Tony Fernandes Says Airasia Ready To Help With Vaccination Efforts

Fernandes said AirAsia’s logistics arm, Teleport, was ready to assist in any way, including by transporting vaccines from China and Russia when they’re available, and distributing them in countries including Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and India. He also offered the services of AirAsia pilots and cabin crew for the vaccination campaign, noting their first aid training and the fact that they haven’t been able to fly as much as before....

December 7, 2022 · 1 min · 194 words · Mildred Marino

Touch N Go S Go Investment Feature Hits One Million Users

Touch ‘n Go Group CEO Effendy Shahul Hamid said the milestone was reached well ahead of the company’s internal estimates. He also noted that the company was making improvements on GO+ based on customer feedback and data on user experience. “73% of GO+ users are from outside the Klang Valley, and that number continues to grow,” he said. To help attain users, the company introduced the +Kawan campaign, which rewards people who refer friends and family members to GO+....

December 7, 2022 · 1 min · 188 words · Linda Barlow

Touch N Go Ewallet For Ios Is Back On App Store

Now that the app has made its way back to the iOS depository, clicking on the direct link to the TNG eWallet listing on the App Store will no longer display the “App Not Available” error message. Similarly, TNG Digital Sdn Bhd’s profile on the App Store has also listed the app once again. Throughout its disappearance, TNG never really address the reason behind it. The company also did not respond to our e-mail on 7 May in regards to the issue while the only so-called explanation that it provides to selected customers on its social media channels is that the company was sorting out some “app update discussions” with Apple....

December 7, 2022 · 1 min · 162 words · Jane Rama

Tsmc Is Building A Second Fab In Arizona

TSMC says that the construction of the second fab will also provide jobs for more than 10000 construction workers, along with an additional 10000 high-paying high-tech jobs, 4500 of which will be direct jobs from the company itself. In total, the semiconductor company will also be investing around US$40 billion (~RM176 billion), making it the most significant foreign direct investment in the state’s history. “When complete, TSMC Arizona aims to be the greenest semiconductor manufacturing facility in the United States producing the most advanced semiconductor process technology in the country, enabling next-generation high-performance and low-power computing products for years to come,” Dr....

December 7, 2022 · 2 min · 315 words · Winston Lee

Twitter Fleets Bug Leaves Them Visible Even After 24 Hours

TechCrunch reports that the bug allows anyone to access and download a user’s fleets without triggering notifications. This means that the poster doesn’t get informed of who saw them, allowing people to anonymously save them for after they expire. Though this does require using an app that interacts with Twitter’s back-end systems via its developer API. But if you have such a thing, you can retrieve a list of fleets....

December 7, 2022 · 1 min · 173 words · Maria Kostrzewa

Twitter For Android Had A Security Flaw That Left Private Data Exposed

According to Twitter, this was mainly an issue for Android versions 8 and 9 (Oreo and Pie). The company says that 96% of its user base have already gotten a security patch that fixes the problem. For the remaining 4%, the company has issued a fix to keep its users safe. Of course, if you’re one of the 4%, being safe entails getting the new update for the Twitter app on Android....

December 7, 2022 · 1 min · 154 words · Michael Morrison

Twitter Officially Appoints Elon Musk To Board Of Directors

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal confirmed Musk’s appointment and called him “both a passionate believer and intense critic of the service”. Musk then responded by saying that he can’t wait to make significant improvements in the coming months. — Parag Agrawal (@paraga) April 5, 2022 Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of Twitter, said he was happy that Musk is joining the board as “he cares deeply about our world and Twitter’s role in it,”....

December 7, 2022 · 2 min · 223 words · Richelle Myers

U Mobile 5G To Go Live On 3 November Available For Postpaid And Prepaid Customers

In its official announcement, here is the list of postpaid and prepaid plans that are going to receive 5G access starting from 3 November 2022: U Postpaid 38U Postpaid 68U Postpaid 98Prepaid U25Prepaid U35 U Mobile customers that are on the U FamilyShare lines will also be able to tap into the national 5G network. Based on the official press announcement, the telco will not implement a dedicated 5G data quota for these plans....

December 7, 2022 · 2 min · 306 words · Anita Tallant

Ubisoft Has A Smaller Assassin S Creed Game For Basim

According to Bloomberg, the game is known internally with the code-name Rift. It was initially supposed to be an expansion for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla itself. But the project grew large enough to be its own game. IN addition to the stealth emphasis, the report also says that it “won’t be a massive open-world role-playing game like previous recent entries”. Considering the scale of AC Valhalla or Odyssey, it makes sense that a smaller game wouldn’t use as huge a map....

December 7, 2022 · 1 min · 180 words · Richard Moore

Uk To Implement Age Verification For Online Pornography Ruling Goes Into Effect Starting 15 July 2019

Come 15 July, people in the UK will have to submit identifiable documents like credit cards or passports to online age verification providers. Alternatively, they can show such documents to shops selling what will be known as a porn pass. The porn pass will then be used in lieu of IDs when surfing the web for porn. Enforcing the law are the British Board of Film Classifications (BBFC) and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)....

December 7, 2022 · 1 min · 192 words · Jeanne Day

Unifi Customers Experience Difficulties Accessing Astro And Netflix For Several Hours

The connectivity issue was not only limited to Astro Ultra Box and Ulti Box but has also affected the Astro GO app according to several customers. Signs of recovery then had begin to appear at around 9:45 PM as Astro’s customer service agents on its Facebook page have begun asking users to reboot their unifi’s modem and router in order to have their Ultra or Ulti Box online once again....

December 7, 2022 · 1 min · 171 words · Paul Henry

Unifi Offers Free Fibre Packages Until The End Of The Year

Things are rather straight forward for new customers as what they need to do is just register for a new package. As for existing customers, it is not exactly complicated since they just need to renew their contract in order to obtain the free Internet until the end of this year but we do know some customers would rather keep their out-of-contract status intact. Meanwhile, not unifi package are eligible for the new Pay Nothing promo though....

December 7, 2022 · 1 min · 122 words · Douglas Cory

Us Now Accepts Malaysian Vaccine Certificates For Travel

Starting 8 November, all foreign travellers will be allowed to enter the US, so long as they are fully vaccinated and get tested within three days before departure. The good news for Malaysians is that the US will be accepting vaccination certificates for any brand of COVID-19 vaccines that are approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or the World Health Organisation (WHO). This qualifies almost all the vaccines currently approved in Malaysia, including Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Sinovac, Sinopharm, Johnson & Johnson, and Moderna....

December 7, 2022 · 2 min · 284 words · Ronald Barton

Us Senate Approves Us 53 Billion Bill To Aid Us Chipmakers

As per Cnet’s report, the bill is designed to help US tech companies in cutting down the exorbitant expense that is usually associated with chip manufacturing and to ensure a steady supply of “electronic brains”, critical to modern cars, computers, weapons systems, and toys. Basically, anything that requires an electric current to run through them. Prior to the bill’s introduction and quite literally stating the obvious, semiconductor chips have served as the backbone for many industries to such a point that, when the global chip shortage hit and carried on for more than two years, everyone felt it when the supply chain was disrupted....

December 7, 2022 · 2 min · 285 words · Felipe Reed

Valve Gets Sued For Allegedly Using Steam To Keep Game Prices High

Valve is already being sued for allegedly stealing a design feature to make its now-discontinued Steam Controller but this lawsuit seems a lot more consequential though. The plaintiffs highlighted the fact that Steam forces all game developers on the platform to sell their games at the same price as they sell on other platforms. This so-called “Most Favored Nations” (MFN) clause means that developers can’t offer lower game prices on rival platforms in the fear of losing access to Steam which generally is the biggest online distributor of PC games....

December 7, 2022 · 2 min · 312 words · Bobby Jaramillo

Vivo V17 Now Official In Malaysia Priced At Rm1699

To quick recap, the V17 comes with a 6.44 inch Full HD+ display with an in-display fingerprint sensor, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 chipset, 8GB of RAM and 256GB of internal storage. So this actually leaves the V17 with more internal storage space than the V17 Pro. It also comes with a slightly larger battery, rated at 4500mAh. For its rear cameras, the phone comes with a familiar 48MP + 8MP + 2MP + 2MP quad- camera combo....

December 7, 2022 · 1 min · 176 words · Vernon Exler

Vivo X60 Series Pre Order Begins In Malaysia Price Starts From Rm 2 699

For starters, the X60 is equipped with a 6.56-inch Full HD+ AMOLED display which also has a 120HZ refresh rate and housed a 32MP punch hole selfie camera. On another hand, the X60 Pro also has a similar screen size, refresh rate and selfie camera as well but its display has curved edges which are missing from the standard X60. On the specs sheet, X60 and X60 Pro looked as if they have the same rear camera setup since both of them have a 48MP main camera as well as a 13MP telephoto camera and another 13MP ultra wide-angle camera that also acts as a macro camera....

December 7, 2022 · 2 min · 382 words · Marie Stackhouse

Vodafone Becomes Latest Member To Leave Facebook Libra Association

Along with its withdrawal, Vodafone says it will also be pulling out resources initially intended for Libra and shifting it towards M-Pesa, the telco’s own digital payment service, which has seen success with mobile users. Primarily within Africa. It’s not wrong to say Facebook’s Libra has undergone many hardships since its launch back in June 2019. With the backing of several brands that included Visa, Mastercard, Uber, and eBay, to name a few....

December 7, 2022 · 1 min · 204 words · Douglas Meyer

Wesg Sea Finals 2019 Team Malaysia Achieves Top 4 Placings In Cs Go And Starcraft 2

This year’s WESG consisted of 4 different competitions: Dota 2, StarCraft 2, CS:GO, and a CS:GO women’s division, with multiple regional tournaments being held en route to the global finals. The WESG SEA regional finals which took place in Kuala Lumpur last weekend featured teams and players from Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. As the event was taking place on our home soil, hopes were high for the Malaysian representatives....

December 7, 2022 · 3 min · 496 words · Matthew Curry

Whatsapp Backups May Once Again Affect Google Drive Storage Quota

According to a set of codes found by the website, WhatsApp plans to notify users when their Google Drive storage is almost full, meaning that backups will eventually be counted against the storage. The codes suggest that there will still be a certain free quota for WhatsApp backup, but it will be limited. While disappointing, the U-turn didn’t come as a surprise to us considering that Google stopped offering unlimited storage for Google Photos last year....

December 7, 2022 · 2 min · 248 words · Roy Christopher