Astro has officially pulled out of the 2026 FIFA World Cup bidding war, ending a two-decade monopoly and transferring the entire 104-match broadcasting rights to Unifi TV and RTM.
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Apple has officially transformed the Apple Watch from a passive notification panel into a highly predictive, clinical-grade companion. Unveiled at WWDC26, watchOS 27 brings a ground-up reconstruction of the wearable layout—introducing an AI-driven dynamic app grid, advanced perimenopause cycle tracking, and single-handed gesture navigation.
TL;DR / At a Glance: Previewed at WWDC26 as a major component of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS Golden Gate, Apple’s updated Child Safety and Screen Time suite introduces a series of automated protective gates for younger users. Key upgrades include Ask to Browse for Safari website authorisation, age-calibrated
The regulatory hammer has officially dropped. Apple has confirmed that due to the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA), Siri AI is being completely withheld from iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 across all 27 EU member states, leaving millions of iPhone and iPad users stranded outside the AI revolution.
Conversational chatbots are a distraction. At WWDC26, Apple quietly launched a massive structural counter-attack by deploying a silent, underground army of background agentic tools directly inside your native applications—radically changing how Safari, Passwords, and Shortcuts execute tasks while you aren't even looking.
Siri is officially dead—long live Siri AI. Unveiled at WWDC26, Apple has completely demolished its legacy voice assistant code to deploy a multi-modal, context-aware standalone application with full onscreen awareness and live camera-driven Visual Intelligence.
Apple has officially flipped the script at WWDC26. Moving past legacy voice commands and flat designs, the keynote unmasked macOS Golden Gate, a ground-up Siri AI reconstruction, and an intelligent Apple-Google cloud privacy architecture.
Samsung Malaysia has officially launched the Step Up Challenge Malaysia for World Running Day, giving local users a chance to score an RM200 voucher just by tracking their active steps on the Samsung Health app.
Dell breaks the premium laptop rules at Computex 2026, slashing the iconic XPS 13 down to an unprecedented $699 starting price to wage war against Apple's MacBook Neo.
ASUS has officially dropped the ultimate handheld mic at Computex 2026. The new ROG XBOX Ally X20 trades old LCDs for a spectacular 7.4-inch Nebula HDR OLED panel and completely replaces standard thumbsticks with competitive-grade, drift-proof TMR sensor technology.