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Forbes reported that Google intends on ditching ad block extensions for Google Chrome and limit them only to enterprise users, leaving regular consumers exposed to advertisements scattered throughout the world wide web. The removal of ad block extensions is expected to be carried up based on a proposal called “Manifest V3”, which will drastically change the Google Chrome extension ecosystem.

The Raya season is just around the corner and to take on this opportunity, vivo Malaysia will have an exclusive Raya Dengan Shopee campaign. Starting today onwards until 6 June 2019, customers can get their hands on selected vivo smartphones with discounts up to 55%, as well as Raya packets, free gifts, freebies and vouchers.

What is an #iChanged campaign and what does it have to do with Samsung Malaysia? Well, it has nothing to do with changing your habit or something but turns out it's just a campaign that "features a series of real Malaysians on how they started experiencing their lives through a prism effect of their devices". For real.

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamed has expressed his support for Huawei and so are other Malaysians. In a show of solidarity for the brand, some Malaysian eateries are giving discounts for customers who are using Huawei devices as well as Huawei employees.

With Computex 2019 coming to an end, ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) has just announced the local pricing for each ROG gaming laptop with Intel 9th-gen series that were showcased recently. The following laptops are the ROG Chimera G703, ROG Zephyrus S GX701 (also GX531 and GX502), ROG Zephyrus M GU502, ROG STRIX SCAR III, ROG STRIX HERO III, and the ROG STRIX G G531/G731.

T-Series is the first Youtube channel to hit 100 million subscriptions. The channel took to Twitter to celebrate the news, mentioning that they have also garnered over 70 billion views during their journey. Pewdiepie, who previously held the crown of having the most subscribed channel, now takes second place with 96 million subs.

Yesterday, Xiaomi had hinted that another variant of the Xiaomi Mi 9 is coming soon but did not reveal its specific name. They asked users if the letter K, I or T was more preferable. Today, the company revealed device name - the Xiaomi Mi 9T on Twitter and asked fans what the letter T stands for alongside a photo of a completely notchless phone.

More good news has arrived for Huawei today. After being reinstated on the WiFi and SD partner list, they are now also back on the Android Q beta program list once more - specifically, the Huawei Mate 20 Pro. Just last week, Google had cut ties with the Chinese manufacturer after the US government had placed them on the Commerce Department’s Entity List.

The Redmi K20 series, which was covered not too long ago, was recently launch on Tuesday in Beijing, China. Is expected to be available globally including Malaysia, most probably under a different model name. That being said, Redmi has finally created their very own social media accounts for Malaysia.

ZDNet and Reddit have spotted a recent addition to Google Maps, which enables the application to detect speed limits as well as speed traps in more than 40 countries. The aforementioned features were initially available on another Google-owned application, Waze.