Daily Deals (1-21-2022)

Woot is running a “Best of Tech” sale with discounts on a handful of products including audio and home security gear. But you can find even more deals in Woot’s latest Garage Sale. Meanwhile Walmart is offering selling Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S6 Lite for $269, which is a pretty good deal for this Android tablet […]

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Woot is running a “Best of Tech” sale with discounts on a handful of products including audio and home security gear. But you can find even more deals in Woot’s latest Garage Sale.

Meanwhile Walmart is offering selling Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S6 Lite for $269, which is a pretty good deal for this Android tablet with a 10.4 inch display, an Exynos 9611 processor, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, and a Samsung S-Pen.


Prefer a tablet that comes with a pen and a keyboard? A Lenovo Tab P11 bundle is on sale for $300 and Lenovo’s tablet features a Qualcomm Snapdragon 662 processor, 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage.

Here are some of the day’s best deals.

Tablets

Smartphones

PCs

Audio

Other

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Daily Deals (1-21-2022)

Woot is running a “Best of Tech” sale with discounts on a handful of products including audio and home security gear. But you can find even more deals in Woot’s latest Garage Sale. Meanwhile Walmart is offering selling Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S6 Lite for $269, which is a pretty good deal for this Android tablet […]

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Woot is running a “Best of Tech” sale with discounts on a handful of products including audio and home security gear. But you can find even more deals in Woot’s latest Garage Sale.

Meanwhile Walmart is offering selling Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S6 Lite for $269, which is a pretty good deal for this Android tablet with a 10.4 inch display, an Exynos 9611 processor, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, and a Samsung S-Pen.


Prefer a tablet that comes with a pen and a keyboard? A Lenovo Tab P11 bundle is on sale for $300 and Lenovo’s tablet features a Qualcomm Snapdragon 662 processor, 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage.

Here are some of the day’s best deals.

Tablets

Smartphones

PCs

Audio

Other

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Machine to melt Moon rocks and derive metals may launch in 2024

“These are the kinds of things that America needs to do to remain a leader in space.”

If all goes well, this is how Lunar Resources' extractor could appear on the lunar surface in a few years.

Enlarge / If all goes well, this is how Lunar Resources' extractor could appear on the lunar surface in a few years. (credit: Lunar Resources)

In recent years, much has been said about mining water ice in shadowed craters at the Moon's South Pole for use as rocket propellant. Enthusiasm for this idea has led NASA to begin planning the first human missions of its Artemis Program to land near the South Pole instead of the mid-latitudes.

However, a Houston-based company says there is value in the gray, dusty regolith spread across the entire lunar surface. The firm, Lunar Resources, is developing technology to extract iron, aluminum, magnesium, and silicon from the Moon's regolith. These materials, in turn, would be used to manufacture goods on the Moon.

"There are all of these valuable metals on the Moon, just there for the taking," said Elliot Carol, chief executive officer of Lunar Resources.

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Netzneutralität: Google und Meta verteidigen sich gegen Telekom-Vorwürfe

Die beiden großen Internetkonzerne Google und Meta verweisen im Gespräch mit Golem.de auf ihren Beitrag zur weltweiten Infrastruktur wie Seekabel und Connectivity. (Telekom, Web Service)

Die beiden großen Internetkonzerne Google und Meta verweisen im Gespräch mit Golem.de auf ihren Beitrag zur weltweiten Infrastruktur wie Seekabel und Connectivity. (Telekom, Web Service)

Members of Activision’s Raven Software QA team form a union

Formal move comes five weeks into strike over laid-off workers.

Warmly dressed and mostly masked workers hold protest signs.

Enlarge / Striking employees demand the reinstatement of Raven Software QA contractors who were let go in December. (credit: A Better ABK)

The members of Activision Blizzard subsidiary Raven Software's quality assurance department are seeking voluntary recognition of their union, a first for workers at a major American video game publisher.

The newly formed Game Workers Alliance union is asking Activision to recognize its right to represent the 34 QA testers at the studio, which works primarily on the Call of Duty series. The union has formed with the help of the Communication Workers of America—which has for years been publicly working to organize the game industry through its Campaign to Organize Digital Employees (CODE)—and A Better ABK Workers Alliance, which is working to organize the much broader group of over 9,500 Activision employees.

(Ars Technica writers are members of the NewsGuild of New York, a subsidiary of the CWA.)

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Intel says Ohio “megafab” will begin making advanced chips in 2025

Intel will start with two fabs, but it has space for eight.

Intel's rendering of its two new leading-edge processor factories planned to be built outside Columbus, Ohio.

Enlarge / Intel's rendering of its two new leading-edge processor factories planned to be built outside Columbus, Ohio. (credit: Intel)

Intel announced the location of its megafab today, a 1,000-acre parcel on the outskirts of the Columbus, Ohio, metro area. The semiconductor manufacturer plans to break ground on two leading-edge fabs by the end of the year and enter production in 2025.

“This is all part of the strategy that our CEO Pat Gelsinger announced back in March,” Intel Senior Vice President Keyvan Esfarjani told Ars.

“We are starting with two fabs, and that’s all in line with the growing demand for what the industry needs,” he said. “It’s also critically important for the balance of the supply chain around the world.”

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Klimaschutz: Schiffe könnten sauber fahren

Eine Studie zeigt, dass sich die Schadstoffemissionen von Schiffen stark reduzieren lassen können. Allerdings würden Schiffstransporte dadurch signifikant teurer. (Schiff, Studie)

Eine Studie zeigt, dass sich die Schadstoffemissionen von Schiffen stark reduzieren lassen können. Allerdings würden Schiffstransporte dadurch signifikant teurer. (Schiff, Studie)

Joseph Ratzinger und der sexuelle Missbrauch – es bleiben Fragen (Update)

Hat der Verstorbene Gutachter zu Sexualstraftaten belogen? Bericht zu Erzbistum München zählte 2021 fast 500 Geschädigte und erschütterte Glaubwürdigkeit Ratzingers. Der nimmt wichtige Antworten mit ins Grab unter dem Petersdom.

Hat der Verstorbene Gutachter zu Sexualstraftaten belogen? Bericht zu Erzbistum München zählte 2021 fast 500 Geschädigte und erschütterte Glaubwürdigkeit Ratzingers. Der nimmt wichtige Antworten mit ins Grab unter dem Petersdom.

Orange Pi 4 LTS single-board computer with RK3999 coming in February for $55 and up

The makers of the Orange Pi line of single-board computers have announced a new model with a Rockchip RK3399 hexa-core processor, Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI, and USB ports, support for up to 4GB of RAM and optional support for a 16GB eMMC module as well as a microSD card reader and USB ports for storage. It’s […]

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The makers of the Orange Pi line of single-board computers have announced a new model with a Rockchip RK3399 hexa-core processor, Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI, and USB ports, support for up to 4GB of RAM and optional support for a 16GB eMMC module as well as a microSD card reader and USB ports for storage.

It’s called the Orange Pi 4 LTS, and it’s expected to go on sale in mid-February with prices ranging from $55 to $70.

While the RK3399 processor is a bit on the older side at this point, it’s a reasonably well-supported processor that was widely used in Chromebooks a few years ago, and which powers a number of Linux-friendly devices including Pine64’s PineBook Pro laptop and the new PinePhone Pro smartphone. It’s also a chip that Orange Pi has used in the older Orange Pi 4 which has similar specs, but a slightly different design and set of features.

The chip features two ARM Cortex-A72 CPU cores, four ARM Cortex-A53 CPU cores and ARM Mali-T860MP4 graphics and Orange Pi says the new board will support operating systems including Ubunt, Debian, and Android.

Measuring 91 x 56mm (3.58″ x 2.2″), the Orange Pi 4 LTS is a little larger than a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, which measures 85 x 56mm (3.35″ x 2.2″), but it’s still a pretty compact and versatile mini computer or development board with USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 Type-A ports, a USB 3.0 Type-C port, a 24-pin mini PCIe connector, a 26-pin GPIO header, dedicated connectors that can be used for cameras and/or LCD displays, and a power jack for a 5V/3A DC power supply.

According to a graphic released by Orange Pi, there’s room on the board for two LPDDR4 memory modules available in 1.5 GB or 2GB versions, suggesting the board may be available in 3GB and 4GB variants.

The Orange Pi 4 LTS should be available from Amazon and from the Shenzhen Xunlong Software store on AliExpress in mid-February.

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Fernwartung: Der Kundenansturm, der Teamviewer nicht gut getan hat

Wie schätzt man die weitere Geschäftsentwicklung ein, wenn die Kunden in der Pandemie plötzlich Panikkäufe machen? Das gelang bei Teamviewer nicht. Ein Bericht von Achim Sawall (Teamviewer, Börse)

Wie schätzt man die weitere Geschäftsentwicklung ein, wenn die Kunden in der Pandemie plötzlich Panikkäufe machen? Das gelang bei Teamviewer nicht. Ein Bericht von Achim Sawall (Teamviewer, Börse)