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Through NVDR and MGVI, Malaysia will produce quality vaccines with safety conditions set by the National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency (NPRA), said the Prime Minister. He also said that while the R&D will require heavy investment, it will bring long-term returns in the form of cost savings in treating diseases, as well as producing high-skill human capital in healthcare research fields. There are currently three projects in development, with the first involving two types of COVID-19 vaccines, one that is inactivated and another that uses mRNA technology, which were announced back in June....

According to a tweet earlier today, the app is apparently being co-developed by the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation (MOSTI) as well as the Ministry of Communications and Multimedia (KKMM). However, Minister Khairy didn’t revealed any confirmed release timeline or any other additional detail regarding the app. — Khairy Jamaluddin 🇲🇾🌺 (@Khairykj) March 25, 2020 In many ways, the upcoming app sounds similar to the TraceTogether app which was developed by the Government Technology Agency of Singapore....

Stay safe, and stay at home. (Source: Astro Awani, Bernama| Header image: The Air Times)

ORIGINAL STORY (14 FEB / 3:31 PM): 15 travellers from Malaysia have found themselves stranded at Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport after Philippine authorities refused them entry into the country. The Star reported that the reason was that the MySejahtera vaccine certificate is not recognised as proof of vaccination by the authorities. Departing from Kuala Lumpur and arriving in Manila on 13 February, the travellers are made up of 13 Malaysian nationals and two with foreign nationality....

In Takeda’s case, his Palit GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GameRock graphics card was purchased for 14500 Brazillian Real (~RM12179). If we’re being honest here, that’s still a little on the high side, and that is despite the fact that the prices of graphics cards have been on a steady decline or if you’re in China, crashing hard. ♬ som original – MauriSousa_ (Source: Videocardz)

But what if (pun totally intended) creators wanted to go crazy and have a little fun? Well, it looks like the solution will be coming to Disney+. According to /Film, Marvel is currently developing an animated series based on popular Marvel comic series, What If. This series will be dropping on the Disney+ streaming platform that is expected to launch in the fourth quarter of 2019. Per /Film: The idea is that they could potentially have some of the main actors from the live-action Marvel Cinematic Universe movies reprise their roles in the animated series, which would imagine alternate possibilities from another dimension....

The company announced on its website that this “points to both consumers changing habits for payments and the development of newer technologies. Today, most cards hold their information in more capable and secure chips anyway. And the new tech allows for newer contactless transaction methods. In response to this, Mastercard says that its cards will no longer be required to have the magnetic stripes starting in 2024. Though from the sound of it, they remain an available option....

Maxis has released an official statement regarding the interruption of its home fibre service: Some of our customers may have experienced some disruption to their home fibre services. We have been working with our access provider to resolve this and we are pleased to inform that services are now recovering. We would like to apologise to those impacted for the inconvenience. Maxis didn’t clarify the exact nature of the issue though....

We have not checked the offering since then but yesterday, we stumbled upon a Facebook advert regarding it and learned that Maxis has made some changes to the PS5 Zerolution scheme. While the telco continues to offer the Digital Edition of the PS5 which has no disc drive, the console now comes in the form of the Horizon Forbidden West bundle. In addition to that, the telco also no longer provides an additional DualSense controller and a 12-month PlayStation Plus subscription....

According to the complaints , some Xbox Series X controllers were supposedly having trouble staying connected to the console; one user wrote on the Microsoft help forum that his controllers suffered from intermittent disconnections in intervals of 10 seconds, for about five times. Effectively destroying the gaming experience. — Milton Allemand (@mjallemand) December 31, 2020 The issues aren’t limited to disconnection either. Some users have also shown their Xbox Series X controller having problems synching to their consoles, while other controllers suffer the reverse where their controllers are connected, but button input wasn’t being registered....

Microsoft has published a post on its Surface IT Pro blog that confirms a number of details. One is that the Surface Duo will indeed start from US$1399. The other is that it will be shipping starting 10 September. The post also mentions an unveiling that happened earlier in the day, but it’s likely one that’s not for the general consumers. We will likely have to wait for that to get a look at the device’s full spec sheet....

In a statement to The Verge, Microsoft says that the company is holding off the price increase “until after the holidays so that families can enjoy the gift of gaming”. But come 2023, the company’s first party titles, like Forza Motorsport, as well as upcoming ones like Redfall and Starfield, “will launch at US$69.99”. Like the other publishers who have pushed their game prices up, the company says that the new price “reflects the content, scale, and technical complexity” of the games....

Previously, both of these permits were required renewal by 30 September as per the directive by the Road Transport Department (JPJ) last month. Not surprisingly, many have rushed to do so but immediately encountered difficulties as the appointment slots for renewal at JPJ and Pos Malaysia branches were extremely limited. With today’s announcement, individuals with expired licence and road tax will continue to be safe from enforcement actions by JPJ or Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM)....

Suresh Ramasamy, in a LinkedIn post, showed screenshots of a file directory under the PIKAS website. Among the files found in there were spreadsheets that are the ones that companies were supposed to submit to MITI via the PIKAS system. The spreadsheets in question had the names, IC numbers, employee ID, age, gender and contact numbers of the companies’ staff. From one of the screenshots posted, the spreadsheets had file names that look like they reference the companies that submitted them....

The alleged confirmation date stems from the Taiwanese PC components and laptop maker’s press release, announcing that it would be providing a free upgrade kit for Intel LGA1700 CPUs, along with their Coreliquid CPU coolers. More specifically, consumers will need to fill up a form in order to receive the upgrades but as of this publication, the button that would usually take them to the necessary portal is greyed out and sporting the words “Coming Soon”....

To start, the roster from the prior leak was mostly accurate, minus Gandalf. In his place is Arya Stark from Game of Thrones. The devs at Player First Games also confirm that the game will be free-to-play. One thing that MultiVersus tries to set itself apart from other platform fighters is the emphasis on the social elements. One of them being 2v2 games, with characters having moves that are made specifically to benefit team play....

To put it simply, MyEG’s De-Fi is a kind of digital wallet that is designed to both promote digital assets adoption, as well as hold cryptocurrencies, traded or purchased through one of the four officially recognised Digital Asset Exchanges (DAXs) in Malaysia. On top of that, the platform can also be used to enact certain transactions – borrowing and lending, specifically – without having to go through the typical intermediaries....

The section features three self-test kits including Salixium, Gmate, and JusChek. While the new section surely made things more convenient when you have to upload the self-test results, it actually does not involve a deep integration with MySejahatera’s mobile app. In general, the main function of the new section is to provide users quick access to the self-test section of MySejahtera’s helpdesk which is actually a web app that runs outside of the mobile app....

Druckmann’s statement about a potential The Last of Us II DLC came during an online video interview with the YouTube channel, Kinda Funny Games. Interestingly enough, when asked if there was going to be a multiplayer mode for the game, Druckmann can is visibly seen trying to suppress his desire to speak about the mode. For those of you who have forgotten, Naughty Dog initially alluded to the possibility of a multiplayer mode within The Last of Us II....

While that may be surprising, it really shouldn’t be. It can be argued that Google isn’t a search engine anymore, but an all-knowing guru. Type in any question and chances are, you’ll receive an answer on the search results page itself with no further clicking required. This obviously applies to currency and time conversions, weather queries, and mathematical calculations. But it also helps that Google is integrated with Wikipedia – search for “nyan cat” and you’ll see a preview of its Wikipedia entry....