SpaceX: “Sole purpose” of price hikes “is to keep pace with rising inflation.”
Enlarge/ The new version of Dishy McFlatface. (credit: Starlink)
Starlink has raised its prices for equipment and monthly service, blaming inflation for the increases in an email to customers. The up-front hardware cost was raised from $499 to $599 (a 20 percent increase), and the monthly service price was raised from $99 to $110 (up 11 percent). People who preordered Starlink and paid deposits but haven't yet received it will have to pay $549 for the user terminal if they choose to keep their orders.
"Due to excessive levels of inflation, the price of the Starlink kit is increasing from $499 to $549 for deposit holders and $599 for all new orders, effective today. In addition, the Starlink monthly service price will increase from $99 to $110," Starlink said in an email to customers yesterday.
"Can't even honor the preorder pricing on the equipment? Brutal," Jon Guidry of Georgia wrote on Twitter. Guidry forwarded us the email he got from Starlink, which says, "The sole purpose of these adjustments is to keep pace with rising inflation." People who preorder have to put down a deposit of $99. Those who already did that can cancel the deposit for a full refund on their account page, the email from Starlink notes.
The Onyx BOOX Nova Air C is a 7.8 inch tablet with a color E Ink display, support for pen and touch input, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, and an operating system based on Android 11, which means that in addition to using the device to read eBooks and jot notes, you can run third-party […]
The Onyx BOOX Nova Air C is a 7.8 inch tablet with a color E Ink display, support for pen and touch input, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, and an operating system based on Android 11, which means that in addition to using the device to read eBooks and jot notes, you can run third-party Android apps.
The tablet comes with a stylus that supports 4096s levels of pressure sensitive input, and folks who place an order by the end of March will also get a magnetic protective case/cover and a set of extra stylus nibs.
This is actually the second BOOX Nova Air C tablet – the original launched last year, features a greyscale display and Android 10 software and currently sells for $350. That makes the color display and updated software a $70 premium, which seems reasonable.
But keep in mind that the way E Ink implements color on its ePaper displays is by using a color filter that reduces the effective screen resolution when you’re viewing color content. So while the BOOX Nova Air C displays 300 pixels per inch in black and white mode, that drops to 100 ppi when viewing color content.
The screen can also only display 4096 colors and has a slower refresh rate than a typical LCD or OLED display, which makes it a poor fit for watching videos or playing many games. But as an E Ink display, you do get low power consumption, high visibility in direct sunlight or other brightly lit environments, and reduced eye strain.
Here’s a run-down of key specs for the Onyx BOOX Nova Air C:
Onyx BOOX Nova Air C
Display
7.8 inches
Color E Ink (4096 colors)
1404 x 1872 pixels (B&W)
468 x 624 pixels (color)
Front light (adjustable color temperature
Capacitive touch
Digital Pen (4096s levels pressure sensitivity)
Though antibody levels looked strong, efficacy against omicron infections took an expected hit.
Enlarge/ Avery, 6, and Aidan, 11, got their second Moderna COVID-19 vaccine doses at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center on Friday, June 25, 2021, as part of the KidCOVE study evaluating the safety and efficacy of the Moderna vaccine in young children. (credit: Getty | MediaNews Group)
Wednesday brought some potentially positive news for the parents and caregivers of young children who have endured an agonizing wait for an effective COVID-19 vaccine. Moderna announced Wednesday that its two-dose vaccine for children ages 6 months to under 6 years appeared safe and produced strong antibody levels that correlate with effectiveness in adults. The company plans to ask the Food and Drug Administration to authorize the vaccine in the coming weeks.
The trial, a randomized, observer-blind, placebo-controlled study called KidCOVE, involved 6,700 children under 6 years old (4,200 children six months to 2 years and 2,500 children 2 years to under 6 years). Vaccinated children received two 25-microgram doses of vaccine—a quarter of the adult dose—which were given 28 days apart. Neutralizing antibody levels in the vaccinated children met or exceeded those seen in adults ages 18 to 25, for which vaccine is already approved.
Omicron hit
Though the primary objective of the trial was to reach those antibody levels seen in adults—a process called an immunobridging study—the trial also looked at efficacy against infection and severe disease amid the wave of omicron coronavirus variant infections. Phase III trial data indicated that the vaccine was about 44 percent effective at preventing an omicron infection in children ages 6 months to 2 years and 37.5 percent effective against an omicron infection in children ages 2 years to under 6 years.
As expected, Amazon is bringing support for WiFi 6E to its eero line of mesh WiFi routers, starting with the new eero Pro 6E which can leverage 6 GHz network bands for reduced congestion and stronger connections between routers. Amazon is positioning its new top-of-the-line mesh routers as solutions that offer Gigabit+ WiFi speeds across large […]
As expected, Amazon is bringing support for WiFi 6E to its eero line of mesh WiFi routers, starting with the new eero Pro 6E which can leverage 6 GHz network bands for reduced congestion and stronger connections between routers. Amazon is positioning its new top-of-the-line mesh routers as solutions that offer Gigabit+ WiFi speeds across large distances.
Amazon is also launching a new eero 6+ router that lacks the 6 GHz band support, but which offers upgraded WiFi networking speeds over the previous-gen eero 6, which is sticking around, but which is getting a price cut.
eero Pro 6E
That means the new pricing for the eero 6 family is:
There’s also a bundle deal that lets you pick up an eero 6+ 3-pack plus an Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max for $299 and that moment.
The entry-level eero 6 is still a pretty good deal, offering dual-band WiFi 6 connections. Each router has two Gigabit Ethernet ports and WiFi coverage for up to 1,500 square feet (so a 2-pack should cover 3,000 square feet and a 3-pack covers 4,500 square feet). You can also save some money by picking up an eero 6 + range extenders if you don’t need Ethernet ports in all parts of your home – the extenders are basically routers without the wired networking features.
But as an eero 6 user, I can tell you that while a set of these entry-level devices will indeed give you strong internet speeds throughout your home, where they fall short is in device-to-device data transfer speeds. That’s where a tri-band connection comes in handy, and that’s what you get with the eero Pro 6 and eero Pro 6E models.
What’s new for the Pro 6E is that the dedicated band makes use of the newly authorized 6 GHz band, for reduced network congestion. The eero Pro 6E also has upgraded Ethernet – while the eero 6 Pro has two Gigabit Ethernet ports, the Pro 6E has a 2.5 GbE port and a 1 GbE port.
eero Pro 6E
The eero 6+, meanwhile, is a more modest upgrade over the eero 6. It’s still a dual-band router with two Gigabit Ethernet ports. But there’s no support for the 160 MHz radio channel for faster data transfers. The eero Pro 6E also supports the 160 MHz channel.
One thing the new routers don’t support… at least not yet? The rumored feature that would allow you to use an Amazon Echo smart speaker or display as a range extender. But it’s possible that the rumor wasn’t wrong so much as premature. Don’t be surprised if Amazon enables that feature in a future software update. Although I also wouldn’t be entirely surprised if the company doesn’t, so I wouldn’t necessarily recommend buying a new eero Pro 6E just to get your hands on that specific feature.
Nissan’s next EV aims for much more mainstream appeal than the hatchback Leaf.
Enlarge/ The electric crossover market is starting to get crowded. This is one of the newest entrants: the Nissan Ariya. (credit: Jonathan Gitlin)
Before Elon Musk and his Model 3, there was another auto executive with grand plans to electrify the car world. That man is Carlos Ghosn, and while he's more famous these days for his departure from Nissan, he was a driving force behind the company's Leaf electric vehicle. The Leaf never quite hit Ghosn's demanding sales expectations—predictions of 1.5 million Leafs per year by 2016—but Nissan had still sold more than half a million by the start of 2020.
Expecting the Leaf to sell in big numbers here in the US was probably asking too much. Apart from small pockets of vocal Internet commentators, most Americans aren't fans of hatchbacks unless they come with a high hip point and a commanding view of the road. That's why Nissan's next EV is landing in the hotly contested crossover segment. The vehicle is called the Ariya, and it goes on sale in the US this fall.
On the outside, it's roughly the same size and shape as Nissan's best-selling Rogue: 183 inches (4,648 mm) long, 74.8 inches (1,900 mm) wide, and 65.4 inches (1,661 mm) tall. But the Ariya's axles are farther apart, and the inherent packaging properties of an electric powertrain mean that the Ariya's interior volume is closer to Nissan's larger, more upmarket Murano.
Innerhalb der Toolbar sollen Edge-User künftig Skype-Meetings schnell aufrufen können. Das macht Microsofts Browser komplexer denn je. (MS Edge, Microsoft)
Innerhalb der Toolbar sollen Edge-User künftig Skype-Meetings schnell aufrufen können. Das macht Microsofts Browser komplexer denn je. (MS Edge, Microsoft)
E Ink has been producing low-power, high-contrast black and white displays for two decades, but the company has recently started offering color ePaper displays for eBook readers, digital signage, and other applications. So far those displays have had a pretty limited color palette, but now E Ink is introducing a new type of display with […]
E Ink has been producing low-power, high-contrast black and white displays for two decades, but the company has recently started offering color ePaper displays for eBook readers, digital signage, and other applications. So far those displays have had a pretty limited color palette, but now E Ink is introducing a new type of display with wider color gamut and improved contrast.
The new E Ink Gallery Plus displays can support up to 60,000 colors and have a 40% better contrast ratio than the company’s previous-gen technology.
While that’s still a pretty tiny fraction of the millions or colors available from LCD or OLED displays, it’s a pretty big step up from the 4096 colors that E Ink screens had topped out at before now.
E Ink’s promotional images show digital signage that looks more vivid and less washed out, and I imagine the same should hold true if the display technology finds its way to eReaders and E Ink tablets in the future.
The company says E Ink Gallery Plus displays will be “available in various sizes… including 13.3 -inch, 25.3-inch and 28-inch” and a report from Cool3C says E Ink Gallery Displays are already in use for digital signage in Taipei.
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