The Morning After: First Impressions Of Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 7, Z Flip 7 And The Rest

It’s nan summer, truthful that intends Samsung foldables, wearables and awkward personage appearances. This year, nan institution introduced 3 caller folding smartphones, but that didn’t see nan rumored ‘ultra’ trifold — that’s coming later this year.

The Galaxy Fold 7 ($2,000) has a bigger 8-inch unfolded surface and a camera array that matches nan S25 Ultra. However, there’s nary much support for nan S Pen. Removing nan digitizer furniture for styluses meant Samsung could make nan instrumentality moreover thinner. The Z Fold 7 now has a superior 200-megapixel sensor, akin to nan 1 utilized successful nan S25 Ultra and S25 Edge. This fixes 1 of nan large complaints we’ve had pinch foldables: cameras that didn’t lucifer nan abilities of much accepted Galaxy phones. Especially erstwhile Fold devices ever costs more. Talking of costs, Samsung has bumped nan value up to $2,000 — that’s $100 much than past year’s Fold 6.

The Z Flip 7 ($1,100) yet has a full-screen 4.1-inch screen screen, a bigger artillery and a normal proportioned (21:9) foldable surface erstwhile you’ve opened it. Oh, and that’s bigger too, from 6.4 to 6.9 inches.

While Samsung didn’t notably upgrade nan cameras, it managed to adhd 300mAh of artillery while making an moreover thinner foldable. Unfolded, it’s almost arsenic bladed arsenic nan S25 Edge, a telephone wherever nan full constituent of existing was to beryllium thin. There are fractions of a millimeter successful it – and if you see nan Edge’s chunky camera, nan Flip 7 seems technically thinner.

Then there’s nan Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE ($900), Samsung’s first fan-edition foldable. Barring a displacement to a homemade Exynos spot and Samsung’s 2025 package additions, for illustration nan Now Brief, this is… a Z Flip 6 from past year. The hardware looks (is?) identical, which is simply a spot of a disappointment erstwhile FE devices are sounded arsenic much reasonably priced Galaxy devices.

The timing sucked too. Thanks to Prime Day, you could bargain past year’s Z Flip 6 this week for $100 little than pre-ordering nan Z Flip 7 FE.

— Mat Smith

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Amazon Prime Day 2025: The champion of nan rest

Yes, you already person a Kindle.

Speaking of which, Amazon’s Prime Day has been a whole-week affair. The extremity is successful sight, though — it each ends tonight. We’ve pulled together nan champion Prime Day deals still successful stock, and while there’s a batch of predictable cogwheel (Amazon hardware, truthful overmuch audio stuff), nan waste remains 1 of nan champion times to bargain tech for illustration robot vacuums, room appliances and, hey, possibly moreover a Surface Laptop.

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How precisely did Grok spell afloat ‘MechaHitler?’

xAI has yet to springiness a afloat answer.

Grok, X’s built-in chatbot, took a difficult move toward antisemitism pursuing a caller update. Amid unprompted, hateful rhetoric against Jews, it moreover began referring to itself arsenic MechaHitler — a leader force from 1992’s Wolfenstein 3D. The institution admitted location were areas wherever Grok’s training could beryllium improved. “We are alert of caller posts made by Grok and are actively moving to region nan inappropriate posts.”

Chatbots, for illustration Grok, are built connected ample connection models (LLMs) designed to mimic earthy language. LLMs are pretrained connected elephantine swaths of text, including books, world papers and, yes, nan contents of nan internet, including X/Twitter.

If an AI exemplary hasn’t seen hateful, anti-antisemitic content, it won’t beryllium alert of nan patterns that pass that benignant of speech, including phrases specified arsenic “Heil Hitler.” Is this owed to X’s personification guidelines shifting to nan correct successful caller years, changing nan operation of what Grok was being trained on? Maybe, but possibly not. Igor Bonifacic took a deeper look.

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Buy a surgery Switch 2 (and a stapler) for charity

It’s a bully cause, astatine least.

When nan Switch 2 launched, 1 GameStop shop utilized a stapler a small excessively aggressively to connect receipts to unit boxes, puncturing Switch 2 screens and ruining respective people’s days. GameStop is trying to move debacle lemons into charitable lemonade.

It’s auctioning disconnected nan infamous stapler responsible for nan incident, pinch nan proceeds benefiting nan Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. You’ll get not only immoderate naughty stationery but besides 1 of nan Switch 2 consoles that it broke.

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