LG OLED Shelf concept stacks two 55-inch transparent displays

LG Display will show off four see-through OLED concept displays at CES 2022.

LG Display's OLED Shelf.

Enlarge / LG Display's OLED Shelf. (credit: LG Display)

LG Display wants to make OLED panels a more compelling to consumers and is showing off some concepts in advance of the Consumer Electronics Show in January.

The OLED Shelf concept uses two transparent, 55-inch OLED displays that LG Display initially commercialized in in 2019. They're 40 percent transparent, but according to The Verge, LG's concept includes an opaque sheet that can roll down "like a projector screen" to make the images look more saturated.

One display sits atop another, as discernible from the visible horizontal line diving the two, and the pair has a mantle-like shelf on top.

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Xiaomi launches the Xiaomi 12, 12 Pro, and 12X smartphones with 120 Hz displays, up to Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

The Xiaomi 12 Pro is a smartphone with a 6.73 inch, 3200 x 1440 pixel AMOLED display featuring a 120 Hz refresh rate, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor, three 50MP cameras, and support for up to 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. It’s very much a flagship phone, but a fairly affordable one […]

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The Xiaomi 12 Pro is a smartphone with a 6.73 inch, 3200 x 1440 pixel AMOLED display featuring a 120 Hz refresh rate, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor, three 50MP cameras, and support for up to 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. It’s very much a flagship phone, but a fairly affordable one (by recent standards) with prices ranging from around $740 to $910.

It’s also just one of three new Xiaomi 12 Series smartphones launching in China.

Xiaomi 12 Pro

The Xiaomi 12 Pro stands out thanks to its big, high-resolution display and camera system that includes three high-res rear cameras:

  • 50MP Sony IMX707 primary camera
  • 50MP ultrawide camera
  • 50MP 2X telephoto camera

The phone also has a 4,600 mAh battery, support for 120W fast wired charging, 50W fast wireless charging, and a display with support for up to 1500 nits of peak brightness.

At 205 grams, it’s a fairly hefty smartphone. But not only does it have a massive display, there are also quad speakers (two woofers and two tweeters).

Other features include support for WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, NFC, 5G NR, and Dolby Atmos sound. The phone features LPDDR5 memory and UFS 3.1 storage and it has a USB Type-C port and a 32MP front-facing camera in a hole-punch cut-out.

Xiaomi 12 and Xiaomi 12X

Folks who are looking for something a little smaller and/or cheaper can opt for the Xiaomi 12 or Xiaomi 12X, which weigh 180 grams and 176 grams respectively.

Xiaomi 12X

Both of these phones have 6.28 inch, 2400 x 1080 pixel, 120 Hz displays with support for up to 1100 nits of peak brightness, 4,500 mAh batteries with support for 67W fast wired charging, stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos support, and the same wireless capabilities as the Pro model.

But these smaller, cheaper phones have camera systems that include 32MP front-facing cameras and three rear cameras:

  • 50MP Sony IMX766 primary
  • 13MP ultrawide
  • 5MP macro camera

The Xiaomi 12 has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor, support for 50W fast wireless charging and prices that range from about $580 for an 8GB/128GB model to $690 for a 12GB/256GB version.

The Xiaomi 12X has a Snapdragon 870 processor, lacks support for wireless charging, and costs about $500 for an 8GB/128GB configuration or $600 for a 12GB/256GB model.

All three phones go up for pre-order in China on December 30, 2021.

via xda-developers, GSM Arena, and Mi Global (1)(2)(3)

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Riot Games to pay $100 million to settle gender discrimination lawsuit

Riot was accused of paying women less for similar work, fostering culture of harassment.

Riot Games to pay $100 million to settle gender discrimination lawsuit

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Riot Games has settled a class-action lawsuit for $100 million. Filed in 2018 by two female employees and later certified as a class-action, the lawsuit accused the studio of discrimination, sexual harassment, and unequal pay.

Under the terms of the settlement, Riot Games will pay $80 million directly to women who have worked at the company from November 2014 through to the present, including full-time, part-time, and temporary employees. The remaining $20 million will go to attorneys' fees.

In addition to the $100 million payout, Riot Games will enact workplace policy reforms. These include the creation of an application pipeline for current or former contractors to apply for permanent positions and more transparency regarding salaries for job applicants.

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It’s not just humans who get cancer—wild mammals are also at risk

After scouring 110,000 records, researchers gained insight into mammalian cancer

These rodents seemingly manage to avoid developing cancer.

Enlarge / These rodents seemingly manage to avoid developing cancer. (credit: Jason Hollinger / Wikimedia Commons)

Cancer is a sad fact of life, as nearly 40 percent of people are diagnosed with it at some point in their lives. But humans aren’t alone in this. Many different species can also develop the disease—some more often than others. By studying these species and their habits and natural defenses (or lack thereof), we can learn new ways to combat the disease.

New research that involves a comprehensive survey of cancer shows that many mammals can indeed get cancer. To gain insight into this, the team looked at records for 110,148 animals from 191 species that died in zoos. The data came from Species360, an international non-profit that collects and unifies this kind of data from zoos across the world, according to Orsolya Vincze, a research fellow at the Centre for Ecological Research in Hungary and one of the paper’s authors.

Using the data gathered by the organization, the research team could “collect information on what the animals died of,” she told Ars.

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Speicherproblem: Wie die Energiewende politisch ausgebremst wird

Dass sich die Energiewende ohne Speicher für Wind- und Solarstrom schlecht umsetzen lässt, ist kaum noch umstritten. Was fehlt, ist der politische Wille zur Lösung

Dass sich die Energiewende ohne Speicher für Wind- und Solarstrom schlecht umsetzen lässt, ist kaum noch umstritten. Was fehlt, ist der politische Wille zur Lösung