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Becky Hammon becomes the first woman to serve as head coach in an NBA game

Advait Jajodia
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Becky Hammon becomes the first woman to serve as head coach in an NBA game

On Wednesday night, Becky Hammon achieved her goal of becoming an NBA head coach, although for a brief amount of time. It was the first time a woman served as head coach in a regular season NBA game.

After arguing with a referee in the second quarter of a game with the Los Angeles Lakers in San Antonio, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich was ejected. He turned to Hammon, who is one of his assistant coaches, and indicated that she take over as the team’s acting head coach.

A WNBA veteran, Hammon has been an assistant coach with the San Antonio Spurs since 2014. She is one of the six women who hold an assistant coaching role in the NBA this season – after a record 11 last season. Previously, she served as the head coach of the Spurs’ summer league team and had taken over for Popovich in a preseason game in October 2017. As the Spurs rotated head coaches during the scrimmages leading up to the NBA’s restart in Orlando last season, she coached the team in an exhibition matchup against the Milwaukee Bucks.

This Wednesday marked the first time she acted as head coach for a regular-season game. Up until last season, it was team legend and then-assistant coach Tim Duncan that stepped into Popovich’s seat as head coach whenever Popovich had to be away for personal reasons.

When asked about her experience, Hammon said, “It was business as usual.” “They’re used to hearing my voice in practice, Pop will put us in two teams and we’ll each have a team. So they’re kind of used to hearing me out there, seeing me draw a play on the board or whatnot,” she remarked.

San Antonio lost the game to Los Angeles 121-107. The loss will officially go on Popovich’s record since NBA’s bookkeeping rules say that all results belong to the team’s listed head coach and not any other replacements.

Jadon Sancho transfer saga to continue till summer 2021; no move in January

Arsh Das
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Jadon Sancho transfer saga to continue till summer 2021; no move in January

After a groundbreaking 19/20 season with Borussia Dortmund, Jadon Sancho seems to have hit a plateau on the pitch. The youngster has himself confessed that the rumours linking him with a move to Manchester United are partly to blame for the drop in form. 

The summer transfer window of 2020 was filled with rumours linking the former Manchester City winger with a return to the city, only this time, to don a red jersey. However, despite there being reports of personal terms being agreed between the player and the club, Sancho ended up staying in Germany. 

Speaking on the highly anticipated next destination for the English wonderkid, Fabrizio Romano and Francesco Porzio said on their Here We Go podcast that the race for Sancho would be on next summer. 

The winger is expected to stay at Dortmund during the January transfer window, mainly since no club is willing to spend in excess of €100 million in the middle of the season especially due to the current financial situation worldwide. 

Right now, Sancho’s main focus is regaining his best form at Dortmund and to help the club challenge for the league title once again, along with possibly making it deep into the Champions League knockout stages as well. 

The latest on Diego Costa’s next club

Arsh Das
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The latest on Diego Costa’s next club

Diego Costa was recently released by Atletico Madrid, and the striker is currently a free agent. There have been various reports linking him to the likes of Brazil, his birthplace, as well as to China. 

Speaking on the topic on the Here We Go podcast on Patreon, Fabrizio Romano and Francesco Porzio clarified the situation, saying clubs all around the world are  interested in his services. However, not many can match the €8 million wage before taxes that the striker is currently demanding. 

With the recent wage cap introduced in China, a move to the east looks very unlikely. According to the podcast, Guangzhou Evergrande FC were interested in Diego Costa over the last few years, but failed to sign him. 

The Chinese club could still try one more time to sign the player now that he is a free agent.

Arsenal were also one of the clubs being linked with a move for Diego Costa, potentially setting up a return to London for the former Spanish international striker. However, those rumours have now been squashed by Romano, saying that Arsenal have not contacted him. 

Some Premier League clubs are apparently in contact with his agent, so a potential return to England cannot be ruled out completely. What ultimately becomes of the striker remains to be seen in the month to come. 

Google is pushing its subscription offers for the new year

Nivedita Bangari
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Google is pushing its subscription offers for the new year

Google’s Android OS is the worlds leading mobile operating platform and is the main goto OS of every new smartphone which is being launched. The parent of Android also several of its cooked Android apps and we use it every day in our life. The most common among Google’s android app is YouTube.

As we know that most of the apps made by Google are free to use, albeit with some offering additional subscriptions for more exclusive features and some running advertisements for the free version. But the year 2021 has brought some changes to Google Store and how it offering a dedicated space to its subscription offers.

The new “Subscriptions” page on Google Store is broken down into four categories:

  • Shows & Music: YouTube TV, YouTube Premium, YouTube Music Premium, 
  • Gaming: Stadia Pro, Google Play Pass
  • Storage & Security: Google One, Nest Aware
  • Phone Plan: Google Fit

Google has expanded its range of Subscription services. First, there was YouTube, and as time went by, there came YouTube music and the now widely popular YouTube TV. The TV app of YouTube has reportedly over 3 million customers in the US, while Premium/Music Premium is at 30 million.

Its Stadia service is a prime example of cloud gaming services and offers Play Pass to provide Android games without ads and unlocks all in-app purchases. Google is pushing forth its Android Apps’ capabilities in 2021, and its subscription features will most prominently be one of the main hot topics of the new year.

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Corellium gets relief against Apple

Nivedita Bangari
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Corellium gets relief against Apple

Apple doesn’t allow any third party OEM to run neither its Mobiles OS nor its PC operating system. Either you run them in Apple’s hardware or you don’t run them at all. But most importantly it never allows anyone to mess with it.

A start-up company which goes by the name of Corellium, made it possible to run ‘virtual iPhones’ on desktop computers. And as all might have guessed, Apple didn’t like it. The start-up was pulled in a legal battle with Apple last year.

But to everyone’s surprise, at the end of 2020, a Florida judge has ruled that the start-up’s business practices were in fair use, and this gave Corellium a certain amount of relief, at least for now.

“Weighing all the necessary factors, the Court finds that Corellium has met its burden of establishing fair use. Thus, its use of iOS in connection with the Corellium Product is permissible.”

According to the lawsuit filed by the Cupertino based giant, the start-up illegally replicated the OS and apps running on both the iPad and iPhone. Corellium makes software that creates digital replicas of iOS, iTunes, and its user interface elements. All this is available on a web-based platform or custom platform built by the start-up. Apple has argued that the software would open iPhones to security flaws as it is designed to make an exact copy of iOS.

However, Corellium also countered Apple’s claims and stated that its software aided Apple by making it easier for security researchers to find bugs. The company even stated that Apple, by using the lawsuit is trying to limit the landscape of jailbreaking. Well after receiving the verdict from Florida, Corellium is expected to resume its business activities. But if we know Apple, and that we do, I don’t it’s going to give up on bringing down Corellium. The Cupertino giant had already tried to acquire the start-up back in 2018 but failed. As to what it is going to do next, let’s wait and find out.

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Adaptive Charging is here to prolong the battery life of your Pixel devices

Nivedita Bangari
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Adaptive Charging is here to prolong the battery life of your Pixel devices

The year-end of 2020 brought us many amazing updates in the software industry; one of the most well-deserved updates was delivered by Google. For its final updates of the which Google drops every December, the company released a trio of smart features to optimize Pixel usage better.

The updates released are Adaptive sound, Adaptive Charging, and Adaptive Adaptive Connectivity. Among these, the most significant is Adaptive charging. It allows the Pixel to slowly overnight to preserve battery health, which is the most significant, but there are key requirements to get it to work.

“Adaptive Charging helps preserve battery health over time by dynamically controlling how quickly Pixel device charges. Just plug in your phone in the evening, set an alarm, and the Adaptive Charging will work its magic.”

The new feature will charge the device for over several hours rather than working as quickly as possible to get to 100%. But there is still an issue of users being concerned about why it is taking their device so long to charge as we already know that we all have adapted quite well to the fast charging technology. But the feature is meant to make the battery life more prolonged and will also increase power efficiency.

It can be manually enabled/disabled from Settings > Battery > Adaptive Battery > Adaptive charging, while Google will note when it’s active at the bottom of the Ambient/Always-on Display. From Google’s description, all users need to (1) charge at night, and (2) have an alarm.

The feature is available on Pixel 4/XL, Pixel 4a, Pixel 4a (5G), and Pixel 5.

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus tipped to release in H2 of 2021

Anurag Dutta
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus tipped to release in H2 of 2021

In the second half of 2020, Qualcomm had launched its Snapdragon 888 chipset which is the latest one to date. Most of the flagship smartphones of different companies about to get launched in Q1 of 2021 are powered by this Snapdragon 888 chipset. For example, Mi 11, which will go on sale in January is powered by the SD 888 chipset. Apart from it, so many other devices are there such as Samsung Galaxy S21, Oppo Find X3, OnePlus 9, and many more.

Recently a report has come out from a tipster that it is about to release a new Qualcomm flagship SoC, that is expected to be a one-step higher version of SD 888, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888+. As per the report, Qualcomm will release the SD 888+ chipset in the second half of 2021. The tipster has also stated that the upcoming Snapdragon chipset will be clocked at 840MHz.

The combination of the SD 888 and the 3rd gen Qualcomm Snapdragon X60 5G modem offers mmWave and sub-6 across all major bands worldwide. This helps to enable global compatibility. Definitely, it is a 5G compatible chipset that supports 5G carrier aggregation, global multi-SIM, standalone, non-standalone, and Dynamic Spectrum Sharing.

This Snapdragon 888 chipset comes with the 6th-gen AI Engine and brings 26 tera operations per second (TOPS) if we compare it to the last generation. This chipset has a 2nd generation Qualcomm Sensing Hub, which “incorporates low-power always-on AI processing for intuitive intelligent features.” As per the cores of the SD 888 chipset, its latest Cortex X1 core clocked at 2.84GHz, three Cortex A78 clocked at 2.4GHz, and four Cortex A55 cores clocked at 1.8-GHz.

AmazonBasics Fire TV Edition launched 4K TV starts from Rs.29,999

Anupam Modak
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AmazonBasics Fire TV Edition launched 4K TV starts from Rs.29,999

Hope you know about the AmazonBasics. If not, it’s Amazon’s private label products that come under this branding. Though the portfolio was not so small, there were no televisions earlier. But, Amazon added two Fire TV edition models to the AmazonBasics branding recently. As per the listing, three more models are preparing to launch. Before these come to the market, have a look at the already launched models.

As I said earlier, there are two television models – AmazonBasics AB50U20PS and AmazonBasics AB55U20PS. Hope you already get the screen sizes of the two, the first models, AB50U20PS has a 50-inch screen and the other one has a 55-inch display. Other than the screen size and pricing, there is no difference.

The televisions are equipped with 4K UHD IPS display having the standard 60Hz refresh rate, Dolby Vision, and HDR10 and HLG support. The company added a 1.95GHz Quad-Core processor for a seamless processing experience. Both the TVs are running on Amazon’s FireOS that is, obviously, based on Android. That means you can also enjoy various android applications on your smart television. Coming to the audio part, a 20W speaker is there for audio production and it has Dolby Atmos support. Primarily needed all the ports are available in these smart TVs by Amazon. Features like built-in Alexa support, anti-aliasing, dynamic contrast, and more are also available.

The AmazonBasic 50-inch television is currently up for sale at Rs.29,999 only, whereas the 55-inch model costs Rs.34,999. Needless to say, both these can be purchased from Amazon only. The buy links are given below.

50-inch: https://amzn.to/3hxpyBS

55-inch: https://amzn.to/3b7arxM

Lastly, the listing by Amazon says they are cooking three more models for us. Those are a 32-inch HD Ready Smart LED TV, a 43-inch FHD Smart TV, and a 43-inch 4K Ultra Smart LED TV. Hope we will not have to wait so long.

BenQ brings new EW3280U, EW2780Q Entertainment Monitors in India

Raunak Saha
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BenQ brings new EW3280U, EW2780Q Entertainment Monitors in India

BenQ, who is very renowned to make great monitors, has launched a new line of Entertainment monitors in India recently. These monitors have model numbers EW3280U and EW2780Q featuring ‘Brightness Intelligence Plus’ technology that automatically adjust brightness and color temperature based on the environment.

These new monitors also come with BenQ’s HDRi technology and ‘treVolo’ speakers, also they have very color accurate IPS panels. Here the specs of these two new montors:

  • BenQ brings new EW3280U, EW2780Q Entertainment Monitors in India
  • BenQ brings new EW3280U, EW2780Q Entertainment Monitors in India

32-inch BenQ EW3280U monitor

This 32-inch BenQ EW3280U monitor features 32-inch 4K UHD (3840×2160 pixels) IPS panel that support both BenQ’s HDRi and VESA DisplayHDR 400. The display panel comes with 5 millisecond GtG response time and a 60Hz refresh rate. 

BenQ brings new EW3280U, EW2780Q Entertainment Monitors in India
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The display seems to be very color accurate as it covers 95% DCI-P3 color gamut with HDR and supports FreeSync technology. On the audio front, you have two built-in 2W BenQ ‘treVolo’ stereo speakers along with one 5W woofer on board. 

For the ports, you have a USB Type-C, an HDMI, whereas you get features like several eye-care features like Brightness Intelligence Plus, low blue light, and flicker-free technologies. Then you have an ePaper Mode, Eye Reminder, and Color Weakness Mode; these unique modes make the monitor even more useful for daily usage.

27-inch BenQ EW2780Q monitor 

This monitor comes with 27-inch 2K QHD (2560×1440 pixels) IPS display that also supports BenQ’s HDRi technology for an immersive display. This monitor also has 5 milliseconds GtG response time with a 60Hz refresh rate, while for audio you get two  5W ‘treVolo’ stereo speakers.

BenQ brings new EW3280U, EW2780Q Entertainment Monitors in India

This IPS panel too is very color accurate, covering 99% sRGB colour gamut with HDR10 support. Being a BenQ monitor, this one is equipped with eye-care features like Brightness Intelligence Plus, TUV-certified flicker-free, low blue light, and ePaper mode.

The new BenQ EW3280U monitor will cost more as it has a 4K panel, priced at a whopping Rs. 69,990 whereas the EW2780Q monitor with its QHD panel will cost you Rs. 29,999, while both of them will be available in retail and online stores soon.

Buy from here: https://amzn.to/38PKdx7

Top 5 most Underrated Smartphones

Sanidhya Bhardwaj
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Top 5 most Underrated Smartphones

2020 is over and 2021 is welcoming us with open arms. Being said that, it is important to look back to 2020 and analyze how things went. As humans, we always talked about smartphones which are gathering all the buzz. But, somehow, we also miss some of the very good smartphones which are available in the market. Today, we have made a list of 5 smartphones that have gone under the rather for some or other reasons in 2020.

1. Meizu 17 Pro

Meizu 17 Pro price in India 2020 from ₹50'860 and full specifications

Meizu, the Chinese consumer electronics company, launched its flagship smartphone in the form of Meizu 17 and Meizu 17 Pro. Both of the mobiles had unique designs that are not present in a lot of other smartphones. Most of the smartphones currently in the market have a front-cam punch hole either on the top-left side or in the center. Whereas Meizu 17 Pro had a punch hole on the top-right side. The rear cameras are placed horizontally with a ring-type LED flash in the center. This smartphone was not released globally which undermined its importance.

2. Vivo X50 Pro and Vivo X51 5G

Vivo X50 Pro launches in India to take on the OnePlus 8

If you are purchasing a Vivo phone, you would be sure that it will possess an amazing camera with a mid-range chipset and a high price tag. Both, Vivo X50 Pro and Vivo X51 5G are testaments of that. Vivo’s new gimbal system was used to bring stabilization in the camera of the smartphone. It supported the 48MP quad-camera system to capture more clear pictures for the user. But due to the heavy price tag, people found other smartphones more attractive. Being said that, you cannot overlook the qualities brought in by these two Vivo phones.

3. Sony Xperia 5 II

Sony Xperia 5 II - Specifications, Price in India, Launch Date

Another smartphone might have lost all the news due to its high price tag. It has a display of 6.1 inches with an area of 86.9 cm2. Its 21:9 aspect ratio also aids in giving users a comfortable hold. Even with modest specs, the phone failed to make a cut due to high competition. Sony’s market size has also shrunk since the arrival of Chinese smartphones. This might have adversely affected its brand image as well which has forced people to look into other smartphones.

4. Lenovo Legion Phone Duel

Introducing the Lenovo Legion™ Phone Duel | Lenovo StoryHub

The Legion Phone Duel was the first smartphone run by a Snapdragon 865+ processor. It was launched as Lenovo’s first gaming smartphone and it was way different than the normal smartphone. It had a side pop-up selfie camera as seen in the photos above. Also, the rear cameras were placed in the middle which is quite different from other smartphones. This stylish handset was launched in October but didn’t catch the eye of many people. This might be as gaming smartphones still comes under a niche category and are not widely talked about.

5. Redmi 10X Pro 5G

Redmi 10X Pro 5G sale begins in China - Gizmochina

How often have you seen a mid-range smartphone offering features which are generally seen in a premium smartphone? Redmi 10X Pro 5G is just one of those rare phones, yet it had gone unnoticed! It has a telephoto camera which is not even present in the flagships like Mi 10 5G and Mi 11. Thus, this device is a must for our list.

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