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News18
10-07-2025
- News18
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 And Z Flip 7 Series Launched In India: Price, Specs
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and the new Z Flip 7 series are finally here, and these are the first to get One UI 8 based on Android 16 version. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and the Z Flip 7 models have been unveiled in New York on Wednesday. The new foldables from the brand look to build on the heritage of Samsung's Fold series and look to freshen up the lineup to compete with a host of brands available in the segment these days. The Z Fold 7 is sitting alongside the Z Flip 7 and the new Z Flip 7 FE model and you have other products like the Galaxy Watch 8 series also added into the mix. Samsung teased the new launch with the Ultra experience and fair to say that you are getting some of the Ultra features now on the Fold series as well. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 price in India starts at Rs 1,74,999 for the base 12GB + 256G variant. The Galaxy Z Flip 7 prices start from Rs 1,09,999 while the Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE model starts at Rs 89,999. Samsung has confirmed that the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and the Z Flip 7 series pre-orders start from July 9 in India and will be available at stores from July 25 in the country. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 Specifications Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 has been promised a refined design upgrade and numbers speak for themselves. When you fold the Z Fold 7, you get a 8.9mm thickness, while the unfolded state gives you 4.2mm in dimensions. More importantly, the Z Fold 7 weighs 215 grams which is significantly trimmed down from the 239 grams on the Galaxy Z Fold 6 model. Now that the design has been the focus for the brand, it is time to look at the screen sizes and the quality on offer. The device is powered by the latest Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset with up to 16GB RAM and 1TB storage. The company has managed to bring the new flagship product with the latest One UI 8 version based on Android 16 out of the box. This is a big feat for Samsung, as it manages to launch the new Android flavour before Google brings it with the new Pixel flagships. The new fold will get 7 years of OS upgrades as well as security updates. Next up is the imaging department, where you get a triple camera setup once again but the upgrades are in the sensors. You get a 200MP primary wide sensor with OIS, a 12MP ultra-wide lens and a 10MP telephoto lens with OIS and 3x optical zoom. The Galaxy Z Fold 7 might have gotten lighter and thin but the 4,400mAh battery unit seems to have been retained from its predecessor and with support for 25W charging speed. Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 And Z Flip 7 FE Specifications The Galaxy Z Flip 7 now gets a bigger 4.1-inch Super AMOLED display with 60Hz/120Hz refresh rate support. The inner screen is also at 6.9-inch but with a Dynamic AMOLED 2X panel that supports 120Hz adaptive refresh rate. The Z Flip 7 FE gets a 3.4-inch cover display while the main screen comes at 6.7-inch with the Dynamic AMOLED 2x panel. The Z Flip 7 comes at 6.5mm when unfolded and weighs 188 grams. The Z Flip 7 FE is 6.9mm thin and weighs 187 grams. Unlike the Fold 7, Samsung is going with the Exynos 2500 chipset for the Flip 7 and the Exynos 2400 SoC for the Z Flip 7 FE variant. The premium Flip 7 comes with 12GB RAM and up to 512GB storage, while the Z Flip 7 FE gets 8GB RAM with up to 256GB storage. The back of the Z Flip 7 comes with a dual camera system that consists of a 50MP wide sensor with OIS and a 12MP ultra-wide lens. It has a 10MP selfie camera. The Z Flip 7 FE also has a 50MP wide sensor with OIS and a 12MP ultra-wide lens at the back. And finally, you have the Galaxy Z Flip 7 packing a 4,300mAh battery, while the Z Flip 7 FE has been offered with a smaller 4,000mAh unit. Both the devices get 25W charging speed out of the box, and yes, no adapter available with the unit. First Published: July 09, 2025, 20:00 IST Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Yahoo
09-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Highgate names Pete Sams president
This story was originally published on Hotel Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Hotel Dive newsletter. Highgate named Pete Sams president, effective July 7, the New York-based hotel management, investment and development firm announced Monday. In the newly created role, Sams is tasked with optimizing business performance across Highgate's 500-property portfolio to drive financial results for owners, create memorable experiences for guests and expand opportunities for associates, according to the firm. In his role, Sams will work closely with Highgate's principals, including CEO Arash Azarbarzin, and discipline leaders, per the company. The 30-year industry veteran joins Highgate from Peregrine Hospitality, formerly KSL Resorts, where he was chief operating officer. Prior to Peregine, Sams held the same role at Davidson Hospitality Group. Also this week, Davidson Hospitality appointed Jason Reader chief operating officer. According to Highgate, Sams' appointment is 'a strategic move' in line with its mission to build 'a world-class team committed to creating lasting value and leading outcomes for stakeholders.' 'Pete brings an extraordinary track record of unlocking performance, energizing teams, and delivering sustained results across complex portfolios,' Mahmood Khimji, Highgate's co-chairman and managing principal, said in a statement, adding that Sams' expertise 'will be a catalyst to sharpen our strategic focus, accelerate growth, and elevate the value we deliver to our owners and partners around the world.' Prior to joining Davidson Hospitality, Sams held executive roles at Interstate Hotels & Resorts and White Lodging Services and spent nearly two decades at Omni Hotels. He is also a two-term representative on the American Hotel & Lodging Association's board of directors. Highgate has expanded its luxury lifestyle portfolio in recent years to capitalize on interest in the growing hotel segment. Recommended Reading Highgate names Matt Greene EVP of luxury residences
Yahoo
29-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Duval County Public Schools considers removing DEI language from its policies, no decision made yet
Duval County School Board members are considering removing diversity, equity, and inclusion from its district policy handbook. But as of now, the DEI language remains. Cami Sams, the district's Executive Director of Policy and Compliance, said she does not want to risk losing federal dollars for the continuation of DEI practices. 'I don't know if we can predict when that will impact us or when these policies will be reviewed, but I do think that for us as a district, that's something we do have to look at,' Sams told board members. The Policy Handbook Review Committee shared this agenda packet (see below). PUBLISHED - May 28, 2025, Policy Handbook Review Committee - REVISED4 - GC by ActionNewsJax on Scribd The lines of red text that are marked through signal the proposed removal of a policy. This was done so by Sams. Some of her suggestions include removing the equity policy, eliminating cultural considerations when creating curriculum, and scrapping language that prohibits racial, gender, and age discrimination. Sams reiterated to members that this is only an attempt to be compliant with the federal executive order. 'We wanted to bring this policy forward to the board because the law has updated,' she told members. Board members spent hours discussing how the policies in the handbook could be reworded for compliance but still incorporate language that is fair and welcoming. Board Members Darryl Willie and Reginald Blount tossed around the idea of swapping out the word 'diverse' for words like 'broad' or 'multi-talented.' 'It's important to figure out some word that explains to the public that we do want you if you're a veteran, or if you're coming from somewhere else, or if you have a different background,' Willie said. Board Chair Charlotte Joyce, though, believes the district will continue to use fair practices in hiring because discrimination is already illegal. [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks] 'We're not really looking at your ethnicity, we're not looking at your gender, we're not factoring those things into consideration,' Joyce said. Board Member Melody Bolduc told her colleagues that she is for diversity, too. But feels like it is forced when the DEI language is included in policy. 'I don't want it engineered. I'd like it to happen natural,' Bolduc said. [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter] DCPS spokesperson Dr. Tracy Pierce said that this conversation is just the first of many as the board continues to iron out the details of what this policy revision could look like. 'After today's conversation, we'll take all of that input back and our team will kind of rewrite the policy and try to get it to a point where the board will have its debate and arrive at final language that they can agree on,' he said. Pierce encourages people to stay up to date with the board's meeting agendas as he expects more conversations about DEI through June. Click here to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here to stream Action News Jax live.
Irish Independent
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Gunk by Saba Sams: nightclub boss left holding the baby after ex-husband's one-night stand
Author lives up to the hype in debut novel Gunk, with a portrayal of parenthood that is both smart and fresh Today at 21:30 The publishing world loves and thrives on fresh blood, and was especially exhilarated when Saba Spiral Sams, then 25, released Send Nudes, a coolly deadpan collection of 10 short stories. The slim but punchy collection, published in 2022, featured plenty of knockout one-liners, and covered all kinds of Gen Z preoccupations, from Tinder dating and selfies to miscarriage and shapewear. It marked Sams, who became a mother at 22, as a writer of considerable humanity, and one with plenty to say. With a place on Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2023, Sam's debut novel, if and when it appeared, was destined to make a splash.
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Now PBS Is Censoring a Film About Free Speech
American Masters, an award-winning documentary series in its 39th season on PBS, promises to tell 'compelling, unvarnished stories' about the nation's most important cultural figures. The program's most recent story, though—Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse, about the cartoonist-author of Maus, the Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic novel depicting the Holocaust, and a self-described 'poster boy for books being censored'—seemed to need a bit more varnish on its approach to Donald Trump. In April, two weeks before it aired on PBS stations, a 90-second segment of the film in which Spiegelman referred to the president's 'smug and ugly mug' was cut from the film at the behest of public-media executives. (The details of this incident were first reported by Anthony Kaufman for Documentary magazine.) PBS has been under attack by the Trump administration since January. By the time Disaster Is My Muse was aired in shortened form, the network was already under investigation by the Federal Communications Commission, and the White House had a plan to claw back $1.1 billion in federal funds from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which passes money on to PBS. 'Their attempt at preemptively staying out of the line of fire was absurd; it wasn't going to happen,' Spiegelman told me this week. 'It seems like it would be better to go out with dignity.' Alicia Sams, who co-produced the film, told me that she received a call from the executive producer of American Masters, Michael Kantor, at the beginning of April. It was less than a week after a contentious congressional hearing in which the network was accused of being a 'radical left-wing echo chamber' that is 'brainwashing and trans-ing children.' According to Sams, Kantor said that Disaster Is My Muse would need one further edit before it could be shown: The filmmakers had to remove a short sequence where Spiegelman reads aloud from the one of the few comic strips about Trump that he's ever published, in a zine associated with the Women's March in 2017. There was no opportunity for negotiation, Sams said. The filmmakers knew that if they refused, they would be in breach of contract and would have to repay the movie's license fee. 'It was not coming from Michael,' she told me. 'It was very clear: It was coming from PBS in D.C.' [Read: PBS pulled a film for political reasons, then changed its mind] Kantor deferred all questions to Lindsey Horvitz, the director of content marketing at WNET, the producer of American Masters and parent company of New York's flagship PBS station. (Sams told me that in her understanding, WNET leadership had agreed with PBS about the cut.) Horvitz provided The Atlantic with this statement: 'One section of the film was edited from the theatrical version as it was no longer in context today. The change was made to maintain the integrity and appropriateness of the content for broadcast at this time.' A PBS spokesperson said, 'We have not changed our long-standing editorial guidelines or practices this year.' (The Atlantic has a partnership with WETA, which receives funding from PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.) Molly Bernstein, who co-directed Disaster Is My Muse with Philip Dolin, said this was 'absurd.' She told me that the team had already been through discussions with PBS over how to make the film compliant with broadcast standards and practices. A few profanities are spoken in the film, and some images from Spiegelman's cartoons raised concerns, but the network said that these could stand as long as the film aired after 10 p.m., when laxer FCC rules apply. 'We were delighted that was an option,' Bernstein said. A bleeped-and-blurred version of the film would not have worked. 'It's about underground comics. It's about transgressive artwork.' The team did make one other change to the film, several months before its broadcast: Some material featuring Spiegelman's fellow comic-book artist Neil Gaiman was removed in January after a series of sexual-assault allegations against Gaiman were detailed in a cover story for New York magazine. (Gaiman denies that he 'engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone.') The filmmakers say they did this on their own, to avoid distractions from the subject of the film. But they also said that Kantor told them PBS would likely have had that inclination too. In any case, to say the snipped-out material about Trump was 'no longer in context today' is simply false. Spiegelman's commitment to free speech is central to the film. So are his repeated warnings about incipient fascism in America. ('That's what I see everywhere I look now,' he says at one point.) They're also clearly relevant to the forced edit of the broadcast. Indeed, the censored clip was taken from an event involving Spiegelman in June 2022 called 'Forbidden Images Now,' which was presented in association with an exhibit of Philip Guston paintings that had itself been postponed for political reasons after George Floyd's murder, presumably on account of Guston's having made a motif of hooded Ku Klux Klansmen. [Read: Don't look away from Philip Guston's cartoonish paintings of Klansmen] Just a few months before that lecture, Spiegelman learned that Maus had been removed from the eighth-grade curriculum in McMinn County, Tennessee, on account of its rough language and a single panel showing the naked corpse of his mother following her suicide. 'The tendencies brought up by this frantic need to control children's thoughts,' Spiegelman told MSNBC's Art Velshi in 2023, are 'an echo of the book burnings of the 1930s in Germany.' The filmmakers told me that Spiegelman's free-speech run-in with the county school board was instrumental in persuading WNET to back Disaster Is My Muse. 'When Maus was banned, interest in Art and the relevance of his story increased,' Sams said. Only then did American Masters pledge its full support, licensing the film before it had even been completed, and supplying half its budget. In the lead-up to its broadcast, PBS also chose to highlight Spiegelman's focus on the First Amendment in its promotional materials. The network's webpage for Disaster Is My Muse describes him as 'a pioneer of comic arts, whose thought-provoking work reflects his ardent defense of free speech.' (Neither PBS nor WNET would explain how a decision had been made to censor footage from a documentary film that is in no small part about censorship.) A broader 'context' for the edit can be found in PBS's other recent efforts to adjust its programming in deference to political considerations. As previously reported in The Atlantic, not long before Kantor's call with Sams, PBS quietly shelved a different documentary film, Break the Game, that was set to air on April 7, apparently because it had a trans protagonist. The film, which is not political, was abruptly placed back on the schedule within two hours of my reaching out to PBS for comment. (The network did not respond to questions about why Break the Game's original airdate had been canceled.) If these efforts were meant to forestall pressure from the White House, they have roundly failed. Two weeks after Disaster Is My Muse aired—with its reference to Trump removed—the president attempted to dismiss three of five board members at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. A few days after that, he issued an executive order directing the board to terminate all funding, both direct and indirect, to NPR and PBS. (Both moves are being challenged.) But just imagine how much harder the administration would be going after PBS if Trump had seen the clip about his 'smug and ugly mug'! 'This seems like volunteering to pull the trigger on the firing-squad gun,' Spiegelman told me. The end of Disaster Is My Muse includes some footage from a 2017 free-speech protest on the steps of the New York Public Library, where Spiegelman read out the lyrics of a Frank Zappa song: 'And I'm telling you, it can't happen here. Oh, darling, it's important that you believe me. Bop bop bop bop.' The political climate has only gotten worse since then, he said. 'There's no checks and balances on this. This is severe bullying and control, and it's only going to get worse.' Article originally published at The Atlantic
