Friday, December 11, 2020
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Time Capsule Graphic from COVID-19 Tracking Project
The Midwest and Great Plains regions, parts of which have already struggled with overwhelmed hospitals, continue to lead the U.S. with the densest concentration of coronavirus cases.
The big picture: With winter approaching — and widespread vaccination still several months away — the virus is spreading with dangerous ease.
By the numbers: Over the past week, Indiana, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Utah racked up an average of at least 100 new cases per day for every 100,000 residents.
- Another 16 states saw 75-100 new cases per capita per day.
- Heavily rural states have less hospital capacity to care for all those people and will face bigger challenges from vaccines that require ultra-cold storage.
How it works: Every week for several months, Axios has been tracking the change in daily infections in each state.
- This week, though, we're looking at the total number of cases per capita, instead of the change in the number of cases.
- The Thanksgiving holiday caused some issues with states' reporting. Everything seems to be back on track now, but we don't want to rely on earlier data that may not paint an accurate picture of the pandemic.
The bottom line: This is simply too much coronavirus.
- Too many new infections are sending too many seriously ill patients into hospitals. Almost 105,000 people are hospitalized for coronavirus infections right now.
- These infections also are leading to too many deaths — nearly 13,000 in just the past week.
BIGGER and Better
Samsung announces massive 110-inch 4K TV with next-gen MicroLED picture quality
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Most people won’t be able to afford it, but smaller models aren’t too far off
Over the last couple years, Samsung has showed off (and sold to a very rich few) its futuristic, modular TV dubbed The Wall that uses MicroLED technology. MicroLED shares many of OLED’s best traits — without most of the associated drawbacks — and is widely viewed as the next big upgrade leap for the displays in our lives. Now, Samsung is taking MicroLED and putting it into a more traditional TV form factor. Today the company announced the 110-inch MicroLED TV, which goes up for presale today in Korea and will launch globally in the first quarter of 2021.
As for the first question that probably comes to mind, no, Samsung isn't yet revealing a price for this enormous TV using the latest picture technology. But you can expect it’ll cost far more than any of the company’s other 4K (or even 8K) sets on account of the self-emitting MicroLED magic. You won’t really notice any bezels or borders in these images; this TV has a 99.99 percent screen-to-body ratio, but Samsung still managed to build in “an embedded Majestic Sound System” that it claims “delivers breathtaking 5.1 channel sound with no external speaker.”
Here’s what Samsung says about picture quality:
The 110-inch MicroLED uses micrometer-sized LED lights to eliminate the backlight and color filters utilized in conventional displays. Instead, it is self-illuminating — producing light and color from its own pixel structures. It expresses 100 percent of the DCI and Adobe RGB color gamut, and accurately delivers wide color gamut images taken with high-end DSLR cameras. This results in stunning, lifelike colors, and accurate brightness from the display’s 4K resolution and 8 million pixels.
Since all those LEDs are self-illuminating, you get the perfect blacks and fantastic contrast that have come to define OLED. But
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