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According to specs sheet from WD, the 2020 My Passport models offers a read speed of up to 1050MB/s while they can also go up to 1000MB/s when it comes to write speed. The company also stated that the portable SSD is able to withstand a drop from a height as high as 1.98m. — WD® (@WDCreators) August 20, 2020 Other than that, users can also take advantage of the password enabled 256-bit AES hardware encryption feature to help secure their data inside the drive....

According to The New York Times (NYT), citing people who are familiar with the matter, employees of the social media giant have been instructed to develop a product similar to Clubhouse. The people added that the potential new app by Facebook is known internally as Fireside, but not much else about it has been revealed at this time. “We’ve been connecting people through audio and video technologies for many years and are always exploring new ways to improve that experience for people,” a Facebook spokeswoman told NYT....

In June, you could run a Google search for phone numbers via WhatsApp’s wa.me domain. Now the same thing can be done via the web.whatsapp.com domain instead. The discovery was made by security researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia, who shared it on Twitter. The researcher also pointed out that WhatsApp has a text file called “Robots.txt” that is supposed to stop Google from indexing its websites. But the fact that phone numbers can be searched this way indicates that they are not working properly....

WABetainfo reports that the Facebook subsidiary is testing having up to eight participants in a group or video call. Initiating it involves making the call from an existing group. If the group has more than four members, you’ll be presented with the option of choosing who to call. Alternatively, there will be another option labelled “new group call” in the calls tab. You can select it, and then the contacts you want to call....

Under the guidance of Kevin Feige, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has become the highest grossing movie franchise of all time, making over $18 billion worldwide and earning a consistently positive string of reviews. A couple of months ago, the MCU film with a black director, a black protagonist and mostly black supporting cast, broke the glass barrier and became the first comic book to ever receive an Oscar nomination. I am of course talking about Black Panther....

Whitta was on the Kinda Funny Games YouTube show last week, discussing the news of the cancelled Star Wars game, among other things. And he looked devastated when the report was reported to him, before voicing his own very strong opinions on the matter. The video in question is embedded above, and you can watch his reaction for yourself. He and host Greg Miller spent a good 30 minutes discussing the matter, before moving on to other topics....

The Xiaomi 12 Lite sports a flat 6.55-inch AMOLED display with Corning Gorilla Glass 5 and surrounded by considerably slim bezels. The panel also features a refresh rate of 120Hz and touch sampling rate of 240Hz, as well as HDR10+ and Dolby Vision support. Additionally, the phone itself comes with dual speakers, under-display fingerprint scanner, and a USB-C port. As for colour selection, the Lite is available in Black, Pink, and Green options....

Xiaomi 13 Pro The Pro model features a 120Hz 6.73-inch 3200×1400 display, the same as the 12 Pro, but this time, it uses an LTPO OLED panel instead of AMOLED and boasts a higher peak brightness of 1,900 nits. For durability, the screen is equipped with Corning Gorilla Glass Victus and the phone itself is rated with IP68 dust and water protection. As previously mentioned, both flagship devices are powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, which is paired with up to 12GB of LPDDR5X RAM and can be configured with a whopping 512GB of next-generation UFS 4....

For the most part, the phone is identical to its standard version. You have the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G chipset, the 4160mAh battery and the 48MP main camera, to name a few items on the spec sheet. Though it looks like this particular special edition only comes with 8GB RAM and 256GB of storage. — Ice universe (@UniverseIce) September 1, 2020 Of course, the main draw of the Xiaomi Mi 10 Youth Doraemon Edition is the special character theme....

Powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 665, the Mi A3 is equipped with a 6.088-inch HD AMOLED display. On its back is a triple camera system that features 48MP wide-angle primary camera, 8MP ultra wide-angle camera, and 2MP depth camera. On the front side of the Mi A3, there is a 32MP selfie camera that is being housed within the teardrop-shaped display notch. The phone also comes standard with a 4030mAh battery that supports 18W fast charger, alongside IR blaster, and 3....

As a start, the Mi CC9 Pro is a camera focused smartphone, sporting a Penta-camera setup with a 108MP 1/1.33″ main sensor and optical image stabilisation (OIS). In addition, There’s also a 5x OIS super-telephoto zoom lens, a 20MP 117-degrees wide-angle sensor, a 12MP 2x telephoto sensor, and a macro sensor. Around the front, the Mi CC9 Pro mounts a single 32MP sensor for its selfie camera. Xiaomi has included night mode shooting feature and the familiar beauty feature....

In case you missed the news, the Pad 5 is equipped with an 11-inch display that has a native resolution of 2560 x 1600 alongside a 120HZ refresh rate and Dolby Vision support. Powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 together with 6GB of RAM, the display also supports Xiaomi Smart Pen although the availability and pricing of this stylus in Malaysia will only be announced at a later date. The Pad 5 is also equipped with a 13MP camera on its back while there is another 8MP camera on its front....

Sultan Abdullah has then called upon all MPs to Istana Negara in order to personally interview each of them, with the objective to find the suitable candidate to become the next Prime Minister. Given the situation, throngs of journalists have braved the elements and camped in front of the Istana Negara for the past few days in order to provide the latest news to the Rakyat. Their dedication to their assignment has received the attention of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong himself who actually went down to the entrance to personally distribute meals to the journalists yesterday....

During the China Mobile Global Partner Conference which took place just a few days after Snapdragon Tech Summit, Xiaomi has brought forward the 5G version of Mi Mix 3. First announced to the world around two months ago, the phone is known for its magnetic-based sliding body which allows the company to deliver a notch-less full-screen experience. However, the Mi Mix 3 5G is running on the new Snapdragon 855 SoC instead of the existing Snapdragon 845 as per the 4G model....

To understand the magnitude of this change, consider that Zoom’s profit in 2019 only amounted to US$21.7 million (~RM88.1 million). The following year, it rapidly ballooned to US$671.5 million (~RM2.7 billion). According to the BBC, the company’s total revenue in 2020 was US$2.6 billion (~RM10.6 billion) or an astounding increase of 326%. But with even those numbers, Zoom can hardly rest on its laurels. People around the world are being vaccinated and lockdowns are being slowly lifted....

Specifically, Zotac’s new Twin Edge lineup consists of two SKUs: an OC variant and a non-OC variant. To break it down further, the non-OC variant of the Twin Edge has a boost clock of 1725MHz, while the OC version’s boost clock is slightly higher at 1755MHz. Boost clocks notwithstanding, both cards are RTX 3070s through and through. Meaning that they have the same 8GB GDDR6 graphics memory running at 14Gbps, 5888 CUDA Cores, as well as the same 220W power consumption....

Recently, Oscar Isaac appeared on The Today Show to discuss the upcoming Netflix film Triple Frontier, where he stars alongside Ben Affleck and Charlie Hunnam. Naturally, the conversation steered towards Star Wars: Episode IX. While Isaac, who plays Poe Dameron in the franchise couldn’t reveal much, he did mention that Episode IX will be a definitive conclusion to the Skywalker storyline. This news may not come as a huge surprise, but one can’t help but wonder what will happen to the new characters introduced in The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi?...

Even though Apple has just made its 2020 iPad Pro available for purchase recently through its Malaysian website, the pricing was already revealed back on the launch night. In case you missed it, here is the full price list: 11-inch 2020 iPad Pro 128GB: RM 3,499 (Wi-Fi) / RM 4,149 (LTE) 256GB: RM 3,949 / RM 4,599 512GB: RM 4,849 / RM 5,499 1TB: RM 5,749 / RM 6,399 12....

The Asia Pacific Predator League is an annual esports competition that has been running for several years now, and the 2020 edition features a sizeable total prize pool of $400,000 USD split between the 2 games: Dota 2 and PUBG. The level of competition between all of the participating nations has always been intense in the Predator League, and this was exemplified in the results of the Predator League 2019 as 6 different countries were represented in the top 3 of Dota 2 and PUBG, with Malaysia being represented by team Geek Fam who achieved 3rd place in the Dota 2 finals....

Naturally, I made our way back to the website to configure a Mac Pro with maxed-out hardware options. By doing that, we ended up with a total bill of RM 231,608 which is quite hefty, to say the least. So, how did we get from RM 25,999 and then shoot up all the way to RM 231,608? Well, here are the costs of the add-on components: RM 30,800: 2.5GHz Intel Xeon W 28-core 56-thread processor RM 110,000: 1....