While today’s announcement mainly revolves around the Chinese chipmaker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International of China (SMIC), USDoC has actually added a total of 60 entities from China in into the list [pdf]. Interesting enough, one of them is DJI which is one of the most well-known drones and gimbal maker in the world. According to the draft document, USDoC stated that DJI alongside three other entities have been enabling human rights abuses within China by participating in “abusive genetic collection” and “high-technology surveillance”....

The announcement came a day after The Straits Times of Singapore reported that TM has become the first major telco to sign up with DNB. Last month, Reuters reported that none of the telcos has signed a commercial deal with the 5G SPV so far but DNB then brushed it off by saying that it can only sort out commercial deals with telcos after the company’s Reference Access Offer document is completed and published to the public....

The benchmark list was originally posted on OpenVR’s benchmark page. For context, the site lists down the scores of both CPUs and GPUs. Tested with different VR headsets. In this case, the unnamed AMD Radeon Graphics is shown to have snagged second place in the test with an HTC Vive MV headset. There’s not much known about the CPU here, though it’s clear that we’re looking at an unnamed, AMD-based engineering sample....

To our surprise, Ice Universe didn’t post the information on Twitter like they usually do; instead, the leakster’s post was made via the popular Chinese social media platform, Weibo. The post, which is no longer available, included a very simple diagram of what looks to be the layout of the Exynos 2200. At the top-right of the diagram are six squares, vertically lined up, that supposedly represents the six RDNA2 GPU Compute Units (CPUs) that will handle all matters pertaining to graphics fidelity....

Earlier this week, US Congressman Duncan Hunter pleaded guilty in a US Federal court in Southern California for “knowingly and willfully” converting more than US$150,000 (~RM623,925) in campaign funds. In order to fuel his family’s lavish lifestyle from 2010 through 2016. Of the US$150,000, it is believed that Hunter had spent as much as US$1,302 (~RM5,416) on several Steam game titles in 2015 alone. As you would expect, it didn’t stop with video games either; Over the course of six years, Hunter lavished his family with other purchases, including fast food, new clothes and shoes, luxury hotels, as well as plane tickets for his two pet rabbits....

Beyond simply supporting the S-Pen, the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra will also come with a new feature for the stylus. This comes in the form of the Hover functionality. This lets users hold the stylus above the screen to access various features. These range from basic stuff like displaying a pointer to previewing content. That being said, it remains to be seen if the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra will indeed come with the S-Pen itself....

According to the US Department of Justice, it had seized the Bitcoin on 3 November and that they were all connected to an “Individual X”, who had stolen the coins from Silk Road sometime between 2012 and 2013. To provide some background to the unaware, Silk Road was an online black market that operated within the Dark Web. Founded in 2011 by a Ross Ulbricht, the site was notorious for the sale of illegal drugs....

With DJI and the other companies now on the blacklist, US companies and investors will no longer be allowed to buy or sell shares belonging to said companies effective immediately. Unless, of course, they obtain a special license from the US government. It should come as no surprise that this isn’t the first time the US has banned Chinese companies and put them on an entity blacklist on “ethical” grounds....

The game streaming device first launched back in 2015, with the intention of bringing PC games further away from the actual system. Simply put, as long as your PC has Steam installed and you have a decent internet connection, streaming game directly to your TV is practically a no-brainer. That said, the new Steam Link App makes it so that you can now do away with the physical product. That said, there are a couple of caveats with the app....

By now, you’re probably already very familiar with what the phone has to offer. But to quickly recap anyway, it’s got two front-facing popup cameras, one being a 32MP wide-angle shooter and the other being a 2MP depth sensor. At the back, it comes instead with a 48MP + 8MP + 2MP + 2MP quad camera combo. Having popup front-facing cameras means the 6.44-inch Full HD+ display takes up the entirety of the phone’s front side....

Starting with the Vivo X50 Pro Plus, this comes with a 6.56-inch Full HD+ 120Hz OLED display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 chipset, and a 4350mAh battery that supports 44W fast charging. The camera here consists of the Samsung GN1 50MP shooter for the main camera. This is accompanied by a 32MP portrait camera, a 13MP periscope camera and a 13MP wide angle camera. As for the Vivo X50 Pro, we’re looking at the same 6....

The phone sports a 6.58-inch 60Hz LCD display, which is a significant downgrade from its Chinese counterpart that is fitted with a 6.64-inch 120HZ AMOLED panel. The screen features a tear-drop cutout for the 16MP selfie camera and it has a side-mounted fingerprint sensor along with the volume rocker on the right side. The device runs on the MediaTek Dimensity 810, which widens the gap between the local version and the Dimensity 930-equipped version that is released in China....

Well, now it’s confirmed that, while not exactly a romantic comedy per se, WandaVision will be the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first sitcom. But don’t worry, there will be your usual comic book-y action stuff in it as well. In an interview with IGN during Disney’s D23 Expo, Matt Shakman (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) who will be directing all six episodes of the series had this to say: Elizabeth Olsen, who plays Wanda in the MCU and Paul Bettany who plays Vision shared similar sentiments:...

Recently, HBO Asia got the chance to sit down with Vincent Cassel, who plays a villain in Season 3 of Westworld. Interestingly enough, Cassel had been a big fan of the show even before getting the call that he’s been cast in it. He said: Cassel also talked a little bit about the third season. When asked what he can divulge about the “system” and the idea of a machine that keeps people in their place, Cassel said: Westworld Season 3 premieres same time as the U....

Currently, the feature is only available for beta testers in the Apple TestFlight program iOS 2.19.91.1 beta version with only a few users are getting the feature. In addition, the feature will also be made available to the WhatsApp Business beta program. Due to the current limitations of iOS, users are can only reply to audio messages through the notification using text only. Further, the app is still buggy, but that’s expected, given its beta status....

PC Health Check tool is really simple to help users determine whether their machine is able to support Windows 11 or otherwise. However, the first iteration of the app was panned by users who found themselves rather baffled when PC Health Check informed them that their machine was not good enough for Windows 11 even though it generally meets the operating system’s minimum requirements. This is mainly because the PC Health Check didn’t tell the user what exactly their machine is lacking to run Windows 11....

Much like the aforementioned 3D renders, the alleged live representation of the standard Xiaomi 13 is shown to sport flat frames and rear panel (in white), along with a square-shaped rear island which comprises a triple camera setup. Also visible is a flat display with a top-centred camera cutout, speaker grille and a USB-C port at the bottom, as well as a volume rocker and lock/power button on the right-hand side....

With the combined strengths and resources from all parties, the consortium’s digital bank is devoted to empowering and enabling sustainable developments of SMEs through innovative financial solutions and products via AI and big data analysis, among others. Xiaomi co-founder and senior vice president Hong Feng commented that the company and its partners will use its global lead in 5G and AIoT advantage to build a Singaporean digital bank with superior products....

Starting off with the Xiaomi Mi 10T Pro, this comes with a 6.67-inch Full HD+ display, which features a 144Hz refresh rate and adaptive display tech. And it works pretty much the same way as the version of the tech you’ll commonly find on monitors. The company also gave it a side-mounted fingerprint sensor. On the inside, it has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 chipset, and a 5000mAh battery that supports 33W fast charging....

Equipped with a 6.53-inch Full HD+ display, the new Redmi Note 8 Pro is generally the first device to be powered by the equally new MediaTek Helio G90T processor. The new phone can be obtained with three memory and internal storage combinations including 6GB/64GB, 6GB/128GB, and 8GB/128GB. The phone also comes with a quad camera setup on its back which includes the 64MP Samsung ISOCELL GW1 as its main camera sensor....