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Auch im neuen Jahr setzt LG stark auf OLED-Fernseher: Die Helligkeit soll höher sein, zudem gibt es eine neue Version des Bildprozessors. (CES 2022, OLED)
“For the first time since the world ended, a brighter future awaits beyond the train.”
Sean Bean is back as Mr. Wilford in the third season of Snowpiercer.
We finally have a full trailer for the upcoming third season of Snowpiercer, and the power struggle between Layton (Daveed Diggs) and Mr. Wilford (Sean Bean) is heating up in earnest. There is also a glimmer of hope for humanity, as Melanie (Jennifer Connelly) managed to make a map to a rumored "new Eden" before presumably perishing in the harsh environment outside the train.
As I've written previously, Snowpiercer is TNT's TV adaptation of the 2013 film of the same name, directed by Bong Joon-ho, about remnants of humanity trying to survive an ice age inside a 1,001-car train. The train is run by a reclusive transportation magnate named Mr. Wilford, who has separated the passengers according to class and has a nefarious plan to ensure life on the train remains sustainable. The TV series is set seven years after the climate catastrophe that produced the "Freeze."
S1 ended on a cliffhanger twist: the re-appearance of Mr. Wilford (Sean Bean), along with Melanie's presumed-dead daughter, Alex (Rowan Blanchard). S2 delved into the complicated relationships, political machinations, and shifting political loyalties that inevitably arose with Wilford's unexpected return. Bean's portrayal of Wilford gave the series the charismatic, larger-than-life (human) villain it needed to really raise the emotional stakes.
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The Samsung Galaxy S21 FE is a smartphone with near-flagship specs and a $699 starting price, which makes it… about $100 cheaper than a phone with nearly identical specs that launched a year ago. In a nutshell, the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE is a slightly cheaper Galaxy S21… which would have made a lot more […]
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The Samsung Galaxy S21 FE is a smartphone with near-flagship specs and a $699 starting price, which makes it… about $100 cheaper than a phone with nearly identical specs that launched a year ago.
In a nutshell, the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE is a slightly cheaper Galaxy S21… which would have made a lot more sense if it had launched months ago, as expected. But instead it’s launching at a time when you can often find the Samsung Galaxy S21 on sale for below its list price… and at a time when the phone’s Snapdragon 888 processor is no longer the hot new thing (perhaps literally).
Anyway, the phone has a slightly larger, slighter lower-resolution display than the original Galaxy S21, has an entry-level configuration with just 6GB of RAM instead of 8GB, and features a similar camera system except that the telephoto camera has a lower resolution on the S21 FE, while the selfie camera captures four times as many pixels.
The Galaxy S21 FE keeps a lot of key features including a 120 Hz AMOLED display, IP68 water resistance, support for 25W fast charging and 15W fast wireless charging, and picks up a slightly larger battery which could lead to longer run time.
Possibly the best thing about the phone though, is that it’s a year newer than other members of the Galaxy S21 family. Since the new model ships with Android 12 and should receive major Android updates for at least three years, that means that it should be supported at least until Android 15 is available, while the other phones in this series could end their lives running Android 14.
Here’s how the new Galaxy S21 FE stacks up against other members of the Galaxy S21 family:
| Samsung Galaxy S21 FE | Samsung Galaxy S21 5G | Samsung Galaxy S21 5G | Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G | |
| Display | 6.4 inch 2340 x 1080 pixel 412 ppi AMOLED 120 Hz |
6.2 inch 2400 x 1080 pixel 421 ppi AMOLED 120 Hz |
6.7 inch 2400 x 1080 pixel 394 ppi AMOLED 120 Hz |
6.8 inch 3200 x 1400 pixel 515 ppi 120 Hz |
| Processor | Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 | Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 (US) Samsung Exynos 2100 (global) |
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 (US) Samsung Exynos 2100 (global) |
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 (US) Samsung Exynos 2100 (global) |
| RAM | 6GB 8GB |
8GB | 8GB | 12GB 16GB |
| Storage | 128GB 256GB |
128GB 256GB |
128GB 256GB |
128GB 256GB 512GB |
| Rear cameras | 12MP primary (f/1.8) 12MP ultra-wide (f/2.2) 8MP 3X telephoto (f/2.4) |
12MP wide-angle (f/1.8) 12MP ultra-wide (f/2.2) 64MP telephoto (f/2.0) |
12MP wide-angle (f/1.8) 12MP ultra-wide (f/2.2) 64MP telephoto (f/2.0) |
108MP wide angle (f/1.8) 12MP ultra-wide (f/2.2) 10MP 3X telephoto (f/2.4) 10MP 10X telephoto (f/4.9) |
| Front camera | 32MP (f/2.2) | 10MP wide-angle (f/2.2) | 10MP wide-angle (f/2.2) | 40MP wide-angle (f/2.2) |
| Battery | 4,500 mAh | 4,000 mAh | 4,800 mAh | 5,000 mAh |
| Charging | 25W fast (wired) 15W fast (wireless) Wireless PowerShare |
25W fast (wired) 15W fast (wireless) Wireless PowerShare |
25W fast (wired) 15W fast (wireless) Wireless PowerShare |
25W fast (wired) 15W fast (wireless) Wireless PowerShare |
| Connectivity | 5G WiFi 6 Bluetooth 5.0 NFC |
5G WiFi 6 Bluetooth 5.0 NFC |
5G WiFi 6 Bluetooth 5.0 NFC |
5G WiFi 6E Bluetooth 5.0 NFC |
| S-Pen support? | No | No | No | Yes |
| Colors | Olive Lavendar White Graphite |
Grey White Pink Violet |
Silver Black Violet |
Silver Black |
| Dimensions | 155.7 x 74.5 x 7.9mm | 151.7 x 71.2 x 7.9 mm | 161.5 x 75.6 x 7.8 mm | 165.1 x 75.6 x 8.9 mm |
| Weight | 177 grams | 171 grams | 202 grams | 228 grams |
| List Price (at launch) | $699 and up | $799 and up | $999 and up | $1199 and up |
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Many big tech companies and news outlets may have opted not to actually go to Las Vegas for the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show, but the show is still going on both in-person and virtually. So expect a flood of announcements over the next few days. Kicking things off, the Consumer Technology Association has announced a […]
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Many big tech companies and news outlets may have opted not to actually go to Las Vegas for the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show, but the show is still going on both in-person and virtually. So expect a flood of announcements over the next few days.
Kicking things off, the Consumer Technology Association has announced a number of CES 2022 Innovation Awards honorees… including a bunch of products that haven’t actually been announced yet. There aren’t many details on the awards pages, but now we have confirmation that AMD’s Ryzen 6000 Mobile chips are launching this week (with next-gen graphics and support for DDR5 memory), and Lenovo’s previously-leaked dual-screen ThinkBook Plus Gen 3 laptop is also coming (we also have new details on the sizes of its two screens).
Here’s a roundup of recent tech news from around the web.
Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 3 wins a CES Innovation Award before it’s officially announced. Now we know the primary display is a 17.3 inch ultrawide screen and the secondary is an 8 inch “auxiliary” display.
AMD won a CES Innovation award for its Ryzen 6000 Mobile processors that won’t be announced until tomorrow. We now have confirmation that they feature RDNA2 graphics and support for DDR5 memory though, something hinted at in a leak from a few days ago.
AnkerWork B600 is a 2K webcam with a built-in array of 4 microphones (for noise reduction), stereo 2W speakers, and an edge light to illuminate the subject.
And the award for the least information available from a CES Innovation Award page foes to this Fujitsu LOOX tablet, which is “the world’s thinnest and lightest Windows tablet”. It appears to have a pen, detachable keyboard, and kickstand/case.
Intel may be developing an NUC Extreme Edition mini PC with an LGA1700 socket for a desktop-class 12th-gen Intel Core “Alder Lake” processor. It would also mean that users could replace the CPU.
First LGA Socket for NUC
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— HXL (@9550pro) January 2, 2022
Amazon has updated its Alexa Voice Remote Lite with a new model featuring an Alexa logo on the mic button and dedicated shortcut buttons for Prime Video, Netflix, Disney+ and Hulu.
Samsung’s new Eco Remote for TVs may never need its battery changed since it can charge via solar power or by harvesting power from RF signals. There’s also a USB-C port in case the other methods fall short though.
Developers have been creating open source firmware that can replace the closed firmware that ships with the PinePhone’s modem. Now there’s a new way to update that firmware more easily.
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Verdict ends the latest chapter in the Theranos saga, but it’s not the last.
Enlarge / Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans, right, leave the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building on November 23, 2021, in San Jose, Calif. (credit: Ethan Swope/Getty Images)
Elizabeth Holmes was convicted today of two counts of criminal wire fraud and one count of criminal conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The jury delivered its verdict after six days of deliberation.
The government’s victory in the case is a rare rebuke for tech startups, which often pitch investors on their technological prowess and business acumen using wildly optimistic assumptions.
Theranos was, perhaps, an extreme example, raising over $900 million on the back of claims that its proprietary tests were better, cheaper, and less invasive than the competition. None of those claims was true, and unlike many other Silicon Valley startups, the health and safety of patients was on the line.
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Pharaoh had “narrow chin, a small narrow nose, curly hair, and mildly protruding upper teeth.”
Enlarge / Royal mummy of Amenhotep I, the second pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, at Cairo Museum, Egypt. (credit: Patrick Landmann/Getty Images)
Amenhotep I was an Egyptian pharaoh best known for building numerous temples and inspiring the formation of a funerary cult after his death. His mummy, first discovered in 1881, has never been opened, because conservators were reluctant to damage something that had survived in such pristine condition. Now, scientists have succeeded in "virtually unwrapping" the mummy of Amenhotep I, providing us with our first look inside, according to a paper published last week in the journal Frontiers in Medicine.
In the process, the authors disproved their own hypothesis that those who restored the mummy sometime during the 21st dynasty (1069 to 945 BCE) did so in order to reuse the royal burial equipment for later pharaohs. Instead, Amenhotep I's mummy seems to have been lovingly restored after being damaged by tomb robbers.
"This fact that Amenhotep I's mummy had never been unwrapped in modern times gave us a unique opportunity: not just to study how he had originally been mummified and buried, but also how he had been treated and reburied twice, centuries after his death, by High Priests of Amun," said Sahar Saleem of Cairo University, the radiologist of the Egyptian Mummy Project, who co-authored the paper with Zahi Hawass, former minister of antiquities of Egypt. "By digitally unwrapping the mummy and 'peeling off' its virtual layers—the facemask, the bandages, and the mummy itself—we could study this well-preserved pharaoh in unprecedented detail."
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Eine zunehmende Überschuldung, die Immobilienblase und steigende Nahrungsmittelpreise sind nur drei der Probleme. Der Kollaps könnte plötzlich kommen
The Samsung Galaxy S III is a smartphone that was released nearly 10 years ago, and while it initially shipped with Android 4.0 software, Samsung eventually offered Android 4.1 and then Android 4.3 updates. And that… was about it for official updates. But when it comes to unofficial updates, the Galaxy S III is a phone […]
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The Samsung Galaxy S III is a smartphone that was released nearly 10 years ago, and while it initially shipped with Android 4.0 software, Samsung eventually offered Android 4.1 and then Android 4.3 updates. And that… was about it for official updates.
But when it comes to unofficial updates, the Galaxy S III is a phone that enthusiasts won’t let die. Recently xda-developers forum member html6405 ported LineageOS 19.0 to the phone, which means that you can now run Android 12 on the decade-old Samsung Galaxy S III.
There are a few things to keep in mind before installing Android 12 on the phone. First, the LineageOS port for the phone is still considered an “early alpha build,” and it’s still buggy and there are some key features that don’t work yet.
Second, this is an old phone with limited resources including a Samsung Exynos 4412 1.4 GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor, 1GB of RAM, and as little as 16GB of storage. So don’t be surprised if installing a recent build of Android on an old phone doesn’t result in an extraordinarily pleasant experience… but it’s still nice to see that folks who have held onto their old phones now have an alternative to running out-of-date software that lacks recent security updates and which may not work with Android apps released in recent year.
For now, html6405 notes that WiFi, Bluetooth, graphics, camera, USB, audio, and video are all working. But phones running the software may randomly reboot. NFC doesn’t work. SIM-PIN unlock doesn’t work and needs to be disabled, and if you try formatting an SD card for use as internal storage, your device will go into a boot loop.
If you want to give LineageOS 19/Android 12 a try on an old Samsung Galaxy S III you can find installation instructions and download links at mhs-solutions or read more about the port at the xda-developers forum. Or check out html6405’s demo video:
The software is still under development though, so folks who don’t want to test the alpha may be better off waiting for a beta or stable release.
via xda-developers
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A rookie programming error crashed servers because they couldn’t process the year 2022.
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Microsoft has released a fix for a harebrained Exchange Server bug that shut down on-premises mail delivery around the world just as clocks were chiming in the new year.
The mass disruption stemmed from a date check failure in Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 that made it impossible for servers to accommodate the year 2022, prompting some to call it the Y2K22 bug. The mail programs stored dates and times as signed integers, which max out at 2147483647, or 231 - 1. Microsoft uses the first two numbers of an update version to denote the year it was released. As long as the year was 2021 or earlier, everything worked fine.
When Microsoft released version 2201010001 on New Year’s Eve, however, on-premises servers crashed because they were unable to interpret the date. Consequently, messages got stuck in transport queues. Admins around the world were left frantically trying to troubleshoot instead of ringing in the New Year with friends and family. All they had to go on were two cryptic log messages that looked like this:
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Add to a charity haul that’s raised over $30,000 during the holidays.
Enlarge / Just some of the prizes available in this year's Ars Technica Charity Drive Sweepstakes. (credit: Kyle Orland)
If you've been too busy playing the best games of 2021 to take part in this year's Ars Technica Charity Drive sweepstakes, don't worry. You still have time to donate to a good cause and get a chance to win your share of over $1,600 worth of swag (no purchase necessary to win).
So far, over the end-of-year holidays, nearly 300 readers have contributed almost $30,000 to either the Electronic Frontier Foundation or Child's Play as part of the charity drive (EFF is now leading in the donation totals by about $4,500). That's a long way off from last year's record haul of over $58,000, but there's still plenty of time until the Charity Drive wraps up on Friday, January 7.
That doesn't mean you should put your donation off, though. Do yourself and the charities involved a favor and give now while you're thinking about it.
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Auch im neuen Jahr setzt LG stark auf OLED-Fernseher: Die Helligkeit soll höher sein, zudem gibt es eine neue Version des Bildprozessors. (
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