Google has been keeping up with the latest in-demand trends in the market. The developers at the world’s largest search engine company have been extremely busy releasing new updates and new Apps to its Android operating platform. Under the company’s ‘Experiment with Google’ initiative, a new app has been developed by the Android maker.
The app in the discussion is called Look to Speak, and it allows users to select pre-written phrases using their eyes. The selected words are then spoken aloud. The app is now available on Play Store and is only compatible with Android 9.0 and above, as well as for Android One.
Google states that the new app is used to help the people who need such an assistive service. The technology is targeted towards the community of people who are living with speech and motor impairments. The users who are non-verbal or requires communication assistance will significantly benefit from the new service.
According to sources, users have to select the phrases by looking left, right, and up-down. It can even simulate the user’s actual voice. The developers have provided a feature to adjust the eye gaze sensitivity settings. Googles claim that the Look to Speak is a ‘Start with One’ project on the “Experiments with Google” platform. It also claims that Look To Speak could work where other communication devices couldn’t quickly go—for example, outdoors, in transit, in the shower, and urgent situations.
Overall it is an excellent initiative by google as it is aimed at helping the needy. When asked about the app’s privacy regulations, Google stated that its data will be collected or will share.
~ National finals on Sunday 13th December accompanied by the invitational tournament
~ Riyan Parag, Mira Erda, Tania Sachdev, Ankit Panth, Samay Raina, Yashraj Mukhate, Scout and Mortal to compete in the invitational tournament
11th December 2020, India: Red BullM.E.O. 2020 India – World Cricket Championship National finals to take place on 13th December to find the best World Cricket Championship player. The qualifiers of tournament, being conducted in World Cricket Championship 2 and World Cricket Championship 3 and held daily from 15th November to 5th December received more than 2.3 lakh registrations.
48 winners of the qualifying rounds moved to the play-offs on 7th & 8th December and competed in a 1v1 format. The top 4 (Krunal Mangukia from Surat, Charan Teja from Chittoor, Yogesh Bhuva from Mumbai and Ravi Ranjan Kumar from Muzaffarpur) will compete in the national finals in Gurgaon where the winner will be announced as the national champion.
On Sunday 13th December, the National Final of Red Bull M.E.O. 2020 India will be accompanied by a special invitational tournament 5pm onwards which will witness participation from Red Bull Athletes Tania Sachdev (Chess), Riyan Parag (cricket), Mira Erda (Motorsports) and Ankit Panth (esports). Tania Sachdev is an Indian chess player, who holds the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster. Mira Erda is one of India’s foremost female open wheel racers while Riyan Parag is a Rajasthan Royals all-rounder and rising cricket star who is also an avid gamer.
One of India’s most popular Counter-Strike gaming professionals, Ankit ‘V3nom’ Panth has been a figure of inspiration for the gaming community for many years, while also being the face of Team Brutality. Joining the Red Bull athletes, Musical Composer and social media sensation Yashraj Mukhate along with Indian chess streamer, YouTuber, stand-up comedian Samay Raina will compete with pro gamers like Scout and Mortal. Tanmay “ScoutOP” Singh is the most followed professional player for Fnatic on social media with over 1M followers on both YouTube and Instagram while Naman Mathur (Soul Mortal) is arguably India’s most popular PUBG MOBILE player/streamer.
Red Bull M.E.O. National finals and the invitational will be conducted in World Cricket Championship Rivals. WCC Rivals has been purely built keeping competitive play in mind and is the world’s first mobile game which features 2v2 real-time cricket multiplayer experience. WCC Rivals is a part of the WCC franchise which boasts of more than 143 million downloads.
Looking forward to the national finals of Red Bull M.E.O. along with the invitational, PR Rajendran, Founder and CEO, Nextwave Multimedia said, “Being a cricket loving nation, we at WCC are extremely glad that through this tournament we can leverage our fans into the esports circuit, building the space further. Also, we at WCC, take pride on how this ‘home grown’ game has managed to embed cricket into the esports ecosystem for future.”
“Red Bull has had the wonderful opportunity of bringing a new wave of esports through World Cricket Championship in Mobile Esports Open. NODWIN is elated to see the overwhelming response from the community in the first go. The competition is onto its last leg, a hearty congratulations to all the finalists. Let’s embrace the onset of cricket esports”, said Akshat Rathee, MD & Co-Founder, NODWIN Gaming.
Due to COVID, the global supply chain has already been affected. As such, there are limitations to how many products a company can export and import. Due to this, the supply for some high demand products cannot meet the required criteria. We already know that AMD and NVIDIA’s newly launched cards have seen inflated prices in the market. All this is caused by the company’s unable to provide their products on time.
Even though both the manufacturers are working tirelessly to fulfill the supply-demand, they face another hurdle. Both the companies are now facing a shortage of GDDR6 memory.
“It will take weeks for the situation to return to normal, which means that the availability of all models will not improve until February, even by blocking the release of some models (such as the 6900XT Custom).”
Manufacturers claim that graphics card production will be improved by February 2021. But that’s because everything goes well with the delivery system. As we all know, the world is preparing for the first dosage of the early COVID vaccine. The COVID vaccine distribution will start in 2021v; it is also possible that global shipments will be disrupted even further as the vast bulk of vaccines is moved.
“We do have supply constraints, and our supply constraints do expand past what we see in terms of wafers and silicon, but yes, some constraints are in substrates and components. We continue to work during the quarter on our supply, and we believe though that demand will probably exceed supply in Q4 for overall gaming.”
It means that the gamers will have to wait until late 2021 for a stable supply of the graphics cards from AMD and NVIDIA. But even if the supply chain becomes regular, it would still take the companies quite some time to meet the increasing demand.
This year many OEMs have been upgraded their notebooks to meet Intel’s Evo certification. The 11th gen Tiger Lake family has already seen many laptops’ migration, but the recent news comes from HP regarding its EliteBook series. Two of its already existing products, namely the HP EliteBook 830 G8 and 840 G8, have been refreshed by the manufacturer. But now, the company has also upgraded its HP EliteBook 850 G8.
The device has received spec updates to match the Intel Evo platform specifications. Intel’s Evo platform is designed to offer high responsiveness, a long-lasting battery, fast charging ability, and instant wake from standby. It is meant for notebooks to offer truly next-gen performance.
According to sources, the EliteBook 850 G8 will be powered by 11th generation Core i5 and Core i7 processors since we all know that Intel’s 11th generation CPUs bring along with it Intel’s latest integrated Xe graphics. The manufacturer has also provided the EliteBook 850 G8 with the optional configuration of the NVIDIA GeForce MX450 discrete graphics card.
The HP EliteBook 850 G8 comes in three display options, with all being full-HD 15.6-inch anti-glare display. The only difference is that they offer varied brightness options of 250, 400, and 1000 nits. According to reports, the 250-nit panel comes in both touch and non-touch variants, whereas the 400-nits variant is specified to be a low power panel. For the 1000-nit display, the company has provided its Sure View Reflect privacy screen to keep prying eyes at bay.
The comes with support for up to 64 GB of DDR4-3200 RAM and offers up to 2 TB of NVMe PCIe SSD storage. There is Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 for wireless connectivity. For the 850 G8, the company also offers an optional configuration of WWAN 4G LTE and 5G while ordering. The manufacturer’s Ports include 2x USB Type-C Thunderbolt 4 ports, 2x USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-A ports. There are also 1x HDMI 2.0, a combo audio jack, an optional nano-SIM card slot, and the EliteBook 850 G8 available in late December.
Elon Musk-led SpaceX has set its sight on Mars and plans to colonize the planet in the distant future. As we already know that the first high-altitude test flight of SpaceX’s futuristic Starship was aborted at the last second in Texas on Tuesday. The company came close to launching the prototype of the rocketship. The ship is designed to carry people to Mars.
According to sources, the launch’s original plan was to shoot the ship to an altitude of eight miles and then bring it back to a vertical landing. The distance covered will be the highest one yet. But unfortunately, an automatic engine aborts at just the last moment, with only 1.3 seconds remaining in the launch.
There is no news as to when the company will begin the next launch trial of its rocketship. The company has already conducted five Starship test flights. But the models have only managed to go as high as 490 feet (150 meters.) The stainless-steel version on the launch pad Tuesday was the first to feature a nose cone, body flaps, and three Raptor engines.
The failure of the latest rocketship during the launch must have been frustrating to the engineers. But what we know about Musk is that minor setbacks don’t stop him. As the company is still producing and testing its starships at Boca Chica in South-Easter, Texas, there is still hope for people to land on Mars. As to when SpaceX will hold its next launch, the trial is still not known. But hopefully, the next launch will be aimed to cross an even higher altitude.
Cyberpunk 2077, one of the most anticipated games of all time, has finally been released. Eight years in the making, and the game is yet available for the users to play. But before you buy the game, it might be worth seeing the game’s performance benchmark, which was recently posted by NVIDIA itself.
The results are recorded while running various variants of GeForce RTX 30 and GeForce RTX 20 GPUs. But before all that, it is still a disappointing factor that no card will provide a stable 60 FPS at 4K or 1440p resolutions with all the settings cranked to the max. However, the new performance results indicate that NVIDIA’s DLSS helps deliver substantial performance increment when running the game at higher resolutions.
Nvidia claims that all the previous results of the game’s performance of its GeForce RTX cards were all done on machines using unpatched builds and un-supported drivers. Thus the performance rakings left much to be desired. The same is the case with AMD, and the red team has recently released the game ready driver for its Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards. Though testing is yet to be performed using the new drivers, the performance will undoubtedly be better than the previously recorded results. And not to mention that the developers at CD PROJECT RED will be deploying a 50 GB Day 0 patch for the game, which will fix many performance issues that have been found on the game.
Coming to the test results, NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3090 barely breaches the 60 FPS mark, and the RTX 3080 manages to stay around 50 FPS; and this result is calculated while running the game at 4K. So, it is still better as compared with previous scores. The green team’s RTX 2080 Ti, on the other hand, delivers around 40 FPS at 4K resolution. But, while using the DLSS at quality mode, the frames tend to drop a bit.
But we know that NVIDIA and CD PROJECT RED are in active collaboration with each other. So with every patch and driver update, the performance of the game will keep improving. The above mentioned are still pretty impressive considering that the game was tested while running at 4K and on performance mode with Ultra High Graphics.
We already know from our previous updates that Apple is making some changes to its self-driving car unit. The company has recently shifted its team for developing autonomous systems for its self-driving cars under the company’s Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning division.
Earlier rumors were indeed floating around suggests that Apple is working on a self-driving car. But now sources claim that the company is indeed considering Apple Car with automotive suppliers. And the biggest dig is that the Cupertino giant works with TSMC on ‘Self-Driving’ chips for the Apple Car.
According to sources, Apple is in the process of having “preliminary cooperation negotiations” with popular automotive suppliers. Apple is hiring new staff from companies like Tesla and others to work on its project. Apple is discussing the quotation model with automotive suppliers. This quotation includes requirements and specifications listed by Apple, and its prices will be requested from vendors along with other details.
Reports indicate that the Cupertino giant is working on setting up a factory in the United States. It is rumored to start the early production of its Apple Car in the new building. Speaking of Apple’s collaboration with TSMC, it is incredibly crucial to manufacturing Apple-branded self-driving cars. As we already know, TSMC is Apple’s current chip supplier for a wide range of products, and it isn’t a surprise that it will also serve the company on its Apple Car project.
According to reports, TSMC is collaborating with STMicroelectronics to develop gallium nitride (GaN) technology. It will be used in hybrid car converters as well as chargers. Not many details are available about the Apple Car, but sources estimate that the car will be launched between 2021 to 2025. We will hear more information about Apple Car in the coming days.
The story of Cyberpunk 2077 starts from selecting a life path, which contains different histories. Your choice is so important because what character you will choose will flow in that way. Your dialogues, in-game quests, and all the adventures throughout Night City are totally depending on your choice. Here, we are going to guide you with all three different lifepaths of the game.
CORPO
Corpo V is a character linked with Corporate, who makes his own decision, and no one can influence him so easily. It is quite simple for Corpo to persuade others to do things for you and trip up them. You can use his strong experience to work with the corporate elite in Night City.
This path also lets you extract whatever you want from anyone, without any explicit force. If you want everything from a person in your pocket, no matter who gets a bullet in his head, the Corpo path welcomes you.
NOMAD
This path starts as you have run away from your clan and now you are traveling alone. The character then decides to begin his new life in Night City, leaving Southern California. But first, you have to do a job. You are given some questionable cargo that needs to be taken across the border safely.
There will be several characters that are linked with your backstory. There will occur some Nomad dialogue options in a few conversations, which will help to negotiate. Initially, you can’t speak with too many characters.
Also, experience your car ride by driving off-road in the Badlands desert. Nomad dialogues will help you dig deeper for more information in quests, and you will learn to stay on the right side of the character.
STREET KID
The Street Kid knows the whole city very well. The story of this path begins from the El Coyote Cojo Bar of Heywood, where you will be given a job to help your friend who has financial trouble. This intro will take you to the friction between gangs in the city.
You will be able to extract more information when you speak to other gang members. Street Kid V loves his friends and family, and for this, you have to stand against the other gangs. You can see Street Kid’s dialogue options are everywhere in the city, which means they have less focus.
Whichever path you choose, just dive into the character and enjoy the environment in the Night City.
This season’s KFC Big Bash League is the 10th edition of the tournament. The season will commence from 10th December.
BBL is the first T-20 tournament to be played in multiple venues. Spectators are also allowed in the stadium. The first half of the tournament will be played in Hobart and Canberra. The second half will be played in Launceston, Brisbane, Adelaide, Carrara Oval, Perth, Melbourne, and Sydney.
Many IPL stars will also play in BBL. In this article we will have quick look on them.
Rashid Khan
IPL Team: Sunrisers Hyderabad
BBL Team: Adelaide Strikers
The Afghan leg spinner has taken 20 wickets from 16 matches in IPL 2020.
Marcus Stoinis
IPL Team: Melbourne Stars
BBL Team: Delhi Capitals
The game-changer of Delhi Capitals. Stoinis scored 352 runs in 17 games at a strike-rate of 148.52 to go with three fifties in IPL 2020 along with 13 wickets with the ball. The Australian was the leading run-scorer of BBL last year.
Nicholas Pooran
IPL Team: Melbourne Stars
BBL Team: Kings XI Punjab
Pooran was in excellent form scoring 353 runs in 14 matches with a strike rate of 169.71 in IPL this season.
Glen Maxwell
IPL Team: Melbourne Stars
BBL Team: Kings XI Punjab
Glenn Maxwell was the most valuable player in the IPL auction. But he could not play with his full potential. But he is one of the most valuable foreign players to play in IPL.
Jason Holder
IPL Team: Sydney Sixers
BBL Team: Sunrisers Hyderabad
The West Indies all-rounder came into the starting XI in the middle of the tournament. His all-round performance against RCB in the league match and in the eliminator with figures of 2 for 27 and 3 for 25 respectively showed his potential.
Imran Tahir
IPL Team: Melbourne Renegades
BBL Team: Chennai Super Kings
The 41-year-old South African leg spinner was on the bench most of this IPL. But he is an extremely valuable player in the fastest format of the game.
Aaron Finch
IPL Team: Royal Challengers Bangalore
BBL Team: Melbourne Renegades
The Melbourne Renegades captain was not in a good form in IPL this season. But he got his form back again in the series against India. He will be extremely valuable for his team in the competition.
According to a recent report, HMD Global is planning to launch a new Nokia smartphone on 15th December. A new poster has been released by the company officials, which reveals that the company is going to launch its new smartphone next week, though the company has not revealed anything regarding the device name.
A smartphone with a model number of TA-1335 has appeared on the Chinese TENAA website, from the TENAA datasheet it is predicted that the upcoming Nokia device may be a member of the company’s C series smartphone, probably it may debut with Nokia C1 Plus.
Nokia C1 Plus specifications (Expected)
According to the source, the upcoming Nokia smartphone will sport a 5.45-inches LCD display with HD+ (720X1440)pixels of screen resolutions. The screen also has an aspect ratio of 18:9. In terms of dimensions, the phone measures (149.1×71.2×8.75) mm and weighs only 122 grams. The phone comes with two colour options- Navy Blue and Champagne.
Unfortunately, the TENAA datasheet has not revealed any clue about the exactly used processor, but the phone comes with an unknown 1.4GHz octa-core processor and will run on Android 10 OS. The processor of this phone will be paired with 2GB RAM and 64GB of inbuilt storage configuration. The phone will be powered by 2,500mAh
According to the TENAA datasheet, the upcoming Nokia phone comes with a single rear camera with a 5 MP sensor, and on the front side, the phone will have a 3MP front-facing camera. The phone will be supported by a 4G network, the other connectivity options include- Bluetooth 4.2, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n.
Unfortunately, we haven’t got any other clue about this upcoming handset. It is expected that this phone comes with an affordable price. For more details, you have to wait till the launch of this new smartphone.
