As per some reports in the last few days, the French forward can leave the club next summer. Real Madrid and some other European giants are interested in signing the 22 years old superstar.
Paris Saint-Germain beat Montpellier by 4-0 on Friday. Mbappe scored two goals and assisted one in that match.
After the match, in an interview with a French TV outlet, Telefoot Mbappe said, “We are talking with the club, to find a project. I am thinking about it because if I sign and extend my contract, it is to commit myself on the long term to PSG.”
“And I am very happy here. I have always been very happy here.”
“The fans and the club have always helped me, and just for that, I will always be grateful to the club.”
Mbappe has just 1 year left of his contract. The French youngster will cost €100 million in the summer. But he will decide about his future soon. Mbappe said, “I just want to think about what I want to do and where I want to be in the next few years. That’s what I am thinking about, and I know I will have to make a choice soon.”
“If I had made my mind up today, I would have said it. It is not that I want to gain time or something. It is just that I am thinking about it. I don’t want to extend my contract and say a year later that I want to leave because I didn’t want to sign the new deal in the first place. If I extend, it is to stay.”
2020 has definitely been a year with ebbs and flows with all sporting events coming to a halt but, as soon as the sporting events resumed with first the German soccer league, Bundesliga, then La Liga, and then English Premier League followed by the UEFA Champions League.
Let’s have a look at those shinning stars:
Cori Gauff – United States
Gauff is undoubtedly the player to watch out for in the women’s game as she has already made a huge impression at Grand Slam level. She beat the former champion, Venus Williams, and was on her way to reach the fourth round of Wimbledon in 2019, which was followed by the progressing to the third round at the US Open. The 16-year-old star defeated champion, Venus Williams, again at this year’s Australian Open, before tumbling over defending champion Naomi Osaka to make it through to the last 16. Also, She took the opening set against Sofia Kenin in the fourth round, but the, unfortunately, lost to her.
Iga Swiatek – Poland
The 2018 Wimbledon junior champion, got a quiet transition to the senior team. She entered into the top 100 in the world in 2019 at the of 17 only and also, made it to the fourth round of the French Open, but unfortunately lost to third seed and defending champion Simona Halep.
During the Australian Open 2020, she again reached the fourth round. But her real capability was seen during the Roland – Garros, where she defeated the 2019 runners-up, Marketa Vondrousova in the first round, and the 2014 runners-up in Eugenie Bouchard in the third.
Dayana Yastremska – Ukraine
The Ukrainian star, Yastremska has ascended up into the top 25 of the women’s rankings and also, has already stated that her goal is to win a Grand Slam tournament. She moved forward to the fourth round at Wimbledon in 2019 and, also, made it through the third round at both the Australian Open and US Open.
The 19-year-old has won three singles titles on the WTA Tour and collected almost $1.9 million as prize money.
Yastremska has also reached the final of the Adelaide Open earlier this year and looks that she has been destined to be a top 10 player sooner rather than later.
Ansu Fati – FC Barcelona
Very few under-18 players around the world are seen as commanding and talented as Ansu Fati, who is a product of FCB’s La Masia, and by his brilliant performance has impressed everyone and people have already started talking that the youngster could become Lionel Messi’s heir at the Nou Camp.
The fearlessness way of his play and the exuberance of youth has seen him go through all the junior ranks at the club’s La Masia and the Barca B. However, he his turning point in life came after Messi’s injury which allowed him to be considered as a player fit enough to be in the first team. Since his debut, Fati has become the second youngest senior team debutant in Barca’s history, the youngest player to score at the Camp Nou, and, also the youngest Barca player to score and assist in the same game and the youngest ever scorer in the Champions League.
Bukayo Saka – Arsenal
One of the biggest positives and a shinning star to watch out for was Arsenal’s midfielder Bukayo Saka, the 19-year old, the briton who became a mainstay for Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal’s side on the side of the midfield three.
The youngster’s emergence injected life into an Arsenal’s inconsistent side. Saka is extremely determined, tenacious and relentless, and his express speed down to the left channel with pinpoint crossing skills helped him to score many goals for his side.
Erling Haaland– Borussia Dortmund
Europe’s golden youngster, Erling Haaland was one of the best signings for Borussia Dortmund in 2020, as the centre-forward moved from Austrian top-division champion RB Salzburg to the Bundesliga giants Borussia Dortmund in January. The Norwegian scored 33 goals which happens to be the fourth-most in Europe’s top five leagues, and also assisted five more in 32 appearances in his first year with the club. Haaland also became the second teenager to score 10 or more goals in a single UEFA Champions League season during the 2019-20 edition. At the end of the year, he was also the winner of the 2020 Golden Boy award as well.
We know that starting from February intel will be helmed by Pat Gelsinger and he already has plans to pursue the company to its highest possible limitations to defeat the competition. According to recent sources, it not just Gelsinger coming in, but also an Intel veteran who is making a come-back to the blue team.
According to recent sources, Glenn Hinton, the lead architect of the Intel Nehalem architecture, will soon be joining the company for an “exciting high-performance CPU project.”
Glenn Hilton worked for intel for 35-years as the lead architect for the Nehalem CPUs and oversaw Intel’s most significant and lasting architectural overhaul. He announced his return on LinkedIn, stating that the return of Pat Gelsinger’s as Intel CEO in February was the final push he needs to return to Intel which he was considering since November 2020.
“If it wasn’t a fun project I wouldn’t have come back,” Hinton goes on to reply to a comment.
Hilton has a significant value for intel as in his previous project the Nehalem architecture formed the basis of most of Intel’s processors and pushed the limitations of Pentium 4 which allowed intel to rule the semiconductor market for over a decade.
Now, since the company is facing tough competition from its rival AMD and the Cupertino-based giant, Apple already entering the silicon market with its M1 chip. Intel has to prove its worth and launch a series of high-performing processors and that’s what Glenn Hilton aims to do at the company.
About a week ago we showed you some exclusive images of the Oppo Find X3 series where there was a vanilla version and a lite version. All thanks to @evleaks for sharing all those images in the Voice account. From there we can see a newly designed Oppo Find X3 and the Lite version seems more like the Oppo Reno 5 from the backside. Though being a flagship series a report also suggests the Lite version of the upcoming Oppo Find X3 series will be a revamped version of the Oppo Reno 5.
Now we are here with another set of images but this time it is the real-life image of the Oppo Find X3 Lite. Two images of the just unboxed Find X3 Lite gives a vibe of the Oppo Reno 5 already. This image has been shared by Sudhanshu on his Twitter account.
OPPO Find X3 Lite 5G live images along with retail box. Got these pics in DM & couldn't find anywhere them on internet. So I'm not sure if they're exclusive to me or not. pic.twitter.com/EK6O4x4DF7
From the images, we can see the phone will have a full view display along with a single punch hole at the top left corner of the phone. This device will have an in-display fingerprint scanner just like any android flagship devices nowadays. After unboxing we can see that the company has already provided a charging adapter and cable in the box. Now let’s focus on the backside of the phone. We can see a quad-rear camera setup along with a dual-tone flash that is also aligned and designed very similar to the Oppo Reno 5. We can see a silver colour device in this image. It will also support 5G connectivity.
Oppo Find X3 Lite (rumored)
According to Blass, the Lite version will have a 6.4-inch AMOLED display with 1080 x 2400 resolution and embedded hole-punch selfie, plus 90Hz refresh rate and under-screen fingerprint sensor. It will feature a 5G-capable Snapdragon 765G SoC paired with 8GB+128GB RAM+ROM configuration and power will be drawn from a 4,300mAh battery with support of 65W SuperVOOC2.0 rapid charging.
Assumed to have four-camera: 64MP+8MP+2MP+2MP rear quad-camera array and a 32MP selfie camera. The phone will run on ColorOS 11.1 based on Android 11 and be three color choices: galactic silver, azure blue, and starry black.
The series will also have a new device Oppo Find X3 Neo.
NBA expansion appears more realistic than ever because of the revenue lost to the Covid-19 pandemic. Adam Silver has acknowledged the possibility, and it is a sensible one given the NBA’s current financial situation.
Brian Windhorst of ESPN reported that the league could charge a $2.5 billion expansion fee, making $5 billion in total if the league jumped from 30 teams to 32. Divide that among 30 teams, and each would receive an immediate payment of $166.7 million but Silver seems to think that the league can do better.
NBA wants $2.5 billion fee for possible expansion teams; expects offers in Vegas and Seattle, per reporthttps://t.co/AtJ4mTbUfn
In Sportico’s valuation event on Tuesday Silver suggested that the league would want even more than has been reported. He said it “doesn’t feel like the right time” to focus resources or attention on future growth with the league still trying to navigate the pandemic. But Silver did say that “clearly [the] valuations [show] some of the reported numbers [for expansion fees] are very low in terms of the value at which we would expand.”
Silver’s comments are exactly what the seller should say, hoping to increase the buy-in price for a new team. The market may have different ideas.
Most importantly, that means less TV money for all existing teams. In the short term, $166.7 million would be extremely helpful. In the long term, The existing ownership groups would wind up losing far more than that in terms of their share of national television revenue. The league’s current deal with ESPN pays out $2.6 billion per year. This is around $86.7 million per team but would decrease to $81.3 million if divided among 32 teams.
Foldable phones are at the point of discussion in recent years, last year Samsung has already launched few new and old foldable smartphones with few modifications. Apart from Samsung there are few other smartphone makers who have been already working on their own foldables. This year we are expecting some well known brands like Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, etc. coming up with their foldable phones in the market.
As per Digital Chat Station, manufacturers like Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo will be announcing their first commercial foldable smartphones this year. Along with these new foldable manufacturers, Samsung will also announce its next generation of foldable screen devices this year and as per the tipster it has been scheduled as it is. Digital Chat Station has also mentioned there will be a big wave of adoption of new foldable screen devices this year. According to him, most of these devices will have a similar kind of appearance.
A few days back we came across the real-life image of Xiaomi’s foldable phone that has been pictured in the wild while testing. In that device, we saw some serious crease in the middle from where the device bends. As per those images, the foldable of Xiaomi will be like a book, it will have the screen on the unfolded side while the outer side will have some secondary small display for notification purpose. It is not clear either it will have such a screen or not on the outer side, but the main concern is that that device should not come with such a prominent crease in the middle.
Lasith Malinga, the Sri-Lankan bowling beast, has retired from the franchise cricket as his IPL franchise Mumbai Indians revealed their list of the retained players on Wednesday. The speedster earlier this month informed about his decision to the Mumbai Indians’ management, making himself unavailable for the upcoming season and made himself unavailable for the upcoming IPL season.
Speaking of his decision, Malinga said: “After discussing with family, I think now is the right time to retire from all franchise cricket. The pandemic situation and the travel restrictions will make it difficult for me, given my personal circumstances, to participate fully in franchise cricket for the next year. Therefore, it is best to make this decision now.
“I have discussed the same with Mumbai Indians management in recent days as they prepare for the upcoming auction and they have been very supportive and understanding. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Ambani family, everyone at the Mumbai Indians franchise, and all our fans for the wonderful 12 years.
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“Mumbai Indians has treated me like family, supporting me 100 % in every situation both on and off the field, and always giving me the confidence and the freedom to play my natural game whenever I walked onto the field.
“I have collected so many happy memories that I cherish and I am very grateful to have played for so long for the best franchise in world cricket. I would like to wish Mrs. Nita Ambani, coach Mahela (Jayawardene), Akash (Ambani), and the MI family all the best for the upcoming season.”
The Mumbai Indians captain and a good friend of Malinga, Rohit Sharma, took to his social media, Instagram, to share a tribute towards the former’s departure from their team, shared a picture of them on the field, both dressed in their Mumbai Indians jersey. The picture was captioned, “One of the best the game has seen. Truly a match-winner, his presence around the squad will be missed.”
His other teammate, Jasprit Bumrah also shared pictures with his MI teammate and said, “It’s been an honor playing alongside you and picking your brain all these years, Mali. Congratulations on a successful career, the IPL won’t be the same without you”.
It’s been an honour playing alongside you and picking your brain all these years, Mali. Congratulations on a successful career, the IPL won’t be the same without you. @mipaltanpic.twitter.com/9XIPr13dtN
The Trump administration has been at the neck of Chinese tech-giants since the beginning. It is not a surprise that the United States’ former president decided to deal a final blow to one of China’s biggest tech companies.
Apparently, before leaving the Oval office, the former president issued an order revoking Intel and other companies’ licenses to supply certain products and components to the Chinese tech giant Huawei.
Huawei was a prominent player in the development of 5G and was leagues ahead in the race than any major industry in the US. However, when the Trump administration determined that Huawei is a threat to US national security and foreign policy interests, he immediately banned the telecommunication giant from using any technology developed in the US.
The Semiconductor Industry Association issued that it “intends to deny a significant number of license requests for exports to Huawei and a revocation of at least one previously issued license.” According to sources, there was more than one revocation and at least eight licenses were canceled from four companies.
After receiving the “intent to deny” notices, the companies have 20 days to respond, and the Commerce Department has 45 days to advise the companies of any change in a decision, or it then becomes final. Companies would then have another 45 days to appeal.
It has been reported that $280 billion of licenses for Huawei goods and technology still have not been dealt with and will most likely be denied. Though ex-president Donald Trump has left the Oval office, it was earlier reported that irrespective of who sits in the office, be it Biden or Trump, the US’s restrictions on Chinese tech-giants will most likely remain in place for a long-time. The United States put Huawei on a Commerce Department “entity list” in May 2019 and is yet to give any decent breathing room to the company.
Season 2 of The Witcher series will be launch on Netflix. The filming is continued and hopes that Geralt will return in 2021. As the other series, the production of this series is also hit hard by the Coronavirus. Despite some difficulties and a leg injury of star Henry Cavill, the shooting of this series is moving ahead.
The OTT platform, Netflix also depicts the news of the series after 12 months of the release of the first show with the season 2 first photos and the script of the first page of episode one.
We have a little bit of an idea about The Witcher season 2. The official synopsis is that the life of the Yennefer was lost at the Battle of sodden, Geralt of Rivia brought Princess Cirilla to the safest place as he knows that is the childhood home of Kaer Morhan.
The Continent’s king, demons, humans, elves while striving for their supremacy outside of the wall, then the girl will be protected from something dangerous by him, the supernatural powers that the girl holds inside.
The Witcher(Season 2) Release Date
On the topic of the release date Lauren.S. Hissrich has said that they have no exact target launch date set for August 2021. After the first coronavirus based delay, Netflix has confirmed officially that season 2 of The Witcher Series will be filming on August 17, 2020.
Now, it seems that the filming of episode 1 and 2 have finished. Season 2 of The Witcher series was again put on hold in November 2020 following for COVID-19 diagnosis in London. It is expected that season 2 of this series will be released in August 2021, but the exact date isn’t announced.
The Witcher(Season 2)First Photo
In October 2020, The first look of Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri in season 2 was released by Netflix. In this it’s seen that Ciri is holding some weapon in this promotional stills, it may indicate how she is doing her training for something of an honorary Witcher at Kaer Morhen. In December 2020, more photos of the series were released.
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At the end of the year the first page of the script for The Witcher Season 2, Episode 1 was released.
The Witcher(Season 2)Cast
Henry Cavill(Geralt), Anya chalotra(Yennifer), and Freya Allan(Ciri). Three new witches have added to the cast is Paul Bullion(Lambert), Yasen Atour(Coen), Eskel(Basil Eidenbenz). The returning character from season 1 includes Jaskier(Joey Batey) and Triss(Anna Shaffer), Cahir(Eamon Farren), Tissaia(MyAnna Buring), Filavandrel(Tom Canton), Stregobor(Lars Mikkelson),artorius(Terence Maynard), Sabrina(Therica Wilson Read), Murta(Lily Cooper), Yarpen Zigrin(Jeemy Crawford), and Istredd(Royce Pierreson).
The Witcher( Season 2 )story
From the official synopsis, it’s cleared that Ciri will take the center stage. As the Geralt Thinking that Yennefer had died at the Battle of Sodden at the end of the first season and the white wolf that takes his magical young charge in his childhood haunt of Kaer Morhen. It is not a matter of surprise that Cirillia is the central character. In the books also Ciri’s story is the central plot of ‘the saga’.
It covers up to five books, starting with Blood of Elves, and the centers on Ciri with the importance of a magical royal Eleven Heritage., it also included her relationship with Geralt, her efforts to survive, also how all of its shapes on The continent. From season 1 the setup has already begun with the downfall of Cintra, and Ciri’s subsequent escape. It is expected that under Nilfgaardian more of life to be seen in season 2, as the tension rise between the humans and the non-humans.
The Witcher(Season 3) assumption
The Witcher series will run on Netflix for a long time. It is informed that Hissrich declared about the thought out ideas for the incredible seven seasons. Now we are already known about Geralt, Ciri, and Yennefer’s stories to play with. It gives us a rich variety of locations throughout the continents and explores some best fantasy characters around. In the Witcher universe, the development of Ciri’s character is a great basis for the future story. This series is a combination of the family, love, mystery, and magic.
There are a lot of resources to draw the characters for the creators, it is expected that more of the characters will be adapted for multiple seasons.
Pat Gelsinger is making some drastic changes to Intel and has announced that most of the products manufactured by intel in the future will be done internally.
“I am confident that the majority of our 2023 products will be manufactured internally. At the same time, given the breadth of our portfolio, it’s likely that we will expand our use of external foundries for certain technologies and products.”
Gelsinger plans to officially take over Intel starting from February 15th but is extremely serious with Intel manufacturing its dies internally.
“We’re not just interested in closing gaps. We’re interested in resuming that position as the unquestioned leader in process technology.”
But no sooner than the new CEO of the blue team pledged to make intel once again a leader in the Chip industry, and manufacture most of its chips internally, the company’s shares were reported to have been tumbled. The reason might be because Intel has already been taken over by the Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in the manufacturing technology and capacity of the chipsets. If intel keeps the production in-house there is a high chance that its products will find it hard to catch up to its rivals.
According to fresh sources, Intel’s shares fell 4.6% in early trading in New York. Investors are anxious to see whether intel outsources the production of its chips. Even Dan Loeb, the CEOS of Third Point suggested intel to consider spinning off its manufacturing business.
“Where investors are going to be disappointed is that some were expecting some sort of larger announcement of a strategic partnership with TSMC.”
Intel has been the leading chip manufacturer for at least 30 years now and has held out the longest crushing one competitor after another. But in recent years it has struggled heavily in terms of production techniques.
Other chip manufacturing firms like TSMC and Samsung have been experimenting and developing their fab manufacturing technologies. Not to mention that these firms are the primary supplier to Intel’s major competitors like AMD and NVIDIA.
Intel’s new plan might just backfire and the investors waiting for the next move from intel. It will be interesting to see how the blue team emerges amidst the increasing threat from its growing competitors.
