Instagram will allow creators to sell their merchandise directly through the platform beginning next month. The Facebook-owned social networking app extended access to Instagram Shopping to more types of businesses with new commerce eligibility requirements.
"Whether you are a candle business making a foray into e-commerce, a musician selling merch or a food blogger expanding into your own cookware line, any eligible business or creator account with at least one eligible product can use shopping tags to drive people to their website to make a purchase,” Instagram wrote in a blog post.
Businesses who are eligible can start selling their products directly on Instagram starting July 9 in all countries where Instagram Shopping is supported, including India. Eligible merchants can tag products they want to sell through organic posts or stories or have them surface on the Search and Explore tab. The tags will highlight the product that’s on sale from the photo, and clicking on it will redirect to the merchant’s website where users can purchase the product.
The products must be tagged from a single website which is owned by the business, so ensure a consistent and trusted shopping experience.
Shopping tags was first rolled out by Instagram in 2016, followed by shopping tags in Instagram Stories in 2018. Instagram also opened up shopping features for celebrities and influencers in 2019. But so far, Instagram had largely left out creators from the shopping experience. The updated eligibility requirements also brings them into the fold.
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Registration for the PUBG Mobile Club Open 2020 Fall Split will be open from June 24. Registrations will be open till July 12. This is the second leg of this year’s edition of the PUBG Mobile Club Open. The announcement was made via the PUBG Mobile’s official Esports handle on Twitter.
That is right! The @PUBGMOBILE Club Open will open their #PMCO2020 Fall Split registration on June 24th & last all the way until July 12. One of the most competitive mobile Tournaments you don't want to miss out. Ready your squads & we will see you on the battlegrounds. #BeTheOne pic.twitter.com/27DMUVR2jP
— PUBG MOBILE Esports (@EsportsPUBGM) June 22, 2020
Registration for the Spring Split for PUBG Mobile Club Open kicked off in January. The registered team were divided into regions and the winning team in each region continues to the World League, or in case of the Americas, to the PMPL Americas. Winners of the Fall Split will join the winners of the Spring Split to find the overall winner of PUBG Moile Club Open.
PUBG Mobile Club Open 2020’s Spring Split India Region finals were held in February. 16 teams competed in the final the top 9 of those teams would head over to the World League. The Final was won by Godlike.
To recall, Top Esports from China won the previous edition of PUBG Mobile Club Open. The winners won $180,000 (approx Rs 1,23,89,00) along with a trophy. The only Indian team in the finals, Team Soul placed 12th. However, team member Mortal won the PMCO Website Fan Favourite Player award.
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Next@Acer 2020, Acer’s global press event was held in a virtual format and saw announcements and refreshes across all their gaming, business, enterprise and creator portfolios. Key announcements included a new sub-brand, Acer Enduro, new ConceptD desktops, monitors and notebooks as well as slim laptops in the form of the Acer Swift 5 which will feature the yet to be launched Intel Tiger Lake processors and Intel Xe integrated graphics. Here are the announcements in detail.
Acer Enduro - New rugged series of laptops and tablets
One of the key launches of this year was the new rugged series under the Enduro brand. Laptops under the Enduro brand are built to be used by first-responders and industrial manufacturing workers who operate in extreme and stressful conditions. These laptops will feature MIL-810G and IP65 certifications which means they will be certified by an external agency for their ruggedness and ability to resist water damage. At the top of the launch stack is the Acer Enduro N7 followed by the Enduro N3. Acer will also manufacture tablets under the Enduro brand and has announced the Enduro T1 and T5 which are designed to be operated while wearing gloves and will feature swappable batteries.
Acer Predator portfolio expanded
Acer’s premium gaming lineup, Predator, will see new desktops, monitors and accessories. The attention grabbing announcement was of the Predator X25 gaming monitor which sports a 360 Hz refresh rate display. Also announced was the Predator XB3 gaming monitor which has NVIDIA G-Sync compatibility, DisplayHDR 400 and features a low 0.5 ms (Grey-to-Grey) response time. On the desktop side of things, Acer announced upgrades to the Orion 9000 which will now have Intel Core i9 Extreme processors and dual NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards in the flagship model. A mid-tower companion to the Orion 9000 is the Orion 3000 which will be powered by 10th Gen Intel Core i7 processor and GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER graphics cards. Other launches include the Nitro 50 gaming desktop, Predator Cestus 350 gaming mouse and a Predator gaming chair in collaboration with OSIM.
The Acer Predator Helios, Nitro and Triton series of laptops also received a notable refresh. The latest entrant happens to be the Acer Predator Helios 700 notebook lineup which will be powered with an Intel Core i9-10980HK or i7-10875H processor along with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER or 2070 SUPER graphics cards. Other features include mechanical switches for some keys on the keyboard, Killer DoubleShot Pro Ethernet and RAID 0 storage configurations. The Helios 300 notebooks which are some of the more popular gaming laptops also received notable upgrades.
Acer’s slim gaming laptop range, Triton 300, will now sport 240 Hz displays, 10th Gen Intel Core processors, up to NVIDIA RTX 2070 MAX-Q graphics card and more storage slots. All of this without compromising on the slimness with the slimmest of the lot being 19.9mm thick.
Acer ConceptD portfolio for creators expanded
ConceptD is a relatively new brand from Acer aimed at media professionals a.k.a. Creators. This would be the first refresh for the ConceptD lineup and saw the addition of new notebooks, desktops and monitors. Acer has wholly adopted the easel-like hinge and we saw the same in the form of the ConceptD 3 Ezel and notebooks. The ConceptD 3 Ezel is a convertible notebook which features an all-metal chassis and a large glass trackpad. The Ezel hinge reportedly allows users to orient the ConceptD 3 Ezel in six different form factors. Aside from the Ezel lineup, the ConceptD 3 series of notebooks also received new upgrades in the form of better GPUs and CPUs.
Next up was the ConceptD 100 desktop which will be powered by 9th Gen Intel Core processors and NVIDIA GeForce or Quadro GPUs. These desktops come in compact form factors with a minimal aesthetic similar to what we’ve seen with the ConceptD lineup so far.
In terms of peripherals, Acer announced the ConceptD CP5, CP3 and CM3 monitors. The top of the line CP5271UV is a WQHD monitor with DisplayHDR 600, Adaptive-Sync and has a Delta E which is less than 1 making it very colour accurate. The CP3 series has 98% DCI-P3 monitors with up to WQHD 3840x2160 resolution as well as DisplayHDR 400. All display products including the panels used in the notebooks are PANTONE-validated.
Acer Chromebook Spin 713 and 311
New in the Acer line of Chromebooks is the Spin 713 which is a convertible chromebook based on Project Athena. Project Athena is a set of specifications from Intel aimed at increasing the battery life of slim notebooks. The Chromebook 713 will be powered by the latest 10th Gen Intel Core processor and will feature a 13.5-inch VertiView display that has an aspect ratio of 3:2. The touchscreen and touchpad will be protected by Corning Gorilla Glass that’s coated with an antimicrobial agent. Moreover, the Spin 713 will also adhere to MIL-STD 810G which means it would be capable of resisting dents and corrosion.
Also announced was the Acer Chromebook Spin 311 which is a 11.6-inch convertible Chromebook powered by a Mediatek MT8183. The Spin 311 will also have an Antimicrobial Corning Gorilla Glass HD touch IPS display.
Acer Swift 5 refreshed
Acer’s ultrathin Swift 5 also received some noticeable upgrades. The upcoming Acer Swift 5 will be powered by Intel’s Tiger Lake processor and include Intel Xe integrated graphics or NVIDIA GeForce MX350 discrete graphics. As with the Chromebooks, even the Swift 5 lineup with touchscreens will have Antimicrobial Corning Gorilla Glass for added protection.
“The new Swift 5 pushes the envelope on what thin-and-light notebooks can be,” said James Lin, General Manager, Notebooks, IT Products Business, Acer Inc. “A productivity powerhouse housed in a sleek and ultraportable chassis, the Swift 5 is an excellent option for professionals who are always on the move and seeking a device capable of keeping up with them.”
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Garena’s inaugural Free Fire Asia All-Stars (FFAA) 2020 tournament has concluded. Indian teams performed admirably and managed to get podium positions in both legs of the tournament. However, Thailand put in a very strong showing and swept both legs. To recall, the FFAA 2020 tournament was open to top influencers and professionals across India, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam. It was divided into two legs. The first was the Influencer All-Stars that was held on day one, the second was the Pros All-Stars match that was held on day two.
Influencer All-Stars match was held on June 12 and saw Thailand’s Savage managed to outplay the other 11 teams to win the six-match tournament and win $8,000. It had a score of 183 and managed to get two ‘Booyahs’. Second place was WIPWUP with a score of 173, while India’s Desi Boys came third with a score of 153. The Desi Boys team was comprised of Dev Alone, GamingwithNayeem, JONTY GAMING, and Romeo Gamer.
The Pros All-Stars leg was held on June 13 and saw Thailand’s Xavier Esports claim victory with a score of 193. The team showed the benefits of consistency by ranking third in all their six matches except for the fourth match which they won. The team won $12,000 out of the $50,000 prize pool. The second place was taken another Thai team called Wisdom Esports, India’s The Mafia, came third.
Garena notes that the tournament was streamed across YouTube, Facebook and the company’s own BOOYAH! Platform. The streams were accompanied by local shoutcasters in four languages. Garena also claims that the streams accumulated a total of 20 million views.
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NVIDIA’s Ampere RTX 3000 cards are about to launch in a few months and the leaks have started pouring in already. The latest of which happens to be a screenshot of the specifications of the RTX 3080 Ti Founder Edition graphics card. This latest leak, while it is unlikely to be true at this juncture, states that the RTX 3080 Ti will have 5376 CUDA Cores with a Boost clock of 2200 MHz. It also indicates that the high-end RTX 3080 Ti will have 12GB of GDDR6 VRAM running at 18 Gbps giving it a total bandwidth of 863 GB/s and will be designed with a TDP of 320W. The GPU powering the RTX 3080 Ti will supposedly be an NVIDIA Ampere GA102-400-A1. As per some back of the hand calculations, these specs indicate that the RTX 3080 Ti could be anywhere from 33% to 78% more powerful than the RTX 2080 Ti.
Rumoured specifications of the NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition
Twitter user CyberPunkCat (https://twitter.com/CyberCatPunk) posted an image which appears to be a screenshot of the specifications of the NVIDIA Ampere RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition. It states that the GPU powering it will be a GA102-400-A1 which will have 5376 CUDA Cores with a boost frequency of 2200 MHz. The Single Precision (FP32) performance is mentioned to be 21 TFLOPS and on the memory side of things, the RTX 3080 Ti will feature 12 GB of Samsung GDDR6 NAND chips running @ 18 Gbps. The total bandwidth will be 836 GB/s and the TDP for the board will be 320W.
Previous rumours indicate the presence of three GPUs, the GA102-200, GA102-300 and GA102-400. If we are to look at the plausibility of these specifications then a boost clock of 2200MHz is very much possible since the RTX 2080 which is built on a 12nm process did manage 2098 MHz boost clock on the MSI RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z edition. And if we are to consider exotic cooling, then this particular graphics card was even overclocked to 2505 MHz under LN2.
Coming to the core count, with 5376 CUDA Cores @ a boost clock of 2200 MHz, the FP32 performance comes out to be 23.6 TFLOPS. The leak states 21 TFLOPS of FP32 performance which points to a base clock of approximately 1950 MHz. Compared to the 11.8 TFLOPS that the NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti Founder Edition was capable of at base clock, the RTX 3080 Ti ends up being 78% more powerful at 21 TFLOPS. NVIDIA has usually maintained a gen-on-gen performance increment of approximately 30% so such a high performance delta becomes very difficult to believe. Even the Ampere A100, which is an enterprise grade GPU powering the DGX-A100 only provides 19.5 TFLOPS of FP32 performance. So for NVIDIA to release a consumer card that’s more powerful than its enterprise card seems extremely unlikely. Even the performance delta between the Ampere A100 and the Volta V100 is 24.5% so this particular leak with its supernormal performance delta is as good as fake.
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The OnePlus Z, or the OnePlus 8 Lite or the OnePlus Nord, whatever the name be — It’s real. OnePlus just confirmed it. CEO Pete Lau wrote a forum post announcing a “new, more affordable smartphone product line.” But it's real name is still a mystery.
OnePlus executives have been teasing the smartphone for a while under the hype of “new beginnings”. That’s exactly what Lau wrote about announcing the lineup. The smartphone introduced first in Europe and India, and with a US launch kept for the future.
OnePlus also opened a new Instagram account called "onepluszlitething", which is gaining hundreds of followers by the minute. News about the upcoming smartphone will break first on Instagram, according to the OnePlus Twitter handle. The account already has three posts teasing the phone, but nothing concrete. The name of the account throws more light to what the phone will be officially named. But it also reads as a mashup of every name the rumour mill has pinned on the upcoming smartphone phone. Curiously missing is the word 'Nord' from the name, which was a name of a trademark which the company had filed.
Lau had also released a new OnePlus logo with the hashtag #NewBeginnings on Monday while OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei tweeted “It’s time to rock the boat again”, under the same hashtag.
Which pretty much confirms a cheaper OnePlus smartphone will soon be here. The company has a penchant of keeping fans under a drip-feed of information right before launching a new product. And by the looks of it, things are at full swing with something new about the smartphone expected almost every day.
Lau wrote the product line is led by Paul Yu, who has headed product development for many of OnePlus’ flagship devices over the past five years.
Not just one smartphone, OnePlus Lite Z could be a whole new lineup
Reading into the lines, it's clear that the upcoming lineup will sit below the premium flagships. OnePlus smartphones have increasingly become more expensive with the OnePlus 8 Pro now going way over Rs 50,000.
"Never Settle has always been at the core of OnePlus. For more than 6 years, that has meant working hard to always deliver the best experience for flagship smartphone users. However, as we’ve grown together with our community, we know that there are many people who want a really solid smartphone that meets their everyday needs, and for a more accessible price," Lau wrote.
The words can also interpreted to mean there will be more than one smartphone, as Lau calls it a “product line”. It could be a Pro version of this smartphone, or could simply be recurring launches in subsequent years.
Nevertheless, going by the rumours and leaks, the upcoming OnePlus smartphone will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G, which sits right below the flagship Snapdragon 865, and comes with an integrated 5G modem and a host of Snapdragon Elite Gaming features. The phone is also expected to come with a 90Hz AMOLED display with 6GB RAM and 128GB storage. On the back, it’s rumoured to rock a quad camera stack with a 64MP primary sensor. It’s also expected to sport a 4,300mAh battery with 30W fast charging support. Carl Pei even suggested the phone could be priced as much as the original OnePlus One, which launched at around Rs 22,000.
The phone recently popped up on TUV Rheinland website with the model number AC2003. But the official name of the smartphone is not confirmed as of now.
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Asus ROG Phone III is officially set to launch in July, the company has confirmed. After being listed on Geekbench and AnTuTu, spotted on TENAA and being featured in a leaked hands-on video, the third iteration in the popular gaming phones series, the ROG Phone III is set to be launched sometime next month in China. We can expect the ROG Phone III to make it to India shortly afterwards, though there’s no official word yet.
Asus has also collaborated with Tencent Games and is expected to launch a Tencent version of the ROG Phone III. Tencent Games took to Weibo to announce that it has partnered with Republic of Gamers for optimizing the performance of games on the upcoming ROG Phone III to enhance the gaming experience for players.
While the Tencent version of the ROG Phone II didn’t come to India, this announcement does indicate that the ROG Phone III launch is just around the corner. Let’s take a brief look at the leaked specifications of the ROG Phone III.
ASUS ROG Phone III Leaked Specifications
Going by the leak and previous reports, the ROG Phone III is expected to feature a 6.59-inch Full HD+ (2340 x 1080 pixels) resolution display that uses an AMOLED panel. The screen has a 144Hz high refresh-rate and is HDR10+ certified.
It is rumoured to be powered by an overclocked Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 chipset with an octa-core CPU running at 3.09GHz and Adreno 650 graphics. The phone will reportedly be offered with 12GB/16GB RAM and 256GB/512GB/1TB storage variants.
The triple rear camera setup could have a 64MP primary camera while on the front, we could see a 13MP selfie camera.
As for the battery, the ROG Phone III is expected to come with a 6,000mAh battery with support for 30W fast charging. We’ll know more about the ROG Phone III as we near the official launch.
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