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After an eternity, vivo has finally brought news regarding its first foldable smartphone. The company has posted on the Chinese social media platform Weibo mentioning that it'll make an announcement for the device on the upcoming Monday.

The Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia) has recently launched RakanMET, a user-friendly app that allows you to report any extreme weather phenomenons in your area to the department. Furthermore, the app is community-service oriented and functions through smart partnership between MetMalaysia and the public.

Taking to its official Twitter page, MetMalaysia further elaborated that the RakanMET app serves as a two-way communication medium between the public and MetMalaysia. With it, the department can obtain quick information on verified and accurate weather conditions throughout the country.

An exclusive new leak from reliable tipster Yogesh Brar claimed that we are nearing the release date Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipsets, starting with the successor to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. The new chip, allegedly named Snapdragon 8 Gen 1+ is expected to be released as soon as May this year.

Apparently, major smartphone manufacturers have already gotten their hands on the new chip and it will be powering their devices this year as early as June 2022. Furthermore, Qualcomm's upcoming 700 series chips have also reportedly been received by manufacturers and may be powering mid-range smartphones by the end of the year.

Leaks on upcoming devices are pretty common in the tech industry but look like someone got into trouble for doing so. According to an online Korean media news outlet, a Samsung Electronics employee got arrested for allegedly leaking confidential information.

If you’ve ever been in a Zoom meeting and for some reason wanted the whole thing to be streamed on Twitch, then we’ve got good news for you. Announced in a recent blogpost by Zoom, that exact feature is now available for all users of the popular video conferencing platform.

Part of a slew of new features and upgrades, Zoom said that it is allowing for direct Zoom Meeting and Webinar livestream to Twitch so that users can “streamline the process of sharing content within their communities,”. Well, it could prove to be quite a useful and 'PogChamp' tool for Twitch streamers, especially those under the ‘IRL’ category.

Today, vivo Malaysia just announced the price and availability of the vivo Y21T. The first sales will begin on 26 March 2022 where customers can purchase at all vivo concept stores, authorised dealers, vivo Malaysia’s official E-store, as well as vivo Malaysia’s official flagship store on Shopee and Lazada. The official price is RM899 only. 

Apple is reportedly set to ‘revolutionise’ the tech industry once again next year by changing how hardware will be sold. According to a Bloomberg report by Mark Gurman, a reliable leaker on everything Apple, the tech giant is planning to start selling mobile devices through a hardware subscription service.

These include a subscription service for the iPhone and iPad that would require consumers to pay a monthly fee to Apple in order to buy and use the device. Gurman claimed that this service is Apple’s biggest push into automatically recurring sales other than its current digital services.

If you have subscribed to the new GrabUnlimited that was introduced nearly a month ago, you're in luck - Grab Malaysia just announced that the early birds who did will continue to pay just 1 sen/month for the next two months! Not only that but there will be more updates and promotions on the GrabUnlimited plan.

Reputable tipster regarding everything Apple-related products, Ming-Chi Kuo yesterday took to Twitter to make predictions regarding an alleged new 15-inch notebook by the tech giant. Currently, Apple is only offering a 13-inch, 14-inch and 16-inch sizes MacBooks, all of which runs an iteration of the M1 SoC.

Well, that may change soon as Kuo claimed that Apple will be mass-producing a 15-inch Mac notebook in the fourth quarter of 2023. Previous rumours have pointed for this new 15-inch MacBook to be a larger-screened version of the MacBook Air which Kuo agreed with to a certain extent.

From time to time, official Twitter accounts can get hacked and in this latest case, we never thought we would get to see OPPO Malaysia's Twitter account getting hacked. Currently, the company has not said anything yet but it's certainly aware of the issue.