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Today, Netflix released its list of the most POPULAR titles of 2019 in Malaysia. These are the titles that Malaysians watched the most this year. (Note: Only Netflix Originals that were released in 2019 are taken into account. Which means content like Friends, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Star Wars: The Last Jedi, etc do not count.) There are a number of takeaways from this. For one, the two most acclaimed Netflix movies this year, The Irishman (96% on Rotten Tomatoes) and Marriage Story (95% on Rotten Tomatoes) wasn’t a part of the 10 most-watched Netflix originals among Malaysians....

The entire campaign is split into four distinct categories, with each lasting three days. The first category is Tech Madness, which lasts from today until 1 November. The next one is Beauty Madness, which lasts from 2 November to 4 November. The final two categories are Family Madness and Lifestyle Madness, which will be from 5 November to 7 November, and 8 November to 10 November, respectively. As you can probably tell from the name, each period will determine the type of products that will go on sale....

(Some context: My favourite war film of the decade is Hacksaw Ridge. There, director Mel Gibson intricately dissects its lead character and explores his psyche in a profound manner before giving us some of the most gruelling and brutal war set pieces I have ever seen and even then, it was all about making you feel. By the end of it, my tear glands had emptied the same way it had when Lee Chong Wei lost to Lin Dan at the 2012 Olympics....

REvil, the hacker group responsible for the attack, reportedly announced the breach on their data leak site and showed images of allegedly stolen files as proof – documents including financial spreadsheets, bank balances, and bank communications. Bleeping Computer’s report suggested that hackers may have exploited a Microsoft Exchange vulnerability to carry out their attack. Recently, Microsoft blamed China-backed hackers for breaching their Exchange servers, resulting in tens of thousands of victims around the world....

The lawsuit is being brought forward by the lawfirm, Pomerrantz LLP. The firm is reportedly bringing together several potential investors of the video game company in order to bring forth a case against it. There has been no official word as to the details of the lawsuit, but word on the wire has pointed to several factors. Chief among which being expanding its buyouts of employees, executives leaving en masse, and allegations of racist abuse of one employee who was working at the company at one point....

The Washington Post reports that Activision Blizzard paid Ovia, a pregnancy-tracking app, for the data of its female employees. Part of the data includes information from when the employee first intended to conceive, all the way to details of the child. This ranges from the child’s name, all the way to details of complications such as postpartum haemorrhage. The company’s workers reportedly get a special version of the app, which relays anonymised data back to Activision Blizzard....

According to Bloomberg, the layoff is, unsurprisingly, part of the videogame developer and publisher’s effort to restructure the company. Aimed at centralising its overall functions, as well as to boost its profits. The layoffs are also expected to target non-development positions, which are basically roles in publishing, marketing, and sales to name a few. Despite the changes, analysts are forecasting the company’s sales to decline by about 2% from US$7....

With the Creative Cloud, users can start a project on Photoshop CC on the iPad and continue it on the desktop – and vice versa. This is made possible thanks to a new file format called Cloud PSD. Quoting Adobe: “…when we ship Photoshop on the iPad, [Cloud PSDs] will also run and automatically show up on your desktop…Suddenly, you’ll have this cloud-powered roundtrip experience akin to a Google Docs experience, where literally the source of truth of your Photoshop creation is in the cloud....

Aozora Kurumi, AirAsia’s first virtual idol, is described by the company as clad in a Victorian-style outfit and accompanied by a pet cat named Jetson. As a digital avatar, she will be voiced by the human talent chosen through an open audition held in March. Going forward, AirAsia is promising “exciting online content” and live broadcasts from its virtual idol in the gaming and lifestyle categories. Wasting no time, the virtual idol has already begun posting on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram....

But if you think that is about BigPay once again…no, that is not the case at all. Instead, I would like to point you to a new fintech service that AirAsia has just launched for its Super App called AirAsia Pocket. The name was actually mentioned by the company during the launch of Capital A back in late January 2022. However, at that time, I honestly didn’t give it much thought as I assumed it was just another name for BigPay’s integration with AirAsia Super App....

The announcement came via a tweet by Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. According to follow-up tweets, Chesky said that the company is working with its own nonprofit Airbnb.org and other NGOs to provide support for more pressing needs. He also says that the accommodations themselves were made available by hosts who volunteered. The company is also covering the costs of doing so. — Brian Chesky (@bchesky) August 24, 2021 It’s no doubt a very generous move by Airbnb....

The review of the 13900K, which was done via collaboration between Twitter hardware enthusiast, Raichu (@OneRaichu), and ECSM_Official, gives us a glimpse of the CPU’s prowess, along with the new hardware that it is expected to ship out with. This includes a new Z790 motherboard, which is expected to launch simultaneously with Raptor Lakes CPUs. Interestingly, the performance metrics generated from that combination were seemingly still under NDA, and the results posted online was reportedly obtained with the use of the older Z690 motherboard....

The images appear to have first been posted by Slashleaks. In one of the images, we can see the front of the alleged Pixel 4a and its use of a punch hole display, with said punch hole located in a pretty unorthodox position to the top-left of the screen. It’s unorthodox to us because most smartphone manufacturers to date typically have the punch hole situated either to far-left or far-right corner of the display or simply place it smack dab in the middle of the display’s forehead....

First spotted on the Chinese brand, Baidu’s page, the NUC 12 houses a 12th Gen Core i7-127800H CPU, comprising six P-Cores and eight E-Cores, giving the processor a combined total of 14-cores and 20-threads. Moreover, the laptop CPU features 24MB of Cachce and has a boost clock of 4.7GHz. Of course, the main highlight of the upcoming mini PIC is the GPU, which as we mentioned at the start, is the ARC 770M....

The images were initially leaked by Chiphell and soon picked up by the popular leakster site, Videocardz. From the looks of it, NVIDIA may be trying something with the cooling solution on the RTX 3080; it appears to be using a dual-fan cooling solution, but the cooler shroud design suggests unique fan orientation. Specifically, one fan will be positioned on the front of the card, as per usual, while the second fan is seen on the other side....

The rumour first came about via YouTuber coreteks, who is known for having correctly predicted the arrival and existence of multiple AMD Radeon products and software features. Details about the 6950XT’s hardware specifications are, as you can imagine, still scarce, but based on what has been floating around the internet, the card could ship out with 18Gbps, up from 16Gbps of the 6900XT. — coreteks (@coreteks) February 3, 2022 On paper, that’s should translate to a 12....

Referred to as Navi 2X, RDNA2 will still be based on AMD’s 7nm die lithography, and almost certainly with an improved version of the process node. On paper, AMD says that the unreleased GPU architecture will have a 50% improvement in performance-per-watt, better power efficiency. Comparable to an enthusiast-class, high-end graphics card. Which brings us to the next point. In the next slide, AMD says that Navi 2X, will support hardware-based ray-tracing and Variable Rate Shading....

Fast forward to just a little more than a year, AMD is following up with the direct successor the Ryzen 9 5950X. The question is, though, is this CPU worth the RM3700 asking price or will stepping down to the slightly cheaper, yet still just as powerful Ryzen 9 5900X, suffice for a high-end CPU. Specification In terms of technical details, the 5950X is virtually identical to the 3950X, save for the obvious difference in CPU architecture and increase in both base and boost clock....

The listing on the EEC shows three cards that, coincidentally, are a part of ASUS’ ROG Strix gaming series. To clarify, the first card is a standard EVO edition, the second being the slightly tweaked Advanced Edition, and the last one being the souped-up OC edition. Whatever the edition, all three cards sport the same 8GB GDDR6 of graphics memory. To be absolutely clear, these are not “Super” variations of NVIDIA’s RTX 2060, and yes, we are fully aware that the RTX 2060 Super also comes with 8GB of GDDR6 graphics memory....

For starters, Android and Windows users will soon be able to participate in a FaceTime session via FaceTime Link which can be created and shared by iPhone, iPad, and Mac users. The link can even be passed around through third-party apps such as WhatsApp and others. Even though the session will take place through a web browser for users on non-Apple devices, the company stated that the session will continue to be end-to-end encrypted....