T-Mobile, Nvidia, Amazon, and others are canceling their plans or going virtual.
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After an all-virtual Consumer Electronics Show in 2021, it was looking like January 2022's CES would go back to being an in-person event. Though the Consumer Technology Association is forging ahead with the show, the list is growing of companies that are either going remote or canceling their plans entirely because of the COVID-19 surge being driven by the delta and omicron variants, according to Bloomberg.
Amazon, Twitter, Meta, and Pinterest have all dropped out, and T-Mobile has announced that it has chosen to "significantly limit our in-person participation" at CES and has canceled a planned keynote speech from CEO Mike Sievert. Nvidia was already planning a virtual conference for this year's show, while AMD will also have "a limited presence," according to the report. Press outlets like The Verge, TechCrunch, Engadget and, yes, Ars Technica, are also planning to cover the event remotely.
Other companies are planning to show, though many say that they are "monitoring the situation" and that their plans may include a mix of virtual and in-person presentations. Samsung, Qualcomm, Sony, Google, and HTC are all still planning to show up.
Lenovo is running a year-end sale on laptops, desktops, tablets, and all sorts of other products. I’ve rounded up some of the better deals on thin and light notebooks for today’s roundup. But Lenovo’s laptops aren’t the only ones on sale. There are also some nice deal on Acer, Asus, and Samsung notebooks. And if […]
Lenovo is running a year-end sale on laptops, desktops, tablets, and all sorts of other products. I’ve rounded up some of the better deals on thin and light notebooks for today’s roundup.
But Lenovo’s laptops aren’t the only ones on sale. There are also some nice deal on Acer, Asus, and Samsung notebooks. And if you’re not looking to spend any money at all today, how about something free? The Epic Games Store is giving away Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden for free today.
COVID-19 patients as young as 12 can now be treated with Paxlovid, an antiviral pill developed by Pfizer, after the Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization on Wednesday.
“Today’s authorization introduces the first treatment for COVID-19 that is in the form of a pill that is taken orally—a major step forward in the fight against this global pandemic,” said Dr. Patrizia Cavazzoni, director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. “This authorization provides a new tool to combat COVID-19 at a crucial time in the pandemic as new variants emerge and promises to make antiviral treatment more accessible to patients who are at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19.”
In early November, Pfizer published trial results for the new oral medication, saying that it reduced hospitalizations and deaths due to COVID-19 by 89 percent. Although the results had not undergone peer-review, Paxlovid's strong effectiveness moved an independent data-monitoring committee to recommend ending the trial early.
The Lenovo Legion Y700 is an Android tablet designed for gaming. It’s the first gaming tablet from Lenovo, and might actually be the first Android tablet from any company designed specifically for gaming since NVIDIA discontinued its Shield line of tablets. Lenovo has been dropping teasers for the tablet for months, and now the company […]
The Lenovo Legion Y700 is an Android tablet designed for gaming. It’s the first gaming tablet from Lenovo, and might actually be the first Android tablet from any company designed specifically for gaming since NVIDIA discontinued its Shield line of tablets.
Stereo JBL speakers w/Dolby Atmos
USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C port
3.5mm audio jack
SIM card slot
Dimensions
207.1 x 128.1 x 7.9mm
Weight
375 grams
Price
8GB/128GB for 2,199 CNY ($350)
12GB/256GB for 2,499 CNY ($400)
The Lenovo Legion Y700 is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 processor and features 12GB of LPDDR5 memory and 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage. It has an 8.8 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel LCD display with 100% DCI-P3 color gamut, a 120 Hz refresh rate, and a 240 Hz touch sampling rate.
While the screen has a 16:10 aspect ratio, a Lenovo executive recently explained in a post on Chinese social media website Weibo that users will be able to adjust that aspect ratio at up to 21:9 in order to get more horizontal screen space.
This is accomplished by adding black bars above and below the window of a game, which basically means you’re losing some vertical space to get additional horizontal space. But since many smartphones have 20:9, 20:10, or 21:9 aspect ratios, this will allow you to use the tablet without missing out on content you might see if you were using such a phone.
Other features include a 6,550 mAh battery, 45 watt fast charging, JBL speakers, and support for Dolby Vision and Dolby Audio. And recent pictures show that the tablet has a SIM card slot, suggesting that it’ll support cellular data, at least in China.
The tablet has a brushed metal back, at least one USB-C port, a headphone jack, slim bezels around the display, and a single rear camera with an LED flash.
Pictures of the tablet also show relatively slim bezels around at least two sides of the display and a single rear camera with an LED flash.
Lenovo also hasn’t announced plans to release the Legion Y700 gaming tablet outside of China yet, but the company does have a track record of offering Android-powered gaming devices internationally.
The Lenovo Legion Phone Duel and Legion Phone Duel 2 were both release in global markets, although they were never made widely available in North America, where Lenovo doesn’t typically sell phones bearing the company’s brand name (although since Motorola Mobility is a subsidiary of Lenovo, you can technically buy Lenovo phones in North America).
The company is also planning to launch a new gaming phone soon called the Lenovo Legion Y90. It’s expected to have a 6.92 inch AMOLED display with a 144 Hz screen refresh rate and 720 Hz touch sampling rate, two USB-C ports, and an air cooling system that seems to include a fan on the back of the phone.
LG’s vertical monitor offers a longer view fit for coders and scrollers.
Enlarge/ LG DualUp Monitor (28MQ780). (credit: LG)
If you haven't noticed, screens have been getting taller. Laptops are the most obvious example, with more of them opting for 16:10 this year than we've seen in years, with even a 3:2 aspect ratio being an option. LG has now brought this taller view to external PC monitors by announcing today the LG DualUp Monitor (28MQ780), a 27.6-inch monitor with a 16:18 aspect ratio.
It's not like LG just took a traditional monitor's form factor and turned it sideways. The DualUp is closer to a square than more common 16:9 displays. At 16:18, the monitor's length and height are closer to the same measurement, but the monitor is still taller than it is wide. If you're sick of scrolling through long articles, spreadsheets, lines of code, and your everlasting newsfeed, this option is something to consider.
While taller screens are increasingly common in laptops, they're incredibly rare in PC monitors. There are plenty of ultra-wides filling the peripheral vision of gamers and productivity hounds, but it's nearly impossible to find a vertical PC monitor. We recently covered a much skinnier 7:32 vertical monitor, but it's primarily available in Japan, and as a portable monitor, it's much smaller at 8.8 inches. In terms of mainstream, widely available monitors in the US, the DualUp Monitor should be one of a kind whenever it comes out—LG didn't share a price or release date.
Die Verbraucherzentrale hatte mindestens 50 MBit/s gefordert, die Bundesnetzagentur schlägt jetzt erheblich weniger vor. Beim Upload sollen 1,3 MBit/s reichen. (Universaldienst, Verbraucherschutz)
Die Verbraucherzentrale hatte mindestens 50 MBit/s gefordert, die Bundesnetzagentur schlägt jetzt erheblich weniger vor. Beim Upload sollen 1,3 MBit/s reichen. (Universaldienst, Verbraucherschutz)
Decision means iPhone maker will face activist scrutiny at 2022 annual meeting.
Enlarge/ An Apple Store in Cambridge, UK. (credit: Martin Pope | Getty Images)
The Securities and Exchange Commission has rejected Apple’s petition to block three shareholder proposals from going to a vote at its next annual meeting—a win for activists that signals trouble for other US companies hoping the regulator will allow them to fend off unwanted attention.
The resolutions call for detailed reports regarding allegations of forced labor in Apple’s supply chain, explanations of why certain apps are deleted from the App Store in China, and a public report of what risks the iPhone maker could face by allegedly using nondisclosure agreements in the context of workplace harassment and discrimination.
The Financial Times reported in October that Apple asked the SEC for permission to block six shareholder petitions, the highest amount of proposals the company has had since 2017. Apple’s reasoning was that it had “substantially implemented” what the petitioners were asking for. Of the remaining three proposals, one was rejected and two remain outstanding.
The MECOOL KD3 is a media streamer powered by the same Google TV software as Google’s latest Chromecast. Plug the stick directly into the HDMI port of a TV and you can use it to steam 4K HDR content from Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, YouTube, and other sources. It comes with a remote control […]
The MECOOL KD3 is a media streamer powered by the same Google TV software as Google’s latest Chromecast. Plug the stick directly into the HDMI port of a TV and you can use it to steam 4K HDR content from Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, YouTube, and other sources. It comes with a remote control with support for Google Assistant voice controls, but you can also use Google Cast to stream content from the internet to a TV while using your phone as a remote.
Chinese device maker MECOOL unveiled the KD3 in December 2022, and it’s now available for purchase for $63.
That makes the media streamer a little more expensive than the $50 Chromecast with Google TV and more than three times the price of Walmart’s Onn UHD Android TV streaming device though. So unless you really want the remote that comes with the MECOOL KD3, I’m not really sure why you’d go with this option.
Anyway, if you’re still reading, the MECOOL KD3 features an Amlogic S905Y4 processor, which is a quad-core ARM Cortex-A35 processor with Mali-G31 MP2 graphics. Other features include 2GB of LPDDR4 memory, 8GB of eMMC storage, and support for WiFI 5 and Bluetooth 5.0.
It has an HDMI connector for plugging into a TV, a micro USB port for power input, and support for AV1, VP9, H.265, H.264, and AVS2-P2 video.
The stick measures 92.5 x 29.5 x 14.5mm (3.6″ x 1.2″ x 0.6″) and comes with a Bluetooth remote that also features IR for controlling the power and volume settings on your TV. There are dedicated buttons on the remote from Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, and YouTube.
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