The company claims that the Marshall Emberton II is the successor to the company’s “top selling speaker of all time”. Inside are two 2-inch full range drivers and two passive radiators responsible for pumping out sound. It supports the company’s True Stereophonic tech to emit 360-degree stereo sound. And it can keep playing your music for over 30 hours in a single charge. You can get its full playtime after three hours of charging, or get a shorter four-hour burst of music after 20 minutes of being plugged in....

Not only that, there are also 500Mbps and 800Mbps plans too which is something that the company has promised last year. Check out the leaked brochure below: Aside from the pricing, another interesting thing to note about these Maxis Fibre plan is the addition of Mesh Wi-Fi. While details behind this particular offering are not yet known for the time being, it is likely that Maxis will be using Wi-Fi optimization as part of its marketing strategy for Maxis Fibre which is something that the company already been doing through Maxperts....

The actual TV model that customers can obtain depends on the type of their plan as well as specific fibre speed that they have at their premise. Those who are on Maxis Unlimited Postpaid & Fibre plan with 500Mbps or 800Mbps fibre speed can obtain the 65-inch Samsung TU7000 4K Smart TV for RM 1 per month. For customers that are on the same plan but with lower 30Mbps, 100Mbps, and 300Mbps fibre speed instead, they can still purchase the TV but at a much higher price, amounting to RM 79 per month....

You can find the new feature on Maybank’s MAE app, behind the Send & Request menu. Aside from the usual send and request money buttons that let you make quick payments between users of the MAE app, there is now a DuitNow Request button. You can also send a request through the Maybank2u website under the Pay & Transfer tab. The person you’re requesting money from with the new feature does not need to be using the same bank as you for it to work....

Effective since yesterday, the new arrangement involves the implementation of a gap between every one or two seats. There is also a gap between each row and this new arrangement have also been reflected on MBO Cinemas booking system on its website as well as Android and iOS app. For those forever alones movie goers that want to purchase single seats, they shouldn’t face any problem doing so through MBO Cinemas website or Android app....

For the uninitiated, MBSB Bank was established back in 2018, as part of a merger between non-bank lender Malaysia Building Society Bhd (MBSB) and foreign-owned Asian Finance Bank Bhd (AFB). The formation resulted in a new full-fledged Islamic bank, one of 16 that are available in Malaysia. Meanwhile, CelcomDigi is the more recent of the two, with its full establishment only completed back in December of last year. Though new, its formation actually consists of two longest running telco giants in the country, namely Celcom and Digi....

ORIGINAL STORY (9:12 PM): The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has blocked the controversial dating platform, Sugarbook. The action took place just a day after it was revealed that the platform is already under investigation by the commission. As per any other sites that have been blocked by MCMC out there, users would be redirected to the commission’s notice page if they tried to visit Sugarbook’s official website. It also contained a link that would bring users to another page which states that the access to Sugarbook has been prohibited for breaching Section 233 of Communication and Multimedia Act 1998....

The surveys are being conducted daily, except for national and Selangor public holidays. Also, the surveys will only be conducted between 9AM and 8PM. The MCMC will first reach out to you via WhatsApp or SMS, with only two numbers being used for this purpose. And they are 017 728 6261 and 017 364 6262. From there, if you agree to take part, you’ll be provided a link to the survey itself....

Nevertheless, the team at SoyaCincau who was present at the briefing was kind enough to share the presentation slides through its Twitter. Based on the charts from MCMC, all fixed broadband services that the agency has tested from three providers including TM, Maxis, and Time have generally met the Mandatory Standards for Quality of Service (MSQoS) when it comes to speed. That even includes TM’s Streamyx and Maxis’ DSL services....

Today, MCMC has issued a media release which shed more lights on what the RM 3 billion funding brings to the table. As it turns out, the RM 3 billion actually came from the Universal Service Provision (USP) Fund and it will be used for six NFCP infrastructure packages. Prior to this, details regarding NFCP 1, NFCP 2, and NFCP 3 packages have been publicly released but this announcement marked the first time that MCMC has provide a look into the NFCP 4, NFCP 5, and NFCP 6 packages....

In addition to that, the new regulation also aims to provide legal protection for consumers and public agencies. It will be put in place starting from 1 January 2022 and applies to local cloud service providers as well as international companies that maintain an official presence in Malaysia. For international CSP that does not have a local presence but provide cloud services to end-users in Malaysia via a local data centre, the data centre will be the one that has to apply for the licence....

Evidence of the Taiwan-based company’s actions was discovered when the popular tech site, Anandtech, was testing a European version of Oppo’s Reno3 Pro smartphone. For clarity, this version of the phone runs on MediaTek’s Helio P95 SoC, while its Chinese counterpart runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G 5G SoC. It wasn’t the Anandtech writer received a version of the Reno3 Pro running on the MediaTek Dimensity 1000L that he began suspecting something was amuck....

More specifically, the available codecs that the new API will support are H264 and HEVC (basically H265), although specific support for each of these codecs and their encoding tools must be queried using the ID3D12VideoDevice::CheckFeatureSupport, as there are driver support requirements. For the record, DX12 already features APIs that support GPU acceleration for video decoding, processing, and motion estimation. With this API, though, Windows 11 users will now have a more consistent approach for video apps....

On Tuesday, the tech company announced an online event to be held on 24 June. The event promises to reveal “what’s next for Windows.” The event invitation featured an image of what appears to be a new Windows logo, with only two vertical bars of light shining through the window, creating an outline that resembled the number 11. Microsoft then released an animated version of the image, demonstrating that the corporation purposefully omitted the horizontal bars....

The removal of the solid back plates will make them look better when you switch Windows to its dark theme. Or any other coloured theme for that matter, as Microsoft demonstrates on its blog. The Start menu looks a lot cleaner and more uniform as a result. In addition to this cosmetic change, the company is also testing some thing else with the Alt+F4 funciton. Rather than just letting you switch between windows, the company wants to put each tab of Microsoft Edge here as well....

The company explains that on land, data centres are prone to going wrong in all sorts of ways. From corrosion due to exposure to oxygen and humidity, temperature fluctuations and even just getting bumped into by people. But dumping the data centres, sealed with nitrogen inside a big metal tube, into the sea solves all of these problems. As a result, Microsoft says that the underwater data centres were eight times more reliable than similar ones on land....

According to sources, news of the supposed mid-range Pixels first popped up after the release of Android Q. Specifically, XDA Developers discovered two new codenames, “sargo” and “bonito” listed alongside other Pixel codenames. Further source code diving into Android Q revealed a library used by the camera app on the OS. 9to5Google also reports that the Pixel 3a and 3a XL will feature 5.6-inch and a 6-inch display, respectively. Both devices will share a handful of features from the original Pixel 3 series....

What made his remark rather interesting is that it took place not long after AM published a list of government websites on its Facebook page that the group claimed to have been defaced by another group called Cyberpunk Team as part of #OpsWakeUp21. As noted in the list, these websites belonged to Sabah and Perak state governments as well as the Royal Malaysian Customs, Construction Industry Development Board, and Selayang Municipal Council....

Then, there’s Laika, a personal favourite of mine that has consistently set the standard for what stop-motion can accomplish. I first fell in love with Laika way back in 2009, when Coraline came out, a deliciously creepy child horror film. Yes, it can be done! Then there was their crowning achievement of Kubo and the Two Strings in 2016, a film that was the perfect balance of melancholy, mature themes, magnificent design and direction....

Monster Hunter Rise adopts a lot of features from the very successful Monster Hunter: World and its Iceborne expansion. But it also introduces a lot of new ones of its own, which makes for a gameplay experience quite unlike a traditional Monster Hunter title. Most notable of them is the Wire Bug. With it, you throw a grappling hook into the air, the bug catches it and pulls you forward....