FC Barcelona is urgency of selling few players and we already knew the fact and it seems the club has transfer listed a dozen of players for this upcoming summer transfer window, according to Marca.
The Blaugranas want the cash for their upcoming target Lautaro Martinez but getting rid of so many players won’t be that much easy for Barcelona. Also, the club’s wages bill is the highest is the world so selling off few heavy weights can help to reduce that as well.
They have already made a deal with Juventus for swapping Arthur for Pjanic and so even before the Champions League campaign ends, the board wants to arrange the funds for the transfers.
There are a total of 12 players who are being treated as potential transfer deals to get in some funds into the club, among them, some are in Quique Setien’s plans in the first team, while there are players who are about to return from loan spells elsewhere.
The list includes Neto, Nelson Semedo, Samuel Umtiti, Junior Firpo, Ivan Rakitic, Arturo Vidal, Ousmane Dembele, and Martin Braithwaite, along with the returning Carles Alena, Rafinha Alcantara, Jean-Clair Todibo and Philippe Coutinho.
Neto has not got enough this season because ter Stegan seemed fitter than usual while Semedo and Junior Firpo are being treated as the cash fundings as they are both potentially well-poised full-backs. Umtiti has lost his previous form after the World Cup injury and has not been able to impress for the last two seasons while Ivan Rakitic and Arturo Vidal are getting aged to stay in the Barca midfield.
via Marca
Dembele has been unfortunate with his injury problems and is working hard to make a return in this Champions League and the emergency signing Danish international Martin Braithwaite is already been shown the exit door. Coming to the loanees, Alena is showing great potential at Betis including Rafinha and Jean-Clair Todibo, surprising to see all of them loaned out, but now they will be rushed to get some cash by the board.
While for Coutinho, the Brazilian has lost his sublime form, which he had in Liverpool, and has failed to impress the German giants as well which has made him a burden for Barcelona. But selling off both Coutinho and Dembele won’t be that easy for the Barcelona board but for Dembele if he shines at the Champions League still the board could consider his stay at the club.
Paris Saint-Germain took on Saint-Etienne in the Coupe de France final on yesterday night. PSG won the final by Neymar’s solitary goal. Mbappe’s fierce shot was parried by Moulin into the path of Neymar, who smashed the rebound in off the bar from close range.
But the win was overshadowed by Kylian Mbappe catastrophic injury followed by a mass brawl. The referee first showed a yellow card to Loic Perrin for the foul on Mbappe but afterwards changed the yellow card to red card by consulting with VAR.
The extent of Mbappe’s injury is not known yet but it looked quite serious which has put Mbappe’s participation in PSG’s Champions League fixtures this season in doubt.
Thomas Tuchel told at the news conference about Mbappe’s injury: “Anyone who saw it is worried. Anyone seeing that foul is worried.”
Paris Saint-Germain’s French forward Kylian Mbappe walks with crutches after an injury during the French Cup final football match between Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Saint-Etienne (ASSE) on July 24, 2020, at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, outside Paris. (Photo by GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP) (Photo by GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP via Getty Images)
Tuchel also commented on the mass brawl: “It started with a foul on Neymar. We took three yellow cards after the foul on Kylian. And, at the beginning, he gave a card for this foul, and we, for having asked to protect the player, we took three.”
“These are not the same criteria that are applied. I say this for all players. Viewers are there to watch players, people watching TV too. And most importantly, to protect all the players, not just mine. It’s a game for the players and it wasn’t like that.”
PSG will face Lyon in the Coupe de la Ligue final next week before a huge Champions League quarter-final clash against Atalanta in Lisbon on 12th August.
This year AMD has changed the game for laptops with its revolutionary 7nm based Zen 2 APUs, be it gaming or daily task, these processors are real showstoppers. But did you actually know how these APUs perform in content creation? AMD has taken the chance to explain how its collaboration with Adobe has helped tune them to optimize hardware for AMD Ryzen 4000 processors.
Content creator across the globe are facing problems in this Coronavirus pandemic but they have to get their jobs done and usually a laptop is a great option for most out there due to its portability. But most laptops cannot deliver the performance you want out of it, editing videos at 4K is not a matter of joke and that requires tremendous horsepower.
Until now getting a professional job done on a mid-range laptop was a joke, crappier CPUs were flooding the market, people had to spend a lot to buy a decent laptop for getting the work done. Times change, things too, AMD’s Ryzen mobile chips brought some real improvements but until last-gen, it still locked to 4 cores and 8 threads, still good for heavy workloads but this year’s 6-core and 8-core options from AMD has changed the game.
Many laptop vendors are switching to AMD and making cost efficient laptops like we see from HP, Lenovo, ASUS and others, while beefier gaming laptops from MSI, ASUS, Dell and HP are also stealing the show. Both the Ryzen 4000U and Ryzen 4000H mobile processor lineups are great for video editing and rendering tasks, while the 15W TDP delivers superior battery life, on the other hand, the 45W TDP options gives insane performance on mobile.
AMD in its blog has shared some insights into their new optimizations made in collaboration with Adobe and what kind of results its mobile processors have been able to achieve:
Adobe Premiere Pro gets AMD GPU Hardware-Accelerated Video Encoding Support
Tuning the software with your hardware is very important in any professional application because if the software cannot utilize your hardware power, it doesn’t make sense at all of buying a high-end laptop. As AMD points out, video editing applications like Premiere Pro have long been able to utilize the power of your GPU like Adobe’s Mercury Playback Engine uses OpenCL with AMD graphics cards to accelerate tasks like rendering video effects.
Now the 14.2 update to Premiere Pro has hardware-accelerated encoding support for the H.264 and HEVC formats for AMD GPUs on Windows. This will help use your graphics card while exporting your video, which is indeed time-consuming. The update uses AMD AMF (Advanced Media Framework) multimedia processing technology to speed up video encoding on systems with any AMD GPU.
To gain the advantage of this you won’t essentially require a discrete Radeon RX GPU but also any Ryzen U-Series mobile processor can take advantage of this using the integrated Vega iGPU. So, ultrathin AMD powered laptops will also be able to deliver faster video exports in Premiere Pro but having a powerful AMD Ryzen H-Series mobile processor with a discrete AMD Radeon RX graphics card significantly can take advantage of this.
“Close collaboration with hardware vendors like AMD enables the optimization of our applications for next-generation CPU and GPU technologies,”said Sue Skidmore, head of partner relations for the Adobe video team.“We’re seeing terrific progress across the board, which directly benefits our users. Thanks to the ongoing efforts of engineering teams on both sides, we will continue to make performance gains for video and animation production workflows, wherever our users are working.”
Performance Gains
AMD was also kind enough to show how its new Ryzen 4000 mobile processors perform during video editing and rendering. Both the Ryzen 4000U mobile processors with integrated Radeon Vega graphics and Ryzen 4000H mobile processors with discrete AMD Radeon RX 5000 Series Graphics for laptops perform.
With AMD GPU-accelerated video encoding enabled in Adobe Premiere Pro 14.2 and higher helps AMD Ryzen 4000U powered laptops to export 4K content up to 29% faster.
The 14-inch Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 or named as Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 7 in North America was tested with AMD Ryzen 7 4800U, was able to export a 4-minute extremely high-quality Apple ProRes 4444 4K 60p QuickTime video clip to the Premiere Pro H.264 4K YouTube preset in 12:20 minutes versus the 17:22 minutes it took when exporting with just the CPU.
Even the more budget Ryzen 5 4500U on an HP ENVY x360 13z convertible laptop too can perform very well in professional workloads as AMD shows is 25% faster and the HP ENVY x360 15z convertible laptop with an AMD Ryzen 7 4700U seems 26% faster.
AMD also tested the recent Dell G5 15 SE that features more powerful AMD Ryzen 4000H gaming processors along with Radeon RX 5600M graphics. Using the Premiere Pro 14.2 (and higher) GPU hardware-accelerated encoding support the laptop exports the same 4-minute Apple ProRes 4444 4K 60p QuickTime video clip to the H.264 4K YouTube preset in 5:16 minutes, which is up to 43% faster than software-only (CPU) accelerated video encoding.
The new MSI Bravo 17 with the AMD Ryzen 7 4800H & AMD Radeon RX 5500M graphics can export to the H.264 4K YouTube preset in 6:06 minutes makes it 35% faster than encoding without GPU-acceleration on the AMD Ryzen 7 4800H alone.
Obviously, these are some healthy figures these new AMD Ryzen 4000 powered laptops have been able to achieve that will indeed help content creators, video editors to edit and render videos on the go using Adobe Premiere Pro. The portable AMD Ryzen 4000U powered laptops still gets the job done at respectable time frame without sacrificing the portability and comfort of using them while the AMD Ryzen 4000H and Radeon RX graphics powered laptops deliver desktop-like performance.
Sony India is going to add another feather to its TWS collection and it is named WF-1000XM3. The electronics giant is fully ready to launch this new product in our country through the e-commerce platform Amazon during the Prime Days. In case you don’t know, Amazon Prime Day is on 6th and 7th August. Here are the bio-data of the new Sony member.
As this product is coming from Sony, you can easily guess there will be no compromise in the audio quality. There will be a 0.24″ tiny-yet powerful driver to deliver you a rich, clear, and expensive sound. The Digital Sound Enhancement Engine HX, inside, enhance your compressed digital music files so that the quality can reach close to the highest resolution.
On top of it, the noise cancellation mechanism will take your experience to another level. The QN1e processor is actually responsible for it. It not only capable of canceling noises of almost every frequency using less power but also can process 24-bit audio signal and do the digital-to-analog conversion with headphone amplifier.
Apart from the audio quality, connectivity, design, and battery life are also get equal importance. Optimized antenna design is given to the earbuds so that the latest Bluetooth chip, in it, can do its connectivity job over a wide coverage area. The tri-hold structure and the high-friction rubber surface ensure the perfect and secure fit in your ears.
In the case of battery life, the Sony WF-1000XM3 can run 24 hours long against a single charge, keeping the noise cancellation on. Otherwise, you will get up to 8 hours more backup i.e. 32 hours in total. Let you know, if you charge it for only 10 minutes, it can go for 90 minutes.
Apart from all the mentioned features, you can play with the touch controls too. Even, Sony is giving you the freedom to customize that. In that case, you have to use the Sony | Headphones Connect app. The proximity sensors in the buds allow you to pause or resume your track just by taking out or putting in the buds in your ears.
Controlling music, take calls, or waking up voice assistant is common for all the TWS earbuds. But with this, you will get some extra, it’s called Quick Attention mode. Just tap and hold the touch button to bring the volume down while you are in a face to face conversation.
There are two color variants available in the global market – Black and White. The price can be guessed under ₹20,000. We need to wait till 6th August 12:00 am. If you are keen to feel the premium sound, set a reminder for the launch. The link is given below.
Foxconn has already started “manufacturing” the iPhone 11 at the Wistron plant near Bangalore, Chennai, India. In this plant, iPhone has also assembled the iPhone SE, iPhone 6s, and 7 series. This news was confirmed yesterday by Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal’s tweet. Apple has also made the iPhone XR in India and the phone was also available ta a very cheaper price in India for the India manufactured devices.
Apple claims that it will be able to waive the 22% import tax on phones made outside India that is imposed by the Indian Government. This will make the iPhone 11 cheaper almost the 128GB model will be available around Rs.60,000 if 22% tax is waived on the import price where its original price in India now is around Rs.70,000.
“Significant boost to Make in India!” Mr. Piyush Goyal tweeted. “Apple has started manufacturing iPhone 11 in India, bringing a top-of-the-line model for the first time in the country.” This is now official that iPhone 11 will be made in India from now on and if this continues we can expect more future iPhones smartphone will also be made in India and will be available to its Inidan customers at a very reasonable price.
Reports claim that Apple has Foxconn, Wistron, and Pegatron as the suppliers for its iPhone models that all are presently making huge investments in the Indian market and even Foxconn is planning to invest upwards of $1 billion in its Indian manufacturing sites.
Vivo silently unveiled another mid-range 5G smartphone in China dubbed as Y51s. This smartphone comes with the latest Exynos 880 5G processor which supports 5G connectivity. The phone also comes with a 4500mAh battery.
Specification of Vivo Y51s:
The Vivo Y51s comes with a 6.53 inches FHD+ LCD and has a punch-hole cut at the left corner of the display. It houses an 8MP camera in the punch-hole and around the back it comes with a triple rear camera. The rear shooters comprise of a 48MP primary camera next to a 2MP depth sensor and 2MP macro shooter.
The phone features the latest Exynos 880 5G chipset that supports 5G connectivity paired with 6GB RAM and 128GB storage. It runs on Funtouch OS 10.5 based on Android 10. The Y51s is powered by a 4,500mAh battery that supports 18W fast charging. The phone is available in black, blue and white colours.
Price and Availability:
Vivo Y51s is priced at CNY1,798 ($256) and is already up for pre-orders in China’s Vivo website and will go on sale from 29th July. There is no information about the international launch of the device.
Boult Audio AirBass TrueBuds-X True Wireless Earbuds have launched in India a few days ago and we got our hands on it pretty soon and now we are going to give the in-depth review of this TWS earbuds. Now coming to the price you can have your hands on these TWS earbuds from Amazon at Rs.2,499. These earbuds have a bunch of CTC features and you don’t need to access your phones while using these. They are also good for gaming and do support stereo calling.
Boult Audio AirBass TrueBuds-X True Wireless Earbuds are available in two different colours – black and red. Both the colours are classy and look good in the ears. The CTC touch area is very responsive and the built is very premium.
Specification of Boult Audio AirBass TrueBuds-X TWS Earbuds
One Button Control & Voice Assistant
Bluetooth 5.0
Auto pairing
Earbuds playback time is 8 hours and total playback time is of 24 hours including the case.
Passive Noise Canceling
Monopod feature
Stereo mode available
IPX7 waterproof
Design
The Boult Audio AirBass TrueBuds-X True Wireless Earbuds have the same design of a bean but thinner at the bottom where we plug it in the ear. We have the CTC touchscreen where the Boult logo is located. At the top of the logo, we get an indicator LED that blinks in red and blue to indicate several things. The rubber eartips are a bit odd and the company will give two extra pairs of adjustable earbuds in the box. The earpiece kindly slides inside the ear as that portion is pointed.
Now coming to the carry case we see four white indicator LEDs that indicates the charge remaining in the case. The case is magnetic and holds the earbuds in it very firmly with the help of strong magnets. The case is pretty strongly built and gives a premium vibes from outside. There is a USB Type-C charging port and it charges the whole case within 2 hours approximately. Whereas, each buds can be charged totally within the case within 30 minutes approximately.
Controls
Music: Single tap to play/pause, double tap on the right earbud to play the next song and similarly double tap on the left to play the previous track.
Calls: Single tap any earbud to receive/decline the call.
Volume: Press and hold the right earbud’s CTC for almost 5 seconds to raise the volume slowly, similarly press and hold on the left earbud for 5 seconds to lower the volume.
In the Box
Carry case with two earbuds
Adjustable rubber eartips (2 pair each)
Type-C cable
Warranty card
User manual
Comfort and Usage
As mentioned in the design section the comfort of these earbuds are decent. The ear tips are soft and fit perfectly in-ear but have a very odd design but might have some difficulty with the fit. We would recommend you to get the largest adjustable earbuds with the pre-installed ones to have a better ear grip. It is firm in the ears, and there is no problem of falling from the ear. It might hurt after wearing for a long time.
It has an 24-hour battery life and each of the earbuds will go up to 8 hours in a single charge. The whole case charges from 0% to 100% within 2 hours.
Audio Quality
The audio quality of the Boult Audio AirBass TrueBuds-X True Wireless Earbuds is amazing. The highs and lows are up to the mark. When the volume is 100% the sound has a soothing effect.
Pros and Cons
Pros
Cons
Light weight
Comfort
LED indication
Easy and accurate CTC control
24 hours play time
Sweat and Water resistant
USB Type-C charging
Price and Availability
Boult Audio AirBass TrueBuds-X True Wireless Earbuds is priced at Rs.2,499 and is available exclusively via Amazon.
Realme has recently launched its Realme X3 series powered by the Snapdragon 855+ SoC, the flagship chip of last year. This makes the smartphone series even more powerful even though it’s a mid-range smartphone.
Being available for Rs. 24,999, makes the smartphone even more “value for money”, but recently the much-hyped OnePlus Nord has been launched globally. The base 6+64GB variant of the OnePlus Nord also comes at the same price, making the competition neck-to-neck.
OnePlus almost forget mid-range smartphones for quite some time but it pounces back in 2020 with the OnePlus Nord and gets almost everything right at its $400 price mark globally. In fact, it’s one of the best sellers in the various European nations.
The OnePlus Nord comes with Snapdragon 765G, a very capable mid-range chip with 5G support, this makes the smartphone even more special for the masses. Here is the spot where the Realme X3 series lacks as they have gone for performance.
As we all know OnePlus has a strong fanbase in the country because of its clean UI, good reputation when it comes to software. With Nord, OnePlus has balance every equation and made this a complete 5G mid-range smartphone.
Obviously, fans would prefer OnePlus because it is a more reputed brand than Realme. Now, interestingly I came across a Google Ad that was from Realme and showed that Snapdragon 855+ is 23% faster than Snapdragon 765G.
This makes sense because Realme seems to have invested a lot in the new X3 series so they want to lure users towards it. Their tagline of ‘Get The X’ still holds good but eventually the sales of the new OnePlus Nord against Realme’s mid-range smartphone series will tell people’s opinion.
For most mid-range users getting their work done along with casual gaming is what they need and to have 5G support is a boon. Now, given the fact that in 2021, 5G is coming to India anyone who will buy a smartphone will keep this in mind, seems like Realme did not keep this mind.
Realme has shared a new video where they have revealed the launch date of the Realme V5. The new promo video shared by the brand in its Weibo account shows the Realme V5 design at the end of it. But CMO of Realme China had declared that they will come up with something in early August, which means this smartphone will surely not be included. The Realme V5 will officially launch on July 27 in China.
The images of Realme V5 were revealed in Weibo and it shows the punch hole design at front and a quad camera setup in a rectangular layout around the back of the smartphone. There is a large “realme”branding at the back of the smartphone. The phone is reported to come with a 48MP primary sensor at the back.
According to Digital Chat Station, a Chinese Weibo tipster, has revealed that the Realme V5 will have 6.5″ FullHD+ LCD, a 5,000 mAh battery, 30W fast charging, and 5G support. The phone will come with a 2.0GHz processor, 16MP selfie camera, and a 48MP primary camera sensor at the back.
Sandesh Jhingan has become one of the most coveted Indian defenders. He is one of the best central defenders in India and plays a vital role in the national team.
His 2019-20 season was disrupted by injury but when he is fit, he adds value to any club with his defensive traits and the leadership he provides on the field.
Since the inception of ISL in 2014, Jhingan has been a Kerala Blasters’ player. But this year he has left Kerala Blasters ending a six-year spell with the club. When a defender of Jhingan’s stature is in the market, it is expected that all the Indian clubs would want him.
ATK, the most successful ISL club with three titles in 6 years has merged with Mohun Bagan, one of the most iconic Indian clubs. The newly formed entity ATK Mohun Bagan is interested in Jhingan’s services.
When a club as successful as ATK and as iconic as Mohun Bagan comes knocking at your door, not many players can reject the chance of wearing their jersey. Jhingan also had offers from abroad but the current situation in the world due to the Coronavirus pandemic is not well, so he had finally decided to remain in Indi and join Kolkata based club ATK Mohun Bagan.
According to a report by Transfermarkt, their source said: “Sandesh has agreed to play for ATK Mohun Bagan” but warned, “The deal hasn’t been signed yet.” “I don’t know exactly when it will be signed, but ideally, as it has already been agreed, it should be done soon,” the source added.
ATK Mohun Bagan will officially announce the signing of Sandesh Jhingan on 29th July or in the first week of August.
