Marin, Momota among top entries as India field strong contingent of 48 shuttlers
228 entries from 33 countries, including China, for the prestigious tournament starting from May 11
New Delhi, April 13, 2021: Rio Olympics champion Carolina Marin and World No.1 Kento Momota spearhead the list of top international entries at the much-anticipated Yonex-Sunrise India Open 2021 which will be conducted behind the closed doors at the KD Jadhav Indoor Hall in New Delhi from May 11-16.
The tournament, which is also an Olympic qualifier event, has attracted 228 (114 men and 114 women) entries from 33 different national associations including China. The prestigious annual tournament, classified as BWF World Tour Super 500 event, is one of the last few qualification events for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games and will witness some exciting action.
However, due to the rapidly rising covid cases in the country, the tournament will be contested in a biosecure bubble without spectators and media while implementing strict COVID-19 safety protocols. All the players and officials coming from South Africa, Brazil, Middle East and European countries including the UK will be serving a 7-day quarantine period and have to report in the capital city on May 3 while players and officials from the rest of the world can arrive on May 6 and undergo a 4-day quarantine period.
Delhi Government will conduct RT-PCR test on arrival on May 3 and 6 as well as on May 9 and 14. Badminton Association of India (BAI) will provide one additional meal of choice for all participants, officials, and support staff members during the quarantine period.
“We are really happy to finally be able to resume badminton action and host such top shuttlers from across the world. But with the recent spike in cases, we have to be more cautious. Players’ safety has always been of prime importance and our top priority and this tournament will be no different. We will be implementing and following strict COVID-19 protocols and guidelines as shared by the Government of India and the Delhi Government,” Organising Secretary and General Secretary of BAI Ajay Singhania said.
“We understand spectators have been an integral part of our growth story but this year despite it being an Olympic qualifier and an array of star shuttlers in action, we have to take the decision of conducting the tournament in a bio bubble. We hope fans and media will understand the challenges and support us. We will be using all our digital handles to broadcast and interact with fans and bring the players and fans much closer,” Singhania added.
Three-time world champion Marin will lead the women’s singles category along with other Top-10 shuttlers Akane Yamaguchi, 2019 World Champion PV Sindhu, Korea’s An Se-Young, and Thailand’s Pornpawee Chochuwong, alongside the former World No. 1 Saina Nehwal of India.
India boasts of the largest contingent with 48 players (27 women and 21 men) while Malaysia has fielded the second largest squad with 26 shuttlers which includes 10 women and 16 men. 10 shuttlers (4 women and 6 men) from China are also part of the participant’s list.
In the men’s singles section, the Top-10 players in the fray include two-time world champion Momota, defending champion Viktor Axelson, Anders Antonsen and reigning All England Open champion Zii Jia Lee. Former world No. 1 Srikanth Kidambi will lead the charge for the hosts along with B Sai Praneeth, HS Prannoy and Parupalli Kashyap.
India’s men’s doubles challenge will be spearheaded by World No. 10 pairing of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy while Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy will aim for valuable Olympic qualification points in women’s doubles. Ponnappa will also partner Satwik in the mixed doubles category which sees Japanese pair of Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino leading the list of six Top-10 combinations in fray.
The last date for withdrawal of entry is April 19 while the draw will be announced on April 20.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Aerospace vehicle manufacturer Blue Origin, are the biggest competitors in the field of manufacturing launch vehicles and other space crazy rockets. with both the companies eyeing for Mars, it’s just a matter of time before we see which company flies off first.
According to sources, the space agency owned by Bezos has secured a temporary flight restriction (TFR) from the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) for its flight test facility near Van Horn, Texas. It indicates that the company might conduct a test of one of its launch vehicles later this month.
The TFR has restricted airspace movement in the skies above Van Horn from April 14 to April 17. The agency stated the notice to airmen is to “TO PROVIDE A SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR ROCKET LAUNCH AND RECOVERY” for space operations.
Blue Origin conducted its first launch for this year in January when it launched the NS-14 mission to test sub-orbital human spaceflight capabilities. It was then when the company tested its fourth-generation New Shepard rocket. Using its new Shepard rocket, the space agency hopes to undertake private suborbital flights in addition to science missions for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
According to sources, we have also heard that Blue Origin is also developing the New Glenn heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle. The New Glenn uses the company’s BE-4 engine with liquefied natural as its fuel to generate more thrust than the SpaceX Merlin 1D.
In 2015, when the company tested its New Shepard, it became the first private rocket manufacturer to land a rocket vertically in November 2015 successfully. However, it is yet to conduct operational missions with the rocket. Its design approach is much different than SpaceX’s, which follows’ s rapid test, rapid failure methodology.
boAt teases the arrival of its 4th smartwatch boAt Watch Xplorer yesterday and now, confirmed the rest of the other details including specs, pricing, and also the launch date. Have a look at the specs first.
Specifications :-
No doubt, the smartwatch will have a big and bright touch screen display. The dimension and resolution details are not revealed yet though. But, as the Xplorer is made for explorers, it has built-in GPS to track your location and movement. The watch also needs to connect with your smartphone in this case. By the way, I predicted this and shared it in my last article.
Next comes a 24/7 automatic heart rate monitoring system. It will help you to observe and record your health conditions over time. The Watch Xplorer also has multiple daily activities tracking facilities and various sports modes. You can calculate your daily steps, burnt calories, and more just from your wrist.
The boAt Watch Xplorer can notify you about the weather for the upcoming 3 days. In case you stuck in any rainy condition, need not to worry about the watch as it has 5 ATM waterproofing.
boAt will provide four attractive watch faces. There will be three strap color options – Black, Blue, and Gray.
Pricing & Availability :-
The boAt Watch Xplorer will launch in Indian on 16th April via Flipkart at 12 noon. You can get it for Rs.2,999. Point to note, it’s a special launch price.
Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos becomes the latest player to test positive for COVID-19. The Spanish international was already out injured during the last international break and could not take part in Real Madrid’s biggest week, facing Barcelona in-between UEFA Champions League quarter-final two legs with Liverpool.
Real Madrid published an official statement stating: “Real Madrid C. F. informs that our player, Sergio Ramos, has tested positive in the last COVID-19 test that he has taken.”
Sergio Ramos joins Raphael Varane on the list of COVID-19 positive. He won’t be allowed to enter the premises until he tests negative. Till then he will have to self-isolate.
Real Madrid will definitely miss their captain and his contract also expires this summer which is yet to be extended. The contract situation is a bit complicated but Zidane wants to keep Ramos so hopefully we will se Ramos captaining Real Madrid in the next season as well.
According to the latest sources, the game called Outsiders occupies more space on your hard drive than you might expect. Most of us install our games on C drive and if a game occupies more than the desired space then it becomes a headache.
One user reported that the game had stuffed 23GB worth of crash reports six folders deep into their C drive. But, considering that the game is made using Unreal Engine, then it means that it’s normal for it to dump a bunch of data after a crash (they usually ask if you want to send it to the developer so they can figure out what caused it), but it isn’t normal for the game to store enormous quantities of crash data on your drive long term.
Here’s the folder where Outriders stores crash reports: Users/[You]/AppData/Local/Madness/Saved.
However, don’t be scared, it’s safe to delete that folder. That’s the folder where the game will store all its crash files. The huge space occupied by the game’s crash report files is an indication that the game is unstable at least for some people, and also that some of the individual crash files exceed 1 GB in file size.
One such bug is related to the looter shooter’s cross play, which hasn’t been working for over a week. The bug occurred due to a desynchronization between the code for the PC and console versions of Outriders. according to the official Outriders Twitter account, the bug has been fixed now, however, another bug is yet to be addressed and it’s a serious one. It’s the bug that’s been causing some players to lose their entire inventories after a crash has continued, even after this week’s patch.
The latest patch nerfed the trickster and techno manner classes and is intended to greatly reduce the frequency of inventory wipes. But, “Since the recent patch, we have seen an increase in reports of this issue”. Fixing this bug is apparently “our top priority and will remain so until fixed,” stated Square Enix.
NVIDIA DGX Station 320G AI server has just been announced by the company. It is based on the Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPUs. The DGX Station 320G, designed to be the fastest server in a box dedicated to AI research, features the updated NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs which have at its disposal, double the memory & multi-Petaflops of AI horsepower.
NVIDIA Unveils DGX Station 320G AI Server With AMD EPYC 64 Core CPU, 320 GB Memory and Quad NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPUs
The NVIDIA DGX Station 320G is aimed at the artificial intelligence market, accelerating machine learning and data science performance for research facilities, corporate offices, labs, or home offices everywhere.
The AI leaders around the world that have adopted DGX Station to power AI and data science across industries include:
BMW Group Production, while developing and deploying AI models that improve operations, use NVIDIA DGX Stations to explore insights faster.
German AI research center, DFKI, is using the NVIDIA DGX Station to build models that tackle critical challenges for society and industry.
Lockheed Martin is making use of the NVIDIA DGX Station for the development of AI models that use sensor data and service logs to predict the need for maintenance to increase safety for workers, improve manufacturing uptime, and reduce operational costs.
Japan’s leading mobile operator with over 79 million subscribers, NTT Docomo, puts NVIDIA DGX Station to use for the development of innovative AI-driven services such as its image recognition solution.
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NVIDIA DGX Station 320G System Specifications
Coming to the specifications, a total of four updated A100 Tensor Core GPUs accommodating twice the memory give power to the NVIDIA DGX Station 320G.
In the DGX Station A100, the NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs comes packed with twice the memory size of the original A100 which is 80 GB of HBM2e memory. According to a report by WCCFTECH, this implies that the DGX Station “has a total of 320 GB of total available capacity while fully supporting MIG (Multi-Instance GPU protocol) and 3rd Gen NVLink support, offering 200 GB/s of bidirectional bandwidth between any GPU pair & 3 times faster interconnect speeds than PCIe Gen 4.”
“The system itself houses an AMD EPYC Rome 7742 64 Core CPU with full PCIe Gen 4 support, up to 512 GB of dedicated system memory, 1.92 TB NVME M.2 SSD storage for OS, and up to 7.68 TB NVME U.2 SSD storage for data cache.” The system carries 2x 10 GbE LAN controllers, for connectivity purposes, and a single 1 GbE LAN port for remote management. A discrete DGX Display Adapter card provides the display output, with up to 4K resolution support. The AIC features its own active cooling solution.
The A100 GPUs are placed on the rear side of the chassis. A refrigerant cooling system that is whisper quiet and also maintenance-free is added to all four GPUs and the CPU. The cooler operates at a silent 37db and the whole system is powered by a 1500W PSU.
NVIDIA DGX Station A100 System Performance
As for performance, the DGX Station A100 delivers 5 PetaOPS of INT8 inferencing horsepower & 2.5 Petaflops of AI training power. The DGX Station A100 is also the only workstation of its kind to support the MIG, in turn, allowing users to slice up individual GPUs, allowing for simultaneous workloads to be executed more efficiently and faster.
The new version offers a “3.17x increase in Training performance, 4.35x increase in Inference performance, and 1.85x increase in HPC oriented workloads” over the original DGX Station.
Advancing AI with DGX SuperPOD
DGX SuperPODs are AI supercomputers featuring 20 or more NVIDIA DGX A100 systems and NVIDIA InfiniBand HDR networking. Among the latest to deploy DGX SuperPODs to power new AI solutions and services are Sony Group Corporation, NAVER, a leading internet technology company in Korea and Japan, Recursion, a digital-biology company, and MTS, Russia’s largest telecommunications company.
NVIDIA DGX Station 320G System Availability
The NVIDIA DGX Station 320G will be available later this year for a monthly subscription of $9,000 per month or at a price of $149,000. Through NVIDIA’s global partners, which can provide pricing to qualified customers upon request, Cloud-native, multi-tenant NVIDIA DGX SuperPODs will be available in Q2. NVIDIA Base Command will also be available starting in Q2.
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The music video, featuring Divyenndu, captures the emotions of a true-blue cricket fan who is passionately engrossed in the game and has a reaction to every match moment.
New Delhi, April 13, 2021: BalleBaazi.com, one of the leading online fantasy sports platforms ranging from cricket to kabaddi, baseball, football, and even basketball celebrates the onset of themost captivating cricket tournament, IPL with its latest campaign and video song ‘Cricket Machao’.
The peppy campaign represents the spirit of cricket in India by narrating every fan’s reaction to the ultimate action during the matches. The music video features Divyenndu who has been roped in to up the fun quotient of the exciting gaming platform.
With the commencement of the IPL season 2021, BalleBaazi.com is all set to blend into the Indian cricket fever with Divyenndu and the new anthem. Capturing the fervour of the game and the excitement of the cricket-loving audience in the country, ‘Cricket Machao’ showcases Indian millennials’ pulse for the sport.
BalleBaazi.com, the Fantasy Sports vertical of Baazi Games already has an existing userbase of over 6 million who are ardent cricket followers, regular visitors, and players on the BalleBaazi app. With the dawn of the IPL season this year, the popular gaming platform is looking forward to growing its user base by 50%. Established in 2018, BalleBaazi.com has enjoyed a buoyant entry into the industry, accumulating around 5,00,000 active users in less than 12 months. 70% of whom came from Tier II and Tier III cities, showing a mystery element at work. Additionally, the platform also allows users to enjoy other attractive features such as batting and bowling fantasy formats and Tourney Fantasy along with the referral format known as Partnership Programme.
Expressing his views on the campaign and the launch of a new video, Mr Saurabh Chopra, CEO of BalleBaazi.com said, “At BalleBaazi, we are constantly discovering ways to connect with our users. Our aim has always been able to provide the users with the best possible experience by constantly innovating and maintaining their interest. Through this new campaign, we believe that we can relate to the ardent cricket fans with the choice of entertainment they are looking for. The fervour and love for cricket enable people to come together during the IPL and support their favourite team. As majority of the fans will be enjoying the game from their homes, we want to establish a connection with them as well as sustain their interest in the game. #CricketMachao celebrates the passion and enthusiasm the Indian audience has for cricket which will enable them to enjoy the IPL season and have a gripping gaming experience.”
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Football has become a lucrative sport with lots of money. There are 3 football players in the top 5 of the highest-paid athletes in the world by Forbes 2020. The football clubs have a huge fan following across the globe.
The football clubs are valued at billions of euros depending on their recent success in their respective leagues as well as in European competitions. The rich history of some of the football clubs has also resulted in their high valuations.
But the current COVID-19 situation has affected the economy of the clubs. Most of the clubs have lost significant values due to the pandemic. However, two Spanish clubs still lead the pack. Barcelona is valued at $4.76 billion, while Real Madrid is slightly behind at $4.75 billion.
So here we take a look at the top 10 most valuable football clubs in the world in 2021, according to Forbes Magazine.
10. Tottenham Hotspurs – $2.3 billion
League: Premier League (England) Location: Tottenham, London Notable Achievements: 2 Premier League titles, 8 FA Cups, 4 League Cups, 7 FA Community Shields, 1 European Cup Winners’ Cup and 2 UEFA Cups. Runners-up in the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League
9. Paris Saint-Germain – $2.5 billion
League: Ligue 1 (France) Location: Paris Notable Achievements: 9 Ligue 1 titles, a record 12 Coupe de France, a record 8 Coupe de la Ligue, a record 9 Trophee des Champions titles and 1 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup
8. Arsenal – $2.8 billion
League: Premier League (England) Location: Islington, London Notable Achievements: 13 Premier League titles, a record 13 FA Cups, 2 League Cups, 15 FA Community Shields, the only League Centenary Trophy, 1 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup and 1 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
7. Chelsea – $3.2 billion
League: Premier League (England) Location: Chelsea, London Notable Achievements: 6 Premier League titles, 8 FA Cups, 5 League Cups, 4 FA Community Shields, 2 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup, 1 UEFA Super Cup, 1 UEFA Champions League and 2 UEFA Europa League
6. Manchester City – $4 billion
League: Premier League (England) Location: Manchester Notable Achievements: 6 Premier League titles, 6 FA Cups, 7 League Cups, 6 FA Community Shields and 1 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup
5. Liverpool – $4.1 billion
League: Premier League (England) Location: Liverpool Notable Achievements: 19 Premier League titles, 7 FA Cups, a record 8 League Cups, 15 FA Community Shields, 6 European Cup/UEFA Champions League, 3 UEFA Cups, 4 UEFA Super Cups and 1 FIFA Club World Cup
4. Manchester United – $4.2 billion
League: Premier League (England) Location: Manchester Notable Achievements: A record 20 Premier League titles, 12 FA Cups, 5 League Cups, a record 21 FA Community Shields, 3 UEFA Champions Leagues, 1 UEFA Europa League, 1 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup, 1 UEFA Super Cup, 1 Intercontinental Cup and 1 FIFA Club World Cup
3. Bayern Munich – $4.22 billion
League: Bundesliga (Germany) Location: Munich Notable Achievements: A record 30 Bundesliga titles, a record 19 DFB-Pokal titles, a record 7 DFB-Supercup, a record 6 DFL-Ligapokal, 5 UEFA Champions League, 1 UEFA Europa League, 1 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup and 1 UEFA Super Cup
2. Real Madrid – $4.75 billion
League: LaLiga (Spain) Location: Madrid Notable Achievements: A record 34 La Liga titles, 19 Copa del Rey, 11 Supercopa de Espana, a Copa Eva Duarte, 1 Copa de la Liga, a record 13 European Cup/UEFA Champions League titles, 2 UEFA Cups, 4 UEFA Super Cups and a record 7 FIFA Club World Cups. Real Madrid was recognised as the FIFA Club of the 20th Century on 11 December 2000.
1. Barcelona – $4.76 billion
League: LaLiga (Spain) Location: Barcelona Notable Achievements: 26 La Liga, a record 30 Copa del Rey, a record 13 Supercopa de Espana, a record 3 Copa Eva Duarte, a record 2 Copa de la Liga trophies, 5 UEFA Champions League titles, a record 4 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup, a joint-record 5 UEFA Super Cup, a record 3 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, and 3 FIFA Club World Cup
Real Madrid travel to Anfield in arguably one of the most highly dreamed of fixtures by Liverpool fans in years. While Los Merengues have a 3-1 lead to fall back on when they go to England, they also have a heavily weakened defence due to the ever-growing injury list this season.
Sergio Ramos and Raphael Varane will be out for the return leg, with the skipper suffering a muscle injury on international duty while Varane is isolating after contracting COVID-19. The centre-back pairing of Eder Militao and Nacho Fernandez, who did well to hold up the defense in El Clasico, will face another high stakes fixture within the span of only a few days since their game against Barcelona.
Dani Carvajal will also be out for the game, alongside Lucas Vasquez, and this will push Zinedine Zidane to make a choice as to who plays in right-back. Positionally, Alvaro Odriozola becomes the natural selection since he is the only fit right-back at the club. However, the player’s lack of confidence and playing time make it debatable as to whether he will be given time in the second leg.
Zinedine Zidane clearly does not have enough faith in the player, deploying an attack minded player like Lucas Vasquez ahead of Odriozola when Carvajal got injured. Hence, whether or not the Spaniard will be trusted to operate against Liverpool is a question worth asking.
The most sensible decision in this case, would be to choose a back three as Zidane has done on multiple occasions this season, using Marcelo and Odriozola as wing backs and a centre-back pairing of Eder Militao, Nacho Fernandez and Ferland Mendy.
