The final of the Champions League 2019-20 will be held in Ataturk Olympic Stadium. The design of the new ball has been inspired by the host city Istanbul.
They stated: “Highlighting Istanbul’s deep culture of art, the white stars have been placed to contrast with a hand-printed map of the city. The Bosporus, a natural waterway that flows through the city, is at the centre of the ball. The striking purple colour palette is inspired by the sun setting above the river from east to west.”
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Iker Casillas is arguably the greatest captain of Spain. He made 167 appearances for Spain and captained his country to lift the 2010 World Cup. He has also won the European Championships of 2008 and 2012.
Casillas was the best goalkeeper in his prime days and was the captain of the Spanish national football team, leading them to various titles. He was also the captain of his boyhood club Real Madrid where he has lifted the LaLiga and the Champions League trophies among various other.
The 38-year-old left Real Madrid in 2015 and joined Porto but hasn’t played since suffering a heart attack during training in May 2019. Though he is still a part of their squad this season, he is also a member of the backroom staff at Porto. Casillas has not retired formally yet.
The World Cup winning captain has now decided to run for the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) presidency against current RFEF president Luis Rubiales when the election is held later this year.
Sí, me presentaré a la Presidencia de la @RFEF cuando se convoquen las elecciones. Juntos vamos a poner nuestra Federación a la altura del mejor fútbol del mundo: el de España. #IkerCasillas2020pic.twitter.com/kHkBChqh4m
Casillas wrote on Twitter: “Yes, I will stand for presidency of the Spanish FA when elections are called. Together we will put our federation at the level of the best football in the world.”
“I have informed the president of my club, FC Porto, of this decision, to whom I can only express my deepest gratitude.”
“We are working with the utmost respect in our candidacy. More than 23,000 voters await us in fair and transparent elections. 139 assembly members will decide.”
“Thank you all for all the love I have continually received. Your support and your strength encourage me. Let’s go for it! #IkerCasillas2020”.
Luis Rubiales has been the RFEF president since May 2018. But his tenure has been far from being good. The Spanish football team has seen their coach change as many as four times in less than two years.
Julen Lopetegui was sacked on the eve of the 2018 World Cup after agreeing to take the Real Madrid job following the finals. Luis Enrique was appointed but he stepped down as his daughter, Xana, battled bone cancer. Unfortunately, she died in August. Assistant Robert Moreno stepped up to the senior role but was later replaced by the returning Luis Enrique.
It will be great for Spain if their former captain can once again hold the wheel and steady the ship to guide them back to the place where they belonged. Spain dominated the world for almost a decade during the time of Casillas, Puyol, Xavi, Iniesta, Villa and Torres.
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Data recovery software is quite common these days and there are a lot of them out there but I got familiar with one of the most trusted one, named the Stellar Data Recovery. Founded back in 1993 has over 2 million customers and is present in over 190 countries along with a good fanbase in India as well.
So, the company has three variants of their well-renowned software i.e. the Professional version costing $79.99, the Premium version costing $99.99 and the Technician version costing $199. As the names suggest, each has its own use:
Professional – Recovers your data from any media & monitor hard drive health
Premium – Recovers everything from any media also you can repair photos & videos
Technician – The ultimate recovery tool for data recovery from HDD, SSD & RAID server
Generally for home use, you might generally end up with the Professional version and so I got one for the review. You can download it for free for both Windows and Mac and end up buying the license to activate all its features.
The key features of the Professional version include:
Recovers all file types including documents, emails, photos, videos and more
Recovers the data lost due to deletion, drive corruption, or deleted partition
Recovers data from all storage devices like HDD, SSD, SD Card etc.
Inbuilt feature of Drive Monitoring, Disk imaging & Cloning
Creates Bootable USB Data Recovery Media For Crashed Systems
Facilitates data recovery from BitLocker encrypted storage devices
Initially, when you download the installer it is only 46.8 MB in size and after installation, which indeed was pretty quick, it took around 250 MB space only. After opening, you find an intuitive interface, the speed of the software will totally depend on the speed of your HDD or SSD as well as the CPU which the company recommends to be at least an Intel Pentium.
I tested on my Ryzen 5 2400G rig and worked fine, without any lag, an SSD can play a key role as well. After opening the software, its homepage will ask you what you want to recover with a variety of options including documents, folders, emails, images, audios and videos as well.
So I tested it on one of my drive which you can do as well, selectively choosing from which drive you to want to recover or from the disk as a whole. You can even create a recovery drive if you have a huge volume of data to recover and store.
Choosing the disk all you have to do is to confirm the recovery and the scanning starts automatically and in between scanning you even get a preview of the files you want to recover and you can manually select which ones you want to recover and select the destination of the recovered files.
The time of the recovery depends on the amount of data you want to recover and you PC’s performance, I totally recovered all the JPG images deleted and the total recovery took place within 12-13 minutes for a volume of 7.22GB which is quite fast and the recovered images to look good.
There’s absolutely no loss in the quality of the image and its the same case if you recover both documents and videos. You can even save the stage of your recovery if you are in a hurry and resume again when you are idle.
The deep scan option can be used if you do not find your desired file with the quick scan but it takes some time to search the files and then to recover it but I absolutely have no complaints regarding the quality of the recovery.
A picture after the data recovery
The software is said to recover from Encrypted Drives and Crashed Windows System which can be helpful at times to fix your old hard drives or recovering the data from the crashed disks. The Premium version takes this to another level by repairing the corrupt images and videos.
Pros:
Simple & Great UI
Easy to use
Recovers a huge amount of data
High quality data recovery
Cons:
Running deep scans might be very time consuming
If I had to describe this software in one line then I would say – “The Stellar Data Recovery Professional is a must-have software for both novice & professionals and indeed gives great value for money.”
The Taiwanese chip manufacturing giant has been overshadowed by Qualcomm, always, in the high performing SoC segment even though MediaTek’s Helio series is quite familiar to the budget end customers. This has completely overturned with the new MediaTek Dimensity series.
Both the Dimensity 800 and Dimensity 1000L are high performing 7nm SoCs that gives high performance even though it will be powering the mid-range smartphones. Already we saw Antutu benchmarks showing its dominance over the Snapdragon 765G and now the Antutu rankings prove it all.
Talking about the SoC itself, the 7nm based MediaTek Dimensity 1000 features four high-end Cortex-A77 cores clocked at 2.6GHz which is the main reason for the better performance of this SoC and we have four Cortex-A55 power-efficient cores clocked at 2.2GHz.
So, the ranking states the top 10 best-performing mid-range phones of January 2020 and it is evident from the scores that the OPPO Reno 3 5G, powered by the Dimensity 1000L, is the leader with a whopping score of 397,965 which is even better than the last time benchmarks.
The second position is captured by the Vivo X30 Pro 5G featuring Samsung’s Exynos 980 chipset and scoring a 326,851. Even though both of the smartphones have the same RAM + storage but the Samsung chip lacks in performance.
On the other hand, the newer Redmi K30 5G (8GB+128GB) featuring the Snapdragon 765G scores 322,927 and the Oppo Reno 3 Pro 5G (6GB+128GB) scores 320,597 points. The new Oppo Reno 3 5G leads the performance has a huge 20% advantage over the Redmi K30 5G, mostly due to the CPU and GPU performance of the Dimensity 1000L.
The Helio G90T performs well considering its price but it’s surprising to see the Kirin 810 on the Honor 9X Pro outperform both the Helio G90T and the Snapdragon 730G and appears to be about 5% worse than the Snapdragon 765G.
Also, it’s worth mentioning that the newer Helio G90T on the cheaper Redmi Note 8 Pro beating the Snapdragon 730G on the new Redmi K30 as well, this itself proves the dominance of the newer MediaTek chipsets in the budget level and mid-range.
It was coming and we all knew that the Intel 10th Gen CPUs for desktops would surely make itself to the market in the coming months but it seems it gets listed for sale even before the launch. A Chinese e-tailer site has a listed the upcoming Intel 10th gen Comet Lake-S desktop CPUs qualifying samples (QS) for sale.
On the other hand, another site has managed to get their hands on an Intel Core i9-10900, but the base clock seems to be lower than what we had expected. Spotted by the tipster @momomo_us, these 10th gen Comet Lake-S chips were being sold on a Chinese e-tailer site called Taobao.
Image Source: Tom’s Hardware via Taobao
By looking at it one can clearly see that these are qualifying samples (QS) that are intended for OEMs and ISVs but it is surprising to see how one can manage so many of them to actually resale them before the launch.
The Taobao page, which now has been taken down, listed five of the new Comet Lake-S processors including the Intel Core i5-10400, Core i5-10500, and the overclockable Core i5-10600K and all of which are 6-core 12-thread CPUs which is impressive considering the fact Intel is now beefing up its core as well as thread count to fight with AMD.
Image Source: XFastest
Image Source: XFastest
The Intel Core i5-10600K is rated at 95W while the rest of the Core i5 has 65W TDP, the seller even managed to stock some Core i9-10900 and the Core i9-10900K CPUs as well.
A Chinese news website called XFastest managed to get their hands on a Core i9-10900 chip, but how no one knows. Now if we closely see, the Core i9-10900 CPU has 2.5 GHz base clock inscribed which is surprising because of the previous leaks which suggested higher base clock speeds but it’s pretty sure that we will get 10 cores this time from Intel.
These new CPUs will require new motherboards with an LGA 1200 socket or a 400-series chipset such as the Z490 or the B460. So, even if someone gets their hands on with these CPUs, one has to manage a compatible motherboard to test them.
The South Korean giant has silently announced two of its major accessories which we’ve all been waiting for. Samsung has listed both its new Power Banks with 25W fast charging support and its new 45W dual Car Charger.
One of the two power banks supports wireless charging while the other is a standard one and both are listed in the same colour i.e. ‘Silver’. The car charger, on the other hand, is of black colour and has one USB Type-A and one USB Type-C port, the USB Type-A supports up to 15W charging and the latter supports 45W charging.
via GSMarena
The two power banks differ in their functionalities even though they both have 25W fast charging support and 10,000mAh battery. The major difference being that the wireless one features two Type-C ports while the other one has a Type-A port in place of the second Type-C port which is unknown whether it supports 25W fast charging.
Now, according to the store listing, the Samsung 25W wireless power bank has priced at $79 (around Rs.5,600) which is fair enough and apart from it, there’s no price mentioned as for now.
via GSMarena
The standard 25W Samsung Power Bank has overcurrent and overvoltage protection, you can even charge a phone and the power bank itself at the same time. The power bank is also compatible with power delivery (PD) and Quick Charge standards up to 25W.
Both of the power banks seem to have LED indicators on one of the sides and there are no product details for the 25W wireless Samsung power bank as for now.
via GSMarena
Talking more about the new 45W Car Charger by Samsung, currently, there are only two smartphones that support 45W fast charging i.e. the Galaxy Note10+ and the newly released Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G.
The Car Charger connects to the standard 12V socket in your car and two people can charge their smartphones simultaneously. No words now for the availability, might arrive with the upcoming Galaxy S20 smartphones.
The Frenchman has been struggling in Barcelona and now when he is getting his preferred number 9 position he must be clinical of his finishes. Everyone takes time to settle in a team like Barcelona but now it’s the perfect time for proving his worth at the club.
It’s true that playing in a position that he wasn’t used to under Ernesto Valverde was hard especially working in a system under Diego Simeone which was completely opposite and it’s understandable that it would take the World Cup winner some time to settle in.
Under Setien things are constantly evolving and players are getting chances, playing more like a team, dominating possession and having a stronger mentality than before.
Luis Saurez was the best number 9 until he got injured for as long as 4 months along with Dembele who now is out for the whole season. Griezmann and Messi are the keys to the Barcelona attack while the young Ansu stepping up to provide a boost to the attack.
The 28-year old did show his class in a tensed situation against Ibiza where they trailed by 1-0 and it was Griezmann who won the game at the end by scoring the two crucial goals. From then on, Griezmann is happy to Barca’s new number 9 to score a lot of goals.
But then on he did not have a great time with the ball but yesterday we saw a great understanding between the Frenchman and the skipper Lione Messi, both of them are now creating chances as well as scoring, even though Messi has remained goalless for last four matches.
Yesterday’s first goal was a combination of Messi’s divine assist along with an exquisite finish from Antoine Griezmann. Messi leads the assist chart with three assists Real Betis and one yesterday. Messi is now evolving more to be a playmaker exactly what a coach could ask from his world-class player.
Leo is dropping as deep as we’ve ever seen him before and is only moving closer to goal in occasional pincer-like movements. Some might say his age is the key to his goal drought but in the true sense, his ability and vision still remain the same and is proved with his pinpoint crosses and assists.
But now when Suarez is absent Griezmann has to score for every golden opportunity he gets, especially against tougher opponents who won’t give you many chances. Griezmann missed two great chances, one which he could chip the ball over the goalkeeper or swipe the ball with his right foot to the far post.
The worst miss was the second one, a great ball from Junior Firpo, who really stole the show after being substituted off the injured Jordi Alba, there was none to oppose the Frenchman and he could have taken his time to score the goal that could have settled the game but he shot it woefully upright.
Marc-Andre ter Stegen’s heroics ultimately saved the game and won it for the Blaugranas, but there are harder games coming up against Napoli, Real Madrid.
Griezmann needs to really work on his finishes to help Barcelona to lift the LaLiga trophy once again and the much-awaited Champions League title in Istanbul. We hope that World Cup winner proves his worth in the number 9 position alongside Lionel Messi in the coming days.
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Yesterday we saw a tight match at the Camp Nou where Barcelona managed to get all the three points against Getafe, who sit third in the league table. Getafe is known for its high press football against a side who is much more comfortable in keeping the possession.
Quite knowingly, the Getafe side played aggressively trying to snatch the ball from the Blaugranas but made 29 fouls which Setien feels should have produced more yellow and even red cards.
Jose Bordalas’ side pressed Barca all throughout the 90 minutes but Setien’s team kept their composure and keeping 77% ball possession. But Setien feels that the referee should have been stricter for the visitors. After the match the 61-year said:
Matches are played on the pitch. They made 29 fouls and we came away with one yellow card more than them.
We have to take risks to beat the press. When we managed it, we were fouled. It ruins the rhythm of the game. I was complaining to the fourth official because I thought the referee should have been more severe with [them].
The two goals in the first half helped Barcelona win the match although they missed a lot of clear chances, both the goals from Griezmann & Roberto were clinical. Grieamann missed some serious chances which could end him up scoring a brace or even a hattrick.
On the other hand, Lionel Messi still remains goalless since four matches in a row now but he is continuing his good work by providing assists and even leading the assist chart in LaLiga.
Getafe never really gave up, the excellent cross and a mind-blowing finish from Angel Rodriguez left everyone stunned and at the dying minutes, Ter Stegan kept Barca leading with his amazing goalkeeping. Rodriguez is in Barca’s radar after Dembele suffered a season-long injury and Saurez being out for four months now.
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The official invite sent by iQOO India has highlighted February 25 as its launch date. The launch event will kick off at 12 pm (noon) IST. Moreover, the brand has teased the launch through its social media channels.
The gaming brand of Vivo was teased multiple times, and we expect it to have 5G connectivity in China. However, with the lack of proper network in India, the local version of the iQOO 3 is likely to have the latest Qualcomm chipset without a Snapdragon X55 modem that is for the next-gen speeds.
Earlier this week, iQOO revealed that the new flagship smartphone will be available for purchase through Flipkart and the iQOO.com website. The brand also exhibited features such as an “enhanced” camera and “long-lasting” battery life. The smartphone is also touted to deliver an “unmatched” gaming experience.
According to previous leaks and teasers, the phone is going to have a single punch hole on the front screen. Other specs include 6/8/12 GB RAM, UFS 3.1 storage (128 GB or 256 GB), Snapdragon 865 and big enough battery with at least 4,370 mAh power.
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Its no brainer that AMD is leading in the laptop space now as well with its new AMD Ryzen 4000 mobile processors and now with more leaks and benchmarks this is becoming much more evident. Already we had the leaked benchmark of the Ryzen 7 4700U which beat the Intel’s flagship Core i7-1065G7 in multi-core while losing in single-core performance.
Now we’ve got some leaked benchmarks of AMD’s Ryzen 7 4800U featuring 8 cores and 16 threads with 1.8GHz base clock speed and a 4.2GHz boost along with 12MB of the total cache. Thanks to the tipster @TUM_APISAK who has again managed 3DMark 11 scores of this new APU.
The latest Ryzen 7 4800U benchmark scores of an impressive 5,891 points and 12,498 points in single-core and multi-core benchmarks respectively while the Core i7-1065G7 managed 4,591 points and 8,470 points, respectively.
This proves the power of the new Ryzen APUs, is properly cooled and tuned these CPUs can offer better performance at similar or lower prices to that of the blue team.
AMD already claimed it could surpass Intel’s Core i7-1065G7 CPU and now this proves so as well, now the real-world performance of these laptops is what we are dying to test in the coming days. Soon, we will see laptops bearing Ryzen 4000 APUs in the market and more in Q2 of 2020.
