RUMOURS: Man City back in for Laporte as alternative to Van Dijk

Southampton have insisted the Netherlands defender will not leave any time soon, prompting Pep Guardiola to turn his attention to Athletic Club"s 22-year-old stalwart
Manchester City are set to renew their interest in Aymeric Laporte after being told by Southampton that Virgil van Dijk is not..

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Lenovo unveils an Echo alternative

The last holiday season was so successful for voice-activated devices that Lenovo decided to jump the bandwagon and join the headliners Amazon and Google. The company introduced its own Smart Assistant with Amazon Alexa. The device looks a lot like Amazon Echo, but comes in prettier colors. Lenovo built the device in collaboration with Amazon which makes the similarity not that surprising.
The Alexa-voiced Smart Assistant is cylindrical device with a silver upper part and vivid colored lower portion. The upper part with the controls is designed to look like it is levitating. Lenovo implemented 8 360-degree microphones with echo cancellation and noise suppression. There’s also a version with Harman Kardon audio.
Lenovo Smart Assistant • Harman Kardon edition in Black
The device picks up commands from up to 16 feet or almost 5 meters which isn’t very useful if you try to tell it something from the other room.
Google also has a personal assistant but the lack of a sexy female name for..

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Lenovo unveals an Echo alternative

The last holiday season was so successful for voice-activated devices that Lenovo decided to jump the bandwagon and join the headliners Amazon and Google. The company introduced its own Smart Assistant with Amazon Alexa. The device looks a lot like Amazon Echo, but comes in prettier colors. Lenovo built the device in collaboration with Amazon which makes the similarity not that surprising.
The Alexa-voiced Smart Assistant is cylindrical device with a silver upper part and vivid colored lower portion. The upper part with the controls is designed to look like it is levitating. Lenovo implemented 8 360-degree microphones with echo cancellation and noise suppression. There’s also a version with Harman Kardon audio.
Lenovo Smart Assistant • Harman Kardon edition in Black
The device picks up commands from up to 16 feet or almost 5 meters which isn’t very useful if you try to tell it something from the other room.
Google also has a personal assistant but the lack of a sexy female name for..

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Brendan Cox: Jo Cox"s widower to record alternative Christmas message

Image copyright Channel 4 Image caption Brendan Cox"s message will be broadcast on Christmas Day on Channel 4 The widower of murdered MP Jo Cox will deliver this year"s alternative Christmas message on Channel 4.
Brendan Cox will call for an end to the “rise of hatred” in the broadcast on 25 December.
He will also pay tribute to his wife and discuss the “awful year for our family” in the pre-recorded message.
Cox will also tell viewers that now is the “moment to reach out to somebody that might disagree with us”.
Mrs Cox was shot and stabbed to death by Thomas Mair in her Batley and Spen constituency in June.
Media captionBBC News looks back at events that led up to Jo Cox"s murder. She was an outspoken critic of strategic policy in Syria and a humanitarian who campaigned for women"s rights.
Mr Cox"s message was recorded on the converted Dutch barge where he lived with his wife.
In the tribute, he will be heard saying: “Jo loved Christmas – the games, the tra..

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Latin America is set to become a leader in alternative energy

BESIDE the Pan-American Highway, almost 600 km (375 miles) north of Santiago, Chile’s capital, lies El Romero, the largest solar-energy plant in Latin America and among the dozen biggest in the world. Its 775,000 grey solar panels spread out across the undulating plateau of the Atacama desert as if they were sheets of water. Built at a cost of $343m by Accio..

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