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Facebook Malaysia announced their third-party fact-checking program today by partnering with Agence France-Presse (AFP) to review and rate the accuracy of stories, photos and videos on Facebook in Malaysia. When third-party fact-checkers like AFP rates a story or content as false it will appear lower in your News Feed and those who shared it will be notified.

Today, the ASUS Republic of Gamers also has another event and they are introducing Malaysian gamers new toys to play with. Introduced earlier on at the CES and Computex 2019, two of the products are the ROG Mothership GZ700GX and ROG Huracan G21 gaming desktops, and the other is the Glacier Blue Zephyrus S GX502 and Strix G G531 gaming laptop from a starting price of RM3899.

Today marks the first day of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) Shanghai 2019 and under the theme of "Intelligent Connectivity", Vivo was quick to showcase several innovations that they have in store for us. Most of the features were already speculated a few days ago and all of them are true, such as the new 120W Super FlashCharge technology, AR Glass, and its first commercial 5G smartphone.

Today, Acer Predator has brought in three brand new impressive gaming beasts to our shores here in Malaysia which are the newly upgraded Acer Predator Triton 900, Acer Predator Helios 300 (2019) and the dual Acer Predator Nitro 7 and Nitro 5 (2019). Prices for the gaming laptops starts from RM3499, and as you know how gaming laptop prices are - it gets higher with other models. 

As per tradition, OPPO Malaysia has announced another new colour edition for the OPPO Reno series. Coming soon on 2 July 2019, the new variant will be known as Reno Sunset Rose and this colour will only be available on the standard model. The pre-order will start from 27 June until 1 July 2019.

Looks like Huawei laptops will continue to work smoothly for users as both Microsoft and Intel confirm that they will be continuing their updates and support for the Chinese manufacturer. Both companies will be providing security updates for Huawei’s devices that come with Windows 10 and Intel processors. 

Recently, the SEGA Genesis Mini was announced during an E3 Conference in Los Angeles, USA starting from the price of 79USD. The mini console comes with up to 42 games pre-installed such as Castlevania: Bloodlines, Sonic The Hedgehog series, Tetris and more. That said, Epicsoft Asia notified that the console is expected to be available for purchase via Impulse Gaming on the 19 September 2019, starting from the price of RM359.

Today, Snap Inc., the makers of Snapchat has released a new global study that compromise of 10,000 people from several countries, including Malaysia, on how culture, age, and technology have shaped our preferences and attitudes around friendship. That said, it turns out that Malaysia is one of the friendliest people in the world.

OnLeaks recently tweeted on his Twitter account, hinting at the possibility of Samsung’s Galaxy A90 being renamed to the Galaxy R series. In addition to that, one of the smartphones in the series will be Samsung’s very first mid-range device to feature 5G-connectivity.

Augmented reality or AR is the trend now with many games and applications utilizing the feature. Among some apps that use AR include IKEA’s AR app that lets users place an AR version of the furniture they want from their catalogue in their homes to see how it fits as well as the ever popular Pokemon GO game.