KOCHI: Two instances of play at opposite ends close to half-time gave away
the gulf in quality between the teams involved. First North Korea’s talisman
Kim Pom Hyok found himself in a nice position outside the Spanish penalty
area with just one defender near him. He took the right decision and tried to
curl the ball around in search of the top-right corner. However, his strike was
so weak and awful that the ball was rolling by the time it reached the corner
flag. A few minutes later, Spain’s Ferran Torres caught the Koreans off-guard
with a curling shot from the right and hit the post, with the crowd gasping in
appreciation of the skill involved.
In the end, it was all about skill and North Korea were not a match for Spain in
any area of play in a largely one-sided affair which the La Rojita won by 2-0 in
Group D at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here on Friday night.
Mohammed Moukhliss and Cesar Gelabert scored for the winners
who finished second behind Brazil in Group D and advanced to the pre-quarterfinals. They will play the winners of Group E in Guwahati on October
17. North Korea will be heading back home having lost all their matches.
Spain controlled the ball and had whopping 72% possession to show for in the
first half and peppered the Koreans with shots in the first half. The goal came
as early as in the sixth minute through a link-up play between Cesar
Gelabert and Mohammed Moukhliss who got onto the end of a delightful chip
by the former to put Spain ahead. Gelabert was a constant fixture in Spain's
attacks throughout the half as he fired in at least five shots, all missing by
small margins. Gelabert, however, got his due in the second half, latching
onto a low cross from the right wing by substitute Jose Lara to make it 2- 0.
This was the second goal of the campaign for the highly impressive Real
Madrid product.
Paek Kwang Min of North Korea was sent off in the 84th minute to add to their
misery.
Acer brings You their premium gaming laptop- Predator 21 X
Acer recently launched its costliest laptop called Predator 21 x. It has been priced 8999$ nearly 9lakhs. Now this laptop has challenged many gaming laptops specially the ROG series. Now why should you buy it…Here’s Why…
The laptop runs on 7th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-7820HK processor and has NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1080 SLI 16GB which supports 4K gaming. The 7th Intel processors makes the laptop smooth. With the Eye Tracking Technology-Focus on what matters – the game. Eye tracking handles natural eye movement so you spend less time jostling analog sticks and swiping mice.
This machine is absolutely filled to the brim with ram. With 64GB of DDR4 2400, you can push multi-tasking to the limits and then some. What’s better than a PCI express SSD? Two PCIe SSDS, using NVMe technology, in RAID 0. AKA – ridiculously fast drives. Don’t blink. You’ll miss the boot up.
The laptop has 5x cooling system – five fans work in unison to maintain a constant cool. Ultrathin and all metal, three Predator AeroBlade™ fans keep your GPU/CPU at a nice, cool temp. With 1TB SSD AND 1TB HDD you do not have to care about the storage.
It has 4 speakers and 2 subwoofers. Surround yourself with the superior sound of Dolby Audio™ Premium, blaring through a four speaker/two woofer setup. Things are about to get loud.A 3-way Hi-Fi design makes sure what you hear is clean, crisp and weighted with bass.
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PredatorSense™ is the ultimate tool for control. Take command over lighting, overclocking, game profiles and more. Predator DustDefender™, alongside the 5-fan cooling system, alternates airflow to prevent dust buildup.When the going gets hot, Predator CoolBoost™ gets going. Fan speeds increase based on generated heat, keeping critical areas continually cooled.Virtual reality. It’s everywhere, constantly improving and beyond enjoyable. This machine is more than ready, so go ahead and jump on in.
Seventh-gen Intel Core i7-7820HK (overclockable) CPU
Can store up to five storage drives at a time
Two power supplies to run
Five system fans
Nine heat pipes to stay cool
HDMI port and two DisplayPorts
Four speakers and two subwoofers
Mechanical keyboard uses Cherry MX switches and has an RGB LED under every key
SD card reader
19.4 pounds (8.8 kilograms)
1TB SSD & 1TB HDD
So to be honest, Acer Predator 21X is a bit costly and heavy as well, but its a new revolution in gaming laptops. If you have money in your wallet and searching for a premium gaming laptop, then go for Predator 21x.
The Predator 21 X offers up all the elements to reach the pinnacle of gaming – just with a few extra perks so you can custom-tailor it to you. Predator 21X Gaming Laptop Product Page https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/predator-series/predator21x Predator Facebook https://www.facebook.com/PredatorGlobal Predator Twitter https://twitter.com/PredatorGaming
Finally the Alexa has arrived in India. For now it can availed only by invitation. Amazon has brought various models of Alexa including Echo,Echo Spot,Echo Dot and more. Echo and other Alexa devices let you instantly connect to Alexa to play music, control your smart home, get information, news, weather, and more using just your voice.
Why Alexa?
Alexa is Amazon’s cloud-based voice service available on tens of millions of devices from Amazon and third-party device manufacturers. With Alexa, you can build natural voice experiences that offer customers a more intuitive way to interact with the technology they use every day. Our collection of tools, APIs, reference solutions, and documentation make it easy for anyone to build with Alexa.
Start building for voice today by adding new capabilities to Alexa, connecting Alexa to devices, or integrating Alexa directly into your products.
Alexa is Amazon’s voice service and the brain behind tens of millions of devices like the Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Show. Alexa provides capabilities, or skills, that enable customers to create a more personalized experience. There are now more than 25,000 skills from companies like Starbucks, Uber, and Capital One as well as other innovative designers and developers.
Echo Plus has a built-in hub that seamlessly connects and controls compatible smart devices like light bulbs, door locks, switches, and plugs. You can use Echo Plus to switch on the lamp across the room, turn on the fan or heater, dim the lights from the couch, or lock the front door from their bedroom. Setting up new smart home devices has never been easier. You can simply say, “Alexa, find my devices,” and Alexa can control compatible smart home devices immediately.
Using Alexa is as simple as asking a question. Just ask to play music, read the news, control your smart home, tell a joke, and more—Alexa will respond instantly. Whether you are at home or on the go, Alexa is designed to make your life easier by letting you voice-control your world.
Alexa lives in the cloud so it’s always getting smarter, and updates are delivered automatically. The more you talk to Alexa, the more it adapts to your speech patterns, vocabulary, and personal preferences. Alexa comes included with Echo and other Alexa devices.
Voice Control Your Music
Alexa provides voice control for Amazon Music—just ask for your favorite artist or song, or request a specific genre or mood. You can also search for music by lyrics, when a song or album was released, or let Alexa pick the music for you. Listen to any song with Amazon Music Unlimited.
Alexa also provides voice control for Pandora, Spotify, iHeartRadio, and TuneIn.
Alexa Has Skills
Skills add even more capabilities like ordering a pizza from Domino’s, requesting a ride from Uber, tracking your fitness with Fitbit, controlling your TV with DISH Hopper, ordering flowers from 1-800-Flowers, and more. Enabling skills lets Alexa do even more—simply discover and enable the ones you want to use in the Alexa App.
New skills are being added all the time. You can also see ratings and reviews to learn what other customers are saying about the thousands of skills available in the Alexa App.
Voice Control Your Smart Home
Ask Alexa to switch on the lamp before getting out of bed, turn on the fan or turn up the thermostat while reading in your favorite chair, or dim the lights from the couch to watch a movie—all by just using your voice.
Alexa works with smart home devices such as lights, switches, TVs, thermostats, and more from WeMo, Philips Hue, Sony, SmartThings, Insteon, Nest, ecobee, and Wink.
Do More with the Alexa App
With the free Alexa App on Fire OS, Android, iOS, and desktop browsers, you can easily setup and manage your Alexa devices.
Use the Alexa App to connect services you already use like Spotify, Pandora, and Google Calendar. Setup your smart home devices from WeMo, Philips Hue, SmartThings, Insteon, ecobee, and more. See what books are available to read from your Kindle and Audible libraries. View shopping and to-do lists while on the go. Control your timers and set custom tones for your alarms, and much more. The Alexa App is also where you discover and enable third-party skills.
After U-17 Defeats, Indian Football Team Has Qualified For The AFC Asian Cup
A dominant India defeated Macau 4-1 at the Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru on Wednesday to qualify for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, to be played in UAE. It was India’s fourth consecutive win in the qualifiers in as many game and they are on top of Group A.
Amidst the successful hosting of the FIFA U-17 World Cup 2017, where the Indian U-17 team have won hearts of 1.3 billion people with their stupendous performances, the senior team showed class to book their tickets for the continental tournament for the fourth time with two more matches left in the qualifiers.
Sunil Chetri-led India scripted their second qualification to the AFC Asian Cup in last 8 years.
No player really warrants comparison with the greatest of all time but the Juventus
ace has the quality and work ethic to spearhead the post-Messi era.
Shortly after joining Juventus in the summer of 2015, Paulo Dybala returned to
Palermo because he missed his friends from Sicily.
Dybala opened the scoring with a sweeping finish from 25 yards out that made it
50 goals in just 100 appearances in all competitions for Juventus.
However, when Dybala stepped up to take a free-kick just after the hour mark,
after Sassuolo had halved their deficit, nobody had any doubt about the outcome,
with the 23-year- old curling the ball over the wall and into the net.
This, after all, is a player who has wagered with team-mate and dead-ball specialist
Miralem Pjanic that he will score more set-piece goals than the Bosnian this
season.
Messi vs Dybala Stats
Just days after being overshadowed by Lionel Messi during his compatriot's Camp
Nou masterclass in Barcelona's 3-0 Champions League win over Juventus, Dybala
was again being compared with his fellow No.10.
It has ever been thus for Dybala, who has always done his utmost to distance
himself from such talk: "Messi has his story; I have mine. We're two different
players."
"Messi was already doing certain things at 18 at Barcelona that made one realise
that he would become a phenomenon," the former Juve boss told Gazzetta dello
Sport.
Juventus’ forward from Argentina Paulo Dybala (C) vies with Barcelona’s Argentinian forward Lionel Messi during the UEFA Champions League quarter final first leg football match Juventus vs Barcelona, on April 11, 2017 at the Juventus stadium in Turin. / AFP PHOTO / GIUSEPPE CACACE (Photo credit should read GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP/Getty Images)
Antonio Cassano goes even further: "For me, Messi is the greatest footballer in
history and you cannot compare him to anybody, although maybe a little to
Cristiano Ronaldo. Dybala is a great player but he's not comparable to Messi."
"Cristiano Ronaldo has scored hundreds of goals, which is because he’s right-
footed but also strong with his left. With one foot you’re easier to mark and it’s
easier for opponents to read you.
"In Italy, the defenders don’t mess
Mi has finally launched their next flagship killer Mi MIX 2. The biggest highlight of the device is its 5.99-inch bezel-less display with an 18:9 aspect ratio. The predecessor to previous Mi 6 is out in its official site. Mi has brought for its Indian fans the ‘regular’ ceramic + aluminium variant of the smartphone Mi MIX 2 Special Edition featuring all-ceramic body.
Experience the true immersive full display design with Mi MIX 2. The chin size is 12% smaller than its predecessor Mi MIX and the display comes with a 18:9 aspect ratio. It is dressed to impress with its four-sided curved
ceramic back plate and 18-karat gold-plated decorative camera rim, yet is highly durable with its aerospace-grade aluminum alloy frame. It is also extremely thin and light, delivers a spectacular hand feel.
The dual-SIM (Nano-SIM) smartphone sports a 12-megapixel Sony IMX 386 rear camera sensor with 1.25-micron pixels, 4-axis optical image stabilization, 5-piece lens, an f/2.0 aperture, as well as a facial recognition feature. On the front, it bears a 5-megapixel front camera, also with the facial recognition function that can be used to unlock the smartphone.
Mi MIX 2 is supercharged on a Snapdragon 835 processor and uses the latest UFS2.1 storage technology. The phone will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 SoC that’s coupled with 6GB of LPDDR4x RAM. It comes with 6gb RAM and 128gb storage with hybrid slim slot i.e. no expandable storage.
Mi MIX 2 supports most global LTE bands, especially ideal for your business travels. The high power receiver unit comes with a tuned sound guiding channel. So you can take clear, crisp calls – even under noisy environments. As it has Dual ADC HD recording, you can get a clear recording even at a distance. It has Multi-function NFC which supports read/write, card emulation, and P2P.
The smartphone runs on a 3400mAh battery, measures 151.8×75.5×7.7mm, and weighs 185 grams. It has all the required sensors like accelerometer, ambient light sensor, barometer, digital compass, gyroscope, and ultrasonic proximity sensor. The company says the display has a pixel density of 403ppi, and is complete with DCI-P3 colour gamut support.
The phone will be available in mi.com. The introductory price will be at 36k and at that price, it competes with the OnePlus 5. The smartphone will be available via Flipkart and Mi.com in a preview sale on October 17. The smartphone’s general availability will begin in the first week of November, and it will then go on sale via Mi Home and other offline retailer partners in addition. There are no Mi MIX 2 launch offers as such, beyond a zero percent EMI offer, which will be available via all retail channels, the Xiaomi’s Manu Jain said at the launch event.
It will be available in a special black box edition.
