Google received 470 Petabytes of additional user data from Apple in November 2020, increasing the total amount of data it has stored on Google servers to nearly eight Exabytes. As a rough estimate, a single Exabyte (imagine a million 1TB SSDs) is enough to store a video call that lasts for 237000 years. Apple’s hunger for cloud storage space is so large, in fact, that Google staff have affectionately referred to it as “Bigfoot....

Meant to improve the standards and reliability of Internet connectivity in the Asia-Pacific region, Apricot has an initial capacity of over 190tbps. Naturally, the new cable system will support the previously announced Echo and Bifrost cable systems which are also under the purview of Facebook and Google. As you may immediately notice, Facebook and Google did not include Malaysia in their Apricot project just like Echo and Bifrost. Some may see this new project as yet another slap to one of MyDigital’s main targets which are for Malaysia to have the highest number of submarine cables landing in the region by 2025....

On the Assassin’s Creed Valhalla forums, a community manager said that the update will go live sometime next week. No exact date yet though. That being said, file sizes are being cut across the board, as in for all platforms. The biggest benefit goes to the Xbox Series X, which sees its file size cut down by 44GB. The PS5 version of the game only sees a reduction of 13GB....

ASUS’ new GeForce RTX 3060 cards will be available across the brand’s three series: ROG Strix, TUF Gaming, and Dual. Additionally, each of these series will offer both a standard and overclocked version of the card. Regardless of model and boost clocks, the technical specifications for each card are the same across the board. Beneath the cooler shroud and heatsink, they’re all fitted with the same 12GB GDDR6 graphics memory, as well as the same PCIe 4....

The image renders were published by the Dutch-based tech site, HardwareInfo. Just to be clear, the post shows the cards in all of ASUS’ custom-cooling solutions, but do not actually list down tweaked clockspeeds, base or boost. First on the list is the brand’s lineup is, naturally, its ROG Strix lineup. From the images, the ROG Strix cooler design is virtually unchanged. It still employs the same triple Axial-fan design, reportedly has a 0dB mode, as well as the IP5X rating for dust resistance....

On that note, the 6600XT I have in my hands is an ASUS ROG Strix edition graphics card, complete with a dual-fan configuration. With that, let’s get started. Specifications As we have previously reported, the 6600XT is basically powered by what is effectively a watered-down version of AMD’s RDNA2 GPU architecture. In this case, the GPU soldered onto the PCB is the Navi 23 XT, flanked by a 32MB Infinity Cache....

Specifically, ASUS will be officially launching the phone this coming 22 October 2018, and the brand will be bringing in two SKUs of the phone. The first variant will come with 128GB of internal storage, while the second variant’s internal storage will be rated at 512GB. Besides the difference in storage capacity, both SKUs retain identical hardware. ASUS first announced the ROG Phone earlier in the year during Computex 2018....

Despite that, both companies still believe in the strategic advantage of the plan. Not only that, they have also stated that such the merger could still be possible in the future. Here is the full announcement: Under the original plan, Celcom and Digi would be merged together to become the biggest telco in the country. The merged entity will also be based in Malaysia even though Telenor would hold 56....

According to CNBC, Bailey was recently asked about the rising value of cryptocurrencies at a press conference, prompting him to say, “They have no intrinsic value. That doesn’t mean to say people don’t put value on them, because they can have extrinsic value. But they have no intrinsic value.” “Buy them only if you’re prepared to lose all your money,” he added. Unsurprisingly, his comments weren’t taken well by crypto enthusiasts....

For context, Bethesda has announced that it was going to be releasing the first three original DOOM titles on the Nintendo Switch. However, as reported by Kotaku, access to the games initially required gamers to login or to create a Bethesda account. The move has been described as odd, if not bizarre; neither titles have online components, and the multiplayer elements don’t even require players to have a constant online connection....

The rumour comes via a Twitter user with the very on-the-nose handle of @oopsleaks. Accompanying the tweet with the supposed details of the fourth Bioshock game is a logo for Isolation. The game is being made using Unreal Engine 5 by folks from Irrational Games, the studio that made the first and third games, as well as people who worked on Watch Dogs Legion, Mafia III, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and Shadow of the Tomb Raider....

The Guardian reports that believers of the conspiracy theory have set three mobile phone towers in the UK on fire. Engineers, as well as Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson, were threatened as well by those who believed there was a link between 5G and COVID-19. UK culture secretary Oliver Dowden will have talks with social media platforms to help curb its spread. And YouTube is among the first to respond. The Google subsidiary said it will supress videos linking 5G to the novel coronavirus....

To quickly recap, the Black Shark 2 Pro comes with a 6.39-inch 60Hz AMOLED display, and its 240Hz touch report rate. It’s powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus. It also happens to be the first phone armed with the chipset in Malaysia. Also in the phone is a 4000mAh battery, which is the same capacity as the base Black Shark 2. In terms of its camera, it comes with a 48MP + 13MP dual camera setup at the back....

To recap, the Pro variant sports a 7.1-inch AMOLED display with up to 90Hz screen refresh. Instead of notches or punch-hole cutouts, the phone features a 20MP selfie camera located in the thin bezel on top of its display. Situated on its top and bottom are two front facing symmetry stereo speakers. Under the hood is a 5G-enabled Snapdragon 865 chipset, paired with 12GB RAM and a storage capacity of 256GB....

As seen from the demonstration – a gif animation shared by Digital Chat Station on Weibo and later shared on YouTube by SparrowNews – BOE shows off the new display tech via a prototype phone that can fold inwards ala clamshell, assumingly for storage purposes. When unfolded, it is able to function as a tablet, much like the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold and Huawei Mate X series. Lastly, the device can also be folded outwards from tablet mode, transforming into a familiar smartphone form which utilises only one half of the display....

According to the joint announcement released yesterday, one of the main elements within the new agreement is that Celcom, Digi, and Maxis will be working together to design, build, operate, and maintain related fibre infrastructure all over Malaysia. For current infrastructure, the new agreement will apparently increase the amount of shared fibre as well as mutual infrastructure swapping arrangements. Another element that makes this new agreement rather significant is the fact that it involves a duration of 20 years....

The technology is not something new for Celcom since the telco is one of the first Malaysian telcos to demonstrate 5G network which took place back in 2017. Utilizing a test network that the telco together with one of its main industry partner Ericsson have set up at its old headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, the live demo showed that its 28GHz 5G network was able to deliver download speed of around 17 to 19 Gbps....

The announcement today is pretty much the conclusion of the search for a permanent Group CEO for TM which has begun since the departure of Shazalli Ramli back in June 2018. According to his profile that was provided by TM, Noor Kamarul has 34 years of experience in telecommunication network and services in fixed and mobile network as well as mobile broadband services. The 60-years old executive has spent a major part of his career at Celcom, starting from 2003 as its Chief Technology Officer....

CNN reportedly poured as much as US$300 million (~RM1.29 billion) into the streaming service, poaching big-name anchors such as Chris Wallace from Fox News, Kasie Hunt from MSNBC, and Audie Cornish from NPR for various programmes, as well as celebrity lineups including actress Eva Longoria. [Image: CNN]The news comes just days after streaming giant Netflix reported a loss in subscribers for the first time in over a decade which plummeted its stock value....

Frequent leakster Mukul Sharma has shared image of what he calls a Cola Phone, with the soft drink branding taking over half of the device’s back. He also claims on Twitter that the soft drink brand is “collaborating with a smartphone brand” for this project, but stops short of identifying the phone maker in question. But he does say that it will be launching in this quarter in India. Which would be quite the departure from the KFC and Pepsi phones, as they were exclusive to China....