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OpenAI Five wins against Dota2 world champions

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OpenAI Five wins against Dota2 world champions
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Have you ever expect artificial intelligence (AI) to win against human especially in games? We have a new world champion for the Dota2, which is not a human but it is an AI. The OpenAI Five system defeats two of the world champion teams easily. The match which carried out on the weekend proves that AI can really play and win against the world champions.

OpenAI shares the details on its blog post regarding the game-playing agent. Although this is the fifth version of the system, OpenAI says, it is still using the same neural network however this round it goes into deeper training.

In total, the current version of OpenAI Five has consumed 800 petaflops/s-days and experienced about 45,000 years of Dota self-play over 10 real-time months (up from about 10,000 years over 1.5 real-time months as of The International), for an average of 250 years of simulated experience per day.

To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time an RL [reinforcement learning] agent has been trained using such a long-lived training run.

We can easily say the one of the world’s most complex game is Dota2. This is because it requires a lot of thinking skill to play it. Other than that, players have to control five of their “heroes” in a large map at a given time is difficult. The OpenAI Five system works as a team. Usually, if the AI plays when there is an interruption from the human, it has very high chances to misbehave. Surprisingly, the system was able to play pretty well without any issues.

Are you interested to take on the AI by yourself? Why not give it a try! OpenAI Five is launching its arena, where Dota2 players are welcome to play with or against the OpenAI Five system. Players need to sign up before the due date. Players can start to play starting from Thursday evening 6 PM until the end of Sunday, Pacific time. Malaysians planning to join the game, make sure you register yourself before April 19. This is because according to Malaysian time the game starts on Friday 9 AM onwards.

In conclusion, AI is exactly the future of technology. Sooner you can expect AI wherever you go.

Google Pixel 3a and 3a XL to arrive on May 7

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Google Pixel 3a and 3a XL to arrive on May 7
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Every year, Google will be having its I/O keynote in the Q2 of the year. This year, we are expecting Google to launch the Google Pixel smartphone on May 7. Google teases the launch date on its official Google Store with a tagline “Something big is coming to the Pixel universe”. From this tagline, it is clear Google will be revealing the Google Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL.

This is not the first time Google leaks its own smartphone launch. Previously, Google leaks the Pixel 3a name on its own website. We also can expect Google to introduce the Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL at a lower price than the current Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL. this could be Google’s first low-end smartphone which features the same camera performance as the last year Pixel 3. Rumors are also saying that the Pixel 3a will have a plastic material behind the phone.

In conclusion, if this is the date of Google I/O 2019, most probably we will be doing our live blog session where all of you can attend it. Stay tuned for more updates from us.

iOS 13 Rumors Roundup – Dark Mode, Multitasking

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iOS 13 Rumors Roundup – Dark Mode, Multitasking
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Apple will be having its largest Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) on June 3 until June 7 in San Jose, California. During this event, few things we can expect from Apple. First, Apple will unveil the next OS for the iPhone which will be the iOS 13. Second will be OS updates for the Apple Mac and the watchOS too.

According to the current rumors from 9to5Mac, iOS 13 will feature a system-wide Dark Mode. All Apple iOS built-in apps will be having the Dark Mode feature. This will help to reduce eye strains for users who use during the night or in low-light situation. Apart from that, the iPad will have productivity improvement such as the better multitasking.

According to 9to5Mac, Apple will introduce the multitasking card feature. Each of the windows in the iPad will have its own card where it will stack and can be switch between application easily. Although when we say it sounds complex, users might like it when Apple shows it during the WWDC keynote demo session. Other features we can look forward would be the undo gesture. Currently, you have to shake your device to undo a text. With the iOS 13, most probably, you can simply use three finger swipe gesture to undo a text. Well to redo it back u can just swipe right with your fingers.

Apart from that, Apple also might be doing some UI changes to the volume level indicator. The current volume indicator when you reduce or increase the volume, it is pretty obtrusive to your face. There are more changes Apple might be planning for the iOS 13.

In conclusion, these are not the only feature Apple is introducing in the iOS 13. There are hundreds of updates which we will have to wait until June 3. We will be covering the live blog update on the whole event. Make sure, you all visit this blog to get the instant updates. Here is the full breakdown of the iOS 13 feature list.

Facebook is combining News Feed and Stories into one

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Facebook is combining News Feed and Stories into one
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Facebook introduces the Stories feature in 2017. After two years, Facebook might be planning to combine the Stories and the News Feed feature into a single feed like in Snapchat Stories. According to app researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who is the first person to discover this interface change says the interface is only available in the Facebook for Android.

At this moment, the Facebook Stories feature is at the top of the app whereas, the News Feed is available in a separate interface where you have to scroll down infinitely to view updates. What we can see from this new design is both the Stories and News Feed will appear in the same interface. Below tweet shows the new interface design changes.

When Facebook launches Facebook Stories in 2017, it was not popular until 2018. On 2018, Facebook says that Facebook and Stories have 300 million active users. One of the Facebook spokesperson said that this new feature is not testing it publicly as for now. Facebook itself is not sure yet whether this will be part of the public release. It’s just part of the Facebook experiment only.

In conclusion, this could be realized as a feature some day. It all depends on the Facebook test team. We might need to wait longer to confirm this new feature. This is because Facebook sometimes might claim it is a bug after a few months. This happens for Instagram last year.

Facebook officially rolls out Dark Mode to Messenger

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Facebook officially rolls out Dark Mode to Messenger
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Last month, Facebook rolls out the Dark Mode for Messenger in certain countries. Today, Facebook announces it is rolling the feature for Messenger globally. Previously, this feature is hidden behind the Easter egg where users have to send the moon emoji in order to activate it. Now that would not be necessary. Users can start to enable this feature by toggling from the Messenger settings.

The main reasons, applications are changing its display to Dark Mode is because it will reduce the glares of the screen. This enables the user to use their smartphone under low-light situations without straining their eyes a lot. According to Google, enabling the Dark Mode feature on smartphones can save battery usage as it uses less power to display it.

There are some users who prefers to use the Dark Mode feature as it looks cool. It all depends on the user preference. We have started to see many major apps companies such as Twitter and Microsoft are enabling the Dark Mode feature on its applications.

In conclusion, introducing this Dark Mode feature is really good especially tech companies such as Facebook. This is because billion of people are using Facebook daily especially under a low-light situation. The blue light from the screen can cause severe disease. Read our previous article which we explain about the blue light effects.

[UPDATE] Spotify Lite arrives in Malaysia after Indonesia

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[UPDATE] Spotify Lite arrives in Malaysia after Indonesia
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[UPDATE] – Today, Spotify officially launches Spotify Lite globally. Previously, it launches the Spotify Lite app in few countries as a beta version. Now, it is available in 36 markets around Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa.

Spotify is one of the world’s most popular music streaming platform. According to Marketing Magazine, Malaysians are spending an average of 148 minutes per day listening to music on Spotify. To provide wider music experience to more users, Spotify is rolling out the Spotify Lite beta app for the Malaysians. Spotify launches this app in three countries last year which are Brazil, Mexico, and Indonesia.

Today Malaysia will be the fourth country to receive this application. However, Spotify currently only allows Android devices to download this application from the Google Play Store. Apart from that, Spotify is also urging users to give their feedback on the usage and also request new features for the app in the Spotify community page.

What is Spotify Lite?

As the name itself says, “Lite” is the lighter version of the current Spotify app. This means this app is mainly for users who are having low-end smartphones with slower internet connections.

Image from Android Authority

The main key difference between these two apps is the amount of data being consumed is lesser. Other than the size of the app is also lesser to the current Spotify app. However, there are few downsides using the lighter version. First, users would not be able to download songs for offline usage. Moreover, the high-quality setting is also disabled due to high data consuming. Users can set their monthly cap of data usage by the app at 250MB, 500MB, 750MB, 1GB, 2GB, or 3GB.

In conclusion, if you a music listener who cares about your data usage, then you should give a try of the Spotify Lite app. Sharing some of your cool ideas to Spotify could make Spotify implement the feature one day on the Spotify Lite app.

[UPDATE] Maxis Home Fibre faces service disruption

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[UPDATE] Maxis Home Fibre faces service disruption
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Last week Sunday, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram faces hours of service outages. Apart from that, we got to know Maxis also is having service disruption for its Maxis Home Fibre service on the same day. Maxis sent out an official announcement that the issue is resolved.

Some of our customers may have experienced some disruption to their home fibre 
services. We have been working with our access provider to resolve this and 
we are pleased to inform that services are now recovering. We would like to 
apologise to those impacted for the inconvenience.

However, users are still complaining about the network issue on its Facebook and Twitter page stating that they are still not able to access the internet. After that, Maxis did not give any explanation on the current service disruption until today. According to Lowyat, few customers who call the Maxis Customer Service careline were told that Maxis might require 48 hours to fix this issue. This is still just the expected duration only.

User complaints from Twitter

TechmonQuay will update once there are any updates from Maxis side. As for now, all Maxis OnePrime customers are also facing service disruption. Stay tuned for more updates on this issue.

UPDATE – Maxis has fully restored the service. Users will be able to access to their internet and IPTV now.

MCMC says 5G technology does not harm health

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MCMC says 5G technology does not harm health
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The 5G network is the next technology which uses by worldwide users. Korea has already rolled out its first 5G network a few weeks back. Malaysia is one of the countries which will realize the 5G network sooner than we thought. Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) is organizing the 5G showcase at Putrajaya which will happen around April 18. There are some rumors circulating in the social media which says 5G technology is harmful to health.

However, MCMC is giving assurance that users should not worry about this issue. Professor Dr. Tharek Abd. Rahman, who is the Commission Member of the MCMC says that there is no evidence until now to prove that 5G network technology is harmful to the user. Other than that, he also says according to the current studies the exposure of the Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Field (RF-EMF) is still under the recommended limits as per the guidelines of the International Commission on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection (ICNIRP).

Apart from that, the World Health Organisation (WHO) also concludes that the current evidence does not confirm any evidence of health consequences spotted from the exposure until low-level electromagnetic fields. This statistics are based on 25,000 articles being published over the past 30 years.

In conclusion, with the introduction of the 5G network technology in the world, we would not face any health related issues due to the exposure is at recommended limit only. For more information, you can visit the MCMC microsite that explains about the EMF.


Acer launches products which focus on creativity

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Acer launches products which focus on creativity
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Recently, Acer organizes it’s 2019 global press conference Next @ Acer at New York. During the press conference, Acer launches various product line which focuses on creativity. Acer launches various products such as high-end desktop, laptops, and monitors which specially design for professional creators such as graphic designers, engineers, and game developers. All of these items are part of Acer new brand ConceptD.

Notebooks: ConceptD 9, ConceptD 7, ConceptD 5

Let’s analyze the specifications deeper. Firstly, the three notebook models come with the Pantone Validate 4K UHD screen. Based on the Adobe RGB color gamut, the display brings out the color as in true life. The ConceptD 9 and Concept 7 comes with the new 9th Generation i9 and i7 processor respectively.

With all these great features, what could be the possible price of the notebook? The ConceptD 9 notebooks starts at $4,999 (RM20,580), the ConceptD 7 is priced at $2,299 (RM9,465) and the ConceptD 5 is priced at $1,699 (RM6,944). That is one of the most expensive notebooks we can say. The ConceptD 9 will be available in North America, EMEA, and China at the beginning of August. Whereas, the ConceptD 7 will be available in both North America and EMEA in July and August in China. Finally, that’s the lowest spec of the ConceptD brand which will be available earlier in North America and China in June and in EMEA in July.

High-end desktops: ConceptD 900, ConceptD 500

Apart from the notebooks, Acer also launches the ConceptD 900 and ConceptD 500 desktops. These are the high-end desktops which have the highest model of the NVIDIA GPU and Intel processor. It’s processor able to perform complex activities such as visual effects (VFX) rendering, 3D modeling, and gaming simulations. Those two models come with Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6148 and Intel 9th generation i9 processor. The Intel Xeon Gold 6148 processor has about 40-cores which able to perform a complex task. At the same time, it allows multitasking to an extreme level.

Both of the desktop is using the NVIDIA Quadro RTX GPU. Other than that, the storage can be upgraded up to 60TB and having all these high-end specifications, the fan noise is reduced to lesser than 40dB. This means very hardly you can hear the fan noise inside.

If you want to own these desktops you have to pay $19,999 (RM82,335) for the ConceptD 900 model and $1,699 (RM6,995) for the ConceptD 500 model. People from North America can start to purchase it from July onwards, whereas June in EMEA and China from December onwards.

Monitors: ConceptD CM7321K, ConceptD CP7271K

Without launching the Acer monitors it’s not complete. Acer launches the new ConceptD monitors at the press event in New York. Both of the monitors have extreme color accuracy by covering 99% of the Adobe RGB color space. Users can use the ConceptD CP7271K to create 3D contents. 2D creators are encouraged to use the ConceptD CM7321K.

$2,999 (RM12,346) is the price of the ConceptD CM7321K and $1,99 (RM8,229) is the price of the ConceptD CP7271K. The CM7321K will be available in North America and EMEA in September. China will be getting it one month earlier, August. The CP7271K will be available in China in June and July in North America and EMEA.

VR Headset: ConceptD OJO

Surprisingly, Acer announces the ConceptD OJO mixed reality headset. It has a 4,320 x 2,160 of screen display resolution. Moreover, users can adjust the viewing angle to increase the comforts when they wear the VR headset. Apart from that, it also has an integrated sound system. As for now, the price and the release date is not revealed yet.

In conclusion, we think Acer is focusing to create devices for the digital creators as well. Soon we can expect movie editors could be using the ConceptD 900 for movie editing apart from using the Mac Pro.

Instagram is under attack with Nasty List phishing scam

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Instagram is under attack with Nasty List phishing scam
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Earlier today, we receive a message from one of our subscriber regarding Instagram. He was mentioning, is Instagram hacked? We tried checking on all our sources but there is no such news regarding Instagram. Eventually, a few hours ago, BleepingComputer reported on this issue. Hackers are trying to phish the user’s Instagram account by using another hacked account. It is called as the Nasty List phishing scam.

The Nasty List phishing scam

A lot of user reports that, they are receiving an Instagram direct message from someone they know saying that “you were spotted on Nasty List”. User’s who click on the link has lost their Instagram account access. So if you ever receive such messages from anyone on Instagram, kindly ignore it or delete it. It is a scam which is created to get the login credentials of a user.

According to BleepingComputer, this scam is spreading to users worldwide via the hacked account. According to them, once the hacker hacks the account, then they will use the account to sent out messages to the followers of the account. You should have received the following message “WOW you are really on here, @The_Nasty_List_848, ranked 100!. The number which is after the underscore changes when each of the users clicks. The only consistent information would be the URL itself as “nastyllist-instatop50.me”.

Once you accidentally or intentionally clicked on the URL, you will be shown a perfect looking Instagram login page. This is where the hacker will start to phish you. If you notice properly, the link which is clicked is not the real link of Instagram. Anyways, you did the mistake by clicking on the link. It’s OK! Don’t worry, we have a solution for you. Immediately, access into your account Privacy and Security settings page and proceed to change your password immediately. It’s that simple.

In conclusion, the Nasty List phishing scam has just started to circulate around Instagram. Make sure, you take some preventive step by looking at the URL before clicking. If you have suspicious on the account report the account to Instagram and block the user.

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