After the sudden departure of FC Barcelona’s coach Ernesto Valverde after the 2-3 defeat against Atletico Madrid in the Supercopa de España, former coach of Las Palmas and Real Betis, Quique Setién has taken the charge of the Catalans.
Barca players who were previously spoiled by Valverde’s lack of training sessions are toiling hard to satisfy their new coach. Quique Setién is a coach who works with his brain and is known for his smart tactics, even though he has not won big leagues but has led the underdogs like Las Palmas and Real Betis to great results in his managerial career.
FC Barcelona’s first team goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen has said that the new manager Quique Setien is trying to change things at Barcelona. Ter Stegen says that the squad are doing their best to implement the new coach’s ideas and is hoping that the team will go on and enjoy a successful campaign.
”We have a new coach, who is trying to change some things, everyone has their idea of football, we are listening, we try to do what they ask and give everything to make it possible. We really want to stay top of La Liga and progress in the Champions League, we have a long way to go and we will give the best version. Let’s go for everything.”
Ter Stegen who missed the last few games of Barcelona is back after his injury and took a positive role in the team’s last few training sessions and he is ready to get back into action, all depends on the new coach to use him in the Sunday’s match against Granada.
The former Spain international, Quique Setién is committed to a style based on possession and technique, a professed admirer of Sergio Busquets and Lionel Messi, and once said he would have cut off his finger to play for Johan Cruyff. Being appointed as the coach on Tuesday, he held double training sessions on the day itself.
Before the home game against Granada on Sunday, the new coach is pushing its players by organizing training sessions every day before the final match and even a tactical training session on the matchday as well. The result of Sunday’s match is eagerly-anticipated under the new tactics of coach Setién at the Camp Nou.
POCO is a well-known brand by Xiaomi who has stormed the year 2018 with its killer flagship device POCO F1 featuring the 2018’s flagship Snapdragon 845 SoC and the brand was well praised for its budget flagship that literally put the whole smartphone market across the globe in jeopardy.
We already have some speculations regarding the successor of the brand’s first device, which we even had in 2019, but it seems things are to change in the new decade. Poco is a separate in its origin country but in India, it operates in India as there’s only one device of it.
In 2019, Xiaomi still retained their top spot in the smartphone market but it is aware of the danger by its new rival Realme and the likes of other brands like Vivo, Oppo, Samsung and Honor. The year 2020 can be a great year to again revive the “POCO” brand and make it independent in India.
Excited to share: #POCO will now be an independent brand!
What started as a sub-brand within Xiaomi, has grown into its own identity. POCO F1 was an incredibly popular phone. We feel the time is right to let POCO operate on its own.
Today Xiaomi India’s head Manu Kumar Jain has announced that POCO will work as a separate smartphone brand in India. This is proof that soon Poco will launch its own smartphone and work independently in the budget centric country like India.
We previously had some speculations as Xiaomi made a trademark application with the name of POCO F2. This strongly suggests that the new budget flagship in the $300-400 price segment can again create a spark in the smartphone market in 2020. All assumptions can only be defied in the coming months when we get the worthy successor of the Poco F1.
The South Korean giant is all set to launch its next flagship series in the next month on February 12 and we have some leaked benchmarks of the upcoming flagship by Samsung. The upcoming Samsung Galaxy S20 will feature the latest Snapdragon 865 flagship SoC with 5G support.
Previously we saw Samsung adopting their own Exynos SoCs onto their Galaxy smartphones but this year, Samsung will be using the Qualcomm latest 7nm based Snapdragon 865 with X55 5G modem indicating this smartphone to be a 5G ready device.
via GSMArena
We already have some leaked specs of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S20:
6.2-inch screen
Snapdragon 865 SoC
12 GB of RAM
12MP primary camera, 64MP telephoto shooter & 12 ultrawide camera
4,000 mAh battery
It is speculated that there will multiple variants including the base Galaxy S20 variant, Galaxy S20+ and S20 Ultra. The leaked Galaxy S20 has been spotted on latest Geekbench 5.1.0 version scoring 561 points for single-core and 2,358 points for multi-core loads.
These scores are quite low even though its equipped with the flagship SoC, lower than Kirin 990 and A13 Bionic scores. We can assume this to be coming from a pre-production unit and there can be great variation when compared to the final commercial unit.
Scientists are the backbone of technology. They mould things into some other things and make inventions. Scientists have used computer Algorithms to evolve the world’s first living machine using AI and Frog Cells.
Researchers are calling it a living machine, it stems are originated from frogs-African clawed frogs. Amphibians are the core of this project as it has been made by them using AI and Frog Cells.
These are named as Xenobots after African clawed frog- Xenopus Laevis, from where the stem cells are evolved.
Features of Xenobots:
These frogs have some special features in them as they have neither any resemblance with the amphibians nor do they look as creepy as the water bears.
These organisms can move independently and have the ability to self heal the damages caused. This experiment was carried forward by Michael Levin, Joshua Bongard, Sam Kriegman and Douglas Blackiston, these Xenobots were able to cut and stitch back in the same order to sustain themselves and be prepared in the original position.
World First living machine
What are Xenobots made of?
It is made up of materials like steel, plastics and chemical degrades over time and are very unhygienic for the environment. They affect the environment minutely. Researchers have kept a way to look into it and have planned according to it. The whole summary of this project to be successful is to design an utterly biological machine, which followed a straight process and automatically designs it for stimulation. The designs are built by tissues, which ensured that these safely deliver drugs inside the human body. Researchers have kept in mind its advantages and disadvantages and have ensured that it does not affect the environment.
How they are created?
Bongard, one of the co-researchers and a computer scientist and robotics expert at the University of Vermont said-” They’re neither a traditional robot nor a known species of animals, in fact, it’s a new class of invention – living programmable organisms”.
Xenobots consist of skin and heart stem cells unlike Water Bears, who show complex animals like behaviour consisting not more than skin and cells.
These are grown because of the algorithm, which helped in growing skin and stems cells into tissues clamps, multiplying into hundreds of cells. The movement will be caused by heart muscle tissues.
These living cells cannot be controlled by any process, they are self-dependent or autonomous and are responsible fully on themselves.
Xenobiotics, when observed under the microscope where just y objects just like the nib of the pen but these have shown unique properties, structure and arrangements and with the help of this data it was made and has shown positive impact. Upon doing further research, they multiplied themselves into hundreds and produced generations. The breakthrough came and it helped to construct its sequel and help to rebuild its multiples.
The makers then carried forward its design by combining stem cells to make 3D shaped design by the evolution algorithm. These skins have to hold it together along with heart tissues propelled their properties.
No matter what studies have proven about it, but it’s truly a best from ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
The Mohun Bagan – ATK merger has been met with mixed reactions by former Mohun Bagan players
The much-awaited merger between two-times Indian Super League (ISL) champions ATK and I-League giants Mohun Bagan finally took place on Thursday.
The newly formed club will come into existence from 1st June 2020 and will play in the Indian Super League (ISL) from the 2020-21 season. As per widespread rumours, the name of the new club will be ‘ATK Mohun Bagan Football Club’.
Indian football icon Bhaichung Bhutia, who played for Mohun Bagan for four seasons as a player as well as the captain said: “Why would you want to have its name ATK-Mohun Bagan? That does not go well. That branding has to be done properly. The deal was all about buying the identity and history. With that history, you will have millions of fans across the world. That you will have to keep in mind.”
“ATK are just five-six years’ old. It’s not a very old club. I don’t think ATK really have that identity. It started with Atletico de Kolkata, now it has become Amar Tomar Kolkata (ATK). I don’t think it will be a big loss for them if they lose that identity.”
“That (Mohun Bagan’s) identity should not go. I don’t think Sanjiv Goenka will do that mistake because for him buying Mohun Bagan is buying an identity. If he makes that mistake of losing that identity, that will be the biggest ever loss.”
“I hope that they use Mohun Bagan’s colour, logo, and the name. They should not use ATK’s colour, they should use green-and-maroon. They should use Mohun Bagan’s logo and name. Because it has got a rich history and heritage. I hope they can utilise that.”
“In fact, when I was ATK’s advisor I had actually first advised Sanjiv Goenka to buy out Mohun Bagan. Maybe the budget did not work out then. They were looking for investors. We had initiated the move then.
“I think Mohun Bagan have got a good owner. ATK are one of the best-managed teams of the ISL right now. Sanjiv Goenka is one of the most visionary, successful corporates in India. They have got a very good corporate takeover. They are the best-managed club in ISL right now. I think it’s a great move for Indian football.”
“East Bengal will also get there in a few years time. East Bengal anyway have got a corporate management (Quess). I hope the move will help and inspire.”
Subrata Bhattacharya, former India captain who played only for Mohun Bagan in his whole career said: “This was the only way ahead of them (Mohun Bagan officials) and they took a decision which was forced rather than spontaneous. I feel the path they have chosen will tarnish the tradition and identity of Mohun Bagan.”
“It is like someone buying my house and allowing me some space in the corner to stay. The club has been facing a paucity of funds for quite some time. I feel the members should have been entrusted with the task of finding a way out of the club’s financial distress. This proves the club was run by a few people and they have thought it best to sell its future”
Surojit Sengupta, one of the finest playmakers of India said: “For quite some time there were talks and speculations about the future of the two Kolkata giants (East Bengal and Mohun Bagan). I feel the decision by Mohun Bagan to merge with ATK is in the right direction. This is a decision to embrace professionalism and as a former Mohun Bagan player, I feel quite good.”
“Now that ISL is the premier league of the country, it cannot be thought without Mohun Bagan and East Bengal. The decision by Mohun Bagan to accept ATK’s offer is a positive step towards the future. The Mohun Bagan officials are known to be rooted in conventions and that they have been able the break from tradition is a good step ahead. If you talk about the long-standing rivalry of Mohun Bagan and East Bengal then Mohun Bagan, with its latest decision, is definitely leading by a goal.”
Satyajit Chatterjee, former Mohun Bagan player said: “It is a historic decision. I am a part of the Mohun Bagan executive and I can say that this decision was taken to secure the next 25 years for the football team. This decision was taken considering the sentiments and beliefs of the millions of the clubs supporters and also at securing the future of the Mohun Bagan team.”
“I feel that the people entrusted with the task of running the Mohun Bagan club did well in sacrificing prejudice and self-interest in emerging at the decision. This is to ensure that Mohun Bagan continues in the same glory as it has done in the last 130 years.”
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Mohun Bagan will play in the ISL from next season after it merged with ATK.
One of the most historic clubs of Indian Football, 130-years-old Mohun Bagan FC will now play in the cash-rich top flight of India football from next season. The much-awaited merger between two-times Indian Super League (ISL) champions ATK and I-League giants Mohun Bagan finally took place on Thursday.
This merger will see RP-Sanjiv Goenka (RPSG) group owned ATK hold 80% of the newly formed club while Mohun Bagan will own the rest of the 20% shares. The newly formed club will come into existence from 1st June 2020 and will play in the Indian Super League (ISL) from the 2020-21 season.
The new club will have the brand names of both previous clubs, ATK and Mohun Bagan. As per widespread rumours, the name of the new club will be ‘ATK Mohun Bagan Football Club’.
Sanjiv Goenka, chairman of the RPSG Group said: “RPSG Group which has a 200-year-old legacy is humbled and honoured to welcome Mohun Bagan with folded hands and open arms to the RPSG family. RPSG Group is known for acquiring and growing legacies such as the 120-year-old CESC, 150-year-old Spencer’s Retail, and the 100-year-old Saregama. Personally, it’s an emotional reunion for me as my father Late Shri R P Goenka was a member of Mohun Bagan.”
Swapan Sadhan Bose, Chairman of Mohun Bagan Football Club (India) Pvt. Ltd. said: “As much as we want the romance of the Maroon and Green jersey and it’s 130-year-old tradition to continue, there comes a time when romance almost invariably requires a partner named practicality. To usher into the new era of football, you need bigger investments and a corporate force to take it forward. This is undoubtedly a harsh and the bigger truth.”
“In this context, I am very thankful to one of India’s most well-known industrialists and our Kolkata’s very own Dr Sanjiv Goenka for his investment through RPSG. Their vision on Indian football aligns with our philosophy and our combined forces will surely take the club to a bigger and greater heights.”
“I can assure millions and millions of Bagan supporters spread across the globe, that the poetry will continue. Now that the prose is ready to lend a helping hand.”
This is the biggest merger in the history of Indian football. The two powerhouses from West Bengal – Mohun Bagan and ATK – holds an immense potential to take forward the rich football legacy of the state and hence improve the quality of Indian football.
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There have been speculations regarding AMD’s upcoming flagship Navi GPUs in 2020 and we have some solid leaks to justify the speculations as well. It has been a year since AMD has launched their last flagship GPU – the Radeon Vega VII and to give a tough fight to the market leaders NVIDIA, AMD is surely planning something in 2020.
Already the Red team has launched their new Ryzen 4000 mobile processors at CES this year and it seems they are planning big on the graphics front as well. A mysterious AMD RX 5950XT was recently spotted getting EEC certification by the tipster Komachi and there we see four new AMD GPUs.
AFOX who is a board partner of both AMD and NVIDIA has submitted multiple GPUs including the flagship Radeon RX 5950XT, Radeon RX 5950, Radeon RX 5900 and the Radeon RX 5800 for EEC filing. Now the question arises whether this is the promised “Big Navi” GPU or not.
In this CES 2020, Dr Lisa Su, CEO of AMD had mentioned that the Big Navi is happening soon:
I know those on Reddit want a high end Navi! You should expect that we will have a high-end Navi, and that it is important to have it. The discrete graphics market, especially at the high end, is very important to us. So you should expect that we will have a high-end Navi, although I don’t usually comment on unannounced products.
A few days ago we had seen an Open VR benchmark that shows an unknown AMD GPU beating NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, it could be an unreleased graphics in an external GPU enclosure or it could be the Radeon GPU running in CrossFire or the speculated Big Navi.
If we go by the OpenVR benchmarks, we see a 15% better performance than NVIDIA’s flagship: the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. These Navi GPUs in 2020 might be based on 2nd Generation RDNA Navi GPUs as well with hardware-level integration to support ray-tracing.
LaLiga president Javier Tebas made the El Clasico announcement at an event in London on Wednesday.
LaLiga have confirmed the date for this season’s second El Clasico. El Clasico is one of the most-watched football matches all over the world. So the coming El Clasico has been handed a Sunday evening slot unlike the previous one. The match timing has been picked to ensure maximum global exposure on television.
La Liga president Javier Tebas confirmed that the El Clasico will be played on 1st March 2020 at Real Madrid’s home ground, Santiago Bernabeu. It will kick-off at 21:00 local time, ie 8 pm UK time. Although, football lovers from Asia will have to stay up late at night as it will kick-off at 1:30 am IST on 2nd March 2020.
Tebas said: “It will be 8pm UK time and I think there aren’t any other matches at this time so it will be a great slot. We want to be as visible as possible and we are getting there.”
Barcelona have an away clash against Napoli on Tuesday, 25th February and Real Madrid play at home to Manchester City the following night, 26th February.
As things stand now, Barcelona lead the way in LaLiga, but they are only ahead of Real Madrid on goal difference, with both sides sitting on 40 points from 19 matches. So the coming El Clasico can prove to be a title decider.
It will also be the 1st El Clasico for Barcelona’s new coach Quique Setien, which adds more excitement to the fixture. He will have a real test in hand against Zidane’s men in their own backyard.
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Lionel Messi admitted that the ‘special duel’ between him and Cristiano Ronaldo will ‘remain forever’ in people’s minds
The two of the greatest ever footballers to have graced the field – Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo – are sadly nearing the dawn of their careers. Both of them have defined this generation of football. They have won almost everything among themselves.
For over a decade, Messi’s Barcelona used to face Ronaldo’s Real Madrid, before Ronaldo moved to Juventus in 2018. The duo was engaged in an era-defining rivalry, scoring 39 goals between them in El Clasicos between 2009 and 2018. It was always a ‘special duel’ in El Clasicos.
Messi and Ronaldo made football’s highest individual honour, the Ballon d’Or their own. They have won the prize a combined 11 times in the last 12 years.
Now, Messi and Ronaldo play in different leagues, conquering their individual leagues with their teams. But Messi fondly remembers the old times.
Messi told Dazn: “Obviously when Cristiano was at Real Madrid the matches were always special. The matches against Real always mean a lot, but when Cristiano was there they became much more special. But it’s a time that has passed now, that we have experienced. Now we have to look ahead to the future.”
“It was a special duel and it will remain forever because it lasted many years and it is not easy to maintain certain levels for a long time. Plus, the teams we played in were also very demanding, both Real Madrid and Barca, the two best in the world.”
“Competing on an equal footing for so many years, I think it will remain forever. The sporting duel between us was very nice on a personal level and I think people had fun too, whether it was from Madrid or from Barca, or even only football fans in general.”
This rivalry between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo will live on for ages. The ‘special duel’ will remain in people’s minds forever.
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MediaTek is known for its powerful and efficient SoCs at a significantly lower price than Qualcomm. Earning its respect from the Helio P series and the newer Dimensity series, MediaTek is being competitive to the Snapdragon chips off recently.
Last year they also announced the powerful Helio G90 and G90T gaming SoCs which indeed was a success and it powers the popular Redmi Note 8 Pro. There remains no doubt that MediaTek has announced the Helio G70 and Helio G70T chipsets for budget gaming smartphones.
As its practically intended for gamers, it brings lots of gaming-centric features like the new MediaTek HyperEngine Game Technology which makes the gaming experience on smartphones even better using the new G70 SoC series.
Helio G70
Helio G90
CPU big cores
2x Cortex-A75 at 2.0GHz
2x Cortex-A76 at 2.05GHz
CPU little cores
6x Cortex-A55 at 1.7GHz
6x Cortex-A55 at 2.05GHz
GPU
Mali-G52 2EEMC2
Mali-G76 3EEMC4
RAM
Up to 8GB LPDDR4x
Up to 10GB LPDDR4x
Storage
eMMC 5.1
UFS 2.1, eMMC 5.1
Display
1080p, 21:9
1080p, 21:9
Cameras
48MP or 16+16MP
64MP or 24+16MP
Video recording
1080p/60fps
2160p/60fps
LTE
Cat 7 down, Cat-13 up
Cat-12 down, Cat 13 up
Wireless
Wi-Fi 5, Bluetooth 5.0
Wi-Fi 5, Bluetooth 5.0
The HyperEngine helps the processor to handle CPU and GPU resource allocation more intelligently and dynamically. It also improves the power efficiency for better battery life while gaming. This technology is also present in the G90 gaming SoC series as well.
Talking of specs, the G70 is a 12nm octa-core chipset with two high-performance Cortex A75 cores clocked at 2.0GHz, and there are the six efficiency Cortex A55 cores clocked at 1.7GHz. The G70 series only supports eMMC 5.1, not the faster UFS storage.
On the graphics front, we have the Mali-G52 2EEMC2 GPU running at 820Mhz. The chip has display resolution support up to 1080p, tall aspect ratios up to 21:9 are also supported. The Voice on Wakeup feature enables voice assistants with minimal power use.
The G70 chipset also supports HEVC/H.265 encoding and decoding and supports VP9 decoding which is great since most major streaming services, including Netflix who are planning to move onto VP9 for encoding their streams.
The ISP inside the Helio G70 supports up to single 48MP camera or up to two 16MP cameras and video capture up to 1080p/60fps. The NeuroPilot engine is there to handle AI tasks like object and scene recognition, bokeh enhancement.
The chipset has a modem capable of both dual 4G VoLTE and 300Mbps downlink and there’s support for Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) and Bluetooth 5.0. The Chinese media claims that the MediaTek Helio G70 will be used in smartphones priced under CNY 1,000 i.e. around $145/ Rs. 10k.
