News & Reviews:   Covid-19

By now, you should have learned that the news regarding the KL Sentral being quarantined and people being infected by the COVID-19 is fake. Thanks to WhatsApp and Twitter, the news spread fast and it surely caused some panic there. But Malaysia is not the only country in the world experiencing that, so to tackle misinformation being spread around, a company came up with a chatbot called "nCov helpdesk" to solve this.

The COVID-19 virus is sure doing a "good job", but not so much for the tech industry as it has forced another big company to cancel out an event. This time, the Google I/O won't be happening followed by their Cloud Next event in San Francisco. The Google I/O was supposed to be held in mid-May 2020.

This morning, I'm sure most of you have received a message from your friends and family about KL Sentral being quarantined due to COVID-19 virus. The news spread fast on WhatsApp and Twitter and apparently, news has it that the authorities are shutting down the north and east side of KL Sentral area. But that is not really true and here's what we found out. 

Ever since the rise of the COVID-19 virus, the popular plague simulator game app, Plague Inc. became popular again in recent weeks. It even became popular in China during the period but it seems that the authorities are not amused. As of today, the game app has been taken down in the China App Store.

Based on a statement by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), there is a chance the Tokyo 2020 Olympics could be cancelled or postponed due to the recent COVID-19 outbreak. With that said, more than 15400 athletes from various nations could be affected if such an event were to be cancelled.

Mobile World Congress 2020 or MWC20 could get canceled due to the Wuhan novel coronavirus (now known as Covid-19) outbreak. While Xiaomi have indicated that they’ll be attending and realme teased a new phone reveal there, a number of other big names like Sony, vivo, Intel and MediaTek have all said that they’ll be pulling out from the show.