If you own an Android TV box or you’re planning to get one, you might want to check out this news. Starting from now, Malaysian authorities will be blocking IP addresses of servers that host pirated copyright content. Therefore, if you’re using a TV box to stream illegal pirated content, you might not be able to do it anymore in the near future.

During the recent outbreak of Covid-19, we believe many of you have chosen to stay home and not go out in order to avoid the virus. Some of you might have even dropped your travel plans by cancelling flight tickets or any hotel bookings. With that being said, it seems like our national economy has been affected and the government is going to do something to solve that. Today, our interim Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir has announced that tax relief and RM100 vouchers will be given to people who travel domestically.

Tunku Abdul Rahman University College recently posted on Facebook, stating that they are looking for operators to set up an eSports arena inside their Cyber Center which is located at KL Main Campus. Those that are interested can send in their proposal before 2 March 2020.

Shopee, in partnership with Payments Network Malaysia, has officially announced that ShopeePay eWallet will be the first of its kind to join the DuitNow 2.0. With that said, users will have the freedom to transfer their funds seamlessly up to 40 banks as well as 5 other eWallet platforms.

Earlier today, Acer announced several new monitors to their Nitro and Predator lineup and more starting from the price of only RM699. These new monitors come with technologies such as FreeSync, Nvidia G-sync, as low as 0.1ms grey-to-grey response time as well as refresh rates of up to 165Hz.

Based on a report by newzoo.com, it seems that Malaysians spent more than RM2.75 billion in the year 2019 on videogames alone. In addition to that, the report also mentioned that the majority play games on a mobile phone while PC and console are the second and third most popular platform to play games on.

In a collaboration between the Ministry of Finance Cyberview Sdn Bhd, as well as Payments Network Malaysia Sdn Bhd, Cyberjaya has become the first city in Malaysia to go cashless. The initiative which is called Cashless Ecosystem for Cyberjaya, which was originally introduced about two years ago, with more than 80% of the merchants adopting at least one e-payment solution.

Grab Indonesia has recently announced that they will start utilizing electric vehicles such as the Hyundai IONIQ from today onwards at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport Terminal 3. This initiative will go hand in hand with Indonesia’s vision in developing an electric vehicle ecosystem, which would be beneficial to the environment.

The coronavirus has sure made a lot of people worried about their safety. When we start to hear news about people fainting and being quarantined, news tends to spread virally and thanks to the Internet, it's hard to pinpoint which one is real or fake news. It even got us wearing face masks in airports where there is no official suspected case yet.

That said, your friends and family (especially relatives) would often forward chain messages about the latest coronavirus cases in Malaysia. If you're annoyed about that (which we are too), we managed to get a heads-up about which one is #fakenews thanks to official Ministry of Health, Malaysia on its Twitter post.

Grab has officially announced that they will be supporting the Malaysian Government in encouraging cashless payments adoption, by rewarding customers up to three times more GrabRewards Points to those who pay via GrabPay. Unfortunately, those who pay via cash will not be eligible for the extra points as it only applies to GrabPay transactions.