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Sad to say, however, not all fans felt the same way about our girl Arya. In fact, many fans are out there decrying Arya as a Mary Sue for her monumental accomplishment. They felt that it wasn’t earned and that her character was merely pandering to women with empowerment fantasies. To that I say: Go stick the pointy of something down your throat and shut up! I know a lot of us were expecting either Dany or Jon to be the one to kill the Night King (I know, I was) but I’m here to tell you why she isn’t freaking a Mary Sue and why she deserves to be the one to plunge that dagger into the Night King....

As part of Garmin’s battery life focused smartwatch lineup, the new Instinct 2 series – like its predecessor – comes with a monochrome, sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel displays which are designed to be energy efficient. Even though the watches lack the ability to display colour, Garmin still offers users with a variety of customisable watch faces, including some new designs that are exclusive to the Asian region. Both Instinct 2 models and their respective variants are equipped with a fiber-reinforced polymer casing, QuickFit compatible straps, multi-satellite positioning support (GPS, GLONASS and Galileo), Bluetooth connectivity, Android and iOS compatibility, and are rated at 10ATM in terms of water resistance....

The new watch is basically a variant of the Garmin Instinct GPS, complete with the same overall design, as well as similar features and functionalities. So you can expect the aforementioned heart and stress tracking, GPS capability, and Garmin’s Body Battery feature to be included on the new Instinct Eports Edition. The only new addition that is exclusive to this model is the ability to transmit the health tracking data via Bluetooth to Garmin’s PC streaming tool called “STR3AMUP!...

Now, Malaysian esports team Geek Fam is stepping into the realm of esports education with the announcement of their new esports tuition program known as the Geek Academy. In surprising and exciting move by the organisation, Geek Fam has actually partnered with the Academy of Esports in order to establish the Geek Academy, with the previous Academy of Esports branding being assimilated under the banner of the Geek Academy to make way for the new unified branding and operations of the Geek Academy....

Geely expects the first vehicles from its subsidiary to be delivered in the third quarter of this year. Zeekr apparently wants to deliver one new electric vehicle to market every year for the coming five years. And in case you’re wondering, the Chinese name of Zeekr is Ji Ke. The new electric car company will be a 51%-49% joint venture between Geely and its parent Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, with an initial investment of 2 billion yuan (~RM1....

At the very top of the list is Gigabyte’s AORUS GeForce RTX 4090 Xtreme Waterforce 24G. Much like its top-tier Ampere predecessor, this version of the Lovelace powerhouse is an AIO-cooled GPU, connected to a massive 360mm aluminium radiator, that in turn has its temperature kept by three 120mm double ball bearing fans. In addition, the tubes that connect it to the CPU pump are made from FEP, designed to minimise the loss of water, as well as retain a high water pressure tolerance....

In a paper it published in the science journal, Nature, Google explains how Sycamore managed to perform an extremely complex calculation in just 200 seconds. A feat that it alleges would take the world’s fastest supercomputer – NVIDIA’s recently announced EGX supercomputer – approximately 10000 years to pull off. For context, Quantum Supremacy is a state of computing whereby a quantum computer is capable of solving problems that neither conventional nor classical computers are unable to....

The way the internet search giant explains it, Google follows what it calls the 4R framework. Half of this involves removing content that violates its community guidelines, and reducing their visibility. The other half consists of raising or promoting authoritative voices on information, and rewarding trusted content creators. One example of this is the addition of the News shelves on the site. Whenever you’re browsing, or even searching for something specific, you’ll see a section that’s reserved just for this....

While Google didn’t reveal the story behind the doodle, the artwork seems to be inspired by the Sudirman’s acclaimed performance at Asian Popular Music Awards 1989 in Royal Albert Hall: In addition to his birthday, the unveiling of the Google Doodle seems to be timed nicely with the upcoming Raya celebration. During his lifetime, Sudirman has recorded quite a number of Raya songs which that are still being cherished until today....

If you’ve never seen a Street View trekker, their work is both unenviable and far more arduous, as they are used to traverse areas that are otherwise inaccessible by a car. These trekkers are carried by boats, sheep, camels, and more often than not, on foot by scout troops. Who are able to obtain high-resolution images of these “not so easy to access” areas. How Google manages to stitch all these photos resides in a technique known as photogrammetry....

The tech giant unveiled some features of the lineup back in August, such as high refresh rate displays and the use of Google’s mysterious custom Tensor chip, which we expect to find out more about during the launch. While the details under the hood have been mostly kept under wrap, Google already started airing ads and displaying the phones for public viewing at its physical store in New York City....

The video was recently published as part of the “Hey Google” Smart Home Summit and clearly had a slide that showed the words “September 8th Android 11 launch” at the top of it. Thankfully, the good folks at Android Police were able to screenshot that moment before the video was ultimately taken down. The launch date seems to match up with Google’s own schedule of launching the final build of its mobile OS to the masses....

First launched in 2011, Ice Cream Sandwich now makes up 1% of the total Android user base. The seven year-old operating system will not see any Google Play updates after version 14.7.99 for the app. While 1% may not sound like much, it’s important to remember that that’s still 20 million out of the 2 billion Android devices (in 2017) still running on what is already an old and archaic version of the Android OS....

TensorFlow Privacy works based on the theory of differential privacy. The code is similar to the one used in Gmail’s Smart Compose. That predicts what you’re going to type next by collecting data from other people’s emails while preventing Smart Compose from exposing sensitive data. To clarify further, differential privacy is a statistical technique aimed at maximising the accuracy of queries. From statistical databases while measuring the privacy impact on individuals whose information is in the database....

As with the company’s other efforts prior to this, the launch of this new service aims to help small and traditional local businesses boost their sales during these trying times. Food Courts will also provide Grab customers with a wide selection of affordable food which can be delivered to them via a single order. This would eliminate the need for users to order separate meals from participating vendors as individual deliveries, as well as also allowing them to save on delivery fees....

ORIGINAL STORY [15 SEPT / 11:50 PM]: An unidentified organization has claimed that it has managed to identify vulnerabilities within the ePenyata Gaji which is the salary data system for Malaysian civil servants. In addition to that, the organization has also claimed that it has managed to breach the system and obtain a significant amount of data from the system with the help of security vulnerabilities. According to the statement from the group which was published by Sin Chew Daily, among items that it claimed to have obtained from ePenyata Gaji is a database in JSON and CSV format which has more than a million rows of identities....

For the full version of the game, developer Supergiant Games say that it will launch around the second half of 2020. Initially, the game is supposed to only be available on other platforms after the game leaves the early access phase. At any rate, the date marks the end of the game’s one year-long exclusivity period with the EGS. The game will make its appearance on Steam with all the updates it’s gotten during its EGS-exclusive phase....

News of the unsecured page first reached the ears of local tech site Pokde.NET, who in turn had received a link that contained 1852 entries. All belonging to HiSense customers who had uploaded their warranty registration and claims for the brand’s products. To make matters worse, the page is apparently still unsecured, as the last warranty registration was conducted just one week ago. Pokde.NET surmises that the security issue stems from the Cform plugin flaw that leaves the page open to exploitation....

Among the variant that will be made available in our market is the HR-V RS which is the first HR-V release to feature the e:HEV hybrid technology in Malaysia. In fact, the model will carry the same intelligent Multi-Mode Drive (i-MMD) powertrain from the latest City RS and City Hatchback RS albeit with a slightly different power output. HR-V e:HEV’s i-MMD powertrain. [Image: Honda Malaysia.]The powertrain setup inside HR-V RS with e:HEV technology....

What you might consider the stereotypical protester look is made possible thanks to the most recent update to the game’s Diamond Casino Heist update. The update added yellow hard hats and gas masks as clothing options. Add these to the more easily obtainable black clothing and Molotov cocktail, and get the typical protester look. Gamers in Hong Kong gathered using the online forum LIHKG to join the online “crew” called Stand With Hong Kong....