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Relationship deteriorate between Solskjaer and De Gea

Is David De Gea has become the ‘unwanted’ inside the Manchester United squad? However, multiple reports in Manchester are suggesting the deterioration in the relationship between the Spanish goalkeeper and Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

David De Gea was again dropped against Brighton Hove Albion on Sunday. Dean Henderson kept his place into the side and started for the Red Devils. This arose some serious questions about the future of David De Gea.

David De Gea was given leave last month to be with his family as he and his wife were expecting a baby at that time. Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer took the opportunity and gave the chance to the English goalkeeper. Dean Henderson played very well in David De Gea’s absence.

However, De Gea joined the side before the international break. He was dropped against Leicester City in FA Cup quarter-finals. Many felt it was not really signal anything as it was a cup match. But his exclusion against Brighton arises some question again.

Some reports suggest Solskjaer and De Gea’s relationship was becoming a problem. It gave the opportunity to Dean Henderson to cement his place into the squad.

Though Ole denies all these rumors after the match against Brighton. Solskjaer said, “I’ve got two great keepers, two No.1s. David De Gea spent a while back home and then he had internationals so he hadn’t played for about a month. He’ll definitely play football for us again.”

Manchester United’s next match is against Granada in UEFA Europa League quarter-final. It will be interesting to see if Ole bring the Manchester United’s number one back into the side or not.

AMD Ryzen 5000G Cezanne APUs continues to be spotted

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It seems the launch of the new AMD Ryzen 5000G Cezanne APUs imminent with increasing leaks and rumors. Again they have been spotted by leaker @momomo_us and this time on an HP pre-built PC on a B550 motherboard.

As we see the complete specs of the APUs have been leaked and here we have only the Ryzen 5 5600G and the Ryzen 7 5700G APUs while other are the Ryzen 5000 series processors devoid of iGPU.

Both of the APUs come with 65W TDP; the Ryzen 5 5600G sports 6 cores and 12 threads, with a 3.9 GHz base and 4.4 GHz boost clock speeds. Also, they will again feature AMD’s Vega iGPU yet again but with maybe higher clock speeds.

Whereas the flagship Cezanne APU – the Ryzen 7 5700G sports 8 cores and 16 threads, with a 3.8 GHz base and 4.6 GHz boost clock speeds, quite expected to the Engineering sample leaks we have had before. This is more of a commercial leak, and thus the specs seem pretty much to be confirmed.

Valencia and Juan Cala respond to racist abuse in La Liga match

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Valencia’s Mouctar Diakhaby and Cadiz’s Juan Cala were involved in a very tense confrontation in the match between the two teams held recently. The Cadiz player has been accused of abusing Diakhaby racially, which led to the visiting team, Valencia, walking off the pitch in protest of the act allegedly committed by Juan Cala. 

The visitors walked out on the pitch and decided to continue the game, as has been revealed recently, after having a meeting with Diakhaby and discussing with the player. The official statement released by the club says that the players continued the match “in order to fight for the honour of the club, but denounce racism of any kind”.

Juan Cala has been very relaxed towards the accusations pointed at him, “I’m very relaxed. Tomorrow we will say everything in the press conference. It seems to me that in this country innocence is not contemplated.” the player told Gol on Monday on being asked by the media about the situation. 

The referee’s account of the situation has also shed more light on the events that transpired in between the two during the game: 

“In the 29th minute I stopped the match due to a confrontation between players from both sides. Player number 12 of Valencia C.F., Mouctar Diakhaby, once booked for arguing with an opponent, tells me word for word: “He called me a s***** black man” in reference to player number 16 of Cadiz C.F. Juan Torres Ruiz (Juan Cala).

“This fact was not perceived by any member of the refereeing team. After a few moments, Valencia C.F. decide to abandon the pitch. For this reason, the match is temporarily suspended. Both sides enter their respective changing rooms. After a few minutes of suspension, the Valencia C.F. delegate David Rangel Pastor, in presence of the Cadiz C.F. delegate Antonio Navarrete Reyes, tells us that they decide to substitute player number 12 Mouctar Diakhaby and continue with the game.

“Moreover, it was agreed to give both sides a five-minute warm-up in order to avoid injuries. The match was resumed 24 minutes after suspending it, and was carried out as normal from that moment onwards.”

MPL renews RCB sponsorship in a two-year deal

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The gaming platform will be RCB’s Principal Sponsor for the 2021 and 2022 editions of the T20 league

National, April 6, 2021: Mobile Premier League (MPL), Asia’s largest esports and skill gaming platform, today announced its partnership with IPL team Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) for a period of two years as a Principal Sponsor.

The partnership will see MPL continue to be featured on the RCB kit for the upcoming edition of the T20 tournament this year, as well as the 2022 edition. MPL began its association with RCB in the 2020 T20 edition, played in the UAE, which was a very successful partnership.

Associating with T20 teams has proven to be a good return on investment for startups in the past, with many brands becoming easily recognisable thanks to huge fan followings that teams like the RCB command, as well as the T20 tournament’s record-breaking viewership numbers.

MPL is now valued at a whopping $945 million after the latest fundraise

“We are glad to extend our association with RCB for two more years. Last year’s partnership was fruitful for both RCB and MPL. With our Brand Ambassador Virat Kohli leading a strong RCB side, we are confident that the team will have a good season this year too. Bangalore is MPL’s home base and we are proud to partner with this city’s Cricket team,” said Abhishek Madhavan, Senior Vice President, Growth and Marketing, MPL.

Speaking of the partnership, Rajesh V Menon, Vice President & Head of Royal Challengers Bangalore said, “We are delighted to have Mobile Premier League as one of our key jersey partners again for this season and the next. MPL and RCB share a common ethos of being at the forefront of creating cutting edge mobile gaming experiences and engaging content platforms respectively and this partnership combines the power of both to further create heightened levels of engagement for our fans.”

ASUS ROG STRIX G15 laptop with Ryzen 9 5900HX & Radeon RX 6800M GPU spotted

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ASUS has a wide portfolio of gaming laptops in 2021, and most of them are powered by the latest AMD Ryzen 5000H gaming processors. Now, a new leak suggests, the Taiwanese OEM could opt for AMD RX 6000M GPUs as well on their upcoming laptop laptops.

AMD is soon set to announce its mobile RDNA 2 based Radeon RX 6000M series GPUs for gaming laptops, and the leak of an upcoming ASUS ROG G15 STRIX laptop does indeed make sense. As per a CPU-Z validation, ASUS’s new laptop will sport the flagship AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU & Radeon RX 6800M GPU combo.

ASUS ROG STRIX G15 laptop with Ryzen 9 5900HX & Radeon RX 6800M GPU spotted

As per leaks and rumors, the RX 6800M will feature a full-flat Navi 22 GPU with 2560 cores and 12GB GDDR6 memory, matching almost the specs of the newly released RX 6700 XT GPU.

ASUS ROG STRIX G15 laptop with Ryzen 9 5900HX & Radeon RX 6800M GPU spotted

The laptop’s product code G513QY did, in fact, confirm that this is an ASUS ROG STRIX G15 laptop which is already available with Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU and NVIDIA RTX 30 GPUs. Videocardz has also pointed out that the G513QM variant sports RTX 3060 whereas QR sports RTX 3070 SKU, so the QY will, in fact, comes with Ryzen 9 5900HX & Radeon RX 6800M configuration.

Also, the BIOS of this laptop is reported to be fresh and was built on March 19th, also being evaluated by ASUS themselves. So, the leak and development of this new all-AMD powered gaming laptop are certainly in its early stages and that makes sense as the Red team promised availability in Q2 2021.

 CPU-Z Validator via @TUM_APISAK

UEFA demand minimum attendance figures from host cities

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UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin has reportedly warned host cities of the delayed 2020 European Championships that they must confirm fans’ presence in their stadiums by April 7. Some of the participating cities are only willing to allow 10% of the maximum stadium capacity to be fulfilled, and it might not be enough to satisfy UEFA’s expectations. 

“We have several scenarios, but the one guarantee we can make is that the option of playing any Euro 2020 match in an empty stadium is off the table,’ Ceferin said last month.

“Every host must guarantee there will be fans at their games.”

Those cities that do not manage to satisfy the expectations set for them in terms of crowd attendance could lose out on the chance to host the tournament completely. Dublin is one of the shakiest cities on the list, with the Irish government being unable to provide assurances on minimum spectator levels. 

UEFA has reportedly asked Dublin to accommodate 25% of its Aviva Stadium but could miss out on the four matches scheduled there if they do not concede to these demands. 

Should Ireland be discarded as hosts of the prestigious tournament, Russia has plans of stepping up as replacements, with the country reportedly confident in pledging attendances close to 50% of the 68,000 capacity in the Gazprom Arena in St Petersburg. 

Alexei Sorokin, head of the committee, said UEFA would allow host cities to increase the planned attendance figures until April 28.

‘If there are significant improvements [in the epidemiological situation], we do not rule this out,’ he told the Russian Tass news agency.

Apex Legends Going to Bring Lots of Titanfall Content in Season 9

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Apex Legends had its best year, bringing continuously new content, and it seems that one of the most requested features from the Apex Legends fan base is now coming soon: more Titanfall.

Apex Legends has the Titanfall universe and this universe is shared by Titanfall, Titanfall 2, and Apex Legends, but after the first release, Apex Legends has been kept much separate for two years. On a current panel having a few Respawn developers hosted by BrownGirlGamerCode, Ashley Reed, the Senior Writer of Apex Legends noted that the games are connected very closely.

Reed said, “What’s going on in Titanfall is a war; Apex is what happens after the war.” Reed then said that Respawn was willing to integrate the world’s first built-in Titanfall more thoroughly into Apex.

“Next season, Season 9, you’re actually going to see a ton of Titanfall coming back into the game in one way or another. So, I’ve told some people before, if you’re a Titanfall fan hang on for Season 9,” said Apex Legends Game Director Chad Grenier during the same panel.

Reiterating the statements for many years, Respawn said that there are no plans to basically add Titans properly.

Seeing the comment, it feels much more like those previous leaks from a while back are more plausible, the ones about the upcoming brand-new character Blisk, who has the features like calling a computer-controlled Titan as a kind of turret. Blisk is a character from Titanfall, a vicious mercenary who also serves as a chairman of Apex Legends’ Apex Games.

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Swiggy to close $800 Million Funding Round, Company Valuation Near $5 Billion

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Indian food delivery app Swiggy is in the process of closing an $800 million (Rs 5,860 crore) funding round from investors including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Capital LP, and Falcon Edge. Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sriharsha Majety said in a note to employees on Monday, according to a report by Bloomberg.

The deal pegs the valuation of the company close to $5 billion, according to reports. “It gives me great pleasure to inform you all that as a part of our recent efforts, we’re closing around $800 million in financing. Some of the world’s best financial investors like Falcon Edge Capital, Amansa Capital, Think Investments, Carmignac, and Goldman Sachs, are joining us as new investors this time,” Majety said, according to New Indian Express

Existing investors including Accel and Naspers Ltd. participated in the fundraising, which was heavily subscribed otherwise as well, Majety wrote in the note. As the convenience delivery segment grows to half a billion users in the next decade, the new capital will speed up growth in its existing businesses and help seed new ones.

“Given our unfettered ambition though, we will continue to seed new offerings for the future that may be ready for investment later,” Majety said.

India’s consumer startups are on a roll as the country’s smartphone users are estimated to reach 1 billion in the coming years and the internet user base is swelling. The coronavirus pandemic, which is sweeping out Indian cities including Mumbai in its second wave, is also driving competition in food delivery, which is seen as a safer option than eating out.

A Swiggy spokesman declined to make comments about the reports.

Over the last year, “we have managed to drive a strong recovery in the food delivery business with a very clear path to profitability,” Majety wrote. “The food delivery business is the strongest it’s ever been and now we are well on our way to drive continued growth over the next decade.”

The cofounder said the startup’s hyperlocal grocery delivery service is showing “amazing promise.”

Lenovo Legion Phone 2 Pro equipped with Dual TurboFan Super-Liquid-Cooled integrated Cooling system

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Lenovo Legion Phone 2 Pro will be launched on April 8 in China. Ahead of the launch the company is teasing most of its key features with the help of some promotional posters specially created to highlight the key features one at a time. These posters are being shared by the company on their official Weibo account.

The recent promotional poster shared by the company shares an interesting feature of the Lenovo Legion Phone 2 Pro. Lenovo Legion Phone 2 Pro will be equipped with a dual turbofan super-liquid-cooled integrated cooling system. These are a lot of words to put together so that a perfect gaming machine can be created. For reference in case you do not know, the Red Magic 6 gaming phone has only one cooling fan that pulls the cold air from a side and pushes the hot air from the other side. In this case, the Legion Phone 2 Pro has also equipped two of those fans with a super-liquid cooling system on top of it.

The Lenovo Legion Phone 2 Pro will come equipped with a 6.92″ Samsung E4 AMOLED display with 144hz refresh rate. The gaming phone will of course come equipped with Snapdragon 888 processor paired with 12GB RAM and 256GB internal storage. There will be a 44MP Pop-UP front facing camera that is equipped similarly on the side of the phone like in the previous Lenovo Legion Phone. The 5500mAh battery will come supported with 90W fast charging. The phone will obviously run on Android 11.

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Realme 8 5G listed on Peruvian MTC certification

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Realme Support India had already revealed that the company is coming soon with the Realme 8 5G and Realme 8 Pro 5G smartphones. Last month the company had launched both the smartphones in 4G version. Along with this during the last launch event in India, the company had hinted at the launch of some new 5G smartphones in the coming months.

Now the Realme 8 5G has been spotted in the Peruvian MTC certification. The basics of an MTC certification for Peru are the requirements for an FCC certification. This certainly means that the series is coming equipped with 5G sooner than ever. This explains a lot of things and we can also see the above image of the phone. The phone that is said to be Realme 8 5G seems pretty similar to the 4G version that was launched in India last month.

The smartphone is shown in silver colour and the quad-camera setup at the back. It also has the DARE TO LEAP slogan at the back of it. The upcoming smartphone is the Realme RMX3241 smartphone that was recently certification by regulatory bodies like India’s BIS, Thailand’s NTBC, and the FCC in the U.S. recently.

Some reports claim that Realme 8 5G will be the rebranded version of the Realme V13 5G that was launched a few days back in China. The Realme 8 series is unique to the Indian market so it is nearly possible that the company will consider launching an already mass-produced device to launch in another market with a rebranded name.

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