, so the automated systems that block questionable words often catch harmless ones in their nets.Before I became a scientist I worked in IT, explains Brown. Maybe around 1999, someone came to me with a question. Her email to the Royal Bank of Scotland had bounced, and the rejection notice literally said this: Reason: Dirty Word: TITS.Readers: take a moment to recover from the shock. We too were stunned that the automated system used the phrase dirty word: we didnt realise RBSs systems were based on primary school behaviour guidance.Brown examined the message, which was entirely innocuous and contained no reference to birds of the Paridae family. Then he used a text editor to look at the email header, and there he found the dirty word.We were in France and used names from the Asterix comics for our servers, says Brown. One of the mail servers that the message had passed through was named Petitsuix. This is an innkeeper who appears in three Asterix volumes: his name is a parody of petit-suisse cheese, if you didnt get that. So, says Brown, the email header contained something like Via:Petitsuix.domain.com, thus bumping up against the Scunthorpe problem.This led Brown to wonder what might have happened if, by some infernal coincidence, his employers had been using the same anti-spam software. Would our spam filter server have replied with You said tits, and then they would have come back with No, you said tits, and so on for ever?So what happened next? I remember saying at the time, Well, clearly that bank is going to go bust, says Brown. He had to wait until 2008 and legally Feedback has to say that despite the glory of Browns pun, that didnt happen: the government bailed the bank out.Queued upSometimes, Feedback comes across a solution to a problem that is simultaneously brilliant and rock-stupid. Such a solution was brought to our attention by reporter Matthew Sparkes.Three researchers were trying to make queueing less deadly dull, so they developed a robot for people in queues to play with. As they explained, the robot is called Social Queue. It is a robotic stanchion pole with a responsive tentacle on top that interact[s] with people through three modes of interaction, Attracting, Escaping, and Friendly. Apparently, this enhanced peoples enjoyment.Feedback isnt a roboticist: not out of an utter lack of technical ability perish the thought it is just that we saw Battlestar Galactica and decided not to be complicit in the robot apocalypse. Still, this sounds like a feat of engineering.But we did wonder why anyone would go to the bother of designing a queue robot, when you could just set up a timed-entry system and eliminate the queue.Got a story for Feedback?You can send stories to Feedback by email at feedback@newscientist.com. Please include your home address. 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Prince Harry. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images 2025-04-03T14:25:17Z SaveSaved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.Have an account? On March 26, Prince Harry resigned from Sentebale, a charity he cofounded.He resigned in solidarity with the board of trustees, who stepped down after the chair refused to.Now, the chair, Sophie Chandauka, has accused Prince Harry of bullying her.One of Prince Harry's charitable organizations has become the center of controversy.On March 26, Harry and Prince Seeiso of Lesotho announced they were resigning as patrons of Sentebale, a charity they cofounded in 2006.The pair said in their announcement that it was "devastating" they had to step down and pointed to issues with the organization's chair, Sophie Chandauka, as the reason for their resignation.Days later, Chandauka accused Prince Harry of "harassment and bullying at scale" in a Sky News interview.Sentebale in turmoilWhen it was founded, Sentebale aimed to support children and young people living with HIV or AIDS in Lesotho and Botswana. In 2024, it expanded its mission to help young people more generally in southern Africa.The princes confounded the organization in honor of their late mothers and have maintained a close relationship for decades. Prince Seeiso even appeared in the Netflix docuseries "Harry & Meghan" in 2022.Harry and Seeiso have been patrons of Sentebale for nearly 20 years, with Harry frequently traveling to Africa to support the organization.However, in recent months, tensions have been mounting between Sentebale's board and Chandauka, who was appointed chair in July 2023. Chandauka, a lawyer and biotech founder, had previously been a Sentebale board member from 2009 to 2015, according to the organization's website. Prince Harry and Sophie Chandauka in October 2024. Brian Otieno/Getty Images for Sentebale Five former Sentebale trustees said in a statement shared with Business Insider that they "made the difficult decision to unanimously resign," adding that they saw "no other path forward as the result of our loss in trust and confidence in the Chair of the board.""Our priority has always been, and will always be, what's in the best interest of the charity, and it's desperately sad the breakdown in relationship escalated to a lawsuit by the Chair against the charity, to block us from voting her out after our request for her resignation was rejected," the trustees said. "We could not in good conscience allow Sentebale to undertake that legal and financial burden and have been left with no other option but to vacate our positions."CBS News said the trustees asked Chandauka to resign because of "a change in Sentebale's mission." On Tuesday, the BBC also reported that financial issues led to tension at the organization.Harry and Seeiso announced their resignation in a joint statement "in support of and solidarity with the board of trustees.""It is devastating that the relationship between the charity's trustees and the chair of the board broke down beyond repair, creating an untenable situation," their statement said. "What's transpired is unthinkable. We are in shock that we have to do this, but we have a continued responsibility to Sentebale's beneficiaries, so we will be sharing all of our concerns with the Charity Commission as to how this came about.""Although we may no longer be Patrons, we will always be its founders, and we will never forget what this charity is capable of achieving when it is in the right care," the princes said. Prince Seeiso and Prince Harry in October 2024. Brian Otieno/Getty Images for Sentebale Chandauka said in a statement shared with People that she refused to step down at the board's request because "beneath all the victim narrative and fiction that has been syndicated to press is the story of a woman who dared to blow the whistle about issues of poor governance, weak executive management, abuse of power, bullying, harassment, misogyny, misogynoir and the coverup that ensued."Chandauka did not respond to a request for comment from BI.The New York Times also reported that Chandauka replaced the board with four new members following the resignations and filed a report against the former trustees with the Charity Commission, which regulates and registers charities in England and Wales, including Sentebale. Harry and Seeiso said in their statement that they also intended to file a report to the commission.When contacted by BI for this story on Tuesday, the Charity Commission said, "We can confirm that we are aware of concerns about the governance of Sentebale. We are assessing the issues to determine the appropriate regulatory steps."On Thursday, the Charity Commission announced it had opened a compliance case "to examine concerns raised about the charity Sentebale.""The regulator's focus, in line with its statutory remit, will be to determine whether the charity's current and former trustees, including its chair, have fulfilled their duties and responsibilities under charity law," the Charity Commission said. "The Commission is not an adjudicator or mediator and is guided by the principle of ensuring trustees fulfill their primary duty to their charitable purpose and beneficiaries."A source close to the trustees told BI that the board "fully expected this publicity stunt and reached their collective decision with this in mind. They remain firm in their resignation, for the good of the charity, and look forward to the adjudication of the truth."Then, last weekend, Chandauka accused Harry of "bullying" her by going public with Sentebale's problems.Sophie Chandauka said Prince Harry was 'bullying' herOn Sunday, Chandauka appeared on the Sky News program "Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips" to discuss Sentebale, focusing on Harry in her interview even though Seeiso and the board members also resigned.Chandauka said in the interview that her relationship with the prince had largely been "fantastic" but accused him of "harassment and bullying." Specifically, she said he did not inform her of his decision to resign as patron before he and Seeiso released their statement publicly."At some point on Tuesday, Prince Harry authorized the release of a damaging piece of news to the outside world without informing me or my country directors or my executive director," she said. "Can you imagine what that attack has done for me, on me, and the 540 individuals in the Sentebale organizations and their family?" Sophie Chandauka and Prince Harry at a charity polo match in April 2024. Yaroslav Sabitov/PA Images via Getty Images "That is an example of harassment and bullying at scale," Chandauka said, adding that she believes Harry activated "the Sussex machine" to publicize Sentebale's issues.A source familiar with the events told BI that despite Chandauka's comments, Harry and Seeiso had sent their joint resignation letter to the trustees and the chair on March 10.In the same interview, Chandauka also said she had issues with Prince Harry since she became chair and believed he had been trying to oust her for months.She said his step back as a senior royal put Sentebale at financial risk and that his Netflix series about polo interfered with a Sentebale charity fundraiser, pointing to a venue change. However, a source close to the production said the show's involvement ultimately led to another player participating and Sentebale being featured in the docuseries.Chandauka also said Meghan Markle'sunexpected attendance became a problem at the match. Cameras filmed an awkward interaction between her and Meghan as they tried to fit onstage together during an awards ceremony, which led to negative press stories about Meghan. Chandauka told the Financial Times that Harry asked her to release a statement in support of his wife at the time, but she refused."I said no, we're not setting a precedent by which we become an extension of the Sussex PR machine," she told the outlet.As of Thursday, Chandauka remains chair of Sentebale's board.Recommended video