The Coronavirus pandemic has dealt a huge blow to the financial conditions of all the clubs. The transfer market has also been affected as a result. On top of that, not many clubs go for their transfer targets in the winter transfer window unless there’s a crisis at the club.
As a result, a lot less money is spent during the winter transfer window than the summer transfer window. So here we take a look at the official FIFA list for the top 10 most expensive transfers in January 2021:
10. Arkadiusz Milik
Transfer: Napoli to Marseille Price: £8m loan fee plus £2.7m in bonuses
Jeremie Frimpong
9. Jeremie Frimpong
Transfer: Celtic to Bayer Leverkusen Price: £9m deal which could reportedly rise to £11.5m
8. Dennis Man
Transfer: FCSB to Parma Price: £11m
7. Joakim Maehle
Transfer: Genk to Atalanta Price: £9m initially but will rise to a higher fee
Chris Smalling
6. Chris Smalling
Transfer: Manchester United to Roma Price: £18m
5. Dominik Szoboszlai
Transfer: RB Salzburg to RB Leipzig Price: Undisclosed but his release clause was in the region of £23m
Dominik Szoboszlai
4. Krepin Diatta
Transfer: Club Brugge to Monaco Price: £17.3m initially but can rise up to £20m
3. Sebastien Haller
Transfer: West Ham to Ajax Price: £20m
Sebastien Haller
2. Diego Rosa
Transfer: Gremio to Manchester City Price: £4.5m initially but can rise up to £21m
1. Amad Diallo
Transfer: Atalanta to Manchester United Price: £19m initially along with £18m in add-ons, which make the total worth of the deal £37million
As per the report, US tech giant Apple is preparing to shift a part of the production of iPads to India. This does connect with India’s ambition to become a manufacturing hub, especially in the domain of electronics. Currently, Apple does manufacture some of its iPhone models in India. This is done with the aid of contractual agreements with Foxconn, Pegatron and Wistron.
Till now, a major chunk of iPads is produced in China. Due to the negative business climate between the US and China, Apple wants to diversify its manufacturing space. A Reuters report says that the Cupertino-based company is looking to lobby the Indian government to strike a better deal.
The Indian government has rolled out many incentive programs in recent years to attract foreign companies to start manufacturing in India. Getting Apple to build its iPads in India will be another big achievement for the national government. The US giant is aiming to strike a deal of around Rs. 200 billion, whereas the amount tabled by the government is Rs. 70 billion ($964 million) over the space of five years.
According to the company, the Indian supply chain lacks a lot of quality. This will force them to bear an additional cost. The Indian government has launched a number of programs and campaigns like “Make in India”, “Vocal for local”, “Aatmanirbhar Bharat” and others. The US companies are reportedly planning to leave China permanently.
In that case, they have to find another market with sound technology and cheap labour. India does qualify in that list and we might see some of the big companies in the world heading our way for manufacturing. The reports suggest that a part of the production of the iPads can shift to India as early as this year.
On Friday night, Jamal Murray of the Denver Nuggets scored a career-high 50 points and became the first player in NBA history to collect that many without trying a free throw as Denver adjusted to a schedule change by handing the Cleveland Cavaliers their ninth consecutive loss, 120-103.
After the game, Murray said that he was unaware that he had done something so unique. “I was just making my shots,” he said nonchalantly, while taking sips of a postgame smoothie. “It’s kind of cool to make history. It’s a cool stat.”
In the second half, Murray exploded for 30 points, ending his career night with a jackhammer dunk, reaching 50. The fourth quarter saw Murray sink three three-pointers in 63 seconds. In total, he converted 21 of 25 shots, including 8 of 10 from the 3-point arc, and he added six rebounds. He broke Denver’s two-game losing streak and improved their record to 16-13 on the season.
“That’s an incredible stat line,” said Nuggets coach Michael Malone, on Murray’s performance. “He was on fire.”
Nikola Jokic celebrated his 26th birthday with his seventh triple-double of the season. Denver’s All-Star center ended the night with 16 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists. He is tied with Luka Doncic and Russell Westbrook for the NBA lead in triple-doubles. He also recently became the first Nugget since Carmelo Anthony in 2011 to be named an All-Star starter.
“I couldn’t be happier for Nikola because he’s done everything I’ve ever asked of him,” said coach Malone. “After every season, it’s never been, ‘Go work on your jump shot, your 3-point shot, your left hook, your right hook.’ It’s always been, ‘Nikola, you have to mature, you have to grow up, you have to handle adversity, you have to be a leader, you have to be more vocal, you have to be in great shape.’ And he’s done all that. I’m so happy for the success he’s having.”
Collin Sexton led the Cavaliers with 23 points, and Jarrett Allen added 20 points and 10 boards. After a strong start, Cleveland has fallen near the bottom of the Eastern Conference table.
In the auction of IPL 2021, the two Indian Cricket stars Harbhajan Singh and Kedar Jadhav, have picked up in the accelerated auction. In this year’s IPL auction Harbhajan Singh and all-rounder Kedar Jadhav was remained unsold after finishing the first round. Former Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh and all-rounder Kedar Jadhav were at last picked up in the accelerated round on Thursday in Chennai.
The off-spinner was released by Chennai Super Kings this earlier year but was picked by Kolkata Knight Riders at his base price of INR 2 cr. It has also informed that KKR also bought Karun Nair and Ben Cutting for INR 50 Lakhs and 75 lakhs respectively.
The other former Chennai Super Kings player Kedar Jhadav was bought by Sunrisers Hyderabad for INR 2 cr. We also had seen that the franchise has picked up Mujeeb Ur Rahman at his base price of INR 1.5 crores.
The bowler and also the all-rounder Piyush Chawla was picked up by Mumbai Indians for INR 2.4 crore. Adil Rashid, the player of England who also had the base price as INR 1.5 crore, still did not find any takers and remain unsold.
DK congratulating Bhajji in the 2000s for the good news for #KKR fans in 2021 💜
KKR has done its auction most smartly. They have bought the two-time world cup winner former Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh for INR 2cr. They also have released many players as they didn’t fit in their XI. It has been seen that KKR has more solidity as Brendon McCullum and Eoin Morgan have always together, and the franchise is praying that mussel Russell to become fit throughout all the season.
The Bangladeshi star cricketer Shakib Al Hasan was picked up by KKR for INR 3.2 crore. We all know that he missed IPL last year due to a ban for failing to report a corrupting approach.
The players who are retained by the KKR team are Eoin Morgan, Dinesh Karthik, Nitish Rana, Shubhman Gill, Rinku Singh, Rahul Tripathi, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Pat Cummins, Prasidh Krishna, Sandeep Warrier, Shivam Mavi, Varun Chakravarthy, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, and Tim Seifert.
When big names like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are targeting space, especially Mars, Bill Gates is sticking to the home planet. The former world’s richest man stated that he is not a “Mars person” and believed that rockets are not a solution.
While speaking to Kara Swisher for her podcast, Gates stated that Musk’s Tesla electric cars have contributed a lot towards climate change and that it is a bad idea not to underestimate Musk.
“Well, it’s important to say that what Elon did with Tesla is one of the greatest contributions to climate change anyone’s ever made. And you know, underestimating Elon is not a good idea.”
But he also believes that while Tesla is indeed working hard on contributing to climate change, successfully tackling the problem would require a focus on other industries as well. “We’re not doing enough on the hard stuff: steel, cement, meat. And sadly, the things people think about – the electricity, passenger cars – are a third of the problem. So we have to work on the two-thirds. And if all you pay attention to is those short-term metrics, not the green premiums across the board, then you miss out on what is the longest lead time, which is the hard stuff.”
During his appearance on Ms Swisher’s Sway podcast, Bill Gates stated that “I’m not going to pay a lot of money because my foundation can buy measles vaccines and save a life for $1,000. So anything I do, I always think, OK, I could spend that $1,000 buying measles vaccine.”
Musk is already eyeing sending humans to Mars and firmly believes in his ideals. “About half my money is intended to help problems on Earth & half to help establish a self-sustaining city on Mars to ensure the continuation of life (of all species) in case Earth gets hit by a meteor-like the dinosaurs or WW3 happens & we destroy ourselves. I want to be able to contribute as much as possible to the city on Mars.”
Intel is all set to launch the new Rocket Lake-S desktop processors in the upcoming months, and a lot of them have already been leaked on various benchmarks. Yesterday, we also spotted the 11th Gen Core i9 series and now its time for the budget Core i5-11600K to step up.
The upcoming 6 core, 12 thread processor has been spotted on Geekbench with a 3.9GHz base and 4.9GHz boost frequencies. It makes a score of 1565 points in single-core and 6220 points in multi-core tests, tested on a Gigabyte Z490M motherboard with 16GB RAM clocked at 1066 MHz.
The direct competitor to the Core i5-11600K is the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X launched a few months back, and as per our review, we know how good the processor is. However, the score of the Intel CPU is not up to the mark as the average scores of the Ryzen 5 5600X on Geekbench.
Well, if we do keep the low RAM clock speeds in mind, still the 12 MB of L3 cache, a 3.9 GHz base frequency along with 4.9 GHz boosts are unable to match AMD’s pehenomenal IPC uplift over last-gen.
Also, the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X is one of the coolest CPU and runs 200MHz lower than that of the Intel SKU but making better results on Geekbench. It will be interesting to see how these new Rocket Lake-S CPUs catch up against AMD and if offer better value as well as performance or not.
Lenovo Yoga laptops are one of the best-selling line-ups of the company. Stated to be top quality products by the manufacturer, the company firmly believes that the upcoming models will significantly contribute towards the company.
In recent reports, the PC manufacturer has posted a teaser image on its Weibo accounts to announce the 2021 Yoga 5G convertible. According to sources, the machine will feature the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 5G compute platform from Qualcomm. In the promo, the company has highlighted the chipset more rather than the laptop itself.
But reports suggest that the laptop will be a thin and light model and will only weigh 1.35 kg (2.98 lbs) along with a 60 Wh battery.
For the buyers looking for a lightweight laptop with a powerful mobile processor, the Lenovo Yoga 5G certainly looks like a viable option. The Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 5G platform can utilise the new and powerful 5G technology, which is rare even in high-end laptops.
The company reports that buyers in China will be the first to utilize the machine’s network capabilities, as they will get a free 5G package included with the purchase. Last year we saw Lenovo Yoga 5G 2020, powered by the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 1 platform.
The laptop failed to impress in many ways, but its successor, the 2021 Lenovo Yoga 5G, powered by the 2nd generation Snapdragon 8cx seems extremely promising. It can offer improved battery life over laptops using rival SoCs, and it features enhanced security features. The newer chipset also supports Bluetooth 5.1 and Wi-Fi 6.
The GPU battle is heating up between AMD and Nvidia. The next road map of Nvidia is out in the open, and we know that the green team is preparing to launch its new RTX 3060 cards by the end of this month. Now that Nvidia has revealed its next move, it is time for team Red to take the next step. And team red is ready for the big reveal.
It seems that AMD was indeed preparing for Nvidia to reveal all its cards so that it can strike hard. According to sources, Advanced Micro Devices will release its next entry, the Radeon RX 6700 mid-range GPUs, in March.
The company was supposed to release the product during CES 2021, but it deliberately withheld the release of the line-up. Now we know why it did so. French publication Cowcotland somehow received word that the RX 6700 series is to be launched on March 18, exactly 3 weeks after the RTX 3060 launch.
Sources also indicate that AMD is expected to announce the RX 6700 GPUs’ laptop version, but whether they will be launched together with the desktop versions is not yet known. Reports suggest that the company will also launch the mobile equivalent for the desktop RX 6700 XT with specs that include 40 compute units with 2560 stream processors, up to 12 GB of GDDR6 VRAM, and a 192-bit memory bus. A non-XT desktop version with only 6 GB of VRAM and dynamic TGP running between 146 and 156 W is also rumored to be launched.
As we already know, currently, the world is facing a shortage of semi-conductor, and manufacturers across the world are banding together to solve this global crisis. As such, the French publication Scotland states that the RX 6700 XT cards will be “very limited.”
A huge success was achieved of the spacecraft’s journey to the red planet that has extended the record of America about the safe landings there to six. NASA has landed successfully the new robotic rover on Mars Thursday, a great way to study directly the existence of life on the planet.
After the successful landing of the robotic rover on Mars on Thursday, studying directly about there was life on the red planet or not will become a little easy. It has also known that the agency has landed other missions on Mars, the $2.7 billion robotic explorers which are named Perseverance that carries a modified set of scientific tools that possesses advanced abilities to search for life beyond our planet.
A photo provided by NASA, shows members of NASA’s Perseverance rover team reacting in mission control after receiving confirmation the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via The New York Times) — FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. —
This robotic rover, Perseverance is the third one from earth to visit the red planet this month. In the last week, there are two other spacecraft one named Hope from the United Arab Emirates and the other is Tianwen-1 from china was also entered the orbit around Mars. But the spacecraft of NASA had not visited the orbit first, instead, it had zipped across the direct path to the surface.
I’m safe on Mars. Perseverance will get you anywhere.
According to the eastern time at 3:48 p.m. the controllers at the mission operations center at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Pasadena, Calif has been received word from perseverance that it had successfully visited the top of the Martian atmosphere with a speed of more than 12000 miles per hour. After it had to launch successfully, it released two images on Thursday.
The red planet is recently 126 million miles away from Earth. As we know that the radio signals can travel at the speed of light, which can take 1 minute to travel from there to here. It indicates the calculation that while the announcing of the message the beginning of the landing sequence reached Earth, then the rover had already been there at about four minutes. The main fact was whether it was there in one piece or broke into many pieces like the other human-made craters on the Mars surface.
Periodic announcements have been made with the progress through the atmosphere, the deceleration, and also the heating as it was sliced through the thin Martian Air. It also had a deployment of a giant parachute even if it was at a supersonic speed, that shedding the rover’s heat shield so that it can navigate its cameras towards the destination and also slow the descent of the firing of the rocket engines. Finally, the rover was lowered at the end of a cable under a jetpack powered by the rocket until it has touched the surface.
At night 3:55 the entire control room was shouted with cheers with the announcement of Touchdown confirmed said by Swati Mohan who is the engineer that provides the commentary on the descent.
The Role of the Robotic Rover
For the last 20 years, NASA has eventually faced many tough questions about Mars. Their first target was to follow the water which is the main reason of existing of life. From the giant canyons, winding river channels, and the symbol of dried-up lakes one thing was confirmed that water was flowed on Mars in the past, even if the planet is now dry and cold today.
Jezero Crater
After landing successfully on Mars on Thursday in Jezero Crater, it was found an ancient Martian lake which has the size of Lake Tahoe. It has also sent some pic of the river delta on its way to the crater rim. The main destination of Perseverance is Jezero Crater. The rover later discovers the delta of a river that was flowed once into a lake that filled the crater. There has a promising place named piles of sediments where still might fossils chemical signature preserves the ancient Martian microbes.
Information about Perseverance
The mission of NASA based on a 2200 pound rover, and ingenuity with also an experimental Mars Helicopter. The design of the rover is more similar to the curiosity rover, which is now observing the Gale Crater but it also had carried a differ4ent instruments set included with the sophisticated cameras, lasers that can find out the chemical makeups of the rocks, and also the round penetrating radar. All the tools were tested on earth to demonstrate the possibilities of searching for signs of past life.
Significance of Marscopter
The engineers of NASA used a materials series and advanced computer technology to overcome the challenges. After two months of the landing, Perseverance will release a helicopter from its belly and with ingenuity, it will attempt a series of about five test flights of increased duration. If the test becomes successful they have decided to send larger Marscopters. Robotic fliers can expand greatly a space agency’s capability to study the Martian landscape with huge details.
Landing on Mars
The Perseverance had needed to decelerate 12000 miles per hour to stop completely during NASA calls seven minutes of terror for the period of rover’s visiting at the atmosphere until its landing. The Perseverance path was intersected with the Mars surface. The thin atmospheric level has added several difficulties. It is informed that the spacecraft was needed a heat shield due to the compression of air molecules heating because it hits the bottom side to thousands of degrees.
Engineers across the globe are changing the world every day with new ideas and innovations; when you think about Indian engineers, one name will definitely come into your mind – Sonam Wangchuk.
The “3 Idiots” movie was based upon him, and we have known his various inventions and good work over the years. He is an engineer known for designing a SECMOL campus that runs entirely on solar power and no fossil fuels; Mr. Sonam Wangchuk is an engineer, innovator, and reformist.
This time, he has come up with a new idea for soldiers who have to stay at extremely cold places without a proper roof. With his new Solar Heated Military Tent invention, soldiers can enjoy staying in a tent that is heated up during the night using solar energy.
The education reformer has claimed that even though the temperature outside the tent is -14C at night, the tent gives warmth and maintains a +15C temperature. He shows the test was done at Galwan Valley and claims that the tent can accommodate 10 soldiers at a time.
Interestingly, Sonam has claimed that the huge tent is portable and weighs less than 30Kg, and if that’s so, it could be rightfully used by soldiers in the future. Obviously, this will help comfort soldiers who stay in harsh weather conditions and reduce the usage of kerosene or fossil fuel used until now.
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