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Today, a formal statement was issued on the Ministry of Home Affairs (KDN)'s official Twitter account to clear the confusion statement mentioned by Deputy Home Minister Datuk Mohd Azis Jamman on 18 November. So what was the confusion? Well, he said that the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) has the right to inspect the public's phones which seems to be inaccurate. Here's what the KDN statement said.

Both Twitter and WhatsApp have just launched new updates. The new feature on Twitter makes your feed fills with topics of your interest whereas WhatsApp is adding more security with your group chats.

Based on a tweet by @WABetainfo, WhatsApp could possibly come with a feature that allows it to be used on multiple devices simultaneously. While they have not given us an ETA of when this feature will be available, the new update gives users greater flexibility when it comes to communicating via WhatsApp.

Since the launch of a system-wide dark mode on both iOS 13 and Android 10, it has brought attention to all the mobile apps developers. After Google Gmail app got updated for the dark mode on Android 10, Twitter has announced the dark mode called “Lights out” to be rolled out to all Android users starting today.

Earlier last week, Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter’s Twitter account got hacked on Friday, and now hundreds of millions of Facebook users phone number got exposed from an Internet database that anyone can search and access to before it was taken down. Still, as of now, there is still no evidence on any Facebook accounts having been hijacked... yet.

Twitter recently confirmed that Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter’s Twitter account got hacked on Friday by a little known but formerly useful Twitter feature called tweet by text. Apparently, Jack’s account started spewing hate and racist tweets, but it was due to the tweet by text feature without having to actually hack the Twitter account. This was done by spoofing the phone number or tricking Twitter into believing that the hackers were actually using Jack’s phone.

Based on a report by cnet.com and Evan Blass on Twitter, Samsung phones could start using graphene batteries instead of lithium-ion batteries by the year 2021. Smartphones fitted with the graphene batteries will have significantly higher capacity, and it is able to be fully charged in under 30 minutes. Not only that, but it could also reduce the overall price of the smartphone as graphene batteries are rather cheap to manufacture.

Hey Pokemon fans! If you've been waiting patiently for the anticipated Pokemon Masters mobile game app, here's some good news! According to to the official Pokemon Masters Twitter page, the mobile game app is now live but only for Canada and our neighbour, Singapore.

There have been rumours floating around, hinting the possibility of smartphone manufacturers such as Samsung and Xiaomi could have their smartphones fitted with a 64MP image sensor. Surprisingly, Realme was the first to release a photo sample taken from the aforementioned image sensor, beating Samsung and Xiaomi to the punch.

Based on Twitter user Matt Navarra, Instagram will be shutting down their standalone Direct app most likely by the end of May 2019. But fret not, as all the conversations that took place on the standalone app will migrate over to the Instagram itself.