Messenger Rooms Integrated In Latest Whatsapp Beta For Android

This was spotted in WhatsApp Beta version 2.20.163, which features shortcuts to Rooms in various sections of the app. Specifically, the user can access Facebook’s new feature via the Share menu, as well as in the Calls section of WhatsApp. Upon clicking the Messenger Rooms icon, the app will present a brief introduction to the feature itself and will prompt the user to launch the Messenger app in order to use it....

December 11, 2022 · 1 min · 199 words · Zona Cole

Meta Avatars Store Now Available In Malaysia

The store is available across Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and in VR, allowing you to sync your avatar’s looks and outfit across Meta’s ecosystem. To access the store, you first need to create an avatar for your account — you can find instructions on how to do so for Facebook and Instagram here if you haven’t made one already. The store has a wide selection of virtual clothing, ranging from fashion houses such as Balenciaga and Prada, to popular Netflix shows like Squid Game and Stranger Things, and even Liverpool FC outfits for football fans....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 268 words · Nicole Brooks

Microsoft Also Pays Contractors To Transcribe Recordings To Train Cortana

There is one important difference that sets Microsoft apart from the other three companies, though. While Apple, Google and Facebook have pledged to pause get contractors to transcribe recordings, it looks like Microsoft will still continue with the exercise. Instead, the company has updated its privacy policy to mention that it will indeed have humans review some recordings. On balance, The Verge says that it is possible to retroactively delete your voice data....

December 11, 2022 · 1 min · 139 words · Glenda Richardson

Microsoft Could Use Hydrogen Fuel Cells As Alternative Backup Power For Datacentres

The experiment, Microsoft says, is to see if hydrogen is a viable alternative to its current diesel-powered backup generators. That currently account of less than 1% of its overall emissions when in use, but reportedly just sits around not doing anything “for more than 99% of their life”. Technically speaking, the company argues that with a fuel cell, a hydrogen storage tank, and an electrolyser would help generate electricity for its grid....

December 11, 2022 · 1 min · 171 words · Dorothy Green

Microsoft Increases Windows 10 Minimum Storage Requirements Ahead Of May 2019 Update

According to Microsoft’s official page, the new storage requirement for Windows 10 version 1903 will be increased to 32GB for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. In comparison, that’s double the requirements for the former version, and 12GB more than the latter. The page doesn’t explain Microsoft’s decision to increase the required storage capacity. However, some Windows 10 users are suggesting it has something to do with a new “Reserved Space” features for future updates....

December 11, 2022 · 1 min · 114 words · Amie Gagnon

Microsoft Surface Pro X To Be Available In Malaysia From Rm 4599 Onwards

Powered by Microsoft SQ1 chip which is a customized version of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx, not all variant of Surface Pro X will be released in Malaysia at the same time though. According to Microsoft, the 256GB model with 8GB RAM will be making its way to Malaysia first with a price tag of RM 5,799. It will then be followed by the 128GB model with 8GB RAM on 21 February which is going to cost RM 4,599....

December 11, 2022 · 1 min · 176 words · Andre Jung

Miti Website Overwhelmed By Heavy Traffic

In a statement shared on Twitter, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) said that the application site was shut down between 2PM and 4PM earlier. This was to reconfigure the application system so that only companies that are allowed to operate get access. Within the first two hours of the site’s operation beginning 9AM, over 176000 users attempted to access the site. The ministry said this was way beyond the number of companies in the approved sectors....

December 11, 2022 · 1 min · 187 words · Mary Lesher

Mixed Results For Malaysian Fighting Game Representatives At Sea Major 2019

First off, we have Street Fighter V which had an open Capcom Pro Tour premier tournament as well as an Asia Regional Finals that took place after the open tournament had concluded. We had 2 notable competitors representing the Malaysian esports/fighting game scene in the open tournament: IamChuan and Kofmaster. As we went over in our preview article of SEAM, both IamChuan and Kofmaster had to face several world class players in order to progress through their bracket and qualify for the top 32 of the tournament....

December 11, 2022 · 4 min · 680 words · Kathy Greene

Mobile Network Infrastructures At Klia And Klia2 Are Being Upgraded For The Next 3 Months

Malaysia Airports said that the upgrade exercise is to improve both coverage and capacity in the long run. It is also being done to support the organization’s Airports 4.0 digital transformation effort. Appointed for the upgrade exercise is edotco which is a division of the Axiata Group and has took over the indoor building network (IBC) management from Skai Network Sdn Bhd. MAHB will be proceeding with the upgrade in phases, but naturally, the upgrade is expected to affect users in terms of both reception and data speed....

December 11, 2022 · 1 min · 210 words · Patrick Carpenter

Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak Releases On 30 June 2022

From it, we see a little bit more of the new setting where the story events of Sunbreak take place. As we’ve seen before, Capcom has taken Monster Hunter Rise on a massive swing, going from far east in the base game to European in the expansion, complete with derelict castles. We also get a clearer look at the flagship elder dragon, which is clearly based on the vampire myths....

December 11, 2022 · 1 min · 171 words · Sonja Resch

More Ps5 Faceplate Colours To Be Available From 17 June

According to an update to the initial PlayStation Blog entry, SIE says that the additional PS5 faceplate colour options will be available starting 17 June 2022. If you need a refresher, these additional colours are Starlight Blue, Galactic Purple, and Nova Pink. No new prices were announced, but going by the initial announcement, these new colour options will have the same price of RM259, just like the first two. So far, SIE has five additional colour options for both its PS5 DualSense controllers as well as the faceplates, in addition to the default white....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 248 words · Dennis Favila

Motorola Could Be The First To Adopt Samsung 200Mp Image Sensor

When it was launched in September, the HP1 was said to be the world’s first 200MP image sensor. In the same tweet, Ice Universe also claimed that Xiaomi will begin to use it sometime in the second half of 2022 while Samsung itself will only start using it much later in 2023. While this may sound odd that Samsung is not using its own sensor immediately, this is not exactly a unique case as far as the ISOCELL image sensor is concerned....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 233 words · Donna Kelley

Motorola Moto Z4 Could Feature 48Mp Main Camera In Display Fingerprint Scanner

Off the bat, the source of the information states that the Moto Z4 will have a 6.4-inch Full HD OLED display. More importantly, the display will also feature an in-display fingerprint display. Other hardware specifications of the phone include a Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 SoC, and a modem chip that will support 5G connectivity via the brand’s 5G mods for the Z series. For software, the phone will run with Android 9 Pie out of the box....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 233 words · Terry Benevides

Mozilla Releases Offline Translation Plugin For Firefox Web Browser

According to Mozilla, the plugin is developed under Project Bergamot, a European Union-funded consortium consisting of the company itself, the University of Edinburgh, Charles University, the University of Sheffield, and the University of Tartu. Its goal is to develop neural machine tools such as engines, language models and in-page translation algorithms that are executed entirely on Firefox via the user’s computer. The company assures that Firefox Translations is completely private, with no data sent to the cloud....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 296 words · Sheila Chaney

Msi And Brightstar Opens New Concept Store In Low Yat Plaza

Just as it did with the main store, the new concept store will be a venue where customers will able to view the latest notebooks from the brand. Moreover, the store is also MSI’s first official outlet that will sell its own branded PC components. Including motherboards from Intel and AMD, as well as graphics cards from NVIDIA and AMD. Like most concept stores, there’s also an experiential zone on-site where consumers can sit down and experience what MSI has to offer at the current moment....

December 11, 2022 · 1 min · 180 words · Arlene Elrod

Msi Launches New Ge76 Raider Dragon Edition Tiamat Gaming Laptop With Nvidia Geforce Rtx 30 Series Mobile Gpu

To state the obvious and much like last year’s GE66 Raider “Dragonshield” Edition, the GE76 Raider Dragon Edition Tiamat follows a theme surrounding the mythical creature. This time around, MSI says that the pattern design that is visible on the back of its 17.3-inch panel is inspired by the Mesopotamian dragon goddess, primarily because she supposedly represents “supreme power”. Of course, the bigger draw and more important news that follows the launch of the GE76 Raider Dragon Edition Tiamat is that, along with other models in the GE series, the laptop is equipped with NVIDIA’s latest GeForce RTX 30 mobile series GPUs....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 237 words · Suzanne Gray

Msi Modern Series Laptops With 11Th Gen Intel Cpus Now Available Starts From Rm3699

The Modern series is available in two variants, the Modern 14 and Modern 15. Specs-wise, the Tiger Lake CPU in both models is a Core i7-1165G7, up to 16GB DDR4-3200MHz RAM, and a 512GB NVMe SSD. In regards to discrete graphics, the Modern 14 sports an NVIDIA MX450 4GB GPU, while the Modern 15 has the option of using Intel’s integrated Xe graphics or a 2GB variant of the MX450....

December 11, 2022 · 1 min · 197 words · Christopher Pruitt

Msi Opens Up Preorders For Limited Edition Ge66 Raider Dragonshield Laptop

The preorder period begins today and will conclude on 4 October. Again, we cannot stress the “limited edition” portion of this product enough; MSI has limited the number of these special Colie Werzt-skinned GE66 Raider laptops to just 3000 units. On another note, it’s also going to cost you a pretty penny; to own it, MSI is charging RM13499, but at that price, you get a 10th generation Intel Core i9-10980HK CPU, 32GB DDR4-3200MHz RAM, an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super, a 1TB NVMe PCIe Gen3 SSD, a 99....

December 11, 2022 · 1 min · 213 words · Margaret Manning

New Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra Images Showcases Tablet In All Its Hi Res Glory

Now, to be clear, images of the Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra had already leaked prior, but thanks to Blass’ extremely high-resolution render, we can actually make out most of the physical details of the upcoming Samsung tablet. While the images are not accompanied by any details or specifications about the hardware, we can see that the tablet is going to a pretty huge slate, with rumours suggesting that it could be a 14....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 236 words · Joi Rivers

Next Generation Xbox Rumoured To Be More Powerful That Playstation 5

Rumours about the next generation console first popped up via a tweet made by journalist Ainsley Bowden, who said that “multiple insiders” stated that Microsoft’s next Xbox would be “more advanced” than the PS5. There is the question of just how reputable Bowden’s source are, but he has however pointed out that they do have a decent track record when it comes to leaks such as this. Beyond that tweet, Bowden’s sources don’t provide any details on the console’s hardware specification....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 233 words · Ann Klein