Hover Camera Passport is available in Malaysian
So what has been happening? Well, one of the interesting gadgets that were introduced is the Hover Camera Passport. The 242-gram camera drone employs face-detection technology that can follow you around, and with a simple hand gesture can snap a photo of you and your friends and that's pretty cool. It can be easily folded and placed into a backpack or purse and when needed, simply opened up, turned on and let go.
Featuring a 13MP and 4K video recording capability, it has a facial recognition software which tracks users – their faces and bodies – and follows them around automatically. It can even maintain its position and avoid objects without using GPS technology, wow!
Gadget Goods Asia is launching Hover Camera Passport into Malaysia with a special pre-order discount of 20%, at RM1599 available over at their website here. Check it out!
New Western Digital NewGaming SSD and Purple 12TB drive
There is never enough space for gamers, so with this, Western Digital has announced a new Western Digital Black 3D NVMe SSD to satisfy the needs of having more storage, as well as accelerating data for PC applications to enable users to quickly, access, engage and capture today’s high-resolution video, audio and gaming content.
It has the capability to read (up to 3,400 MB/s for 1TB and 500GB model) and write performance (up to 2,8001MB/s for 1TB model) combined with up to 1TB capacities. In addition, the drives feature up to 500,000 random-read IOPs (for 1TB model) to deliver extreme throughput, which is ideal for multi-threaded applications and data-intensive multitasking environments. The drive offers a five-year limited warranty with up to 600TBW endurance (for 1TB model). The WD Black 3D NVMe SSD is available in Malaysia in capacities of 250GB (RM449), 500GB (RM799) and 1TB (RM1599) at the end of July 2018 in select Western Digital retailers, e-tailers, resellers, system integrators and distributors globally.
On the other hand, the Purple 12TB drive is a surveillance-class drive that is available through Western Digital’s authorized reseller network worldwide. Manufacturers Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) in Malaysia is RM1699 for the 10TB (model #WD101PURZ) and RM1999 for the 12TB (model #WD121PURZ). The new drives will be available in Malaysia starting October 2018 in select Western Digital retailers, e-tailers, resellers, system integrators and distributors.
The Purple 12TB drive and Black 3D NVMe SSD
Certified by Testlab: No Burn-in with Samsung QLED TV
What's a "Burn-in?" You know, it's when you switch off the TV and there's this "burnt-in" image on the screen panel stuck there for a few seconds. A sign of an ageing TV, it's definitely expensive and tricky to fix it but it seems that Samsung has a solution to it. Their QLED TV has just been certified by Testlab that they have got rid of the issue once and for all.
This was carried out based on the Information Display Measurements Standard (IDMS), an international norm for panel measurements, focusing specifically on QLED TV’s HDR (high-dynamic-range) content display quality. The QLED TVs passed the stress test with flying colours and received the certificate for ‘no burn-in’ and ‘no afterglow’ after a 72-hour endurance test, which the TVs were made to display a checkerboard pattern for deep black and very bright white values for longer periods of time.
Well, I guess you know which TV to get now after this, huh? Only available at Samsung concept stores!
Grab and NUS join forces
Grab has also announced a new partnership with the National University of Singapore (NUS). So what's the deal? Apparently, they have just launched an artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory to develop solutions to transform urban transportation and pave the way for smarter cities in Southeast Asia. Dubbed as the Grab-NUS AI Lab, this will leverage data from the Grab platform to solve complex, real-world challenges, then improving the efficiency and reliability of transportation on the Grab platform in Southeast Asia’s cities.
Anthony Tan, Co-founder and CEO, Grab, revealed how the insights from the Grab-NUS AI Lab, could make a difference for Kuala Lumpur starting today: “Data from our Grab platform can map out the traffic patterns and evolution in mobility for cities across Southeast Asia. For example, our data shows that travel time from Fahrenheit 88 to KL Sentral can be drastically improved today. If this route would be better served by more shared transport solutions, such as trains, shuttle bus services and GrabShare, we could bring travel time during peak hour down by almost 35% from 26 minutes to 17 minutes. I look forward to working with governments to turn the data from the Grab- NUS AI Lab into solutions.
The Grab-NUS AI Lab is located in the innovation 4.0 building situated on the NUS Kent Ridge campus and will be home to 28 researchers working on various AI projects. If you want to know other Grab stories, you can check them out on their blog page.
MaGIC Pre-Accelerator Bootcamp: Female Founders Edition
Female power? Not really, but it's more like giving them a boost. Recently, the Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity Centre (MaGIC) celebrated the completion of the first MaGIC Pre-Accelerator Bootcamp: Female Founders Edition. During the two-week boot camp, a total of 15 female-led startups were enrolled to get empowered and present their business ideas into investment-ready solutions through mentorship and capacity building initiatives.
“This is MaGIC’s first-ever female-centered bootcamp. While we have been witnessing a steady climb in the number of womenpreneurs these past few years, we want to keep the momentum going and in order to do so, we knew that we needed to create that mindset shift at the grassroots level to ensure that women are not left behind as we build a pool of exponential entrepreneurial with the ability to continuously generate innovative business ideas. We want to nurture their talent through the empowerment of these aspiring entrepreneurs to create new business solutions - from ideas to investment-ready solutions in just 14 days. The bootcamp was designed in such a way where we were offering a comprehensive and guided syllabus while keeping these womenpreneurs in mind.” Ashran, MaGIC CEO
If you or your female friend are fascinated by the idea, you can read more over here about their journey.
Boost partners with UnionPay International to expand in Malaysia and internationally
[L-R] Shuan Ghaidan - Director of Products, UnionPay International Southeast Asia, Wenhui Yang - General Manager, UnionPay International Southeast Asia, Christopher Tiffin - Chief Executive Officer of Boost, Mohd Khairil Abdullah - Chief Executive Officer of Axiata Digital Services
Have you been using Boost lately? No? Well, you should. Boost is growing up pretty steadily and they have just partnered with UnionPay to grow its footprint in Malaysia and overseas. This is a pretty big deal because UnionPay serves the world’s largest card base of over 7 billion and has enabled card acceptance in 170 countries and regions globally with issuance in 48 countries and regions!
"As part of the partnership, our long term plans are to enable users to use the app to leverage on UnionPay’s offerings to transact globally and likewise, for tourists to transact in Malaysia. On top of that, Boost and UnionPay will be jointly ramping up its marketing efforts in order to promote our services and further quicken our education and expansion plans." said Christopher Tiffin, Chief Executive Officer of Boost.
That's fantastic, keep it up, Boost!
Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) and Axiata Group Berhad (Axiata) working together for cybersecurity
From L-R: Ir. Wan Murdani Wan Mohamad, Director of Enabling Ecosystem of MDEC; Dato’ Ng Wan Peng, COO of MDEC; Tan Sri Jamaludin Ibrahim, President & Group CEO of Axiata; Abid Adam, Group Chief Information Security Officer of Axiata Group
Meanwhile, the Axiata Group Berhad and Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 18 July 2018 to further boost the nation’s cybersecurity industry by strengthening both talent development as well as futureproofing innovation. This partnership will benefit institutes of higher learnings (IHLs), the start-ups community and government agencies.
Tan Sri Jamaludin Ibrahim, President & Group Chief Executive Officer of Axiata mentioned that Axiata has always been committed to talent development and will support MDEC’s initiatives in creating future cybersecurity talents through industrial and upskilling internships as well as provide mentorships in developing cybersecurity solutions. You can read the full story on MDEC's website here.
Cyberjaya Music Festival 2018 returns
Speaking of MDEC, Cyberjaya will be having another music festival. The CMF 2018's theme is A Kre8tif Content and Music Celebration and it will be held on 11 and 12 August 2018 on 10AM - 12.30AM and 10AM - 10PM respectively. Interested participants can visit this site to see how they can join the party!
For this year, the festival will return to the familiar grounds of Centrus Mall in CBD Perdana 3 featuring an eclectic mix of live music, animation, film screenings, creative conferences, tech exhibitions and marketplaces. In conjunction with SouthEast Asia’s Kre8tif! Conference and Content Festival, the interactive festival aims bring together creatives, entrepreneurs, technologists and artists for the all weekend affair, including a multi-layered event, family-friendly programming with hopes to unite and celebrate local creative content. If that's your cup of tea, here's the Facebook page about it.
Kaspersky Cybersecurity predictions – looking back on H1; ahead to H2 2018
On another note, Kaspersky Lab researchers are seeing an increase in supply chain attacks leveraging third-party software; high-end mobile malware; increased router and modem hacks; and much more in the second half of 2018. For example, there is a bunch of weird but dangerous malware such as ZooPark, Energetic Bear, Olympic Destroyer and LuckyMouse APT and others (on a serious note, we are not making this names up).
These terms and cyber attacks are really complicated stuff and there are a lot of technicalities behind the protection from these threats. If you would like to get the best advice, maybe you can head over to their website here to check it out and read more about it.
Alibaba Cloud Launches Second Availability Zone and the First Cloud-Based Anti-DDoS Scrubbing Center in Malaysia
Finally, the Alibaba Cloud, a cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group has recently announced the launch of their second availability zone (“Availability Zone B”) in Malaysia to expand its cloud footprint and bolster its cloud capacity, serving increasing customer demand locally and in the region.
As Alibaba Cloud continues to invest in Malaysia by setting up the first cloud-based Anti-DDoS Scrubbing Center in August. The centre will mitigate risks and offer customers the highest level of protection against stronger DDoS attacks, as well as featuring a variety of security functions including Anti-DDoS Pro, a service that defends against all types of DDoS attacks.
That's all for the week, stay tuned for more NewsBytes at TechNave.com.
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