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Barcelona still have further signing targets along with players’ releases

Spanish La Liga giants Barcelona have recently managed to officially register many of their new signings this summer in the La Liga after activating their fourth economic lever. However, they still have to sort out many issues in the team before the end of the summer transfer window.    

The French centre-back Jules Kounde has yet to be recognized as a Barcelona player by the La Liga. Barca now have to adjust its wages bill to register the former Sevilla player as the new member of the Catalan club.  

Jules Kounde

Barcelona’s new potential signings

Despite the present struggle, the debt-ridden Spanish club still wants to sign some more players in this summer transfer window. Some of their key targets in this list are Manchester City’s attacking midfielder Bernardo Silva, Chelsea’s left-back Marcos Alonso etc.

Marcos Alonso
Marcos Alonso

In the meantime, Barca are also ready to sell some of their players, which can make their path smooth to add their other targets this summer.

Barcelona are also busy to release some players

While the 31-year-old Danish forward Martin Braithwaite doesn’t want to leave the Catalan club, Barca and their Head Coach Xavi are desperate to release him as he isn’t in their game plan for this new season.

Martin Braithwaite

The 25-year-old Dutch midfielder Frenkie de Jong also has a similar relationship with the Catalan club, just like Braithwaite. De Jong is a bigger name, but Barca are desperate to release him this summer due to his expensive salary. While the Catalan club was reportedly desperate to sell him to Manchester United, Chelsea now reportedly have the upper hands to sign the Dutch footballer.

Frenkie De Jong
Martin Braithwaite (Via @BarcaUniversal)

The 28-year-old Cameroon-born French centre-back Samuel Umtiti wants to leave Barcelona, but he is struggling to find a new club, majorly due to his present fitness issues.   

Xavi is also unhappy with the 21-year-old Netherlands-born USA full-back Sergino Dest as he wants to sell him soon. Meanwhile, the 28-year-old Dutch forward Memphis Depay is very close to joining Juventus.  

Abde Ezzalzouli, Alejandro Balde and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang are the other names of Barca’s potential release this summer. Though the 33-year-old former Gabonese striker Aubameyang is one of the top players of the club, Barca can be relieved financially from his release.  

CEAT LTD Digitally Transforms with AWS IoT and Analytics

Indian tyre manufacturer reduces time to market of innovative new digital initiatives, takes infrastructure deployment from two months to 12 hours, and makes driving safer and smarter with AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, today announced that CEAT LTD (CEAT), one of India’s leading tyre manufacturers with sales in more than 100 countries worldwide, is using AWS to drive smart manufacturing and invent intelligent tyres – tyres with sensors which can predict various data points such as load and wear.

Using the breadth and depth of AWS cloud capabilities, including the Internet of Things (IoT), analytics and business intelligence, and machine learning, CEAT is digitizing factories to unlock manufacturing efficiencies, make data-driven decisions with SAP on AWS, and launch innovative digital services. For example, by using AWS services, CEAT was able to develop a solution that automatically recommends which tyres dealers should order based on history and real-time supply, improving customer experience.

Before migrating to AWS, CEAT’s on-premises infrastructure could not scale with the demand for new digital services. As a first step to improve agility and accelerate innovation, CEAT implemented a modern SAP S/4HANA enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform on AWS. Then, using Amazon QuickSight, an AWS service that helps CEAT employees easily understand data, CEAT set up real-time analytics dashboards using factory and enterprise data.

Data analytics unlock insights to help the company develop innovative and high-quality tyres for safer journeys, including an intelligent tyre for commercial fleet operators. Intelligent tyres have built-in telemetry sensors connected to the cloud, which record tyre data, including pressure and temperature, to detect leaks and predict tyre failure. This insight minimizes fleet operators’ vehicle downtime and prevents road accidents.

To digitize its manufacturing processes, which require 250 raw materials, CEAT connected production machines, like curing presses, to the cloud and built a data lake on Amazon
Simple Storage Service
 (Amazon S3). This lake securely stores CEAT’s structured and unstructured data from across its operations at scale, improving CEAT’s view of factory operations and helping line managers closely monitor factory operations.

For example, CEAT uses Amazon SageMaker, AWS’s service for building, training, and deploying machine learning models quickly in the cloud and at the edge to predict leaks in tyre-curing presses. This prediction decreases tyre waste by reducing factory line stoppages and improving tyre quality.

With AWS, CEAT can now rapidly develop innovative digital solutions for customers. CEAT uses Amazon Redshift, a cloud data warehouse, and Amazon SageMaker for an experimental solution. Using a mobile device, the solution automatically scans stock-keeping unit names and tyre serial numbers, registering warranties and claims via an image upload service.

This service makes the warranty and claims registration process smoother and more efficient for customers. CEAT also used Amazon Redshift to pilot a service that automatically recommends which tyres dealers should order based on history and real-time supply, further enhancing the customer experience. 

“AWS has helped us deliver a better customer experience by using cloud capabilities, like machine learning, serverless computing, and database services,” said Ganesh Bhat, head of digital and analytics (CoE) at CEAT LTD. “With AWS, we can drive smart manufacturing capabilities and create new products, like intelligent tyres, much faster. In addition, we can focus on innovation instead of system maintenance by using the cloud to automate more
processes.”

“CEAT is making its factories smart with AWS, bringing the best of the cloud to the tyre manufacturing process,” said Puneet Chandok, president of Commercial Business, AWS India and South Asia at AISPL. “With AWS, CEAT can innovate rapidly with the latest cloud technology. CEAT has taken tyre manufacturing to new heights, and the results are showing, as the company continues to delight customers and dealers.”

Cobra Kai (Season 5): The Fifth Season trailer unveils the Battle of the All-Valley Karate Tournament 

Netflix’s one of the most awaited shows Cobra Kai is the continuation of the fourth. The entire valley and the entire people just facing many of some tremendous updates that are under the Terry Silver empire.

The brand-new action trailer just reveals the fallout that belongs to the All Valley Tournament along with Johnny Lawrence as an Uber Driver, Daniel LaRusson just set to close Miyagi-do dojo, and the violence of Silver, there is no-mercy on Karate that’s just spreading along with Los Angeles has set to spell the Cobra Kai dojo that’s into the streets. It’s really very true on following the worst timeline, with Johnny, Daniel, and also Chozen just getting ready to battle and conquer the war of the heart of the valley. 

Cobra

In this new trailer, there is more comedy in this nature than those of the original teaser that’s dropped, kicking off along with Johny’s facing struggles on working in the side share company. Now, he and Daniel have ended up into the gi as Silver that just flexes that might be the Cobra Kai along with Los Angeles. We have more students than ever that are set to take part, and he just wants more.

There are more dojos, more students, and set to be more ruthless than instructors Due to the growth of the empire, and the life that mainly getting worse in the valley as more students use their newfound skills as ill, Silver also maintains the pristine that makes an image in this public eye like the philanthropic sensei along with the heart of the gold.

It has set that the three are unlikely getting collaborates to take the decision on getting their hands into their dirty themselves for taking down the Silver. This has culminated in a Chozen, Johnny set to collaborate with to tease a final showdown between Silver and Danny. 

During the battle against Cobra Kai, Johnny and Daniel’s family which is the drama has taken the center stage. Johnny is still set to pick up the pieces of his relationship with Miguel and Robbie when the wife of Daniel’s wife Amanda set to get all of this got the end. On a lighter note, the new trailer brings viewers into the prison to watch how John Kreese is managing. 

Cobra Kai (Season 5): Cast 

Cobra Kai just carrying the original Karate Kid, sets to continue Miyagi-verse first on YouTube Red and then on Netflix for the third season. The new season features Mary Mouser, Jacob Bertrand, Gianni Decenzo, Vanessa   Rubio, Peyton List, Dallas Dupree Young, Oona O’Brien, and Griffin  Santopietro. The story of the show has been penned and produced by John Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg. 

Cobra Kai (Season 5): Release Date 

The fifth season of Cobra Kai is set to premiere on 9th September 2022. 

Here is the trailer:

 

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Manchester United’s €130m Joao Felix bid outright rejected

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Atletico Madrid have refused Manchester United‘s interest in Joao Felix recently, with the Premier League club interested in signing the Portuguese forward.

The Rojiblancos have told United that the player is not for sale, and that they won’t accept a €50 million bid for Matheus Cunha either. The message has been sent to the club’s sporting director John Murtough, with a deal looking very unlikely as of right now. 

Joao Felix staying at Atletico Madrid for 22/23 

The 22-year-old had a remarkable performance in the La Liga opener this season. He had a hat-trick of assists for Alvaro Morata and Antoine Griezmann as Atletico Madrid picked up a 3-0 win against Getafe. 

Manchester United reportedly submitted a bid worth €130 million for Joao Felix today. However, having signed him three years ago for a similar amount, Atleti are keen to get the best out of him before letting him leave. As a result, they have outright rejected the advances of the Premier League club. 

Manchester United are now planning to splash the cash in the transfer market. They have offered Casemiro double his current salary at Real Madrid to join the English club. They are also planning to sign Christian Pulisic from Chelsea, Yann Sommer, and Illan Meslier too. With only a fortnight remaining in the transfer window, it seems like United are getting desperate to sign players to bolster the squad. 

NTR30: Starring Jr. NTR is all set to start shooting from April 2023

NTR30, starring Jr. NTR is all set to start its shooting on April 2023. After the grand success of RRR, the recently released movie of Jr. NTR, all the fans are looking forward to his new movie in which they will see him again. Prashanth Neel, the RRR movie’s director has recently confirmed that he is coming up with a new project starring Jr. NTR whose title is temporarily titled NTR31.

NTR30: Starring Jr. NTR is all set to start shooting from April 2023

In an interaction with the media, Prashanth Neel disclosed the new venture between him and Jr. Ntr. It has also come known that the movie is going to start its shooting from April 2023 onwards. The makers have further revealed the first look of the flick in May this year. It also showed the star with a fierce look a beard and penetrating eyes. 

In the meantime, the Salaar movie maker has said, “I am super excited about the film. Please don’t ask me about the genre of that movie because it’s far off at the moment”. He further said when questioned about his bond with Jr NTR, the filmmaker said that “I have been a fan of NTR for the last 15 to 20 years. We met 10 to 15 times just casually before we even started the script work. I wanted to understand him a little more and that’s my process with all my actors.”

Jr. NTR is also going to be seen in another exciting venture with the director Siva Koratala in his kitty, which has been titled NTR30 for now.

RRR is the latest release of Jr. NTR and has become one of the biggest South films of 2022. The period action drama was led by Ram Charan and was loved by both Indian and western audiences. Also, recently Variety Magazine added it to its possible Oscar prediction list of ‘All Contenders’ in the “Best Picture” category. The magazine additionally included Jr NTR on the list (Unranked-Alphabetical) in the ‘Best Actor category.’

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Dele Alli could join Besiktas from Everton: Club agreement reached

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Everton and Besiktas have an agreement in principle for the transfer of Dele Alli. The player’s stock has dropped massively during his time at Goodison Park. As a result, the Toffees could look to move on the midfielder in the coming days. 

“I hope he has an important role to play,” Everton manager Frank Lampard said of Alli’s season ahead. “He had a great impact for a half against Palace and he was very important in terms of turning the game around, but now we’re looking for consistency. 

“Dele is here to help us on a more consistent basis and it’s in his hands to show when opportunities come, he can take them. We saw in his performance against Palace what he can do. It’s one for me and for him – we’re all pulling in the same direction, and I hope he can have a good season for us.” 

Dele Alli could make move to Turkey before the end of the window 

The final decision remains up to the player, and he will have the ability to decide his future. Tottenham Hotspur had included a 25% sell-on clause in his contract when they let go of him. 

They had also included bonuses worth up to £40 million in the deal for Dele Alli, which was initially for free. Now, the player’s drop in form could cause him to exit the Premier League as well. 

boAt celebrates production of a million units in a single quarter

boAt India has reached a remarkable milestone of producing over a million made-in-India units in just a single quarter. This comes in between the company’s Rock in India program which aims to demonstrate its support for local content in India. It has shown its continued support for the efforts its staff undertake to produce each item and has dubbed it similar to that of a musician creating music.

boAt has significantly ramped up Indian operations this year

The audio brand has provided a track that highlights the entire festive and loud nature of Indian streets and it also celebrates its factory symphony. This track was done in conjunction with musician Mayur Jumani.

This move aims to change how Indians listen to music, the record of over a million units produced in a single quarter echoes India’s sentiment and habit of breaking numerous records as per the company.

The brand increased production within India this year and their Rockerz, Airdopes, Power Banks, and Cables have all been made in India. The move is a boost for the Make in India initiative that the Government of India introduced in 2014.

The Production Linked Incentive Scheme has aided the company to expand its manufacturing base, the decision to give incentives has helped brands such as boAt to reduce supply chain and logistics disruptions and take advantage of reduced costs.

boAt has a massive market share and they aim to bump it up significantly in the wearables and audio accessories market. Indian brands account for up to 40% and 30% of hearables and wearables market, this is driven by the success of the Make In India initiative and the company claims that it will support the Indian manufacturing system for a brighter and better future for the company as a whole.

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Realme looking to bump up R&D investment by 58% as it is looking to play the long game

Realme’s Founder has shared his insights with respect to the company’s future goals and he expressed his gratitude towards the loyal customer base and the support of fans. He shared what Realme has in store for us and gave some information about the 828 Fan Festival.

Realme is looking to launch the 4th iteration of the 828 Fan Festival

Sky Li revealed that the company will soon be celebrating the 4th 828 Fan Festival and that the Chinese smartphone maker is entering its second stage of growth. This is a period where they will be focusing on refining their goals for long-term growth and will be launching more “exceptional Number Series smartphones” in the market shortly.

Madhav Sheth, CEO of Realme mobile phone at the Realme’s production unit in Greater Noida, UP, India.
Credit: Amit Verma | Forbes India

The 828 Fan Festival will kick off on the 28th of August, before the event, the founder showed some affection towards Realme’s 140 million strong user base. He confirmed that the company will focus a lot more on the quality of its products and market focus as well.

Their new mantra is “Simply Better,” their research and development will now be increased and their investment in it is going up by 58% in comparison to last year.

The company promises to deliver amazing phones in the near future and their upcoming models are all set to arrive with a great aesthetic look and an amazing price tag as well.

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Chelsea agree personal terms with Wesley Fofana, despite 2 offers rejected by Leicester

Chelsea have reached an agreement with Wesley Fofana on personal terms for a potential transfer. Which means that if they can reach an agreement with Leicester City over a transfer fee, the contract is already in place to wrap up the transfer quickly. 

Brendan Rodgers has reiterated that the centre-back is not for sale this summer. They recently renewed the contract of the Frenchman, and had a gentleman’s agreement that they would listen to offers from big clubs in 2023. As a result, it is very difficult to convince the club to let him go this summer. 

Wesley Fofana agrees personal terms but clubs yet to agree fee 

The West London side have submitted two offers in the region of £60-70 million for the player, but both offers have been rejected. Recently, it was reported that Leicester City want a record transfer fee for the Frenchman if he is to leave in 2022. 

Chelsea are still in negotiations, but will find it very difficult to prize him away from Leicester given the current situation. They recently signed Cesare Casadei, and are now turning their attention to Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang while the Wesley Fofana situation develops. 

The Blues are also waiting to understand the situation of Frenkie De Jong from Barcelona, and whether or not the Dutchman will be leaving Camp Nou this summer. 

Razer launches the Leviathan V2 X Monitor Sound Bar in China at 899 Yuan

Razer has launched its newest offering, the Leviathan V2 X Monitor Sound Bar in China, the latest accessory from the brand is a smaller soundbar with a length of 40cm and can fit perfectly under a monitor or other displays. It has two full-range units and dual-passive radiators set to deliver a good amount of output.

Razer Leviathan V2 X Monitor Sound Bar detailed specifications:

The newest sound bar arrives with multiple dynamic lighting modes and it is perfect for gaming as it adds to the aesthetic aspect of your gaming setup. It is not as good as the Leviathan V2 Computer which retails for Yuan 1,999 or $295(Rs.23,416).

The soundbar is lightweight and weighs in at 0.85KG and it has a subwoofer that connects through a long cable. It offers 65W sounds and has a 5.5″ downward-firing driver.

Razer Leviathan V2 X Monitor Sound Bar

The soundbar does not have an HDMI connection which may seem disappointing, to add to the woes the 3.5mm audio jack is also absent along with an optical audio port. Routing multiple audio sources is impossible, but the soundbar has a USB Type-C cable with Bluetooth v5.0 support.

The product retails for Yuan 899 or $133(Rs.10,557) for now but its actual price is Yuan 1,099 or $162(Rs.12,859). The brand has priced the product competitively and despite its basic features to make the latest soundbar an attractive offering.

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