COVID will affect cardiovascular health, health care for years to come, authors say.
Enlarge/ X-ray technicians take a chest X-ray of an unvaccinated COVID-19 patient on the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) floor at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg)
A bout of COVID-19 can take a hefty toll on the heart and blood vessels; people who recover from the infection have substantially higher risks of developing any of 20 serious cardiovascular disorders in the year following their recovery. Those disorders include heart failure, stroke, atrial fibrillation and other arrhythmias, myocarditis (inflammation of the heart), and blood clots in the lungs.
Cardiovascular risks increase with the severity of an infection—that is, people who need intensive care for COVID-19 face the highest cardiovascular risks. But, overall, the pandemic virus appears to be indiscriminate, wreaking havoc on cardiovascular systems and increasing risks in all groups of patients, from those with mild disease, to the young, to those without underlying conditions or pre-existing cardiovascular diseases.
Enlarge/ The 2021 14-inch MacBook Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon)
Apple has released updates for iOS/iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS that primarily address bugs and security vulnerabilities.
iOS 15.3.1 is a minor update, feature-wise, for most users. It fixes a problem with Braille displays and addresses an arbitrary code execution vulnerability.
Apple AirTags have been used for stalking women and by car thieves.
Enlarge/ AirTag box at an Apple Store on April 30, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. (credit: Getty Images | James D. Morgan)
Apple yesterday announced upcoming AirTag updates designed to combat stalking and other unwanted tracking.
"AirTag was designed to help people locate their personal belongings, not to track people or another person's property, and we condemn in the strongest possible terms any malicious use of our products," Apple said. Thieves have used AirTags to track high-end cars, and stalkers have used the devices to track women. Apple's update yesterday acknowledged that the company has "seen reports of bad actors attempting to misuse AirTag for malicious or criminal purposes."
AirTags already have some safety features, such as making beeping sounds when they've been away from their linked devices for a day. iPhones also receive warnings about unknown AirTags nearby. But the beep can be difficult to hear, and the timing of the warnings apparently varies. One person who was tracked "said she was notified four hours after her phone first noticed the rogue gadget" while "others said it took days before they were made aware of an unknown AirTag," a New York Times article in December said.
We now have an idea of how much QD-OLED screens will run you compared to the OLED panels we know today.
OLED is already an expensive, high-end display technology, but Samsung's QD-OLED puts a quantum-dot spin on the tech, promising image enhancement and improved color coverage. We're still waiting to learn how much QD-OLED TVs will cost, but the first PC monitor with the tech, coming this spring, will be $1,300.
Samsung Display announced QD-OLED, or Quantum Dot-Organic Light Emitting Diode, last month, with TVs and monitors expected this year. The new type of OLED panel is supposed to provide the same deep blacks and rich contrast that make OLED popular among HDR users, gamers, and anyone who wants a crisp image. The difference is that the new tech uses a blue OLED material that goes through a layer of quantum dots. This setup is supposed to ensure vivid color regardless of the screen's brightness setting, plus more detail in highlighted areas. (For an in-depth look, check out our story explaining what QD-OLED is.)
It’s been nearly three years since Amazon released a hardware update for the entry-level Amazon Fire tablet. But it looks like a new model could be coming soon. An unannounced device that sure looks like an Amazon Fire tablet showed up at the FCC website this week, and if I had to guess which Amazon tablet […]
It’s been nearly three years since Amazon released a hardware update for the entry-level Amazon Fire tablet. But it looks like a new model could be coming soon.
An unannounced device that sure looks like an Amazon Fire tablet showed up at the FCC website this week, and if I had to guess which Amazon tablet we’re looking at, I’d say it’s most likely an update to the Fire 7.
That’s because the Amazon Fire 7 is currently the oldest member of the Fire tablet lineup, having launched in 2019. The current-gen Fire HD 8, by comparison, was released in 2020 and the Fire HD 10 was last updated in 2021.
Some key specs for the 2019 model are also starting to look dated, even taking into account the fact that Amazon’s 7 inch tablets tend to be its smallest, cheapest, and least powerful tablets.
For example, all of the company’s other tablets support WiFi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0 and have USB Type-C ports, but the 2019 Fire 7 tablet has a micro USB port and tops out at WiFi 4 and Bluetooth 4.1. So it’s good to see that documents uploaded to the FCC website indicate that the new model will support WiFi 5.
While it would be nice to see Amazon jump on the WiFi 6 bandwagon, it’s probably unrealistic to expect the company to make that move with its cheapest tablet first. Unfortunately the FCC documents don’t say anything about the USB port or other specs.
Currently the Amazon Fire 7 has a smaller, lower-resolution display, a slower processor, and less memory than any other tablet in Amazon’s lineup. But it does also have the lowest starting price, typically selling for $50 and up, and often going for even less than that (all of Amazon’s tablets are discounted this week as part of a Valentine’s Day sale, and the Fire 7 is selling for as little as $35).
Here’s a comparison of key specs for each current-gen Amazon Fire tablet. Hopefully the new model will upgrade at least a few features… assuming the model appearing at the FCC website is indeed a new Fire 7 tablet. There’s always a chance it could be a different model altogether.
Fun fact: The FCC documentation doesn’t mention Amazon by name, but everything was submitted by a company called Abyssal Plain, which is the same name as the shell company Amazon used to submit documents for the 2021 Amazon fire HD 10 tablet.
It’s been nearly three years since Amazon released a hardware update for the entry-level Amazon Fire tablet. But it looks like a new model could be coming soon. An unannounced device that sure looks like an Amazon Fire tablet showed up at the FCC website this week, and if I had to guess which Amazon tablet […]
It’s been nearly three years since Amazon released a hardware update for the entry-level Amazon Fire tablet. But it looks like a new model could be coming soon.
An unannounced device that sure looks like an Amazon Fire tablet showed up at the FCC website this week, and if I had to guess which Amazon tablet we’re looking at, I’d say it’s most likely an update to the Fire 7.
That’s because the Amazon Fire 7 is currently the oldest member of the Fire tablet lineup, having launched in 2019. The current-gen Fire HD 8, by comparison, was released in 2020 and the Fire HD 10 was last updated in 2021.
Some key specs for the 2019 model are also starting to look dated, even taking into account the fact that Amazon’s 7 inch tablets tend to be its smallest, cheapest, and least powerful tablets.
For example, all of the company’s other tablets support WiFi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0 and have USB Type-C ports, but the 2019 Fire 7 tablet has a micro USB port and tops out at WiFi 4 and Bluetooth 4.1. So it’s good to see that documents uploaded to the FCC website indicate that the new model will support WiFi 5.
While it would be nice to see Amazon jump on the WiFi 6 bandwagon, it’s probably unrealistic to expect the company to make that move with its cheapest tablet first. Unfortunately the FCC documents don’t say anything about the USB port or other specs.
Currently the Amazon Fire 7 has a smaller, lower-resolution display, a slower processor, and less memory than any other tablet in Amazon’s lineup. But it does also have the lowest starting price, typically selling for $50 and up, and often going for even less than that (all of Amazon’s tablets are discounted this week as part of a Valentine’s Day sale, and the Fire 7 is selling for as little as $35).
Here’s a comparison of key specs for each current-gen Amazon Fire tablet. Hopefully the new model will upgrade at least a few features… assuming the model appearing at the FCC website is indeed a new Fire 7 tablet. There’s always a chance it could be a different model altogether.
Fun fact: The FCC documentation doesn’t mention Amazon by name, but everything was submitted by a company called Abyssal Plain, which is the same name as the shell company Amazon used to submit documents for the 2021 Amazon fire HD 10 tablet.
Smart#1 heißt das neue Elektroauto der Marke Smart, das noch 2022 auf den Markt kommen soll. Mit dem alten Smart hat das Fahrzeug wenig gemein. (Elektroauto, Technologie)
Smart#1 heißt das neue Elektroauto der Marke Smart, das noch 2022 auf den Markt kommen soll. Mit dem alten Smart hat das Fahrzeug wenig gemein. (Elektroauto, Technologie)
Amazon’s Valentine’s Day device deals continue with up to 50% off on some products including Fire tablets. And Best Buy is running a 24-hour flash sale with discounts across a wide range of product categories. Meanwhile if you’re in the market for a thin and light laptop, Dell is offering an XPS 13 model with […]
Amazon’s Valentine’s Day device deals continue with up to 50% off on some products including Fire tablets. And Best Buy is running a 24-hour flash sale with discounts across a wide range of product categories.
Meanwhile if you’re in the market for a thin and light laptop, Dell is offering an XPS 13 model with an Intel Core i5 Tiger Lake processor for just $700, and BuyDig has a 2.2 pound LG Ultra 13″ laptop with an AMD Ryzen 5 4500U processor on sale for just $499. While neither is exactly state of the art, those prices represent deep discounts over the original list prices for these ultraportable notebooks.
A phone was supposed to arrive in 2021 and never did.
Enlarge/ OnwardMobility's teaser image. A phone never arrived in 2021. (credit: OnwardMobility)
BlackBerry phones will remain dead.
In 2020, we reported on OnwardMobility, a startup that licensed the BlackBerry brand for smartphones and planned to release a new QWERTY Android phone. There was a lot to worry about when the company missed its promised 2021 deadline, and just last month, it had to make a blog post titled "Contrary to popular belief, we are not dead."
Well, the company's plans are now dead. Both Daniel Bader of Android Police and Kevin Michaluk (the founder of Crackberry) are independently reporting that OnwardMobility has lost its Blackberry license. Bader says, "According to sources, BlackBerry is looking to further distance itself from its days as a smartphone vendor after selling the remainder of its mobile patent portfolio for $600 million earlier this month."
Für den Telekom-Manager Jean-Pascal Roux ist der Glasfaser-Knoten ist endgültig geplatzt. Auch FTTB wird als Übergang genutzt. (
Smart#1 heißt das neue Elektroauto der Marke Smart, das noch 2022 auf den Markt kommen soll. Mit dem alten Smart hat das Fahrzeug wenig gemein. (
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