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A tribute to Madden was shown on Las Vegas Raiders home Allegiant Stadium.

Photo: Ethan Miller / Staff (Getty Images)

Legendary coach and broadcaster John Madden died Tuesday morning, the NFL announced. For fans, no one is more synonymous with football than Madden, and perhaps no one person has done more to bring new people into the game.

“On behalf of the entire NFL family, we extend our condolences to Virginia, Mike, Joe and their families,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in an official statement. “We all know him as the Hall of Fame coach of the Oakland Raiders and broadcaster who worked for every major network, but more than anything, he was a devoted husband, father and grandfather.

“Nobody loved football more than Coach. He was football. He was an incredible sounding board to me and so many others. There will never be another John Madden, and we will forever be indebted to him for all he did to make football and the NFL what it is today.”

A late draft pick, Madden’s NFL stint was set to start in 1958 with the Philadelphia Eagles, but a career-ending knee injury sidelined him before his professional gridiron days started. Madden moved into coaching, beginning at a community college. He ended up in Oakland, bringing home a Lombardi Trophy and becoming the winningest coach in Raiders history. Madden had secured his spot as one of the greatest coaches of his era before stepping down to become a broadcaster. On TV, Madden excelled as well, becoming one of the most memorable and enjoyable color commenters. He won 16 Emmy Awards before retiring in 2008.

As a kid, of course I remember him from Monday Night Football, but Madden was this larger than life figure. He’d pop up in hardware store ads and beer commercials. You’d spot him in random music videos or on The Simpsons. He was this jovial character of Americana who was afraid of flying but loved football dearly. For me and many others, his greatest cultural achievement was Madden NFL.

I didn’t play 1988’s John Madden Football, but remember seeing the box art in shops, featuring Madden bursting through a chalkboard, football in hand, with a big grin on his face. I did buy John Madden Football two years later on the Genesis. Compared to every other football game—heck, compared to every other sports game I had played at the time, it was a revelation. The Madden games not only featured his voice and likeness, but they oozed his personality. Yet, the appeal was more than that: It’s important that the debut game’s box art showed Madden breaking through a chalkboard covered with plays. As amusing as I found the ambulance driving on the field, these games were about learning to execute strategy and tactics. They struck at the very core of football.

A Super Bowl win can help build a franchise or establish a dynasty. Lively color commentary provides insight in the game and becomes soundbites for highlight reels. It’s hard to measure the impact of Madden NFL. The games became a way for people not only to play a virtual version of football, but develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of the game. I’m from the generation grew up on Madden—but now, it seems like every generation does. Even if you never saw him coach or broadcast, if you’ve ever played a football video game, you’ve been impacted by John Madden. And for that, we thank him.

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John Madden, Legendary Football And Video Game Icon, Dies At 85 | Tricky Mart A tribute to Madden was shown on Las Vegas Raiders home Allegiant Stadium. Photo: Ethan Miller / Staff (Getty Images)

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vivo sub-brand iQOO yesterday announced it will introduce the iQOO 9 series on January 5 while also revealing the smartphone’s design and a few specs. Today, the company took to Weibo to tell us more about the battery tech.

iQOO says the iQOO 9 series will pack a 4,700 mAh battery and feature 120W wired and 50W wireless charging. However, only the Pro version will support wireless charging, which isn’t a surprise since the iQOO 8 Pro also came with 50W wireless charging but the regular iQOO 8 didn’t.

iQOO also doesn’t explicitly mention which variant will ship with a 4,700 mAh battery, but it’s safe to say it will be the iQOO 9 Pro which will be fueled by this cell, while the vanilla iQOO 9 will have a smaller battery.

The poster shared by iQOO also confirms the presence of a USB-C port at the bottom, with the SIM card slot and microphone on the left side. The opposite side is less likely to have a 3.5mm headphone jack since the previous two generations also didn’t feature a headphone jack.

In a separate post, iQOO said that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC on the iQOO 9 series will be paired with an “enhanced version” of LPDDR5 and an “overclocking version” of UFS 3.1 storage. But it didn’t provide us any numbers for either.

Moreover, the company said that the iQOO 9 lineup will have a VC three-dimensional heat dissipation heat system onboard with an area of 3926 mm2.

iQOO 9 series features

Previously, iQOO confirmed that the iQOO 9 series will feature a 2K E5 AMOLED screen and sport a triple camera system headlined by a 50MP sensor with OIS.

You can expect iQOO to reveal a few more features of the iQOO 9 series in the days leading to its January 5 launch event.

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Bitcoin’s market dominance has continued to fall, bottoming out below 40% this week. That’s very close to the all-time low of 36.7% in Jan 2018 according to data from Tradingview.

Bitcoin (BTC) market dominance refers to the ratio between BTC’s market cap and the total crypto market cap.

It’s not the first time dominance has dipped in 2021. Back in May, Cointelegraph reported that BTC had dipped to represent just 40.3% of the combined crypto asset capitalization, according to Coinmarketcap, and it neared the same level again in September.

Bitcoin critic and Europac chairman Peter Schiff tweeted about the event on Dec 29th, saying that it’s indicative that BTC is “losing its first-mover competitive advantage.”

With over 16,000 alternative cryptos to choose from Bitcoin’s market dominance is now below 40% for the first time since June of 2018. With an unlimited supply of easily created cryptos with virtually identical properties, is losing its first-mover competitive advantage.

— Peter Schiff () December 28, 2021

Research published by TradingPlatforms on Dec 27 stated that the data may signal an incoming “alt season”. Over the last seven years, altcoin market dominance has increased threefold from 21% in 2014 to around the 60% mark this month.

Ethererum’s (ETH’s) market dominance continues to sit above 20% at almost​​ $500 billion. Over the past year, ETH’s market dominance has doubled from 10%.

In a Dec 24 tweet, Crypto analyst “Altcoin Sherpa” claimed that the “alt season” has already been underway for an entire year. They referenced a chart tracking BTC’s market dominance, suggesting that the downward trend may continue.

: Mini thread here on ‘wen ‘. Alt season has been going on for an entire year, you just haven’t noticed it. Here’s the dominance chart- you can see alts have flourished since January 2021. $BTC $ETH pic.twitter.com/c2w1PjHrqV

— Altcoin Sherpa () December 23, 2021

It remains to be seen if institutional investment will help put a floor under the dominance metric. In a Dec 28 interview with CNBC, Genesis Trading’s head of market insights Noelle Acheson said that she could see “strong signs” of institutional crypto investment growth accelerating during 2022.

She said that the amount of institutional investment growth in the crypto space over the last 12 months “has been astonishing.”

Related: Bitcoin dominance on the rise once again as crypto market rallies

Back in October, analysts from international banking giant JPMorgan stated that the BTC rally at the time was being fueled by an increased appetite from institutional investors. They claimed that “institutional investors appear to be returning to Bitcoin, perhaps seeing it as a better inflation hedge than gold.”

According to on-chain data from Glassnode, although BTC’s short-term supply has decreased by 32%, long-term holders added 16% to their treasuries during 2021.

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Samsung is expected to announce the long-delayed Galaxy S21 FE next month, though conflicting reports have us guessing the launch will take place either during (January 3 or 4) or shortly following CES 2022 (January 11). A customer has already been able to purchase the unreleased phone at a retailer in South Africa.

Reddit user u/UnknownWon posted several nuggets of useful information that most of us get to benefit from. The user posted an unboxing video that shows the initial setup of the S21 FE, and we can spot the slim box that omits the charger.

More recently, u/UnknownWon posted a mini review of the phone, confirming that the phone has a 4,500 mAh battery that supports Fast Charging and Fast Wireless Charging as per the settings menus. He also suggests that the phone suffers from a green tint but bases this off the comparison of the display on his Poco X3. He mentions there’s no way to manually adjust the white balance of the display.

u/UnknownWon also expressed that the phone’s hardware feels “lighter”, “comfortable” and “premium” compared to his Poco X3 – which feels “sticky” and “cheap” by comparison. The triple cameras also appear to use the same sensors as those from the S20 FE.

Another thing that the customer posted about in the Reddit thread was that the in-display fingerprint scanner was optical versus the S21 series’ ultrasonic sensors. Also, the phone comes with 6GB of RAM, and the dualSIM variant in his region came with a Snapdragon 888 chipset and not the Exynos 2100 from the other S21 models in that region. We wonder if Samsung would release a 4G-only version powered by Exynos as it did with the S20 FE.

Finally, the reviewer posted a few sample photos shot with the S21 FE and they can be seen here. There’s at least one sample for each camera.

As per previous reports and leaks, the Galaxy S21 FE will have a 6.41-inch AMOLED screen, and the selfie camera will be updated to a 32MP module. The phone will be available in Olive, Black, White, and Purple options with an expected starting price of $699.

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Samsung Galaxy S21 FE unboxed and reviewed by retailer buyer in South Africa | Tricky Mart Samsung is expected to announce the long-delayed Galaxy S21 FE next month, though conflicting reports have us guessing the launch will take place either