It’s been over half a year now since news first broke of COVID-19, and today over 400,000 people across the world have succumbed to the virus, with Malaysia alone having had 121 deaths. In April, the unemployment rate in Malaysia spiked to 5%, the highest since 1990, and it is …
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During the PC Gaming Show today, Amazon Games announced that its New World massively multiplayer online game will be available as a closed beta July 23. The company also revealed new details about the combat system for the colonial era online game. The game has been in development for years, …
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Everybody says they’re tired of Zoom video conference calls, but there hasn’t been much to take its place. Now emerging tech PR/event agency EAK Digital and London-based Sine Wave Entertainment have teamed up to create a blockchain technology conference in a virtual world. The BlockDown conference will take place June …
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As every significant historical moment has its own power plays, shift in business models and societal adaptation to a new norm, the same applies to the COVID-19 new world order. Much has been said that technology companies are the true winners, but is everyone in the tech space really winning? …
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It had the makings of an adventure straight from Disney’s “Swiss Family Robinson” — being on an uninhabited island and living off the land. But for one Alabama man, the adventure — on a former island attraction at Walt Disney World in Florida — was short-lived and ended in an …
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Niantic is known for its approach to augmented reality and location-based gaming. In the summer of 2016, Pokémon Go changed the world and how communities form around mobile games. Greg Borrud, the general manager at Niantic’s Los Angeles studio, has watched the industry grow and evolve from a reliance on …
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Walt Disney World in Florida plans to furlough about 43,000 workers after it closed last month because of the coronavirus pandemic, the company and a union coalition representing the workers said. In mid-March, Disney theme parks worldwide closed, including Disney World in Florida and Disneyland Resort in California. The furloughs, …
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COVID-19 waits for no one, and the speed of its spread has forced the world to act quickly. From world governments to individual households, all of sudden everyone has had to scrap plans, make new ones, and try to hang on to some kind of new normal as the pandemic …
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BANGKOK — His whole family back in Myanmar depended on him. But Ko Zaw Win Tun, one of an estimated four million migrant workers in Thailand, lost his job at a Bangkok toy store when the city went into a coronavirus lockdown. With little hope of a new job there, …
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