At the Singapore FinTech Festival, Mastercard unveiled an ambitious vision to transform e-commerce in the Asia Pacific: making online shopping completely password-free and card-number-free by 2030. While over a third of Mastercard transactions worldwide are already tokenised, realising this vision in the Asia Pacific — projected to exceed USD 7 trillion by 2030 — will require collaboration across the payments ecosystem.

For those unaware, the Huawei XMAGE Awards 2025 was recently held in Paris. It's an annual mobile photography competition intended to showcase the photography prowess of Huawei phones, so contest entries must be captured on a Huawei phone. Below are more details of this year's awards.

Sony gave a clearer picture of the direction of PlayStation when its chief financial officer stated that the PlayStation 5 (PS5) is now “only in the middle of its life cycle”. So, what should you know about it?

The world's skies are expected to once again be adorned with spectacular aurora lights from Wednesday night into Thursday, following unusually strong solar activity, but the phenomenon also carries the risk of disruption to communications and satellite systems. So, what should you know about it?

According to a written parliamentary reply by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) and cited by the Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil, U Mobile is required to secure 80% 5G population coverage in its first year of operation, This will increase to 95% by the third year under the company’s Detailed Business Plan (DBP) for Malaysia’s second 5G network.

Perusahaan Otomobil Kedua Sdn Bhd (Perodua) will launch its first affordable electric vehicle (EV) that meets national needs at the end of this month, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

The government has expressed its intention to implement a barrier-free toll system on various highways in the next few years. In parallel, the Ministry of Works has reportedly opened bids for the barrier-free toll system, and around six parties have submitted bids to develop it.

Within the span of ten days in October 2025, two cases made shocking news across Malaysia. First was a 16-year-old girl murdered by a schoolmate, followed by a 9-year-old brother who slashed his younger sibling. Both well-known stories have been linked to video games (and other media content), especially the latter on Roblox, and once again, this brought back the classic old question: Do video games make kids violent?

The National Defence University of Malaysia (UPNM) launched two of their new research products at the Festival of Ideas (FOI) 2025, which are ready for commercialisation. That said, what should you know about it?

 As we reported before, the Malaysian government is reviewing a proposal to require electronic Know Your Customer (eKYC) identity verification for all social media users. According to Communications Minister Datuk Fahmi Fadzil, the move aims to strengthen online safety and accountability as part of Malaysia’s broader digital governance framework.