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7NEWS
18 hours ago
- Business
- 7NEWS
Best-selling Samsung tech and appliances: EOFY deals you don't want to scroll past
Samsung's end-of-financial-year sale has officially landed, and it's packed with some juicy deals. Whether you've been eyeing off a new Galaxy smartphone, want to level up your home entertainment setup, or have been holding out for the right moment to upgrade your fridge or washing machine, this could be your sign. Running through to 30 June, the EOFY sale spans just about everything in the Samsung universe, from sleek smartphones and stylish accessories to high-performance appliances and top-rated gaming and TV displays. Even better? These already reduced prices can be paired with bundle offers and trade-in deals on eligible items, meaning the more you shop, the more you save. If that wasn't enough to tempt you, Samsung's Price Promise also has your back. If you find the same product cheaper at an eligible Aussie retailer within 14 days of buying it, Samsung will match it and refund you the difference. Handy peace of mind, especially during the rush of EOFY shopping. There's also the option to take advantage of flexible financing during the sale period, with monthly repayment options available and interest rates ranging from low to zero depending on your pick. From tech lovers to home organisers, there's something in this sale for just about everyone. We've gathered some of the best picks to shop during Samsung's EOFY sale below, and you won't want to miss out on these savings. Home Appliance 809L BESPOKE AI Family Hub™ + French Door Refrigerator - SRF9900BFH (NEW) was $6,999, now $6,599 648L BESPOKE Cotta White French Door Refrigerator with Internal Beverage Centre™ - SRFX7600W was $3,799, now $3,499 649L French Door Refrigerator with Big Bottle Door Bins and Big Crisper - SRF7100B was $2,999, now $2,699 634L Smart Side By Side Refrigerator with Dispenser - SRS6300B (NEW) was $2,599, now $2,299 498L French Door Refrigerator with Non-Plumbed Water Dispenser - SRF5300SD was $1,699, now $1,499 Phones + tablets Galaxy S25 Series was $2,349, now $1,949.00 Galaxy S24+ was $1,549, now $1,006.85 Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra was $1,799, now $1,399 Watches + buds Galaxy Watch Ultra (LTE, 47mm) was $1,299, now $389.70 Galaxy Watch7 (LTE, 44mm) was $699, now $489.30 Galaxy Buds3 Pro was $399, now $279.30 Galaxy Buds FE was $199, now $139.30 TVs + Soundbars 83' OLED S90D 4K Smart AI TV was $7,999, now $5,999 65' OLED S95F 4K Vision AI Smart TV (NEW) was $5,299, now $3,499 HW-Q600C Q-Series Soundbar was $799, now $499 HW-C450 C-Series Soundbar with Subwoofer was $349, now $249 Gaming Monitors 57' Odyssey Neo G95NC Curved QLED DUHD Gaming Monitor was $3,199, now $2,449 32' Odyssey OLED G8 UHD Gaming Monitor was $2,099, now $1,399 27' Odyssey OLED G6 QHD Gaming Monitor was $1,499, now $1,199 27' Odyssey 3D G90XF 4K 165Hz Gaming Monitor was $2,999, now $2,099 55' Odyssey Ark 2nd Gen Curved UHD Gaming Monitor (PRE-ORDER) was $3,999, now $2,999 Bundle and Save Bundle two or more of the eligible cooking appliances for a limited time and save 30 per cent. 76L Built-in Catalytic Oven Stainless Steel - NV7B41201AS was $1,149, now $999 76L Built in Pyrolytic Oven Black - NV7B4430ZAB was $1,499, now $1,299 76L Built in Pyrolytic Oven Stainless Steel - NV7B4430ZAS was $1,399, now $1,199 76L Built in Pyrolytic Flex Door Oven - NV7B5755SAS was $1,999, now $1,699 Trade and Save Up to $300 off when you trade select Samsung refrigerators, washing machines, dryers or vacuum cleaners.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
NYPD charity and NY Assembly speaker pick up funeral tab for mom, disabled son found in squalid NYC apartment: ‘They are a godsend'
The mom found dead in a squalid Bronx apartment next to the body of her disabled 8-year-old son was remembered at a moving memorial service Sunday — with an NYPD charity and State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie picking up the tab. 'NYPD With Arms Wide Open,' a nonprofit co-founded by veteran cop Merrit Riley to help special needs families, footed the food bill, and Heastie paid for the funeral service for Lisa Cotton and her young son, Nazir Milien, who were both found dead in their Wakefield apartment on April 18. Cotton's 4-year-old daughter Promise was found alive but in poor condition inside the apartment with their corpses and survived alone for two weeks by eating chocolate, law enforcement sources said. 'Merrit and his organization are amazing,' Cotton's sister, Tawana Smith-Tention, who delivered the eulogy at the service, told The Post on Sunday. 'They reached out to us right away and asked us what we needed. They are a godsend. You can tell that they really care.' Her sister was remembered as a loving mom who struggled to care for her son, who used a wheelchair and required a feeding tube for nourishment — while also having to take care of little Promise. 'My sister needed help to take care of her son, who is disabled. She wasn't getting it,' Smith-Tention said. 'A lot was said about my sister, but by people who didn't know her. She loves her kids and took good care of them. The people who love her don't judge her.' More than 100 mourners attended the wake for the tragic pair at the Wake-Eden Community Baptist Church, not far from the East 231st Street walk-up where Cotton and her children lived. 'My mother loved her children. She loved Promise. She loved Nazir. She would always try to do something with them, but, you know, it's really sad to see her go,' said Cotton's 17-year-old daughter Nevaeh, who did not live in the apartment. 'But I'm just glad that she went away peacefully.' Born in St. Kitts, Cotton, 38, and her older brother moved to the US to live with their father, and grew up in the Big Apple, eventually graduating from John F. Kennedy High School. Nazir was born in 2017, and she doted over the boy, her family said — until their tragic ends. 'It feels surreal to be here today,' her brother, Akim Cotton, said during the service. 'My heart is aching for loss. It's beyond words. It's deeply beyond words. But I find comfort in the belief that they're at peace.' Riley said he was moved by the tragic story and offered the nonprofit's help to the grieving family. The veteran cop, who has a special needs son, Aidan, founded With Arms Wide Open with his partner, retired NYPD detective Danny Sprague, to help other police families with similar challenges. 'We started our foundation about 10 years ago to help police officers with kids with special needs, or terminal illness, with anything not covered by insurance,' Riley told The Post. He said he was inspired by the goodwill of his precinct, which paid for a trip for him, his son and his son's mom to go to the Dominican Republic — and the idea struck him. 'I wanted to do something to show my appreciation, and we started this,' he said. 'Over the years, we've helped quite a few police officer families. Every once in a while, when we hear a story outside of the police department, you wouldn't be human if you didn't help, if your heart didn't hurt over hearing this story,' Riley added. 'I had to do something.' Heastie's office is covering the cost of the funeral and cremation services for the pair and the church provided use of its space and musicians for free, Pastor Frank Williams told The Post. Cotton's horrific death was one of seven cases profiled by The Post in a report of children who died under the supervision of the city Administration for Children's Services — case workers knocked on the door and walked away one day before the grisly discovery, leaving Promise alone inside. Investigators believe Cotton, who suffered from asthma, may have died from cardiac arrest, while her son, who was born prematurely and had a feeding tube, may have starved to death, according to sources. Daisy Griffin, who grew up on Qincey Street in Brooklyn with Cotton, said at Sunday's service that her friends and relatives still want answers about what went wrong. 'I just want to know what really happened to her,' Griffin said. 'It's like everybody's keeping stuff secret and it's sad, because the family don't even know what happened to her, not even her daughter. 'We want to know what really happened so it could be laid to rest,' she added.
Gulf Today
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Gulf Today
Promises are for never: Bashir Makhoul eyes pledges in Zawyeh Gallery show
Zawyeh Gallery is currently hosting The Promise, a solo exhibition by renowned Palestinian artist Bashir Makhoul. To run till June 30, in The Promise Makhoul unveils his latest works, exploring themes of home, displacement and memory through visual narratives. The exhibition title encapsulates a poetic and ambiguous statement of intent — an assertion that is both an event and its upending. A promise is made and, inevitably, can be broken. The duality is at the heart of Makhoul's practice, where creation and fragmentation, completion and rupture, coexist. At the core of the exhibition is the recurring motif of the house, depicted in its most elemental form: a cube with a door and a window. The geometric structures, arranged in dense and chaotic formations, reflect the overcrowded conditions of refugee camps and marginalised communities. Despite their elegant colour palettes, the artworks reveal a stark contrast between aesthetic beauty and unsettling political realities. An olive tree in close-up. Featuring works in painting, electroplated sculptures, printmaking, handwoven wool and silk tapestries and mixed media works, the art explores identity, fragmentation, dispossession, and longing. Through layered symbols such as home, petals, and patterns, Makhoul examines the fragile balance between loss and hope, chaos and order, destruction and rebirth. Home for him is both a sanctuary and a site of loss. It is not only a place where one builds memories, but also a location where one loses them. Home therefore does not offer only security, but also gives birth to instability and loss, especially if home is a refugee camp. Makhoul explores his relationship with his homeland, examining its emotional and psychological impact. He works between lived reality and nostalgia, presence and displacement, permanence and impermanence. Weaving is just not a skill for him: it is also the reconstruction of memories while electroplated sculptures symbolise disruption. As a Palestinian who has spent most of his life in exile, the notion of home is therefore conflicted. The Palestinian experience of home under occupation is marked by the sense of belonging and also the haunting feel of uncertainty. Among the featured series is Fractured Oblivion, an extension of the artist's earlier Promise series. Scattered blossom petals — once symbols of unity — now encircle dark voids that echo bullet holes Makhoul photographed in Beirut in the 1990s. The colour hides pain. The war-torn surfaces evoke his family's exile during the Nakba, while the petals suggest healing and the voids, as the title implies, lead only to oblivion. The themes of rupture and continuity extend into the Skein series, where tangled threads symbolise exile and return. Works such as Drift and Density (3) explore the Palestinian experience of loss and perseverance, with Density (3) standing as a testament to a fragmented nation bound together by resilience and solidarity. Makhoul's latest experiments in electroplated 3D printing introduce an unexpected crystalline structure inside his house formations. The approach reaches its pinnacle in My Olive Tree, where geometric structures take on the spectral form of an ancient olive tree — a personal symbol for the artist, standing between two parcels of land he does not own. The olive tree, much like the Palestinian people, waits — embodying persistence and the inevitable fulfillment of the promise to return. The Promise offers a powerful meditation on identity, displacement, and resilience, and marks Makhoul's first solo exhibition in Dubai. He was born in 1963 in the village of Makhoul in the Galilee region of Palestine. The artist was only five years old when he and his nine siblings — four sisters and five brothers — lost their father, leaving his mother alone to raise them. He attended school till he was ten, and around the age of 13, began to supplement his schooling with paid work at a carpentry shop to contribute to the household income. It was his boss at this shop who discovered his artistic skills and passion for design; eighteen months after he began, Makhoul was named the manager of the workshop. Following secondary school, he also made violins designed for Arabic music and played them at weddings. In the early 1980s, he began to study fine arts at Haifa University, later relocating to the United Kingdom. In 2017, Makhoul became the first Palestinian Vice-Chancellor at the University for the Creative Arts, UK, cementing his central place in the art world of the Palestinian diaspora. Bashir Makhoul is a Palestinian artist. Exile has significantly impacted Palestinian art, forcing artists to grapple with displacement, identity, and the ongoing struggle for homeland. Palestinian artists have used their work to express the pain of loss, cultivate nostalgia for a lost homeland, and document the tragic experiences of their families and communities. Exile also has led to the development of new artistic mediums and styles, as artists adapt to changed circumstances. notes that the Palestinian experience of exile 'is a multifaceted tapestry woven with threads of longing and resistance. At its core lies the dichotomy between the tangible memories of those who were forced to leave their homeland by Israel's military forces and the inherited narratives passed down to subsequent generations. Throughout their diasporic journey, Palestinians have grappled with the challenge of preserving their heritage and resisting attempts to delegitimise their indigenous connection to the land ... diaspora, far from being a passive state of displacement, emerged as a locus of resistance and cultural resurgence. Artists and writers crafted narratives of resilience, depicting the indomitable spirit of a people determined to resist cultural assimilation and preserve their identity.'
Mint
22-05-2025
- Business
- Mint
How Google Flow, powered by Veo 3, takes the internet by storm: Key features explained
Tech giant Google has recently launched a new AI-powered video creation platform called Flow, unveiled at its I/O 2025 event. The tool brings together the company's latest generative models —Veo, Imagen, and Gemini — and is now available to select users in the United States. Flow allows users to create short video clips and scenes using natural language prompts. It builds upon Google's earlier experimental tool, VideoFX, and is described as a space where creators can generate, edit and organise cinematic assets with a focus on scene consistency and control. Flow is integrated with Veo, Google's video generation model designed to deliver high-quality visual content with adherence to user prompts. It also includes Imagen for generating images from text and Gemini for interpreting prompts written in plain language. Notable features include: Camera Controls : Users can manually adjust camera angles, movements and perspectives within scenes. : Users can manually adjust camera angles, movements and perspectives within scenes. Scenebuilder : Enables users to edit and extend video sequences while maintaining continuity between shots. : Enables users to edit and extend video sequences while maintaining continuity between shots. Asset Management : Offers tools to organise images, character elements, and prompts for reuse across projects. : Offers tools to organise images, character elements, and prompts for reuse across projects. Flow TV: A library of sample clips made with Flow and Veo, where users can view the exact prompts used to generate each piece of content. Flow is accessible via two subscription tiers —Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra. The Pro plan includes 100 generations per month, while the Ultra plan includes higher usage limits and early access to Veo 3, which supports environmental audio and character voice generation. The announcement has prompted a surge of user activity online, particularly focused on the capabilities of Veo 3. On X, users have begun sharing early outputs and discussing the implications of AI-assisted video production. One post from Dave Clark, co-founder of the production company Promise, stated: 'Created with Google Flow. Visuals, Sound Design, and Voice were prompted using Veo 3 text-to-video.' Another user wrote, 'Less than 24 hours since Google dropped Veo 3 and people are already creating wild stuff! 13 insane examples 🧵👇 1. A giraffe riding a bike in NYC.' Flow is currently limited to U.S.-based users subscribed to eligible plans, with a broader rollout expected in the coming months.
The Star
20-05-2025
- Business
- The Star
Andreessen Horowitz-backed studio Promise partners with Google on AI, adds investors
FILE PHOTO: A Google logo is seen at a company research facility in Mountain View, California, U.S., May 13, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo (Reuters) -Generative AI studio Promise, backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, said on Tuesday that it had partnered with Alphabet's Google to use its AI technologies. The startup has also expanded its investor base, with new backing from Google's AI Futures Fund, Crossbeam Venture Partners, and others, the company said in a blog. Former News Corp President Peter Chernin's firm, North Road Company, a co-lead investor, has invested additional capital in this round. Promise will integrate Google's AI technologies into its production pipeline and workflow software, MUSE, while also collaborating with researchers from DeepMind. Hollywood studios have been exploring ways to incorporate GenAI tools to reduce costs and speed up the content creation process. Founded by Fullscreen CEO George Strompolos, former YouTube executive Jamie Byrne and AI artist Dave Clark, Promise aims to capitalize on the GenAI boom and is working with Hollywood stakeholders to develop a multi-year lineup of content. Production of its first feature-length film is slated to begin this year. (Reporting by Juby Babu in Mexico City; Editing by Mohammed Safi Shamsi)
