Author - Kaveesha Baddage
After three days of intense competition, the second edition of the Asia Pacific Predator League concluded after the grand final rounds of Player Unknowns Battleground (PUBG) and DOTA2 battles came to an end at the Nimibutr Stadium in Bangkok Thailand last week. The top 26 out of 3,530 esports teams across the Asia Pacific region gathered in Bangkok for the finals, with over 10,000 fans who came to witness the battles, over 4.3 million views online and a peak concurrent viewership of over 60,000.
South Korea’s AfreecaFreecs Fatal claimed the PUBG title and TNC Predator from the Philippines claimed the DOTA2 Predator Shield after three days of intense competition.
DOTA2 was played off against ten teams in three rounds. Sri Lanka’s team PnX|Indomitus played against Mongolia’s YG esports and Malaysia’s heavyweights LOTAC but failed to make an impression against these highly competitive teams. “We went in without one of our star players and with the least amount of training compared to the other teams,” said Walid aka Spades. “But overall, playing against a world class team like LOTAC was such an exciting moment,” he added. Team PnX|Indomitus comprised of Viren “Hawkie” Dias, Munthasir “ToadBosS” Shiraz, Walid “SpadeS” Mohammed, Dinuka “6ixx” Perera and Mohammed “InsearchOfJuliet” Safraz.
Held for the second consecutive year, the Acer Predator League encourages teams and participants from the Asia Pacific region to battle against each other for the coveted Predator Shield.
“Especially in the Pan Asia Pacific Region, Acer hopes to provide a stage for young talents, not only through hardware but also through an esports ecosystem and industry,” said Andrew Hou, President of Pan Asia Pacific Regional Operations, Acer Inc. “We hope that the athletes from Predator League 2019 can continue with their great work as a member of the esports community, and we look forward to seeing them again in 2020 in the Philippines.”
Acer announced that the Asia Pacific Predator League 2020 will be held in the Philippines at the closing ceremony of this year’s tournament in Thailand.
The winners of the Asia Pacific Predator League 2019 are:
PUBG Champion: AfreecaFreecs Fatal from The Republic of Korea, USD$ 75,000 prize money and Predator Helios Notebooks for each of the team members, First Runner-up: Purple Mood from Thailand, USD$ 30,000 prize money and Second Runner-up: Team Immunity from Australia, USD$ 15,000 prize money
DOTA2 Champion was TNC Predator from the Philippines walking away with USD$ 75,000 prize money and Predator Helios Notebooks for each of the team members, First Runner-up: BOOM ID from Indonesia with USD$ 30,000 prize money and Second Runner-up: GeekFam from Malaysia with USD$ 15,000 prize money.
Predator League is held by Acer yearly to reinforce the commitment of Predator brand in supporting the gaming industry in the world and in Asia Pacific region in particular. Predator is the brand with the most complete gaming devices line ranging from laptop, desktop, monitor, tablet and projector and Predator series offers the latest technology in gaming, made especially to enhance the gaming experience of any hardcore gamer.
In 2018, Asia Pacific witnessed the crowning of a new e-sport champion as eight countries competed in DOTA2 to be the best of them all. From the highs to the lows, APAC Predator League 2018 delivered all the excitement of high-level gaming with Malaysia’s Geek Fam beating Indonesia’s BOOM.ID in the final to become champions of Predator League.
For more information on then Asia Pacific Predator League, visit www.predator-league.com.
HUAWEI සමාගම විසින් නිෂ්පාදනය කරන ජංගම දුරකථන මාදිලි අතරින් Nova කාණ්ඩයේ ජංගම දුරකථන පරිශීලකයන් අතර වඩාත් ජනප්‍රිය වීමක් දක්නට ලැබේ. මෙම කාණ්ඩයේ තවත් ජංගම දුරකථනයක් නව විශේෂාංග රැසක් සමග Nova 4 ලෙස නුදුරේදීම එළි දැක්වීමට නියමිතය.
HUAWEI සමාගම විසින් නිපදවූ ලොව ප්‍රථම කැමරා ත්‍රිත්වයකින් යුත් HUAWEI P20 Pro ජංගම දුරකථනය පහුගිය සිකුරාදා (27) ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේදී එළිදැක්විණි. මෙම ජංගම දුරකථනය එම සමාගම මගින් එළිදැක්වනු ලැබූ නවතම විශේෂාංග රැසකින් සමන්විත ස්මාර්ට් ජංගම දුරකථනයක් වන අතර මෙය ඔවුන්ගේ නිෂ්පාදන අතර ප්‍රධාන තැනක් (flagship product) ගනී.
Do you know why Silicon Valley of the United States is one of the most important areas in the world? And did you ever think is there any Sri Lankan who plays a major role in Silicon Valley? Silicon Valley is a nickname for the southern portion of the San Francisco Bay area and it is the high-tech dominated area of the world.
Chamath Palihapitiya is listed as a one of the coolest people who matter most in Silicon Valley. He is a highly-successful entrepreneur who was born in Sri Lanka. Within the high-tech community, he is known as a sharp investor and executive. At his age of six, he moved to Canada with his family. In 1999, he graduated from the University of Waterloo with a First-Class Honors degree in Electrical Engineering and moved to California in 2000. Then he joined AOL and became the youngest VP in AOL’s history at the age of 26.
He has worked in several companies and he was a member of Facebook’s senior management team as well. He served in various roles during his four-year stint at Facebook and he was was a major force in the launch and the incredible growth of Facebook, but he quit his job at Facebook in 2011. Within the high-tech community, he’s known as a sharp investor and executive who made it big when Facebook went public.
Chamath Palihapitiya as a venture capitalist
After quitting Facebook, he started his own fund called Social+Capital Partnership. In 2015, the firm changed its name to Social Capital. Chamath Palihapitiya is the founder and CEO of investment firm: Social Capital. The firm has stood out strategically, with a focus on technology in financial services and education, health care and on software as a service. Social Capital started investing in health and education when those fields were being largely neglected by other venture capitalists.
He launched a new “blank-check” company in partnership with the London-based venture capitalist firm named Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. This company is formed for the purpose of entering into share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. Recently they announced the pricing of its initial public offering. And they listed 60,000,000 units at a price of $10.00 per unit on the New York Stock Exchange. After listed their shares on the stock exchange on last Wednesday(17/09/13) it went up to 3.5% in the first half of next day.
This new “blank-check” company doesn’t have any products or customers. And also it doesn’t own anything yet. But initial shares of the company were up that much because shareholders trust the strategies of Chamath Palihapitiya. The company plans to buy stakes in private tech companies. They will buy from minority stakes to controlling interests to full ownership.
He achieved all these because of his unflagging dedication and he will become one of the billionaires in the world near future.
Recently, Apple introduced a major update to their mobile operating system to bring better user experience. This is the biggest software release ever for iPhone and iPad with so many powerful features. iOS 11 brings a better way to access your iPad with Apple pencil. And It will provide unrivaled augmented reality experience to their users.
අප කලින් ලිපියක් මගින් ransomware ගැන ඔබව දැනුවත් කලා ඔබට මතක ඇති. දින කිහිපයකට පෙර එවැනි වෛරසයක් පැතිරී විශාල අලාභ හානියක් සිදු කර ඇති අතර එය තවමත් පැතිරෙමින් පවතී.
එක්සත් ජනපද ජාතික ආරක්ෂක ඒජන්සිය (National Security Agency ) විසින් ඔවුන්ගේ බුද්ධි අංශ කටයුතු සදහා යොදා ගැනීමට නිර්මාණය කල බලවත් පරිගණක මෘදුකාංගයක් “Shadow Brokers” නමින් හදුන්වා ගන්නා කණ්ඩායමක් පසුගියදා සොරකම් කර ඇත. ඔවුන් එම පරිගණක මෘදුකාංගය භාවිතා කරමින් දැවැන්ත සයිබර් ප්‍රහාරයක් “WannaCry” හා “Wanna Decryptor” යන නාම වලින් ලොව පුරා දියත් කිරීමට සමත් වී තිබේ. මෙය Microsoft මෙහෙයුම් පද්ධති අන්තර්ගත පරිගණක ඉලක්ක කර ගනිමින් පැතිර පවතී. සයිබර් ආරක්ෂක සමාගමක් වන Avast සමාගම පවසන්නේ මෙම වෛරසය සම්බන්ධ පැමිණිලි 75,000 ක් පමණ ඔවුන්ට දැනටමත් දැක ගැනීමට ඇති බවයි.
මයික්‍රෝසොෆ්ට් සමාගම මගින් ඔවුන්ගේ නවතම Surface Laptop පරිගණකය පසුගිය සතියේදී එළිදැක්වීමට කටයුතු කරන ලදී. මෙම පරිගණකය ඔවුන්ගේ නවතම Windows 10 S මෙහෙයුම් පද්ධතිය සමග කටයුතු කිරීමට හැකි වන සේ නිර්මාණය කර ඇත.
මෙම පරිගණකය හදුන්වා දීමේ අවස්ථාවට එම සමාගමේ ප්‍රධානියෙක් වූ Panos Panay මහතා සම්බන්ධ විය. ඔහු එහිදී ප්‍රකාශ කලේ මෙම පරිගණකය නිපදවීමේදී එය උසස් අධ්‍යාපනය අවසන් වූ සිසුන් ඉලක්ක කරගෙන ඔවුන්ගේ අවශ්‍යතාවයන් සපුරාලන පරිදි නිර්මාණය කල බවයි.
Need to teach your home about how it can assist you and automate your home to react to your unique lifestyle? Now that is not hard as you think. Samsung SmartThings is on your side to help you. It can teach your home new tricks and make your life easier. Any home can be a smart home with Samsung SmartThings.
What is Samsung SmartThings?
In 2012, a technology company named SmartThings Inc. was founded in Mountain View, California. They built an open platform for smart homes and the consumer Internet of Things. This Company began to sell its products commercially on its own Website in August 2013. And they started to sell their products on Amazon.com in September 2013. In August 2014, SmartThings Inc announced that they had reached an agreement to be acquired by Samsung Group which is a South Korean multinational company. But SmartThings Inc would operate as an independent company within Samsung’s Open Innovation Center. The acquisition was the foundation to move into the internet of things space by Samsung. Now Samsung SmartThings is becoming one of the biggest and most recognizable names in the IoT space.
One of the biggest problem when building a smart home is that, usually the user has to deal with the disparate collection of devices. Samsung SmartThings concerns about that and designed their SmartThings technology with reducing those difficulties. They provide a single hub and app those can be used to control your home and convert it into a smart home. With this free SmartThings app, the you can receive important notifications about what’s happening at your home and you can control smart devices in your smart home with a simple tap.
Categories of devices in Samsung SmartThings
There are several categories of devices in Samsung SmartThings technology. They are
- Hubs
- Integrations
- Voice Assistants
- Lighting and Switches
- Outlets
Living in your smart home
In Samsung SmartThings technology, Hubs are used to connect with IoT devices through the Internet. The user can monitor, control, and automate IoT devices using integrations. Google Home, Amazon Echo, Amazon Echo Dot and Amazon Tap are the devices which belong to voice assistant category products of Samsung SmartThings.
Using voice assistants, the user can get help from Google voice Assistant service to play music, provide information, news, sports scores, weather reports, and much more. Also, user can stream music from Google Play Music and YouTube. The user can control a wide range of connected outlets, lights, switches, and dimmers with user’s voice commands. This technology helps to use SmartThings Routines to control multiple devices with single voice command. The user just needs to say “Alexa, turn on Good Morning” or “Alexa, turn on Party Time.” Then all the connected devices will operate according to the setting defined under that routine. Amazon Tap is Amazon Alexa enabled portable Bluetooth speaker which is also built with above capabilities.
Samsung SmartThings technology supports devices in several brands. So you don’t need to get lights, switches, and outlets in Samsung brand. If you are using a Samsung SmartThings compatible bulb you can automate it with SmartThings and set them to turn on, off, or change color when doors are opened, when there’s activity in your home, and much more. You can control outlet with your voice commands using SmartThings and the Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa.
The Samsung SmartThings second-generation hub supports wider varieties of devices and third-party integrations, such as for Amazon Alexa. It has dramatically improved SmartThings. When it first launched, SmartThings was an interesting look at the future. But now it’s become an essential part of any smart home. You can control hundreds of connected devices from other brands through the SmartThings Hub and app.
Samsung SmartThings also get some competition with Google and Apple. Both of them have their own smart home solutions. But Google’s and Apple’s solutions are relatively far behind Samsung in terms of quality and number of products that they support.