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boAt teases yet another neckband – boAt Rockerz 255 Pro+

boAt Audio is back with the successor of its boAt Rockerz 255 Pro Bluetooth neckband. In case you don’t know, the brand is now the 5th largest audio brand globally. So, they receive a major responsibility to provide a better audio experience than earlier. You can take Rockerz 255 Pro+ as a fresh example. Here’s why.

The new Rockerz 255 Pro+ coming with almost the same design, the only change is the buttons and mouthpiece are added with the wires instead of the main body. That means the microphone can catch your instructions more clear and faster. Alongside, you may get a better calling experience. The earbuds are metallic and have magnates to provide a tangle-free experience. The IPX7 water and sweat resistance will give you additional peace while using.

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Coming to the audio part, it carries the same 10mm size driver inside. However, this time, the company added Qualcomm aptX audio decoder along with Qualcomm cVc. These to will take your listening experience to the next level for sure.

There is a notable improvement in the battery life. The new Rockerz 255 Pro+ can play for up to 40 hours long. On top of that, fast charging allows getting 10 hours of top-up in just 10 minutes of charge. So, just connect it with your device via Bluetooth 5.0 and enjoy as long as you want.

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boAt scheduled the launch on 12th February via Amazon India as 12 noon. There will be three color options – Blue, Sky Blue, and Black. Note, these are not the official names of the variants. The company didn’t disclose the pricing yet. As per my opinion, it should come at around Rs. 1,699. Let’s wait for someday more. To set a reminder for the launch, you can check out the link given below.

Link: https://amzn.to/2YR7xWA

Former Manchester United forward Odion Ighalo joins Saudi Arabian side Al Shabab

Odion Ighalo joins Saudi Arabian side Al Shabab on a permanent deal from Chinese side Shanghai Shenhua.

Odion Ighalo signed a two and a half years deal with the Saudi Arabian side. Ighalo’s representative told BBC Sport Africa, “It’s sorted, and everything is finalized, it should be announced late on Thursday or Friday.”

“Despite interest from other clubs, this is a good move for the player because Al Shabab showed ambition and commitment in their efforts to sign him.”

Odion Ighalo left Manchester United last month after completing his loan spell. He joined Manchester United on loan in 2020. The Nigerian striker is a boyhood fan of Manchester United. He made 23 appearances for his dream club and scored 5 times for the Red Devils.

Last month he thanked his teammates and Manchester United members for his journey. He issued a statement, “It’s so hard to see this dream come to an end. But I give God the glory for helping me fulfill this lifelong dream of putting on a Manchester United shirt as a player and represent this great club, it was indeed an honor I will forever cherish and be grateful for.”

“To the manager, I say thank you for trusting and believing in me when many did not, to my amazing teammates I will miss you guys, it was always fun and a time I look forward to training and spending time with all of you. And I pray we win the LEAGUE and FA Cup this year.”

“To the best fans in the world (the Manchester United fans) we have missed you, but we hear your voices cheering us on from afar, we can’t wait to have you all back on the stands.”

“I’m still and would remain a MANCHESTER UNITED FAN forever. Once a Red, always a Red. Thank you Manchester United and God bless.”

Former Watford and Manchester United striker is ready to start his journey in Saudi Arabia. His experience will be adding great value to Al Shabab.

Happy Birthday Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar: The unknown story of two legends

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From the streets of Mogi Das Cruzes, Brazil, and Madeira, Portugal they have ruled the world with a football in their feet. One is Neymar Jr, and the other one is Cristiano Ronaldo.

Neymar Jr

5th February 1992 in Mogi Das Cruzes in Brazil Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior was born. From childhood, he started his career as a futsal player. He learned fast Brazilian football while playing street football.

Former Santos FC legend Lima first heard about Neymar when he was just 13 years old. He saw him play in a futsal game and he was amazed. He then informed the Santos FC youth team coach Zito about the potential of Neymar. The future was changed since then.

Neymar joined Santos Youth Academy in 2003. There he developed as one of the best players in the world. He was promoted to the first team in 2009. He made his international debut in 2010.

His skills, vision, passing, and most importantly, the ability of scoring goals make him one of the best players of the recent generation.

He has won many trophies and as well as many individual awards in his skill. He was in the UEFA team of the year in 2015 and 2020. He was also part of FIFA FIFPro World XI in 2015 and 2017.

Cristiano Ronaldo

On the same day, in 1985, a legend was born in Madeira, Portugal. He was the fourth and youngest child of his parents. The boy from Madeira has all affection for football since his childhood. He fights with all the odds to play football. He even fought against his teacher, who told him to stay out of football.

In 1997, he went for a 3 days trial with Sporting CP. He then joined the Sporting CP youth academy. But one year later he was diagnosed with racing heart disease, a condition that could have forced him to give up playing football. He was forced to undergo heart surgery. He had a great determination to be back in the field, and he did that quite efficiently.

Cristiano Ronaldo is arguably the best player in history. He has won the Ballon d’Or 5 times in his career. He won the FIFA Best Player Award two times as well. He was part of FIFA FIFPro World XI for a record 14 times.

He has become 36 years old today. But he is still in an excellent form and breaking records continuously. He is confident to play for some more years and is ageing like old wine.

AMD takes an oath to re-stock Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs in Q1 2021 itself

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The Red team has launched the Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs for quite some time now but the stocks of these GPUs have been very poor. The availability of these GPUs across the globe is indeed worse than NVIDIA’s also as the RTX 30-series GPUs are still overpriced and some not available, whereas these AMD GPUs cannot be found anywhere.

Having tested the GPUs myself, I can fairly say these GPUs are the best when it comes to gaming as well as productivity. Not only in India but also across the globe the situation is similar like even if someone recommends you to buy one, you won’t be able to get.

This stock situation is said to last until the second half of 2021, however, AMD has now stated that they plan to extend production of their own reference design cards to bring in more stock in the Q1 2021 itself.

AMD takes an oath to re-stock Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs in Q1 2021 itself

The quote that has been reproduced by BabelTechReviews from an interview conducted with Ritche Corpus, who is the Gaming and Professional Software Worldwide at AMD, is as follows:

Based on the response to our AMD Radeon RX 6800 Series and Radeon RX 6900 XT reference design graphics cards, we are extending production to make them available to as many gamers as possible on AMD.com at SEP. Additional reference cards are expected to be available in the first quarter of 2021.

He also commented on to extend support to the AIB partners, helping to develop custom RX 6000 series cards. It is though unclear how AMD will soothen its partners by making its own reference GPUs or this might be the indication that they will improve the stock situation in the days to come.

Even though AMD is planning to bring more reference Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs, it will be a matter of luck to still get one as scalping will still exist. The GPU situation in the market currently is the worst one seen in few years with price hikes of as much as 30-100%, so, AMD, please resolve this!

via Videocardz & Notebookcheck

Intel’s 4th Generation Xeon ‘Sapphire Rapids’ processors leaked

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Sapphire Rapids has been in the air in recent times, and now we are getting more leaks. The new development of the Intel’s 4th generation Xeon processor has been the first leaked CPU images. YuuKi-AnS, a leaker, shared the first picture of the Sapphire Rapids-SP CPU based on Intel’s 10nm processor. The chip is known with a codename of ‘QVV5’ and will be used on the Eagle Stream platform.

The next-gen Sapphire Rapids chips offer quite impressive specifications. This chip would be the first chip that supports PCI Express 5.0. Besides that, it also features an onboard HBM memory card and Computes Express Link 1.1. As per expectations, it’s going to be the first architecture to support DDR5 memory, but a rumour suggests that it will support up to 8-channel memory. By the end of 2021, it looks like Intel wants to shift entirely to DDR5 on all platforms making a start with the Alder Lake platform.

The above picture of the Sapphire Rapids-SP CPU is an engineering sample with a base clock of 1.3 GHz. This chip is based on the third refinement of Intel’s 10nm process technology named 10nm Enhanced SuperFin. The leaker informed that the CPU would use four compute cores along with four HBM stacks.

The Sapphire Rapids will be used in the next-gen HPC platforms, mainly Intel’s own Aurora supercomputer. We can expect that the Aurora will be equipped with two Sapphire Rapids processors paired besides six Ponte Vecchio GPUs. At CES 2021, Intel had confirmed the development of 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable processors. All of these are still rumours, nothing is confirmed officially yet.

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Elon Musk’s support for Cryptocurrencies gives rise to record Market Value in a Volatile week

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It seems that the cryptocurrency industry is not witnessing any dull moments. In the most recent period, Elon Musk’s proclamation as a supporter for Bitcoin and his tweet about Dogecoin, together with a record runup in Ether helped take the market value of digital tokens to an all-time high.

Tesla co-founder Musk posted light-hearted tweets about Dogecoin — a Shiba Inu meme-themed unit that was created as a joke but has now turned into something to keep a track of– stirring buying that drove its market capitalization past $6 billion. On Thursday, the value of more than 6,000 tokens tracked by CoinGecko, a cryptocurrency ranking and evaluation site, was an unprecedented $1.17 trillion.

These recent developments “provide more evidence of the way the casino-like gyrations of digital coins are seeping into the mainstream.” Prominent advocates of Bitcoin like Billionaire Musk say it’s winning broader acceptance in the finance community. Regulators, meanwhile, do not want people to get complacent and are stepping up warnings of volatility that could wipe investors out.

“Investor perception is at an all-time high at both the retail and hedge fund levels,” said Jehan Chu, managing partner with blockchain advisory firm Kenetic Capital in Hong Kong, according to Bloomberg.

Bitcoin, Ether fuel rally in Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index
Bitcoin, Ether fuel rally in Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index. Image: Bloomberg

Even so, digital coins are still viewed by many investors as a treacherous sector. That was underlined in the U.S., where the 24-year-old founder of two New York-based cryptocurrency hedge funds (Virgil Sigma Fund and VQR Multistrategy Fund) with more than $100 million in investments, Stefan He Qin, pleaded guilty Thursday to securities fraud.

Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency, at about $37,400 as of 1:30 p.m. in Tokyo on Friday, is up 15% this week, while Ether has risen 26%.

Bitcoin may be strengthening before heading toward a record $50,000, which according to Mike McGlone, commodities strategist with Bloomberg Intelligence, would imply a market value for it of about $1 trillion.

Ether’s eightfold rally over the past year faces possible turbulence as the impending launch of CME Group Inc. futures next week may open the door for bearish investors. The digital coin, on Thursday, was at $1,636, down from a peak of almost $1,700.

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Amazon Prime Video has confirmed the Release Date of Manoj Bajpayee’s The Family Man (Season 2)

The filmmakers of The Family Man had previously released a teaser and declared that they will drop a trailer at the later date. But the trailer was not released at the exact time, which led to speculation that might the series be postponed.

The second season of The Family Man is the most awaited series ever on the OTT platforms. Amazon Prime Video’s The Family Man’s second season is featuring Manoj Bajpayee, Samantha Akkineni, Priyamani, Sharib Hashmi, Seema Biswas, Darshan Kumar, Sharad Kelkar, Sunny Hinduja, Shreya Dhanwantary, Shahab Ali, Vedent Sinha, and Mahek Thakur has been postponed to summer. It is confirmed that the series is supposed to release on February 12.

Amazon Prime Video has confirmed the Release Date of Manoj Bajpayee’s The Family Man (Season 2)

From the sharing of the Instagram read of Raj and DK, it is cleared that they knew the audience had been waiting eagerly for the new season of The Family Man. They just updated that the second season will be premiere on Amazon Prime Video this summer. They are working very hard to get this series launch very soon and they also very confident that this will create a huge response among the people.

From Amazon Prime Video’s official synopsis we can say that The Family Man is already an edgy, action drama series, that depicts a story of a middle-class man, named Srikant Tiwari, who is an investigational agent of National Special Cell. The new season 2 will begin from where season 1 was ended.

This series mainly reveals the tight-rope hard work of Srikant Tiwari as he has faced many struggles to maintain the balance between his low-paying, secret, aggressive, and high-risk job. It is expected that he will understand the mission of Zulfiqar is not ended and he will have to try harder to stop the chemical attack.

African Union Chairperson and FIFA President discuss ongoing strong collaboration

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Gianni Infantino stressed the important role that Africa plays in global football

ZURICH, Switzerland, February 5, 2021/ — Thursday, during a call that preceded the 34th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU), AU Chairperson H.E. Cyril Ramaphosa and FIFA President Gianni Infantino spoke of the positive momentum generated between both organisations in the past two years as well as the strong institutional bonds forged between the AU and FIFA for the benefit of the African people.

Reviewing the progress made since both organisations signed a Memorandum of Understanding in February 2019, the two leaders discussed various topics, including plans to boost African Football with a particular focus on infrastructure (stadia, football pitches), football academies and competitions, but also on the fight against match manipulation, as well as safety and security at football matches across Africa.

The joint #SafeHome campaign from August 2020 between the AU and FIFA, with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Confederation of African Football (CAF), where the four organisations addressed the important issue of domestic violence, which was exacerbated by COVID-19-related lockdowns and stay-at-home measures by launching a successful awareness-raising campaign is a further testimony of the close collaboration between the AU and FIFA. A number of Africa-based FIFA Legends supported the campaign via video awareness messages which were distributed on social and traditional media. Both the AU Chairperson and the FIFA President also recognised the opportunities that education through football can bring through the FIFA Football for Schools programme which is being coordinated globally via the FIFA Foundation.

Having visited 35 African countries in the last few years, Gianni Infantino stressed the important role that Africa plays in global football, and how that needs to be strengthened in future. This role has been supported with strong investments via the FIFA Forward programme which has already delivered close to 300 projects across the continent.

The rollout of the FIFA COVID-19 Relief Plan, supporting football across Africa during the pandemic, has also been significant and continues to play an important role to keep football alive in the continent.

Related to COVID-19, vaccination processes will also be crucial in the months ahead. In this respect, the FIFA President reiterated his support for fair access to vaccines for all, a message that he had passed to a global audience earlier this week at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, in the presence of the WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

The FIFA President thanked the AU Chairperson for their continued support and assured his AU counterpart that the strong relationship forged between both organisations in the past two years will continue when Félix Tshisekedi, the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, will assume the role of African Union Chairperson for a one-year term during the aforementioned Assembly, which takes place on 6 and 7 February 2021.

Samsung Level U2 launched in India for ₹1,999 ($27)

Samsung had launched its Level U2 neckband-style wireless earphones back in late November 2020 in South Korea. It is basically the successor of the Level U earphones that was launched even before, almost five years back. After launching in Samsung’s home country, this audio product has made its way in several markets across the world, and almost after two months of its debut, the Samsung Level U2 earphones have finally made their way to India.

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Samsung Level U2 specifications:

The Samsung Level U2 wireless earphones run on Bluetooth 5.0 and deliver rich and balanced sound, credit goes to its big 12nm drivers. This audio product supports multiple audio codecs, such as HFP, HSP, A2DP, AVRCP, and SSC (Samsung Scalable Codec). If you have any of the Samsung Galaxy smartphones or tablets which is running on Android 7.0 Nougat or above, that device has the support for SSC.

Coming to the control, this product has a 4-button inline control rather than any of the touch sensors. It comes with a single microphone and in the box, there three different-sized ear tips (Small, large, Wing Tip) as well for your convenience. This product weighs only 41.5g and measures 146 x 39 x 170mm.

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Coming to the battery, the Samsung Level U2 earphones are fueled up by a 159mAh battery that can get charged via a USB Type-C port. Samsung claims that this audio device can offer up to 18-hour of music playback, 13-hour of talk time, and 500-hour of standby time when it is fully charged. This product is available in two different color options: Black and Blue.

Coming to the pricing and availability, the Level U2 earphones are currently available on Samsung online store and Flipkart at a price tag of ₹1,999 ($27) (Indian pricing). But it is said that this will hit offline markets and other retailers in the coming days.

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Xiaomi introduced World’s first Quad-curved Waterfall Display Concept Smartphone

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Almost 5-6 years ago we saw the curved display concept for the first time especially in a flagship series of Samsung and from then we have witnessed many smartphones with such waterfall displays. Recently we have seen the Motorola Edge with the true waterfall-display. But these displays were curved on either side of the screen. We have not seen a quad-curved display till now, which means that the screen will be curved on all four sides of the smartphone and not only on two sides.

Xiaomi is always one of the pioneers introducing new concepts of their latest and innovative innovations. This time the company has introduced the first-ever quad-curved waterfall display concept smartphone that will have curves on all four sides and the representation has been shown in the below-mentioned official tweet from the company itself.

Xiaomi’s new innovation will revolutionize hyper quad-curved 88-degree surface and will result in a true port-free unibody design. This upcoming smartphone will definitely be one of its kind and as the pioneer, in this segment, Xiaomi will definitely try to make it a signature device. We will witness a true port-free true full view display, seemingly to have an under-display camera for complementing the continuity and its design.

As mentioned by Xiaomi the design and model have been finalized after “countless breakthroughs in glass bending and laminating technology to extend the limits of the display to infinity.” Xiaomi also added that the port free unibody design has been built using a total of 46 different “groundbreaking” patents. Moreover, we have seen the 88 degree curved edges prior in the devices like the Huawei Mate 30 Pro.