The reopening was confirmed when the Ministry of Health announced the loosening of certain SOPs. During the announcement, it was also mentioned that all sectors under the negative list would be allowed to operate again starting on 15 May; nightclubs were the sole occupant of the list at that point, after being left out of the endemic transition phase. As with other indoor establishments as per the current rules, customers visiting nightclubs are still required to mask up except for when they are drinking, eating, or dancing....

Case in point, the latest trend that has emerged from ex-miners in China selling off their used mining graphics card is to paint over the graphics memory, in order to make the cards look as if they are brand new. The deception was spotted by Brazilian Techtuber Iskandar Souza, who runs the YouTube channel Techlabs, along with fellow technician Paulo Gomes. Souza’s investigation into the whole scandal is basically a how-to in spotting GPUs that have clearly been used for mining....

As the Crytek says on its own blog, Crysis 4 is still “in the early stages of development so it will be a while yet”. Then there’s the usual promise of releasing more information when they are ready. The dev team is also hiring more people to help make it happen, with the blog post itself containing the link to the company’s career page. Watch the teaser and read the blog post for more information on the journey ahead....

YouTuber Upper Echelon Gamers claims in a video that the company has mislead CD Projekt management about the services it was providing to Cyberpunk 2077. These bits of information comes from a whistleblower from within Quantic Labs, who has provided a 72-page document with confidential info as proof of their status as an insider. One major allegation made against Quantic Labs is that it misrepresented the team that will be working on Cyberpunk 2077 to CD Projekt....

As the name of the stream suggests, it’s slightly under 50 minutes of talking about sound design. Which is naturally an important factor in a horror game, as well as in Dead Space specifically. And it’s not just the sound effects and BGM of the game either, as the devs also discuss weapon sound effects as well as the ALIVE System, “which controls Isaac’s heart rate, breathing and dialogue delivery”....

For the uninitiated, Mobile Connect lets users synchronise their iOS or Android devices to their Dell PCs – enabling for text messages, calls and notifications to be displayed on the latter’s screen, as well as transferring files wirelessly from one another. On top of that, the app also enables users to mirror their smartphone screen, which in turn lets them operate the device directly via desktop. If all these sound familiar to you, that’s because Microsoft had also introduced a similar app known as Phone Link (previously known as Your Phone) for its Windows operating system....

The new Tamagotchi arrives in the traditional egg-shaped design while also sporting R2-D2’s iconic design elements presented in two colour options for its body: white and translucent blue. The latter is more in line with the droid’s actual colour scheme, of course. The toy also comes with a 24 x 30 pixelated monochrome LCD display, with three physical buttons situated beneath it. While the overall gameplay for the R2-D2 Tamagotchi remains unchanged from Bandai’s more recent releases, the device does come with exclusive Star Wars-themed activities for training the beloved Star Wars droid and also keeping it entertained....

Steve Moser of MacRumors shared on Twitter code that suggests that the upcoming ad-supported Disney Plus tier will lose access to GroupWatch and SharePlay. The former is basically the feature that allows for virtual watch parties with other people who have their own Disney Plus accounts. SharePlay, on the other hand is an Apple feature that does the same thing over FaceTime on Mac devices. — Steve Moser (@SteveMoser) October 24, 2022 The string of code is about as clear as can be with regards to these features being locked out of the ads tier....

What would happen to the smaller movies that were in the midst of production over at Fox? What about the art films under the Fox Searchlight banner? Heck, what about the unreleased comic book movies that Fox had produced? While everything seemed simply dandy at the start, things have slowly started to change. A couple of weeks ago, Disney chief executive Bob Iger pretty much threw Fox under the bus while commenting on the company’s quarterly earnings....

The company says the new DJI Mini 2 features vast improvements over its predecessor, with better imaging capabilities, flight performance, and significantly enhanced transmission technology, among many others. As described from the aforementioned leak in our previous report, the drone sports a folding design for mobility and adding to that is its lightweight body that weighs less than 249 grams. It now comes with DJI’s OcuSync 2.0 transmission technology which ensures stable, long distance, and reliable connectivity between the user and the device itself....

EA made the announcement earlier on its website. In it, the publisher said that starting today, it is adding new item bundles to the Apex Legends store. Proceeds from the purchase of these new bundles will then be added to the Apex Legends Global Series prize pool. At its base, EA is putting up US$1 million (~RM4.13 million), and sales of the new bundles can push it up to US$3 million (~RM12....

Reddit user MJuniorDC9 saw on SteamDB three games that got price hikes on Steam. They are SimCity 4: Deluxe Edition, Mass Effect Collection, and Crysis 2: Maximum Edition. To start, SimCity 4: Deluxe Edition has had its price jumped from GBP9.99 / EUR9.99 / CA$19.99 to GBP17.99 / EUR19.99 / CA$26.99. Even in our own currency, the price of the game has jumped from RM38 to RM75. This is effectively a doubling of its price, as of 5 February....

News of the feature’s potential arrival next month was first brought to light by Pop Base, which later stirred debate between Twitter users regarding how it will be implemented. Clearing the air, Musk intervened by replying to a tweet by user Noam Blum, explaining that the feature will share the same Timeline screen space as regular postings. He also clarified that instead of following the Twitlonger approach where users are directed to an external site to view the entire post, the new 4,000 character function will allow users to see them directly on the platform by clicking “read more” at the end of each tweet....

According to Reuters, Musk’s violation of the NDA came about after he tweeted the actual sample size number that Twitter uses in order to calculate fake, spam, or duplicate tweets. That number, by the way, is 100. This actually happened. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 14, 2022 Musk’s tweet was basically explaining the concept of a random sampling process to a question asked by one of his followers, who in turn had posed the question over an initial tweet that the Tesla owner had posted....

After being criticised last week by a US Senator for not paying any taxes, Musk responded by saying that he’ll be paying more taxes than any American in history this year. He seems to be making good on that statement after selling off more than US$14 billion (~RM59 billion) worth of Tesla stock in November. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 20, 2021 The Tesla CEO seemingly sold the shares after putting up a Twitter poll, where users voted in favour of him selling 10% of his Tesla holdings....

Of course, to be specific, the demo utilized a PlayStation 5 development kit although just to be clear here, the UE5 will support other current and next generation consoles as well as PC, Mac, iOS, and Android. In fact, Epic pointed out that developers can still build games for next-gen consoles using UE4 and migrate to UE5 in the future which is something the company itself will do for its own massively popular title, Fortnite....

MEC 2020 features four esports titles, which are Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, PUBG Mobile, Dota 2 and FIFA 21. ESI has also prepared a prize pool of RM100,000 for the championship, though the exact breakdown for each game is very much weighted to the mobile titles. From the ESI Facebook page, we see that PUBG Mobile and Mobile Legends both get RM40,000 each, while FIFA 21 and Dota 2 gets RM10,000....

The Secretary-General of eSports Malaysia (ESM), Rinie Ramli has commented in a report by The Star that ESM will be organizing a national league in 2019. This league will act at the selection process for the national team that will compete at SEA Games 2019. As per yesterday’s announcement, six gold medals will be up for grabs through eSports at SEA Games 2019. These medals are said to be equally divided among three platforms: PC, consoles, and mobile phones....

The EU vote for USB-C to become the standard was ruled after an overwhelming landslide victory of 602 for it, 13 against, and eight abstaining from voting. Bear in mind, this step is merely a formality and the final decision will still need to be approved by the European Council, but for the most part, it’s safe to say that this ruling is in the bag. USB Type-C port will be the new standard for portable devices by the end of 2024....

Furthermore, EVGA’s official distributor in Malaysia, Sun Cycle is also the local distributor for ZOTAC products. Meanwhile, the price reduction that the brand has implemented for the RTX 30 Series cards in Malaysia is quite significant. EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 RTW3 Ultra Gaming is among the highest-end graphics card from the brand. [Image: EVGA.]It ranges from RM530 for its RTX 3060 XC Gaming V2 and goes as high as RM2,130 for the top-of-the-range RTX 3090 RTW3 Ultra Gaming model....