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Assassin’s Creed Shadows Completes A Ubisoft U-Turn 12 Years In The Making If you’re like me – and recall things that don’t matter much for way too long – you probably remember that Ubisoft had, once upon a time, said that having an Assassin’s Creed game set in feudal Japan would be “boring”. This was attributed to Alex Hutchinson, the creative director of AC3, all the way… https://www.lowyat.net/2024/322685/assassins-creed-shadows-ubisoft-u-turn/

U Mobile GX50 Plan Automatically Upgraded To GX55 With Unlimited Speed Starting Today Users under U Mobile’s Giler Unlimited (GX50) legacy postpaid plan will receive an automatic upgrade to the new GX55 refresh, effective immediately. The telco informed customers of this change via a notice sent through SMS issued today. In terms of offerings, the only significant change on GX55 is the removal of the 5Mbps speed cap… https://www.lowyat.net/2024/322698/u-mobile-gx50-to-gx55-upgrade/

EPF To Soon Allow Recurring Transfers From Account 3 To Accounts 1 & 2 Last week, EPF officially rolled out the new Akaun Fleksibel, also known as Account 3, to all its members. The account restructuring sees that 10% of members’ contributions moving forward will be eligible for withdrawal at any time, hence the flexible label. While the statutory body says that the dividend rates for all three accounts… https://www.lowyat.net/2024/322677/epf-recurring-transfers-account-3/

Transport Ministry: Dashcams Not Mandatory For drivers, having a dashcam installed is generally a good idea. Such a good idea, in fact, that the idea of making them mandatory was floated before. For what it’s worth, the transport ministry has not made it so just yet. And according to a recent report by Bernama, there are no plans to make… https://www.lowyat.net/2024/322672/ministry-dashcams-not-mandatory/

ChatGPT Gets Google Drive, OneDrive Integration, But Only For Enterprise Users While ChatGPT is available for free users, those who pay would naturally get more features at their disposal. It looks like one that is currently being rolled out is the ability to connect other apps, and one option is to connect Google Drive and OneDrive to your user experience of the chatbot. A user on… https://www.lowyat.net/2024/322652/chatgpt-drive-onedrive-integration/

TSMC To Enter Mass Production For Improved 3nm Node Later This Year TSMC recently announced that its performance-optimised N3P process node, will enter mass production in the second half of this year. The new and improved process follows closely after the fab’s successful rollout of its current-gen, 3nm N3E process, and is an optical shrink that it claims will provide better efficiency and transistor density. According to… https://www.lowyat.net/2024/322660/tsmc-to-enter-mass-production-for-improved-3nm-node-later-this-year/

CelcomDigi To Discontinue Yoodo Brand From 29 August Yoodo is officially getting discontinued. Come 29 August, the subsidiary telco brand will cease to exist, as part of its parent company, CelcomDigi’s requirement by MCMC. As part of the CelcomDigi merger undertaking committed to the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), we would like to inform you that the Yoodo brand will be discontinued… https://www.lowyat.net/2024/322656/yoodo-discontinue-29-august/

Microsoft Asking China-Based Staff To Consider Relocating To Other Countries Microsoft is asking close to 800 of its employees that are based in China if they would consider relocating to another country. The request comes amidst Washington’s growing list of sanctions against the Asian economic powerhouse, especially in the technology sector. According to a WSJ report, Microsoft asked the China-based employees if they would consider… https://www.lowyat.net/2024/322654/microsoft-asking-china-based-staff-to-consider-relocating-to-other-countries/

vivo Y28 4G Gets Certified On SIRIM; Likely To Launch In Malaysia Soon vivo is preparing to launch a new Y-series called the Y28 4G, which is the 4G variant of the Y28 5G that was launched earlier this year. While the phone has not even been unveiled yet, it has already made an appearance on the SIRIM database. The Y28 was listed on 10 May 2024 with… https://www.lowyat.net/2024/322646/vivo-y28-4g-sirim/

LG Signature OLED R Rollable TV Gets Discontinued Back in October of 2020, we saw the launch of the LG Signature OLED R Rollable TV which came with the astronomical price tag of KRW100 million (~RM345,173). After a short-ish half-decade run, there are now reports that the company has discontinued production of the model, and has already repurposed manufacturing lines into making other… https://www.lowyat.net/2024/322642/lg-signature-oled-r-discontinued/