The announcement is reportedly a response to Facebook’s recent plan to seek a payments license for Libra in Switzerland. The two European countries released a joint statement on the matter, saying that “no private entity can claim monetary power, which is inherent to the sovereignty of nations”. Also in response to Libra, the respective ministers of both countries said that it would instead back the development of an alternative public cryptocurrency instead....

The trailer itself doesn’t show much, but based on the gameplay, the combat seems to be action oriented, much like FFXV and the FF7 Remake. Characters also look a lot like those you see in the FFXIV MMO. Which makes sense, Naoki Yoshida, who is the producer and director of the MMO, is the one who is directing Final Fantasy XVI. Another thing we know from the trailer is that it will be released on the PlayStation 5....

Companies such as Facebook, Marketo, Olytics, and HubSpot use custom URL query parameters to track clicked links. As an example, you may have seen “fbclid” followed by a long string of characters at the end of the URL when you open a link from Facebook. With Firefox’s new feature, it will automatically strip the query parameters from the URL when you click on a link, improving your privacy on the internet....

Normally priced at RM29.90 per month, PandaPro now only costs RM8.90 for a monthly subscription, RM41.40 for six months, and RM58.80 for a full year. The long-term plan breaks down to only RM4.90 per month, with benefits including free delivery on all orders above RM25, 20% discount for purchases above RM45 from selected shops, and much more. Shown below are the complete list of perks from the subscription: Just recently, Foodpanda added dine-in perks for members to get a flat 25% discount at selected restaurants three times a month....

Duncan Hunter, who is a member of the US Republican Party, was found guilty by the US Court, along with his wife in 2018, after they were discovered to have “knowingly and willfully” diverting more than US$150000 (~RM609000) in campaign funds. IN order to fuel his family’s lavish lifestyle from 2010 through 2016. Of that amount, Hunter reportedly purchased US$1302 (~RM5286) worth of Steam games in 2016. Other purchases made with those siphoned funds included fast food, new clothes, luxury hotels, and even plane tickets for his family’s pet rabbits....

According to an analyst at KeyBanc Capital Markets, the chances of Huawei embracing Qualcomm’s next-generation Snapdragon chipsets is look more likely, given the numerous restrictions currently imposed on it. Of course, in order for the US-based semiconductor brand to do this, the company may need to apply for a license with the US Bureau of Industry and Security. From there, Qualcomm will most likely enter into a license agreement with Huawei before any progress can be made....

The company has revealed several technical details regarding the new console such as ultra high-speed solid state drive, hardware-based ray tracing, custom AMD Ryzen CPU, Navi-based AMD Radeon GPU, and many more. Unlike Microsoft though, Sony has yet to officially reveal the physical design of PlayStation 5 although pictures of its development kit have made their way online. More importantly, the official price of the console has not been revealed as well....

To recap our previous report, the Venu Sq 2 series features a larger 1.41-inch AMOLED touch display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection, while surrounding it is an aluminium case. Combined, these provide both smartwatches a water resistance rating of up to 5 ATM. The vanilla model is available in Shadow Grey, White Gold and Cool Mint, while the Venu Sq 2 Music Edition is offered in Black, Ivory Gold, and French Grey Gold colour options....

Gigabyte Germany posted a set of images of what looks like an inflatable chair on Twitter. If you squint hard enough it may vaguely look like what a gaming chair is supposed to look like. Or, at least the top half does. — GIGABYTE (@GIGABYTE_DE) October 7, 2021 For all anyone knows, this could be a joke item. After all, the Gigabyte does make proper gaming chairs. And like this inflatable one, many of them make use of the AORUS gaming subbrand’s name....

The first game is Shadow Tactics: Blade of the Shogun, which was first released back in 2016. In it, you play as five highly specialised assassins for the Shogun, working to thwart conspiracy and rebellion against his rule. The game is claimable between now and 10PM tomorrow. GOG has yet to reveal what the other three games to be given away are for now. But judging from the provided calendar, it looks like they will only be revealed, and become claimable, towards the end of its Winter sale....

Android Central’s source, who later came forward with the moniker u/tagtech414 on Reddit, claims that his bartending friend at the restaurant in question found the watch and held onto it for “a few weeks,” waiting for the owners to come looking for it. However, no one claimed it, hence the device was then handed to u/tagtech414 – due to the reason that he’s a self-proclaimed “tech nerd.” A wild story indeed....

Instead, the tech giant attributed the downtime to a router misconfiguration at a local third-party internet service provider. “Following extensive investigation we have no evidence to indicate that the fire in OVHCloud’s data centre, or Google’s own infrastructure, was the root cause of this incident,” Google said, according to the BBC. In contrast, Roskomnadzor, Russia’s media regulating authority, pointed fingers at the fire and said the service disruptions were “not connected to the agency’s actions on restriction of speed of access to the Twitter social platform”....

According to multiple sources, Google recently hired more 20 engineers from the “Silicon Valley” of India, Bengaluru. In order to double down on the production of its gChips. These aren’t just your run-of-the-mill engineers either; out of the 20, several of these engineers were formerly under the employment of Qualcomm, NVIDIA, and Intel. Smartphone manufacturers that make their own chipset are nothing new. Wherever possible, companies like Samsung, Huawei, and (obviously) Apple ship out their mobile devices fitted with their respective Exynos, Kirin, and A-Series chipsets....

Looking to join in on this soon is tech industry giant Google, website 9to5Google reports. But unlike the others, it is discovered that the company’s own tracker detection could be integrated as a standard feature in a future version of its Android operating system. According to the publication, codes mentioning the supposedly upcoming feature were found in the recently released version 22.12.13 of Google’s Play services. Strings within the codes contained commands including “Unfamiliar device alerts” and “Unfamiliar tag detected notification”, along with direct references to tag devices from both Tile and Apple, as well as a mysterious “Finder tag”....

The new Meet tab will appear in the Gmail app, and accessing it will provide users a meeting schedule as well as the ability to start or join calls. From there, selecting “New meeting” will let users start a session instantly, receive a meeting link to share with others, or to schedule a meeting in Google Calendar. Selecting “Join with a code” will enable them to participate a video call with a provided meeting code....

Equipped with a 6-inch Full HD+ Flexible OLED display, the screen also has what Google referred to as Smooth Display which essentially offers an adaptive refresh rate of up to 90Hz. The IPX8-rated phone is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G processor alongside 8GB of RAM and 128GB internal storage. In terms of photography hardware, the Pixel 5 carries a 12.2MP autofocus dual-pixel phase detection camera together with another 16MP camera on its back....

One of them is called Motion Sense which is essentially the capability to support hand gestures. This particular feature is made possible by the Soli motion-sensing radar which was developed by Google’s own Advanced Technology and Projects team for the past five years. Users apparently can use Motion Sense to skip songs, snooze alarms, and silence calls by waving their hand. Google pointed out that Pixel 4 will be the first device to be equipped with Soli....

The leak was reported by XDA, who also detailed other information that was included in the document. They added that Google is expected to enforce this new requirement for upcoming Android-powered devices in Q4 2020 when the OS is publicly rolled out. As mentioned earlier, future devices that are equipped with 2GB of RAM or less must launch with the lightweight Android Go version instead. This is to ensure that users will not be greeted with a compromised experience due to the hardware limitations....

Google posted the announcement on its Android Developers Blog. In it, the company says that the last version of the Google Play Services to support the nine-year-old mobile OS will be version 21.30.99. This version is set to be released some time in August 2021. The internet search giant also mentions that the active device count for Jelly Bean as of this month is at one percent. Which is still a surprising number, considering the age of Android Jelly Bean....

As it turns out, the constant crashing of apps originated from a recent update for WebView, but it is now becoming clear that the recent update was buggy. Google says that it is aware of the WebView issue and that a fix is on the way. In the mean time, if you are one of the unfortunate souls affected by the issue, there is a workaround of sorts. Simply open up Google Play, search “Android WebView” and choose to uninstall the updates....