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We’ve heard the rumors and seen the links, but on Sunday Samsung showed off its Galaxy Z Flip phone officially for the first time — at the Academy Awards, of all places. An ad playing early in the Oscars night showed the Galaxy Z Flip in action (though it didn’t actually name the phone), folding like Moto’s new Razr. Despite showing off …

Heavy rain has flooded streets, uprooted trees, led to landslides and forced people to flee homes and look for shelter in Australia, in what could be described as freak weather after deadly bushfires destroyed forests and killed wildlife. Storms brought heavy rains and flooded the country’s bushfire-ravaged east. The cyclone was downgraded to a Category One storm on Sunday, after …