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It’s The Game Awards week, which also means it’s a reason for Steam to hold a sale of sorts. It’s by no means extensive, nor are the price cuts significant, barring some older titles, but it provides options if you either didn’t get everything you wanted in one of the previous Black Friday sales, or…

Newly appointed transport minister Anthony Loke revealed today that his ministry will be focusing on three key agendas: road safety, providing improvements to public transport, and overseeing the digitalisation of services. He also noted that he would be meeting with public transport operator Prasarana Malaysia Berhad soon. Prior to this, the minister had made an…

After AMD’s 3D V-Cache technology was announced, the chipmaker promised that more Ryzen CPUs incorporating the technology, such as its Ryzen 7000X3D series, will definitely be coming to the market, and without the restrictions on hardware overclocking. Now, a new report has more or less confirmed that the next generation of chiplet-based Ryzen CPUs will…

The much rumoured standard variant of the DJI Mini 3 aerial drone is looking to launch in Malaysia very soon, based on our findings. After a quick search on SIRIM’s e-ComM database, we’ve discovered that the device (registered under official DJI distributor Azure Telecommunications Sdn Bhd) has been recently approved by the organisation on 2…

Digital storage brand Verbatim has over the weekend announced a number of USB drives featuring prints of characters from the Demon Slayer animated series. The company says that these are officially licensed, and are only available for a limited time. This new Verbatim Demon Slayer USB drives consists of 12 drives, which can be broadly…

After the official launch of the Ryzen 7000 Series, AMD said that it would launch the non-X variants of Zen 4 CPUs much later down the line, but fell short of providing a specific launch date for them. Recently, however, new information now suggests that these lower-powered SKUs will be launching as early as 10…

In general, 2022 is quite a vibrant year for the electric vehicle industry in Malaysia with plenty of new EVs from various brands having made their way into our market. However, some major names were still missing in action such as Toyota but that may change soon though. In a speech at the Toyota Malaysia…

Prime minister Anwar Ibrahim said today that his administration will conduct a review on the state-owned 5G network that was introduced by the previous government. Speaking during the post-cabinet press conference in Putrajaya earlier, he stated that there were issues identified with the RM 11 billion contract awarded to Swedish telecommunications firm Ericsson by Digital…

Oh, smugglers. We get it: their actions and activities in illegally bringing contraband and illicit good across the borders of countries, all so that they can avoid paying excise tax, are globally condemned, it is undeniably a lucrative market when these individuals manage to successfully evade the law. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case for one…

Though now delayed to an undisclosed date, Chinese tech giant Xiaomi had initially planned to debut its next generation Xiaomi 13 flagship series in China last week. It now appears that the upcoming smartphone lineup could potentially launch in Malaysia as well in the not-too-distant future. According to a recent report by Amanz, a listing…

Just last week, Bloomberg reported that Apple has renamed, at least internally, the operating system for its mixed reality headset. Initially called RealityOS, or rOS, the report noted the name being changed to xrOS, with the name change also being taken as a sign of an imminent launch. The report noted a broad release window…

Back in March, AirAsia launched a subscription service called Super+ that provides unlimited flights in Malaysia and across the ASEAN region as one of its main attractions. Fast forward to today, the service has been revamped to include long-haul flights from AirAsia X. Instead of just a single option, the AirAsia Super+ subscription service has…

As powerful as NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4080 is, the card isn’t selling as well as the RTX 4090, and the reason for that is simply because folks think it is, well, just too expensive. In fact, the reality that most gamers would rather fork out the extra RM1000 for the RTX 4090 has affected another…

Xiaomi may be looking to debut in the desktop PC market, according to two different leaks on Weibo. Based on the images and information provided, it is suggested that the Chinese tech giant could introduce a Mac Mini-like device and a miniature tower PC soon. The first of which pretty much resembles Apple’s product in…

Cyberpunk 2077 released two years ago in a horrible state, but the game has seen gradual improvements and is seen as much better today than every before. Then came the Edgerunners Netflix back in September, and the game is virtually revitalised. With one major expansion on the way, publisher CD Projekt has said that the…