Looking for a MacBook that can do all your professional work? Do you know that last-gen Intel powered MacBook Pro’s are now on sale which gives you the much loved Touch ID and macOS for all your productivity work.
We know how powerful the M1 powered MacBook Pros are but they have their own caveats of being based out of ARM architecture rather than the x86 architecture. Also, on an Intel powered MacBook you still get the Intel benefits which have been praised for quite some time now.
Brilliant Retina display with True Tone technology
Backlit Magic Keyboard
Touch Bar and Touch ID
Intel Iris Plus Graphics 645
Ultra-fast SSD
8GB RAM, 256GB SSD
Two Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) ports
Up to 10 hours of battery life
802.11ac Wi-Fi
Force Touch trackpad
The 256GB variant of the MacBook Pro is discounted to ₹ 99,990 and you should get it at that price. If you need extra storage you can opt for external storage but do not shed a huge amount for the 512GB variant.
Amazon Prime Video will be streaming the top-flight matches of Spain for £6.99 a month for the rest of the season. They have agreed on a new subscription service with La Liga TV.
The agreement is until the end of next season. Prime Video will stream live football from the overseas competition in the UK for the first time.
Prime Members need to buy the add-on subscription for £6.99 per month and will have access to all La Liga matches, more than 25 hours of weekly live studio programming, and exclusive recent interviews. The viewers can now have all the videos available.
La Liga president Javier Tebas was very delighted to announce the agreement. He said, “We are excited to be growing our UK presence with Amazon Prime Video, which has quickly become an important name in the world of sport.”
“The UK has a deep love of football and a huge demand for premium live content, which is reflected by the range of broadcast options we are making available to fans.”
Director of Amazon Prime Video Channels EU, Julian Monaghan said, “We’re delighted to offer UK Prime members access to live matches from the top Spanish football league, including some of the world’s best teams, players, and rivalries with the addition of LaLigaTV on Prime Video Channels.”
“LaLigaTV is a great addition to our growing stable of live sport and sports docuseries available on Prime Video and Prime Video Channels, giving customers even more selection to find the sports they’re passionate about.”
Atletico Madrid is currently leading the La Liga table and is now 5 points clear of Real Madrid with 2 games in hand. Whereas, FC Barcelona are in the 3rd position with 43 points. It will be an exciting title race for the rest of the season.
This decade has been a great one for sports in India, as we saw the rise of many youngsters, the rise of the Indian Football Team, a new cricket team, and many sporting clubs in various sports, and the clubs helped in the soaring of the new individuals.
Let’s have a look at the Sportswoman of the Decade for Team Sports
Savita Punia – Hockey
The second-seniormost and experienced member of the Indian Women’s Hockey Team, the goalkeeper with more than 200 caps. She was a part of the team in almost every major successful campaign of the team in the last decade including, defeating Japan in the Olympic Qualifier and helped team India to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympics, also won the 2016 Asian Champions Trophy, in addition to bronze at the 2014 Asian Games and silver in 2018, bronze at the 2013 Asia Cup and Gold in 2017, which pushed the team to the 2018 World Cup. Savita was also chosen as the Best Goalkeeper of the 2017 Asia Cup.
She won the Arjuna Award in 2018, which makes her the third woman goalkeeper to be conferred the distinction, and the first time in 14 years she was included in Forbes India’s 30-under-30 list the same year.
Ngangom Bala Devi – Football
Bala Devi in 2020 made history by becoming the first Indian women’s footballer to sign a professional contract with a foreign club, Lone Ranger, a Scottish Women’s Premier League on an 18- month contract. She’s also the current all-time leading scorer in the Indian Women’s League. She scored 12 goals in 2017-18 season in KRYPHSA’s semifinal run and scored 26 goals to take Manipur Police to a runner-up finish that same year.
Also, she is the former captain of the national team and is also the current top-scorer for the Indian eves, scoring 52 times in 58 games since 2010. She is also the top international goal-scorer in the South Asian region. In India’s jersey, she won the SAFF Women’s Championship thrice in 2010,2014 and 2016 and also bagged gold at the South Asian Games thrice in 2010, 2016 and 2019. She has also been named the All India Football Federation Women’s Player of the Year twice, in 2015 and 2016.
Mithali Raj – Cricket
The development of women’s cricket in India has a lot of contribution from Mithali Raj and, is rightly credited for, and has brought a new dimension to women’s cricket in India. She is often compared to Sachin Tendulkar. Like Sachin, as she is well-versed in building a long inning with a sense of responsibility and maturity, and is often considered that their style of play is also quite similar as both of them are known for exceptional their cover drives.
Mithali also is placed on the no. 1 spot in women’s world cricket regarding runs in ODI cricket. She previously held the record for being the highest individual score by any Indian women cricketer in a world cup match by scoring 91 off 114 balls. Later on, the record was broken by her teammate Harmanpreet Kaur.
This decade has been a great one for sports in India, as we saw the rise of many youngsters, the rise of the Indian Football Team, a new cricket team, and many sporting clubs in various sports, and the clubs helped in the soaring of the new individuals.
Lets have a look at the Sportsman of the Decade from Team Sports-
Sunil Chhetri – Football
Sunil Chhetri’s past decade started soaring after he joined Portuguese club, Sporting Lisbon’s reserve side in 2012 and following that year he was loaned out to Churchill Brothers, and led Churchill to the I-League title that same season. Later on, he joined Bengaluru FC, where his career reached to more heights with league’s highest with 14 goals and took the club to the title in its debut season. Chhetri led BFC to a magnificent runner-up finish at the 2016 AFC Cup, another I-League Title win, besides with two Federation Cup trophies in his first three years with it. In 2017, BFC made its inception to the ISL and enjoyed a memorable maiden ISL campaign. They finished as a runnerup and bagged the super cup under Chhetri’s leadership, with Chhetri scoring 14 goals that season. The following season he also led BFC to the ISL Title and the highest goal-scorer in the ISL with 42 goals from 82 matches.
He also led the young Indian National Team to qualify for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup and to the Intercontinental Cup title in 2018. He was also named as ‘Asian Icon’ i by the Asian Football Confederation, and was conferred Padma Shri in 2019. Also, he is the most capped player for the national team, and second-highest goal scorer among active international footballers, being only second to Cristiano Ronaldo.
Sardar Singh – Hockey
The achievement list of the 34-year old is endless. He made his first appearance in 2006 during the Indo-Pak series, was labelled as “indisciplined” during his early years, and had his first breakout year in 2010 with the World Cup and Commonwealth Games at the home. He made it to the FIH All-stars twice, in 2010 and 2011, becoming the only second Indian player to do so. Also, he is one of the most-capped international hockey players with 314 caps and was honoured with the Arjuna Award in 2012, Padma Shri in 2015, and Khel Ratna in 2018.
He led the country for almost eight years after getting the since 2008 when he was 22, including one of the youngest to captain India. He has been part of the Indian Hockey Team in their every successful campaign, including Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, Asia Cup, World League, Champions Trophy, and Asian Champions Trophy, by playing an important role in the defence, attack, and also midfield.
Virat Kohli – Cricket
Virat Kohli is one of the best of all-time greats in the world of cricket, as he is the only player to have scored more than 20,000 runs overall in all formats in the decade 2010-2019. He is also one of the players to have an average of 50 in all three forms. He also has the most number of double centuries in Tests to his name and even the only Indian cricket team captain to be nominated in all five men’s categories in the ICC Player of the Decade Award. His batting style has brought a revolution in the cricketing world, and his consistency in every condition against every opponent is exceptional.
During the third ODI against Australia on December 2020, Virat Kohli surpassed Sachin Tendulkar’s record to become the fastest player to reach 12,000 runs in ODIs. Also, Skipper Virat Kohli has reached this mark in his 251st ODI, and 242nd inning. In comparison, Sachin Tendulkar took 309 matches and 300 innings to reach the mark. Being the second-highest scorer for India in One Day International Cricket being behind Sachin Tendulkar’s record of 18,426 runs from 463 ODIs. He is also the fastest batsman to cross the 10,000 run-mark in his 205th inning.
Activision has informed that a new Call of Duty will launch in 2021, but they haven’t confirmed who will make the game. For some years, Activision had a three-year cycle with Infinity Ward, Treyarch, and Sledgehammer trading off the development duties. But the cycle broke during 2020’s Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. The game started development at Sledgehammer, but later it was taken over by Treyarch and Raven Software.
According to the renowned leaker ModernWarzone, Sledgehammer Games is once again chosen to make a CoD game. The leaker seems more confident about this information, saying you don’t need to take this with a grain of salt.
Andy Wilson, the new Sledgehammer boss said back in 2020, “Sledgehammer Games is entering a period of growth across both of our main studio locations: Foster City, California, and Melbourne, Australia. We’re now a multi-project studio and we’re looking for a substantial number of new team members to join us. We’re looking across every discipline and various levels of seniority. It’s a pretty exciting time for our studio.”
Call of Duty: WWII was the last solo-developed game by Sledgehammer and it was also reported that they are working on a Vietnam-based CoD before Treyarch took over and transform the game into a Black Ops game. They have also worked on Advanced Warfare. So, let’s see, what direction finally they are going to take.
AMD has had launched the AMD StoreMI Technology for quite some time now, 2 years back with the launch of 2nd Gen Ryzen Processors. After that, they have launched a lot of new CPUs but always kept this unique tech alive on all-new Ryzen SKUs.
With the new update to AMD StoreMI, the Red team has brought support to the Ryzen Threadripper PRO processors on WRX80 motherboards.
AMD StoreMI now supports Ryzen Threadripper PRO on WRX80 motherboards and allows SSD partitions to be used as a cache.
Check out the Quick Start Guide and download the latest version for free now.
Interestingly, the new update also allows SSD partition to be used as cache and that can really be helpful because you can use unused fast SSD storage to increase the cache of your system. This can greatly make a difference as cache holds a lot of addresses via page tables, so more the cache, faster will the CPU work.
Other features of AMD StoreMI includes:
Supports HDD/SSD combos of any capacity
Caching system mirrors your data to SSD for speedup
All-new UI makes setup, monitoring, reversal a snap
“Read-only” algorithm enhances data integrity
Automatically prioritizes most-used data to the SSD cache
Ideal for accelerating apps and games on a large HDD
If you have an AMD X570, B550, 400 Series, X399, TRX40, or WRX80 motherboard, you can download AMD StoreMI for free. Head over to AMD website to know more.
boAt to drop its new player Rockerz 255 Pro+ today via the e-commerce platform Amazon India. The selling counter will open at 12 noon sharp. The company is bringing three color options to its fans – Active Black, Navy Blue, and Teal Green. Each one costs Rs.1,499 only during the launch. As per the company, the price may hike post the offer period up to Rs.3,999. So, don’t miss the deal. To reach ASAP, you can check out the link given below.
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.
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.
AMD has released a new Radeon Software update recently with version 21.2.2 and is a quick update since it launched the last one at the beginning of this month. Much like other updates, this one too brings some minor improvements and fixes, but AMD in future has to come up with a refined software to make a difference and catch up with NVIDIA.
Here are improvements with the update:
Fixed Issues
Objects may fail to render correctly when using EEVEE render in Blender™ on Radeon RX 400 and Radeon RX 500 series graphics products.
Quake III Arena™ may experience corruption during loading or gameplay.
Performance may be lower than expected in Wolfenstein: Youngblood™ when a system is AMD Smart Access Memory enabled.
Known Issues
A system hangs or crash may be experienced when upgrading Radeon Software while an Oculus™ VR headset is connected to your system on Radeon GCN graphics products. A temporary workaround is to disconnect the headset before install.
Some resolutions may be unavailable or unlisted in the resolution settings drop-down menu for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive™ when using 4:3 aspect ratio.
Radeon FreeSync may fail to enable in Forza Horizon 4™.
AMD is currently investigating end-user reports that Radeon Software may sometimes have higher than expected CPU utilization, even when a system is at idle. Users who are experiencing this issue are encouraged to file a bug report in Radeon Software.
Brightness flickering may intermittently occur in some games or applications when Radeon™ FreeSync is enabled, and the game is set to use borderless fullscreen.
Enhanced Sync may cause a black screen to occur when enabled on some games and system configurations. Any users who may be experiencing issues with Enhanced Sync enabled should disable it as a temporary workaround.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic is an immortal if there ever was one in real life. The Swede will turn 40 soon and is still in talks to extend his contract with AC Milan. He is a titan in Italy and is making the difference at the club. His presence had completely flipped things around when manager Stefani Pioli was unable to get things right.
It is clear that the presence of Ibrahimovic is the key to their success. It’s what he did away from the pitch that turned things around for the Rossoneri, who currently find themselves at the top of the Serie A table.
The Monster from Malmö is the first big player in history to come back from the MLS and still compete at the top level. Fans are of the opinion that he is as good as he was before, with some even pointing out that Ibrahimovic now is better than he ever was at Manchester United.
What’s changed between then and now is that he’s not even thinking about his career or contract. Paulo Maldini saying Ibrahimovic is in control of the decision of whether or not to extend his stay. Milan is currently at the top of the table and are favourites for returning to the Champions League first.
Ibrahimovic will extend his contract for sure if the club returns to the top tier of European football. The discussion will start at the end of the season with his agent, Mino Raiola. Milan wants him to stay because his influence and commanding presence in the squad is simply irreplaceable.
The contract talks between Milan, Calhanoglu and Donnarumma still have negotiations going on. Milan is optimistic that both are staying and the club is building something great on the red side of the city. They are confident of keeping all the three key players at the start of the next season when they return to the Champions League.
Apple TV 6, the upgraded one was said to launch last year, but according to a tipster, the company had other plans. In fact, the latest information says that we should not expect it in the first half of this year.
A tipster named LeaksApplePro has shared another prediction for the Apple TV 6. If you plan to buy it, you’ll have to wait a while because the tipster believes it will launch in November. Previously, one report also told that Apple TV 6 could drop during Q4, 2021.
According to LeaksApplePro, the Apple TV 6 will feature an A14 Bionic, whereas the Front Page Tech Host predicts, it will feature iPad Pro-like hardware. Apple’s custom silicon is powerful enough to beat A12Z Bionic in the GPU test, and the 2021 Apple TV’s upgraded cooling system will make sure that the performance cores are running at their highest possible frequencies without throttling.
The tweet indicates a redesigned remote will be featured. There are no mentions of any gaming controller with the TV. There is still no information about whether Apple will sell it separately or with the latest hardware and nothing known about the expected price.
For now, take these pieces of information with a pinch of salt. Moreover, LeaksApplePro doesn’t carry the cleanest of records, as he informed previously that the Apple TV 6 will contain an A12Z Bionic and would launch in December 2020. So, stay tuned with us for more news and the latest updates.
