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Greetings, Arsians! Courtesy of our partners at TechBargains, the Dealmaster is back with a bevy of post-Christmas deals.

The top item today is an APC 1000VA uninterruptible power supply. It retails for $119.99, but for you, it's only $94.99. If the weather outside gets a little too frightful this winter, this thing could save your data in the event of a power outage. We've got the UPS and a bunch more deals below. Hopefully you'll be able to stretch those gift cards a little further this year.

• APC BR1000G Back-UPS Pro 1000VA / 600W 8-Outlet Uninterruptible Power Supply for $94.99 (list price $119.99)
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• Philip Wake-Up Light w/ Colored Sunrise Simulation for $114.99 (list price $139.99)
• QNAP 4-Bay TS-451 NAS Storage w/ Intel Celeron 2Ghz Quad-core & 2GB RAM for $459 (2-Bay for $339)
• $100 eBay Gift Card for $95 (list price $100)

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TSA screening passengers in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (credit: danfinkelstein)

The citizens of several US states may soon find that they can't use their drivers' licenses to get into federal facilities or even board planes.

Enforcement of a 2005 federal law that sets identification standards, known as "Real ID," has been long-delayed. But now Department of Homeland Security officials say enforcement is imminent. The "Real ID" law requires states to implement certain security features before they issue IDs and verify the legal residency of anyone to whom they issue an ID card. The statute is in part a response to the suggestion of the 9/11 Commission, which noted that four of the 19 hijackers used state-issued ID cards to board planes.

Real ID also requires states to share their databases of driver information with other states. The information-sharing provisions are a big reason why some privacy groups opposed the law, saying it would effectively be the equivalent of a national identification card.

Not all that long ago, you used to be able to make a list of the year’s best games, confident that those titles would remain relatively static as time went on. That’s not the case anymore. With downloadable content becoming the norm rather than the exception, some of the best games of 2015 actually came out in previous years and were merely updated with intriguing new content this year.

That being the case, we thought it was worth augmenting our official Game of the Year picks for 2015 with this list of four titles that were much improved by downloadable updates during the last 12 months.

Mario Kart 8: DLC tracks and 200cc mode

In a dream world, Mario Kart’s next incarnation would be its last. We don’t want the series to end, per se; we just want it to relaunch as an endless, game-as-a-service title, with semi-annual tweaks and regular releases of new level and character packs.

The Galaxy S1 through Galaxy S6. Use your imagination and picture the Galaxy S7.

A report from the Economic Times of Korea claims to have the skinny on Samsung's launch strategy for the Galaxy S7. According to the report, Samsung's usual strategy of releasing a smaller flagship early in the year (the Galaxy S) and a larger flagship later in the year (the Galaxy Note) will change. This year, the company will apparently align with Apple's release pattern and offer up two different-sized phones at the same time.

For 2015, Samsung had four different "flagship" devices. It released the 5.1-inch Galaxy S6 and 5.1-inch Galaxy S6 Edge at the beginning of the year and the 5.7-inch Galaxy Note 5 and 5.7-inch Galaxy S6 Edge+ toward the end of the year. The ET news report lists two different models for early 2016. One goes by the codename "HERO1" and has a flat, 5.2-inch display—we'd guess this is the regular Galaxy S7. The other is listed as "HERO2" and has a 5.5-inch curved display.

If Samsung follows last year's naming conventions, the 5.5-inch curved device would be called the "Galaxy S7 Edge+," but the report calls it the "Galaxy S7 Edge." Is the regular Edge just growing in size?