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Printing our boarding passes and other travel documents will be a thing of the past soon for Malaysians. According to the Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd’s (MAHB) Group CEO, Datuk Mohd Shukrie Mohd Salleh, he said the facial recognition technology will be rolling out soon at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) during the first half of 2021. It is part of the Single Token Journey Initiative.

As you may know, Xiaomi fancies itself as the "make everything" company. Besides smartphones, it sells a variety of other electronics such as electric shavers (lol) and smart speakers. Yesterday, the company announced that a new smart home camera will be launching soon.

Huawei smartwatches are pretty common but have you heard of a Nova smartwatch? Normally, the Nova brand is known as a mid-range series for Huawei and with the new trademark registration, this could mean that an affordable smartwatch is coming for the youth.

OPPO launched the OPPO Watch in two sizes, the OPPO Watch 46mm and also the OPPO Watch 41mm last year in Malaysia. Today, the OPPO Band that was announced more than six months ago in China finally appeared in EEC certification with some of its tech specs as well.

After HUAWEI, it looks like Xiaomi has also stumbled upon something that doesn't look nice with the U.S. Last week, it was reported that Xiaomi has been added to the country's government’s blacklist, which means that U.S. investors will not be allowed to purchase shares from the Chinese company. However, unlike HUAWEI, Xiaomi will still able to import and use technologies from the U.S. without a need for a license. Following the news, Xiaomi has issued a statement on the matter as follows:

The OPPO Reno5 series has finally arrived in Malaysia today with the vanilla Reno5 5G and Reno5 Pro 5G. Both devices will go on sale starting from 27 January with the pre-order goes live from 13 to 26 January. For the price, the Reno5 5G is at RM1,899 while the Pro variant goes for RM2,599.

Last week, ASUS had dropped a teaser for the next-gen ROG Phone on its official Weibo account. The teaser poster hints that the device will receive upgrades that can level up the gaming experience. Until today, the live photo of the device has been spotted and revealed the rear design.

Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has officially announced the PERMAI initiative which comes with various assistance ranging from tax relief, free internet data, and more. To go into more detail, the government will waive tax of up to RM2500 for any electronics bought until 31 December 2021 to encourage the acquisition of smartphones, laptops, and tablets.

It seems that Apple has recently been sued by the Coalition for a Safer Web for not removing Telegram from the Apple App Store. Based on what was mentioned by the coalition, Telegram was allegedly used as a communication tool by extremists to raid the US Capitol building located in Washington and it could be used for more the in the future.

CES 2021 was held last week and we saw lots of new products being launched. Among them were the latest laptops from ASUS, including models for casual users and gamers. Now, ASUS Malaysia has confirmed that all of the new models will come to Malaysia, with the TUF series devices coming by the end of January 2021.