If you have any Amazon Alexa enabled device and love to listen to stories, then this news will make your day. From today onwards you can reach to Audible Suno by asking Alexa and that’s fully free of cost. Even you have not to face any ads or need to go through any signup process.
Today Audible Suno and Amazon Alexa collaborated aiming to provide audio pleasures to their consumers. Due to this bond, users can now get the voice-over access to the titles available on Audible Suno and Audible.in. All the citizens of India now can enjoy their favorite titles from Audible either in Hindi or in English. They need to just say “Alexa, open Audible Suno” or “Alexa, Audible Suno shuru karo”.
One can also directly ask Alexa by the title name or by his/her favorite author name. There also has opportunities to select stories from genres like Romance, Comedy, Horror, or more. The Author list is there too as I said earlier. In the collections, plenty of classic tales by Ruskin Bond, Premchand, Rabindranath Tagore are some of the main attractions.
The Audible authority added the famous audio series “Suno Mahabharata Devdutt Pattanaik Ke Saath” to their list. To reach that you need to say “Alexa, Mahabharata sunao” or “Alexa, play Mahabharata”.
To know the top 10 Audible Suno Stories, click here.
“At Audible, our constant effort is to provide easy access to world-class stories across popular genres. With this launch, we not only plan to elevate the experience for our Audible customers, but also intend to introduce our most-loved stories to Alexa users through a handpicked selection of popular audio content. We believe in the power of storytelling and are excited to provide this experience to an even larger audience.” – Shailesh Sawlani, Country Head, Audible India said.
In case you don’t know about Audible Suno, this is an online platform that offers unlimited, free access to thousands of hours of audio entertainment, enlightenment, and learning to feature many of India’s favorite celebrities and personalities.
An analysis is made by SellCell.com to find the top smartphones that maintaining the value in the online retailer market. The time range was considered for the last two years. As a result of this analysis, they discovered the iPhone XR is the one that depreciated lesser than other brand products. The rate of depreciation is 53.2% and the handset was released back in 2018.
In case you don’t know, SellCell.com is the world’s largest smartphone price comparison website and while performing this analysis they picked up the smartphones of Apple, Samsung, Sony, Google, and LG. Besides they compared the recommended retail price of 2018 with the present price.
As per the stats, around 40 percent of Android users replace their handsets every two years, whereas 58 percent wait until their phones go dead. On the other hand, 51 percent of the iPhone users prefer to get a new one in two years and 47 percent hold to the end of their iPhone’s life.
The analyst team found only the iPhone XR 64GB variant from 2018 that provides the best value still now with comparison to its generation smartphones. The depreciated value figure is 53%. The LG G7 64GB variant ranks the worst with around 90% depreciation rate.
Acer has a wide portfolio when it comes to gaming laptops and its Predator series is one of the best in the market. In 2020, Acer has updated almost all its gaming laptops and desktops with the latest 10th Gen Intel Comet Lake desktop CPUs and so its refreshed Predator Helios 300 laptop is available on Amazon for $1,199.
It houses the powerful Core i7-10750H processor, which is a 6-core CPU that can boost up to 5.00GHz, not a great competitor to the 8-core Ryzen 7 4800H which comes at the same price but does its job during gaming with a high turbo boost clock speed. For graphics, the laptop is paired with an RTX 2060 with 6GB of GDDR6 VRAM.
The laptop features a 15.6-inch Full HD (1920 x 1080) Widescreen LED-backlit IPS Display with 144Hz Refresh Rate and 3ms Overdrive Response Time. The screen has a 300nits peak brightness and covers 72% of NTSC colour gamut.
Unlike its 2019 model, Acer has increased the internal storage from 256GB to 512GB NVMe SSD (2 x M. 2 Slots) and has also given you two extra slots for easy future upgrades. It is paired with 16GB DDR4 2933MHz Dual-Channel Memory which can be upgraded in future as well.
The new Acer Predator Helios 300 has 4-Zone RGB Backlit Keyboard which is big upgrade from 2019 model and the lighting effects looks cool honestly. For connectivity there is the Killer Double Shot Pro Wireless-AX 1650i 802. 11ax WiFi 6 along with Killer Ethernet E2600 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN for faster internet, helps a lot during gaming.
The speakers are powered by DTS X: Ultra Audio and for cooling you have 4th Gen All-Metal AeroBlade 3D Fan. So all this offering at $1,199.99 is fair enough and an incredible deal as well honestly. Buy from here: https://amzn.to/2C6mAUo
BCCI President Sourav Ganguly had a share in ISL club ATK since its inception in 2014. ATK has merged with one of the most iconic Indian clubs, Mohun Bagan this year. ATK’s principal owner Sanjiv Goenka has 80% share in this new entity. The decision regarding the new entity’s logo, jersey and club name will be taken on 10th July.
The Kolkata based club has named ‘Dada’ among the board of directors. Co-owner and another member of the Board, Utsav Parekh, told PTI: “Sourav Ganguly is one of the owners and 100% eligible to become a director. We will meet on July 10 for the first time to finalise our name, jersey and logo.”
While registering the ‘ATK-Mohun Bagan Private Limited’ with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs last month there were five members initially – ATK co-owner Utsav Parekh and Mohun Bagan officials Debashish Dutta and Srinjoy Bose along with Gautam Ray and Sanjeev Mehra.
Parekh further added: “It was just a formality, a paperwork to start the venture officially. Even (team principal owner) Sanjeev Goenka was not a part of the Board back then. We have inducted him along with Sourav Ganguly.”
ATK-Mohun Bagan will play in the Indian Super League. ATK is the most successful ISL club with 3 titles. This merger will further give ATK the stature of a century-old club.
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The best football players demand very high prices. Football transfer fees are increasing almost every single year. The clubs are spending more and more money than before in their pursuit of domestic and European success.
The Coronavirus pandemic has affected the football economy heavily. The prices are expected to go down in this current market scenario.
So, let’s take a look at the top 10 most expensive football players in the world in 2020:
10. Harry Kane
Nationality: England League: Premier League Club: Tottenham Hotspur Value: $133.2m
I guess you all are aware of the Indo-China border clash happened at the Galwan Valley. After that, the sentiment of the Indians against China and Chinese products reached a high level. On top of that, due to the security reasons, the Indian Government banned 59 apps mostly belong to China.
By reviewing all these conditions, two renowned smartphone manufacturers Oppo and Vivo hold their investments in India. Maybe they are expecting the application ban like actions might follow later.
Some reports are also saying non-Chinese companies that have manufacturing hubs in China also facing delays while importing. For the Chine brands, this goes worst. There are the reasons Oppo and Vivo are preventing themselves from investing. They didn’t register for India’s production-linked incentive scheme, though.
Estimating the post-pandemic demands, the maximum of the production companies already planned for huge investments in the production section. But, the process faced a pause for now. Among those companies, Vivo planned a 7,500 crores INR investment i.e. near about 1 billion USD for setting up a manufacturing plant in India. This can be the largest investment from any OEM.
On the other hand, Oppo to set up Electronic Manufacturing Cluster (EMC) with other companies planned to invest around 3,500 crores INR i.e. around 500 million USD. The EMS will be planted in Greater Noida to manufacture support accessories and electronics products. Foxconn was also in the investors’ list along with Oppo and Vivi.
Last night Barcelona travelled to Villarreal who were looking threatening for their last 6 games and the Catalans who were the favorites in the title race suddenly due to the two draws dropped significant amount of points to Real Madrid lead by Ramos. Real Madrid were 7 points clear Barcelona and already the title is slipped from Barcelona’s hands and yesterday’s match was more like a challenge for Barcelona to show their attack as they had nothing to lose for.
Yesterday, we saw a completely new Barca against the yellow submarines, who were looking valiant thanks to the likes of Cazorla, Gerrand Moreno and Paco Alcacer.
The first goal was a deflection from Pau Torres which was marked towards Griezmann by Jordi Alba, thanks to Sergi Roberto and the Frenchman’s deadly positioning led to the first early goal for the Blaugranas.
Then, a brilliant pass from the Villarreal’s midfield and Santi Cazorla’s shot was deflected into Moreno’s path by Marc-Andre ter Stegen, and the Gerard Moreno made no mistake from the close range.
Next goal came from Saurez, which truly was a brilliant curled goal into the top corner from the edge of the penalty area with no chance for the goalkeeper to save and it was a intelligent assist yet again from the Argentine.
When the half time was about to end Messi was holding off the Villarreal defence and made a cheeky backheel towards Griezmann who arrived from the back and scored a stunning goal by chipping the ball over Sergio Asenjo and went in off the crossbar. This was the goal almost all Barca fans were waiting to see from the Frenchman, reminiscent to a world-class goal from Messi against Real Betis when Setein was their manager.
In the second half also Barca came back even more strong with Sergi Roberto helping from the midfield and Jordi Alba as always breaking with pace into the Villareal defence. It was almost another brilliant team play from Barca that could have marked a Messi goal but as per the VAR check Arturo Vidal was offside by just an inch and the goal was ruled out.
The 17-year-old Ansu Fati again came off the bench to showcase his talent and combined with Alba the youngster made an electrifying finish to make the score 4-1. Barcelona was completely dominant with the ball, having 68% possession and most importantly, 12 shots on target which is the Barca we know, converting possession to goals.
A new Trio: Messi-Saurez-Griezmann
Yesterday almost all Barca fans would be happy to see the trio Messi, Saurez and Griezmann attacking in a triangle. Griezmann is never a winger so Setien made up the mind to make an ideal triangle formation with Griezmann and Saurez upfront while Messi in-behind them.
Messi made the assists and the link-up between those three were deadly because had not been Sergio Asenjo in goal for Villarreal then there could easily be 6-8 goals yesterday. This trio worked last night because all the three were playing exactly where they supposed to and actually were making the triangle formation whether Grizmann dropped deep or Messi and even Saurez played Messi’s role in the Frenchman’s stunning goal.
They holding the formation and linking up beautifully while the full backs and midfielders especially Sergi Roberto making those runs and making key passes to open the heart of defense. Griezmann was never a bad player but he was not used properly in Barca and yesterday’s match proved it, if proper link-up is there with Messi, the Frenchman can be deadly which is evident and full marks to his work rate shown yesterday.
Nothing to lose defensively
Yesterday Barcelona were playing freely because they knew the title race were almost over and so we saw all of the players attacking in a fierce way. So, except for Lenglet and Pique at the back no player were in the defense which resulted in the only goal conceded but that was repayed with the brilliant attacking play from the Blaugranas.
The full-backs again played a key role in the attack, especially Jordi Alba and Roberto, who was playing in the midfield but was accurate enough to show the spark, which we are used to seeing from De Jong, who is out from injury.
The Perfect Substitutes
Obviously, the fans were surprised not to see Riqui Puig and Ansu Fati not starting the game but still they came of to make an immediate impact in the last 20 minutes. Riqui Puig again showed the spark in the midfield, making runs, intercepting the ball, tackling and winning the ball back, a true package in a small form factor. He almost setup the goal for Messi which got ruled out due to VAR.
Ansu Fati again steamed down the left-wing combining with Alba and opening the defence with a lot of chances and actually scoring the goal as well. Both the youngsters played a good role in the second half, also we saw Martin Braithwaite taking the striker position and he almost scored twice if Sergio Asenjo did not make those brilliant saves.
Araujo replaced Pique to give some fresh air in the heart of defense and was able to hole back the Villareal attackers to the rest of the match comfortably. Rakitic played the role Busquets quite well, given his good performance record for last couple of games, it was expected to see the Croatian in the midfield in the second half.
Overall, yesterday’s match was a dream comeback match for Barcelona against a strong opponent away from home with a lot of positivity and good teamwork. Saurez got a goal, Griezmann too needed a goal to boost his confidence and Messi almost scored one but provided two brilliant assists, on the other hand, the future stars of Barcelona, Puig and Fati shine again with Braithwaite playing some minutes as well.
According to the data shared by AnTuTu, the results of last month’s list of premium smartphones are out. This is the list of top 10 premium smartphones around the globe that has topped the list of AnTuTu ratings. In this list, we can see that the Oppo Find X2 Pro (12GB + 256GB) variant with Snapdragon 865 tops the list with a whopping score of 608,049.
The most interesting this is that the 12GB + 256GB model of OnePlus 8 Pro is at the 10th position with a score of 584,596. The Meizu 17 Pro (12GB + 256GB) variant is at 9th position beating the OnePlus 8 Pro with a score of 587,527. The difference is 3,000 points.
Meizu 17 Pro smartphone was launched on 8th May 2020. The phone comes with a 6.60-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 1080×2340 pixels at a pixel density of 390 pixels per inch (ppi) and an aspect ratio of 19.5:9. Meizu 17 Pro is powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 processor. It comes with 8GB of RAM. The Meizu 17 Pro runs Android 10 and is powered by a 4500mAh non-removable battery. The Meizu 17 Pro supports wireless charging, as well as Quick Charge 3.0 fast charging.
Meizu 17 Pro on the rear packs a 64MP primary camera with an f/1.8 aperture and a pixel size of 0.8-micron; a second 8MP camera with an f/2.4 aperture and a pixel size of 1.0-micron; a third 32MP camera with an f/2.2 aperture and a pixel size of 0.8-micron and a fourth 3MP camera with an f/1.4 aperture. The rear camera setup has autofocus. It sports a 20MP camera on the front for selfies, with an f/2.2 aperture and a pixel size of 0.8-micron.
Famous tipster Evan Blass has shared a specs sheet of the upcoming Motorola Razr 5G. He has mentioned the key specifications of the smartphone. Recently this Motorola smartphone has been spotted in China’s 3C certification website with model number XT2071-4. The certification mentioned that this smartphone will come with 5G connectivity and 18W fast charging. This is the first confirmation from any certification for this smartphone to have 5G connectivity.
Primarily it was mentioned that the smartphone will come with a better camera and better connectivity and improved allover specification. Now, Evan Blass has mentioned that the smartphone will come in a Mercury Silver colour variant. The foldable device will now have 256GB internal storage and the RAM information is not available yet. It will come with a 48MP rear primary and 20MP secondary dual-camera.
It will be a dual-SIM smartphone with 6.2-inches diagonal display. The foldable smartphone will run on Android 10 Q, but the processor information is still not available yet. It is likely to have Snapdragon 765G processor that will support 5G connectivity.
The previous Razr smartphone had Snapdragon 710 and single rear camera which is still an inferior chipset for a foldable smartphone that costs Rs.1,24,999 ($1674). This time the company will also try to increase the price with the addition of better chipset and 5G connectivity. The price of this one may be higher than the previous version.
Apple will be launching its new iPhone 12 series this year with Apple’s new A14 Bionic chips based out of 5nm chips which will be developed none other than TSMC. A Twitter user @L0vetodream believes that the Taiwanese chipmaker will ship 80 million units of A14 chips to Apple in 2020.
TSMC will prepare 80 million A14 chips for Apple, in this year.
The Cupertino giant’s iPhone 12 series will be the first 5G capable iPhone series powered by the A14 Bionic chipset along with Qualcomm’s X60 5G modem. But, however, 80 million is a huge amount and so when reports are coming that Apple will be shipping 15-20 million units of iPhone 12 devices in 2020, so, why such large quantities?
This is most probably because even though Apple is going to ship less than half of the total A14 chips for iPhone 12 series, it plans to use them in its wide range of products including iPads, iMacs, Mac Minis and the ARM-based Macs which could use the A14X Bionic chipset. As Wccftech points out, that these 5nm based A14 chips will use feature a total of 12 cores.
Also, it’s still unclear whether Apple will be using in-house Apple chips for the 2020 MacBooks but a possibility obviously remains. However, you can take the rumour with a pinch of salt as already Apple has refreshed the iPad Pros and MacBook Air but new generation always remains a possibility maybe for the iMac, Mac Mini or other devices.
Truly, the transition to ARM-based SoCs so fast is a bit tough but having a large number of 5nm chips will help Apple to achieve its dream to make a unified Apple ecosystem with ARM-based SoCs in the near future.
