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Momax Q.Power UV-Box ULTRA-VIOLET SANITISER $89 Our smartphones are said to harbour more germs than toilet seats. But wiping it with alcohol wipes might destroy the display coating of your smartphone. It is better to use an ultra-violet (UV) light sanitiser such as the Momax Q.Power UV-Box (available on Lazada and Shopee). Place your smartphone […]

Huawei’s new photography-centric flagship P40 smartphone series comes in three versions – the 6.1-inch P40 (with a rear triplecamera system and up to 3x optical zoom), the 6.58-inch P40 Pro (a rear quad-camera system and up to 5x optical zoom) and the P40 Pro+ (a rear penta-camera system and up to 10x optical zoom). Singapore […]

Now that the coronavirus is a full-blown pandemic, there is a good chance you are working from home. But that is not such a bad thing. In fact, it can be quite the opposite. A two-year study by Stanford University released in April 2018 found that worker productivity rose manifold and staff attrition dropped by […]

Last week, three home-grown companies, taxi operator ComfortDelGro and ride-hailing companies Ryde and Tada, joined Huawei’s app store AppGallery. This came on the heels of Huawei announcing its latest P40 series smartphones. Due to the ongoing trade war between China and the United States, the new smartphones do not come with Google Mobile Services, which […]

Two things that matter to gamers are how fast their games start up and how good the game graphics look. For the former, the Sony PlayStation 5, or PS5, appears to have an edge over rival Microsoft’s Xbox Series X. For the latter, it could potentially be the other way around. This difference between the […]

I shrieked in terror the first time a headcrab jumped out at me in Half-Life: Alyx, the triumphant virtual-reality (VR) return of the seminal video-game franchise. In my panic, I missed most of my pistol shots and dropped the magazine in my desperate attempt to reload. A red mist covered my view as the headcrab […]

Doom Eternal goes for the jugular right off the bat. The first sign that things will soon get hairy is when Doomguy, the game’s strong and silent protagonist, is handed the shotgun as the starting weapon instead of the weaker pistol. The opening couple of hours are an especially brutal introduction to the Doom series, […]

I can’t play platform games very well. You know, those games in which you control a character that has to jump and climb between platforms while avoiding objects, enemies and other obstacles. However, Ori And The Will Of The Wisps is making me persevere despite my woeful control and umpteen failed attempts betweengetting a jump […]

Public relations associate Tessa Lee, 25, bought a Nintendo Switch portable video game console two months ago, largely to play the popular Switch game Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which had not launched then. Soon after that, her company implemented a work-from-home arrangement due to the coronavirus outbreak. She has also been reluctant to go out […]

Samsung C27RG50 GAMING DISPLAY $568 This 27-inch full high-definition curved monitor has an amazing refresh rate of 240Hz – four times faster than the 60Hz of conventional monitors – for virtually lag-free visuals. Plus, it supports the G-Sync technology, which eliminates image tears and stuttering when used with gaming machines with Nvidia graphics cards. Asus […]