News & Reviews:   rumours

The news about TikTok is all the rage these days. We recently reported that Elon Musk could be in talks of acquiring the operation business in the US but it's best to take it with a pinch of salt. Today, two different news outlets are saying TikTok could get a 270-day extension or be shut down on Sunday.

As a fresh reminder, TikTok by ByteDance could potentially be shut down in the US if the company is not sold by 19 January 2025. That's basically next Monday if nothing is done, just before President-elect Donald Trump returns to office.

If you're too lazy to go out and eat in Malaysia, there's either Grab or foodpanda to choose from. However, that may not be the case anymore as according to sources, Delivery Hero, the parent company of foodpanda may actually sell off its business in Malaysia, alongside our neighbouring countries.

Besides the annual Apple Event in September showcasing the new iPhones, there could be another one in October showing the new iPads and Macs. We won't be surprised if that was the case since it usually happens, but here's everything that you need to know about the October Apple showcase.

South Korean tech giant Samsung is reportedly planning to use custom in-house processors specific for its popular Galaxy S series smartphones starting from the year 2025. This plan is allegedly due to the insufficient yields and poor thermal management of the latest generation of Qualcomm and Exynos chipsets.

Reliable tipster regarding everything Apple, Ming-Chi Kuo is at it again yesterday by spilling the beans on the upcoming iPhone 14 series. This time around, Kuo is giving insight into the upcoming smartphones’ front cameras which would have a considerable upgrade from its current iteration.

Initially, Samsung's Exynos 2200 chipset was supposed to be revealed on 11 January 2022 but it didn't happen due to some reasons. Although there's no official word yet, rumours have it that the chipset could launch together (or not) with the upcoming Galaxy S22 series in early February 2022.

In our smartphone reviews, we tend to show a benchmark score to portray its performance capability. While a benchmark isn't everything, it does show a good indicator of a chipset's level. For the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset, it seems that its performance is now on par with Apple's A15 Bionic chipset.

Typically, a new Android software generation would be released in the fourth quarter of the year. But it seems that Android 12 may be released sooner than we thought. According to Mishaal Rahman who is an Editor-in-Chief for XDADevelopers, he tweeted a post showing evidence of Google's Android Open Source Project (AOSP) scheduled for 4 October 2021.

A few months back, it was reported that Netflix had begun to look into an Apple Arcade-like bundle for its platform. The company seemed quite serious about implementing this plan, so much so that it hired a former EA executive to oversee the project. Now, Netflix has taken its first steps in this direction with its Polish subscribers.