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It has only been a few years since fingerprint sensors became a staple on mid-range smartphones. When this technology first made its way to handheld devices it was only found on the high-end models which were expensive and out of the reach of many customers. The technology has improved and become cheaper since then which is why almost all mid-range handsets have fingerprint sensors now. Samsung appears to be willing to bring them to entry-level handsets as well.

If a new report out of South Korea is believed, Samsung is going to bring fingerprint sensors to its entry-level Galaxy J series. This series has performed particularly well in emerging markets like India so it will go a long way in popularizing fingerprint sensors in that market.

That’s obviously not going to be the only advantage of this exercise. The fingerprint sensor is a crucial component of the Samsung Pay mobile payments service. It’s used to authenticate payments made using Samsung Pay.

With Samsung Pay having been expanded to India, it will only be in Samsung’s best interests to bring this technology to handsets that sell the most in such crucial markets.

The report suggests that Samsung will start mass production of the new Galaxy J series with fingerprint sensors in May this year so we might see a public launch at some point in the second or third quarter of this year.

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Last week, 17-year-old art student Lalonie proudly showed off her natural body hair in two photos on Twitter. The backlash from Twitter users to her now-viral post serves as a reminder that women are still held to a double standard when it comes to their appearances. 

Lalonie posted the photos after she was featured in a friend’s YouTube vlog, and saw that her armpit hair had inspired many angry comments. She said she wasn’t offended by the comments, but was “more shocked that in the year 2017 there were still people who were getting offended over body hair.”

“I thought about how such negative backlash could affect a girl’s self esteem and personal choices to the point where they completely let the misogyny and double standards of our society dictate their choices,” she said.

In response, she posted two photos, one of her unshaven armpits and one of her stomach, with the caption, “Body hair positivity post bc I’d never let misogynistic opinions dictate what I do with my bod.” 

“I posted that picture to let everyone know that I do what I want with my body and it’s okay for anyone else to do that too,” she told HuffPost.

Her post has since garnered more than 7,000 retweets and 19,000 favorites, as well thousands of comments ― many of which were not so supportive of Lalonie choice to celebrate her body hair. 

Lalonie called these kind of responses out for exactly what they are: misogyny.

“The fact that it went so big just shows what a big stigma there is surrounding body hair on women,” she said.

Lalonie was also quick to point out that both men and women can be participants in this misogyny.

“Misogyny is so deeply rooted in our society that is sometimes very hard to recognize,” she said. “There are so many microaggressions and double standards that are very prevalent in our society…men can post plenty of pictures of them shirtless with chest hair and armpit hair, but a girl posting a positive picture about her armpit hair and a happy trail? Absolutely unheard of!” 

Of course, her photos prompted a lot of positive feedback as well. “Men and women alike were messaging me saying that my confidence in my body hair made them feel more comfortable with their own body hair and less ashamed of having it,” she said. 

At the end of the day, Lalonie believes women should do whatever the hell they want with their own bodies and own body hair. And her reason for letting her natural body hair grow is pretty simple.

“I just do not like shaving,” she said. “That’s all there is to it.”

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On Monday, posters featuring a new prom dress code appeared in the halls of Stanton College Prep, a public high school in Jacksonville, Florida. 

As with many dress code fiascos, the Stanton College Prep dress code flyers are both odd and sexist. Each poster features a woman in a different type of gown with the first one, featuring a sleeveless gown, reading: “Going to Stanton Prom?” At the bottom the post reads: “YES you are. Good girl.” The other three posters feature a dress with a high slit up the leg, a backless dress and a dress with a plunging neckline. Alongside each dress, school administrators wrote: “Going to Stanton Prom? No you’re not.”

Many students were not happy.

Lily Willingham, a student at Stanton College Prep, told The Huffington Post that the students’ assumed faculty put up the posters. “There was immediate outrage due to not only to the fact that the dress code was introduced five days before prom, but also because of the sexist connotations,” Willingham said.

Willingham tweeted a photo of the posters Monday afternoon.

Beyond the fact that the flyers are blatantly sexist, the sudden announcement of a new dress code so close to prom night worried students.

Willingham noted that many girls were upset because they had already bought their prom dresses and didn’t have the time or money to buy a new one before Saturday.  

Many Stanton College Prep students and other Twitter users tweeted their outrage and concern using the hashtag #SCPGoodGirl that student body president Anthony Paul created. 

By Tuesday morning, Stanton College Prep issued an apology for the dress code and reported that the school had taken the flyers down.

“The display of prom dress photos at Stanton College Prep is not appropriate or an approved policy,” the school tweeted. “Images were removed on [Monday].” 

According to local news station Action News Jax, Stanton Prep principal told students: “Please do accept my apology for this poor delivery of information. Our intent is to make sure prom is enjoyable and memorable.”

On Monday night, student body president Anthony Paul had told students to wear purple and white colors and duct tape the female gender sign on their shirts in protest of the posters.

Since the school’s apology wasn’t made until 10 a.m. on Tuesday (during school hours), many students still wore purple and white in an awesome display of resistance against the sexist dress code. 

Below Willingham and other female Stanton College Prep students pose for a picture on Tuesday wearing purple and white in protest of the flyers.

Willingham told HuffPost she was excited to see students come together to protest the dress code. 

“It was incredibly inspiring to me to see that students voices were heard [on Tuesday] and we were able to unite as a student body to make a difference,” she said. “It also brought to light an issue affecting women all over the nation when it comes to dress code in schools as well as societies constant hyper-sexualization of females bodies so I hope bringing attention to this will cause change in not only schools but society as well.”

Scroll below to see more students who wear white and purple in solidarity. 

As Willingham told HuffPost, this event reflects a larger trend of policing women’s bodies through dress codes. 

“Unfortunately what happened here is a symptom of what is still happening to girls in this country – – this over sexualization of our bodies and emphasis on it,” she said. “Girls are made to feel responsible for what a boy ‘might do or feel’ in response to how we dress. Dress codes are grossly outdated for 2017.”

We could not agree more. 

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This article originally appeared on Outsports. 

The grooms wore hockey jerseys over their dress shirts and bow ties. The priest wore a referee’s jersey. The wedding ceremony was at center ice. The chocolate cake was in the shape of a Zamboni. A goal horn sounded when the grooms kissed.

The wedding of Eric Pinder and Dwayne Smoot at the Amway Center in Orlando — courtesy of the Orlando Solar Bears of the ECHL — was memorable as perhaps the first same-sex wedding at a hockey arena.

The couple were married in November, but the Solar Bears just sent them the wedding video this past weekend, which we were made aware of by our friends at Puck Buddys:

When saying their vows to each other, Pinder and Smoot were asked by the priest, Gordon Barcalow, if they “promise to love and cherish [each other] through power plays and penalty kills, until the final horn of life sounds.” 

Pinder told Outsports how the wedding came off:

“We met at a party and I was wearing a Red Wings Jersey. Dwayne knew the team and player so I was impressed. Plus, he is very cute. So hockey was really our first conversation.

“When we were looking to get married, we thought that doing it before a game would be a great choice — we could get people to go see our local team, the Orlando Solar Bears. I called our ticket rep and asked if we could get married before a game. He said, ‘Hold on,’ then three minutes later got back on the phone and said, ‘Sure, we can do that for you.’

“We had 30 people in a suite after and around 50 who bought tickets and sat in the section next to us. The Amway Arena was great. They let people rotate in and out of the suite so everyone could see our Zamboni cake. The priest is a friend of ours (also gay) who was thrilled to officiate.

“We also had hockey themed gift bags — a puck with our wedding logo, unopened packs of trading cards from the 1990s and M&Ms with our team colors. We are both wearing Solar Bears jerseys, but Dwayne had a game-worn one from ‘Star Wars’ night.”

Pinder, an actor/director/writer, and Smoot, who works in IT and data for Valencia College, met 16 years ago. Pinder was born a Red Wings fan, but both men have also adopted the Tampa Bay Lightning as their team. Pinder’s best man wore a Red Wing jersey, even though he’s a Penguins fan; Smoot’s best man wore a Steven Stamkos Lightning jersey.

The couple want to give a special shout-out to Justin Derazza and Mark Nolte, the two men at the Solar Bears who made their special day memorable. By all accounts, it was a clean wedding, with no guests sent off to the penalty box.

For more from OutSports, check out these stories:

The first Tel Aviv Games are bringing LGBT athletes to Israel this week

College volleyball team in North Carolina is melting pot with three LGBT athletes

This gay high school wrestler found strength in his sport after facing harassment

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Since President Donald Trump’s election, artists and curators have been showing up and putting in work to prove that the line between art and activism is tenuous at best. An upcoming exhibition called “No Borders” is the most recent example.

The one-day pop-up show features over 100 works by donated artists including Claes Oldenburg, Robert Longo and Victoria Burge, all of which are priced at $200 or less. All proceeds from the day’s sales will go toward the ACLU and the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP). 

Curator Kirsten Flaherty began organizing the event following the announcement of Trump’s executive order banning immigrants from seven Muslim-majority nations in February. Along with Trump’s ban, Flaherty also sought to resist the racist rhetoric vocalized by the presidential administration’s supporters around the country, as well as the surge of hate crimes and xenophobic threats sweeping the nation. 

Two months prior, Flaherty coordinated an art fundraiser to benefit the Standing Rock Medic + Healer Council as well as the Civil Liberties Defense Center, in support of those protesting at Standing Rock. In a single day, the show raised over $5,000. 

The “No Borders” exhibition provides a space for the creative community to come together, supporting one another as well as those most targeted by the current administration. “I believe,” Flaherty expressed in a statement, “as do many of the artists involved, that it is the responsibility of artists to use their visual talents in resistance to injustice and these exhibitions strive to raise vital funding while at the same time foster a sense of support among creative individuals in a difficult time.”

“No Borders” takes place Sunday, April 2, from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Brooklyn’s Ground Floor Gallery. Art lovers will be hard-pressed to find an easier way to show some love to the organizations fighting to protect the rights of immigrants and refugees in this uncertain time. Also ― paying $200 for a Claes Oldenburg lithograph is just bananas, so you might want to get there early.   

Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tom Hanks, Tracy Morgan, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Moore, Padma Lakshmi and a whole host of other stars are teaming up for Stand for Rights: A Benefit for the ACLU. Donate now and join us at 7 p.m. ET on Friday, March 31, on Facebook Live. #standforrights2017 

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