Some of you may have heard of the AirAsia air taxi service, so here are some new updates about the potential transportation service. According to sources, the air taxi service will start from the KLIA to KL City back and forth.

The Federal Government is set to launch a new residential property financing initiative called ‘i-Biaya’ this Thursday (14 April 2022) which will review the existing housing financial model in our country. With i-Biaya, new methods will be used to determine loan applicants’ eligibility, including their credit or digital footprint.

The initiative, part of the Malaysian Family Homeownership Programme (HOPE) seeks to improve home ownership among the B40 and M40 income groups in our country. Currently, many potential buyers could not own a house despite having a steady income due to them working in the gig economy sector or are self-employed, such as petty traders with no payslip.

In case you haven't watched The Batman by Matt Reeves, well, you will be able to watch it soon in the comfort of your home on HBO Go (and HBO Max). According to WarnerMedia, the movie will make its debut on the streaming platform on 18 April (Monday) 2022. 

By now, most of the youths have already claimed their ePemula credits but we also saw lots of memes on Twitter. On the platform, it seems that many of them are rather disappointed by some of the limitations.

The right-to-repair movement achieved yet another victory yesterday after another major tech company has agreed to let users legally self-repair their devices. Announced in its official blog, Google said that the option to self-repair is ‘coming soon’ for Google Pixel devices.

Ana Corrales, Google Consumer Hardware chief operating officer confirmed that the company will be working with iFixit to make it easier for independent repair professionals and skilled consumers to access genuine parts from Google. She further elaborated genuine Pixel spare parts will be available for purchase from iFixit later this year.

Previously, we reported that Celcom, Digi, Maxis and U Mobile have accepted the offer to take an equity stake in Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB). If you were wondering if there's any update, the latest news that we got is that these MNOs have yet to agree on key terms in the Reference Access Offer (RAO) that was recently published by DNB.

From time to time, we would hear news of how Malaysians get scammed online. In this news, a researcher from a Slovak internet security company, ESET, Lukáš Štefanko made a discovery and detected many fake websites are disguised as legitimate services with similar domain names in Malaysia.

The Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) has introduced a rather eye-catching way to ensure Covid-19 SOPs compliance at Ramadhan bazaars this year. Get this, the city council is using an infrared headcount system to control the number of people coming into bazaars!

Currently being utilised at the bazaars in SS 6/1, Kelana Jaya and Section 4, Kota Damansara, the headcount system ensures that only two people are allowed to be at the same stall at one given time. With a limit of 30 stalls for each location, MBPJ set the maximum crowd capacity at 60 people at one time.

The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) has urged Telegram users in Malaysia to activate the messaging app's ‘two-step verification’ security pin setting. This is following a rampant syndicate that has hacked numerous Telegram accounts in our country since the start of the year.

According to Bukit Aman Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) director Datuk Mohd Kamaruddin Md. Din, the modus operandi of the syndicate is to hack social media accounts and then pose as the person that they hacked. He revealed that a total of 314 cases of online fraud involving more than RM2 million were recorded from January to March 2022 alone.

The MySejahtera app has become a permanent fixture for us. It's a way for Malaysians and the government to track possible COVID-19 patients. Moreover, it records our vaccination status, which can be used when travelling.