Google’s streaming video game service Stadia had ambitious plans to disrupt the gaming industry, which is dominated by consoles. Read full story

TOKYO (Reuters) - Two South Korean technology companies are borrowing from mobile gaming to shake up - and dominate - Japan's storied manga industry, a plot twist that has expanded the comics' fanbase to a new generation of readers. Read full story

Like the animated paintings that adorn the walls of Harry Potter’s school, a new online tool promises to bring portraits of dead relatives to life, stirring debate about the use of technology to impersonate people. Read full story

Gamers and experts in the gaming field are saying Illinois Democratic state Rep. Marcus Evans’ attempt to play the blame game with a video game is just another grandstanding attempt to fault popular culture for society’s ills. Read full story

WITH increasing public awareness on sustainability and a rising number of consumers making conscious choices to lessen their environmental impact, a key solution to safeguarding our forests lies in resource-efficient usage of sustainably sourced and manufactured timber-based products. Read full story

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PETALING JAYA: A sense of calm filled the air as 1.1 million pupils entered schools nationwide for face-to-face learning on Monday (March 1) Read full story

BUTTERWORTH:The police arrested the man seen using profanities in a video taken at a Nibong Tebal roadblock before it went viral, says South Seberang Prai OCPD Superintendent Lee Chong Chern. Read full story

GORGEOUS Singapore-born actress Atikah has made it clear that she has been working hard instead of depending on her boyfriend to have a life of luxury. Read full story

A new driverless electric bus has begun operating in the southern Spanish city of Malaga, in a project presented as a first in Europe. Read full story

TOKYO (Reuters) - Makiko Yamada, a key spokeswoman for Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, will resign after she and other senior bureaucrats were reprimanded for attending expensive dinners hosted by Suga's son, the government said. Read full story

A growing number of Twitter users decided to tidy up their tweets in 2020. Read full story

(Reuters) - AstraZeneca Plc has sold its 7.7% stake in Moderna Inc for more than $1 billion after the U.S. biotechnology company's shares soared on the back of its coronavirus vaccine breakthrough, The Times reported. Read full story

A new driverless electric bus has begun operating in the southern Spanish city of Malaga, in a project presented as a first in Europe. Read full story

A growing number of Twitter users decided to tidy up their tweets in 2020. Read full story

When you want to know what time it is, you just look at the time. But can you remember the last time you found it genuinely interesting to glance at the clock? Read full story

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KUALA LUMPUR: Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin says the declaration of Emergency in the country was an appropriate move taken in response to a major health crisis and had nothing to with politics. Read full story

KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said foreign investors, including Fortune 500 companies, have continued to show interest in investing in Malaysia due to various incentives offered by the government. Read full story

KUALA LUMPUR: Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin says he will ensure Sabah and Sarawak are given fair treatment, in line with the creation of the Sabah and Sarawak Affairs portfolio in the Perikatan Nasional Federal Cabinet. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump on Sunday hinted at a possible run for president again in 2024, attacked President Joe Biden, and repeated his fraudulent claims that he won the 2020 election in his first major appearance since leaving the White House nearly six weeks ago. Read full story

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump told a conservative audience on Sunday he has no plans to start a new party to compete with the Republican Party. Read full story

Trainspotters have taken to social media to build a tighter community and creatively showcase their work while pushing the hobby forward. Read full story

​​​​​​​PETALING JAYA: Virtual criminal appeal hearings will begin at the Federal Court, Appellate Courts and High Courts nationwide via video-conferencing from Monday (March 1), says the Federal Court’s Chief Registrar’s office. Read full story

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah’s dusk-to-dawn sea curfew which ends Sunday (Feb 28) has been extended for another two weeks until March 16. Read full story

KUALA LUMPUR: A pair of siblings and another man were killed following a head-on collision between two vehicles along Jalan Kuching here. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Saturday it will appeal a judge's ruling that the nationwide eviction moratorium during the COVID-19 pandemic is unlawful. Read full story

(Reuters) - Opponents of military rule in Myanmar planned protests on Sunday a day after the security forces launched their biggest crackdown, arresting hundreds of people and shooting and wounding at least one. Read full story

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson's one-shot COVID-19 vaccine received U.S. authorization on Saturday and will start being administered to Americans within days. Read full story

(Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine was granted emergency authorization in the United States. Read full story

(Reuters) - The U.S. government on Saturday authorized Johnson & Johnson's single-dose COVID-19 vaccine, enabling millions more Americans to be vaccinated in the coming weeks and setting the vaccine up for additional approvals around the world. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: The first batch of China’s CoronaVac vaccine has arrived in Malaysia and is being stored at the Pharmaniaga facility where it will be processed into 300,000 doses. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: Khairy Jama­luddin will be the first to receive whichever Covid-19 vaccine that is approved next by Malaysia to encourage others not to be selective about the vaccines they are offered. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: Malaysians have lauded stimulus efforts carried out by Perikatan Nasional over the last one year, since taking over the Federal Government. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: Two men in a Proton Waja who fled from the police after hitting other vehicles at a traffic light have been detained and remanded. Read full story

GEORGE TOWN: More than 200 containers of plastic waste from all over the world are still stuck at the North Butterworth Container Terminal (NBCT), said Penang Environment Department director Sharifah Zakiah Syed Sahab. Read full story

KEPALA BATAS: Two new varieties of padi developed by the Malay­sian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (Mardi) are set to hike Malaysia’s rice yields. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) says it has delivered a solid performance in 2020 for both its operational and financial results with a total dividend payout of RM47.64bil. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: Given the devastating effect the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the economy, economists and Malaysians have welcomed the Employees Provident Fund’s dividend payout for 2020. EPF had declared dividends of 5.20% for Conventional Savings and 4.9% for Syariah Savings for 2020, with a total dividend payout of RM47.64bil. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia’s Covid-19 cases can drop to two digits by May if the R0 or R-naught continues to be on a downward trend, says the Health director-general. Read full story

JOHOR BARU: It is a busy weekend for parents as they make final preparations for the reopening of schools, starting tomorrow, which has been delayed because of the pandemic. Read full story

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Auckland, New Zealand's biggest city, woke up on Sunday morning to a second lockdown in a month as health authorities try to rein in a coronavirus cluster of the more contagious UK variant. Read full story

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Myanmar's United Nations envoy in New York vowed to fight on Saturday after the junta fired him for urging countries to use "any means necessary" to reverse a Feb. 1 coup that ousted the nation's elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Read full story

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Ten people were arrested in Barcelona on Saturday for assaulting police officers in fresh unrest over the jailing of a rapper for glorifying terrorism and insulting royalty in his songs. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Saturday said his administration would make an announcement on Saudi Arabia on Monday, following a U.S. intelligence report that found Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had approved the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Read full story

PARIS (Reuters) - France on Saturday reported 23,996 new confirmed COVID-19 cases in the space of 24 hours, down from 25,207 the previous day, data from the health ministry showed. Read full story

Fastfood giant Yum! Brands may explore more plant based menu items over the next few years following a partnership with Beyond Meat. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: The first batch of the CoronaVac vaccine has arrived in the country, with the vaccine expected to be processed into more than 300,000 doses. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: The suspect known as "Bob Mah Sing" has been nabbed in Shah Alam. The 40-year-old man was one of two men in a Proton Waja, which rammed into several vehicles to avoid being apprehended by police in Sungai Buloh. Read full story

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PETALING JAYA: Over a million people have already registered for the Covid-19 vaccine via MySejahtera, and the app will include new features to become the one-stop centre for the national immunisation programme. Read full story

IPOH: A total of 13 couples exchanged their vows during a mass wedding registration ceremony at the Ipoh Chin Woo Athletic Association hall here. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: The scorching weather that has persisted throughout the Chinese New Year festive period is expected to last till at least mid-March, potentially making the coming weeks blistering hot. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: A vaccine passport with wider uses, other than enabling international travel, should not be made compulsory for entry into local facilities and services like restaurants and gyms, say health experts. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: Star Media Group Bhd (SMG) has appointed Alex Yeow Wai Siaw as its new group CEO effective March 1,2021. Read full story

KUCHING: Three journalists from Kuching have become the first in the country to receive the Covid-19 vaccine along with other frontliners. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: With the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) 2020 examination underway, the Health Ministry has reminded those involved to comply strictly with Covid-19 guidelines. Read full story

(Reuters) - Myanmar's U.N. envoy urged the United Nations to use "any means necessary" to stop a military coup there, making a surprise appeal on behalf of the ousted government as police cracked down on anti-junta protesters. Read full story

(Reuters) - Following is the text of the redacted report released on Friday by the Office of the U.S. Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) "Assessing the Saudi Government's Role in the Killing of Jamal Khashoggi," dated Feb. 11, 2021: Read full story

(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said it rejected completely "the negative, false and unacceptable" assessment of a U.S. intelligence report released on Friday that found Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had approved the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Read full story

(Reuters) - The world reacted to the release on Friday of a U.S. intelligence assessment that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved an operation to capture or kill dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi: Read full story

DUBAI (Reuters) - "No smoking gun," pro-government Saudi commentators concluded in response to a U.S. intelligence assessment that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had approved the operation to capture or kill journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Read full story

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Friday it continued to raise the issue of Jamal Khashoggi's killing in engagements with Saudi Arabia's government, and regards his death as a terrible crime. Read full story

NASSIRIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - At least five protesters were killed and more than 175 people injured on Friday in clashes between demonstrators and security forces in the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya, a Reuters witness and other sources said. Read full story

DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia in 2019 jailed eight people for between seven and 20 years over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018. Read full story

Pokemon's enduring appeal 25 years on has only strengthen during the pandemic, with more fans turning to the game while cooped up. Read full story

If your USB looks to have too much space to be true, and come at a very low price, it may just be a fake. Read full story

Being a dad is tough nowadays, in ‘Dadish 2’ you play a radish dad looking for your lost baby radishes. Read full story

Though smartphone cameras have improved a lot, those looking to take their photography to the next level might want to consider a system camera. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: Access to a variety of vaccines makes fighting the Covid-19 pandemic that much easier and health experts are hoping that more people in the country can get their immunisation sooner. Read full story

KUALA LUMPUR: More states in Peninsular Malaysia have received their supply of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, Comirnaty, on the second day of the first phase of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme has kicked off in earnest, with Selangor being the first state to vaccinate its medical frontliners. Read full story

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah will receive 104,110 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine in six batches. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: All general practitioners (GPs) and their medical staff should be prioritised in the Covid-19 vaccination programme as they are also frontliners fighting the pandemic, says Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) president Prof Datuk Dr Subramaniam Muniandy. He said for now, less than half of the 7,000 GPs nationwide had been invited to register for the first priority group. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: Care home operators want more time to pre-register for the Covid-19 vaccine. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: The police can take action against those who are urging people not to take the Covid-19 vaccine, says Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Seri Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani. Read full story

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Eritrean soldiers killed hundreds of civilians in Ethiopia's ancient town of Axum between Nov. 28 and 29, rights group Amnesty International said on Friday, one of several mass killings reported during a conflict that erupted nearly four months ago in the northern region of Tigray. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday carried out an airstrike in Syria against a structure belonging to what it said were Iran-backed militia, two officials told Reuters. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday told Saudi King Salman he would work for bilateral ties "as strong and transparent as possible," the White House said, ahead of the expected release of a sensitive U.S. intelligence report on the 2018 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Read full story

On Twitter, replies to certain tweets can sometimes be unpleasant or offensive. So why not call out users just as they’re about to post this kind of message? Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden spoke with Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Thursday, stressing the importance of human rights and vowing to make the relationship between the two countries stronger and more transparent, the White House said. Read full story

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Papua New Guinea's first prime minister, Michael Somare, has died aged 84, his daughter said on Friday. Read full story

“Zoom fatigue” is the expression coined to describe feelings of mental fatigue experienced following an excess of videoconference calls – a new source of angst for home workers and students since the onset of the pandemic. Read full story

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Facebook Inc on Friday said it had signed letters of intent with three Australian media firms, a day after the country's Parliament passed a law forcing it to pay media companies for using content on its platform. Read full story

On Twitter, replies to certain tweets can sometimes be unpleasant or offensive. So why not call out users just as they’re about to post this kind of message? Read full story

(Reuters) - Oxford University said on Thursday it was investigating a digital intrusion after a researcher said he had seen evidence that a laboratory researching COVID-19 had been hacked. Read full story

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online brokerage Robinhood on Thursday said 6 million new users signed up for its cryptocurrency services in the first two months of 2021 amid higher retail trading volumes and sharp rises in the prices of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Dogecoin. Read full story

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's failure to fix known problems with its cloud software facilitated the massive SolarWinds hack that compromised at least nine federal government agencies, according to security experts and the office of U.S. Senator Ron Wyden. Read full story

(Reuters) - Dell Technologies Inc beat Wall Street estimates for holiday-quarter revenue on Thursday, helped by demand for its desktops and notebooks as most offices continued to work remotely during the COVID-19 health crisis. Read full story

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's pretrial cell blocks in 2020 were overcrowded at a level amounting to triple their capacity, a rights group warned on Thursday, criticizing unsanitary conditions in the facilities due to underfunding in the crisis-stricken country. Read full story

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has been moved to an undisclosed detention centre outside Moscow that may be a prison camp, his lawyer and a member of a rights organisation said on Thursday. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - ByteDance has agreed to a $92 million class-action settlement to settle data privacy claims from some U.S. TikTok users, according to documents filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Illinois. Read full story

PUTRAJAYA: He may not be the first to receive a Covid-19 jab in Malaysia but being among the first of frontliners to be vaccinated is more than surreal for Clement Marai Francis. Read full story

PUTRAJAYA: Fresh from receiving the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin described the process as painless and likened it to “any normal injection”. Read full story

PETALING JAYA: With the Health Ministry targeting to vaccinate 126,000 individuals a day, a health expert says the country is estimated to achieve herd immunity by the end of October at the earliest if everything goes smoothly. Read full story

KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here has extended a temporary stay order on the deportation of 114 Myanmar refugees back to their homeland. Read full story

SHAH ALAM: The founder of a “sugar baby” dating site, which published a post boasting about sugar babies from 10 local universities, has been charged in court. Read full story

GEORGE TOWN: After more than eight decades serving ordinary folk here in Penang, the state’s last remaining “squatting” Teochew porridge stall has decided to call it a day. Read full story

HULU LANGAT: Police arrested 31 people, including four Chinese nationals, during a raid on an online gambling call centre here. Read full story

ALOR SETAR: The colourful Tecoma flowers may not attract as many admirers as before because of the ban on interstate and inter-district travel under the movement control order, but it’s still a sight to behold for the residents here. Read full story

KUCHING: The body of an unidentified woman, who was in a car that plunged into Sungai Sarawak near the Satok Suspension Bridge, has been removed from the vehicle. Read full story

ABUJA (Reuters) - Gunmen killed 36 people in two attacks in northern Nigeria on Wednesday, a day after insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades amid worsening security facing Africa's most populous nation, officials and residents said. Read full story

Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing Technology Co plans to make its debut in Western Europe, people familiar with the matter said, as the company seeks new growth markets ahead of a long-awaited initial public offering. Read full story

Birds have innate GPS systems. Octopuses feel empathy. Are humans really so much more intelligent than animals? Read full story

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un chaired a Central Military Commission meeting, state media KCNA said on Thursday, where he called for more control and discipline within the military. Read full story

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Supporters of Niger's opposition leader Mahamane Ousmane set up burning barricades and clashed with riot police in the capital Niamey on Wednesday, as the former president declared himself the winner of Sunday's vote, despite losing the official tally. Read full story

DUBLIN (Reuters) - One of the European Union's most powerful data regulators has warned companies may yet face massive disruption to translatlantic data flows as a result of an EU court ruling last year, despite efforts by policymakers to avoid that outcome. Read full story

Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing Technology Co plans to make its debut in Western Europe, people familiar with the matter said, as the company seeks new growth markets ahead of a long-awaited initial public offering. Read full story

(Reuters) - Reddit recovered from an hour-long outage that affected thousands of users on Wednesday afternoon as volatility returned to stocks including GameStop GME.N> and AMC that were at the center of a slugfest between retail traders and Wall Street. Read full story

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The Australian parliament on Thursday passed a news media and digital platforms mandatory bargaining code that will make it compulsory for Alphabet Inc's Google and Facebook Inc to pay media companies for content. Read full story

Birds have innate GPS systems. Octopuses feel empathy. Are humans really so much more intelligent than animals? Read full story

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's cyber spies at the GCHQ eavesdropping agency say they have fully embraced artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover patterns in vast amounts of global data to counter hostile disinformation and snare child abusers. Read full story

(Reuters) - Nvidia Corp forecast better-than-expected fiscal first-quarter revenue on Wednesday, expecting strong demand for its graphics chips used in gaming PCs and artificial intelligence chips for data centers. Read full story

NEW YORK (Reuters) - GameStop Corp shares more than doubled in afternoon trading on Wednesday, surprising those who thought the video game retailer's stock price would stabilize after recent hearings in the U.S. Congress prompted by the fierce rally and steep dive that upended Wall Street in January. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States' patience with Iran on returning to discussions over the 2015 nuclear deal is "not unlimited," State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Wednesday. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi discussed recent rocket attacks on Iraqi and coalition forces in a phone call on Tuesday and agreed those responsible "must be held fully to account," the White House said. Read full story

For most of us, the word “algorithm” is fairly new to our vocabulary. But badly designed decision-making algorithms have a growing impact on our lives and can do a great deal of damage. Read full story

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The number of people going hungry in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua has nearly quadrupled in the last two years, the United Nations said on Tuesday, as Central America has been battered by an economic crisis. Read full story