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HSBC Malaysia Launches EZInvest Unit Trust Investment Platform On Its Mobile App

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HSBC Malaysia has launched EZInvest, a platform on its mobile app that will enable customers to make unit trust investments at any time of the day or week. The feature is available to all HSBC Malaysia customers with an HSBC / HSBC Amanah Unit Trust Investment Account.

According to HSBC Malaysia, EZInvest users will have access to a selection of funds with different risk levels that are well diversified across the Asian and global regions. They’ll have flexible investment options to set up a monthly investment plan or lump sum investment.

Users will obviously have access to a daily updated view of their portfolio’s performance with a quick shortcut to buy more or sell funds. Security-wise, user financial information is protected by a combination of biometric verification, unique username and password, or a one-time security code generated by Mobile Secure Key.

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HSBC Malaysia claims that users can enjoy lower fees compared to similar services provided by other banking platforms. There’s also an introductory offer of a flat rate when purchased on EZInvest.

The bank described EzInvest as a milestone as it’s the first investment feature on its mobile app, perhaps hinting at more to come.

To learn more about EzInvest, you can head here (HSBC) or here (HSBC Amanah).

(Source: HSBC Malaysia. Images: Google Street View, Google Play Store.)

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Upcoming Windows Update Hits The Last Nail Into The Adobe Flash Coffin

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Adobe stopped supporting its own Flash platform at the end of last year. And in a few months, Microsoft will also be removing it from Windows 10 entirely. In fact, this is due to come soon via a Windows update.

The update itself is simply called the “Update for Removal of Adobe Flash Player”. It is expected to roll out this month, and become mandatory once July comes around. And it’s not just a Windows 10 thing, as older versions like Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 will also have Flash removed.

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This will be the final nail in the Adobe Flash coffin. The company itself announced all the way back in 2017 that it will stop support for it by the end of 2020. Most other companies have already taken similar steps, with Apple removing support for it back in macOS Sierra. Google and Mozilla also did the same for their browsers, with Facebook following shortly after.

One could consider that Microsoft is kind of late to the Flash ditching party. Though based on its own blog on the matter, the company decided alongside Adobe to kill the format back in 2017. So it may be obligation that the company kept it alive for its Windows operating system. But even that has finally come to an end.

(Source: Microsoft. Image: The Verge)

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Facebook Now Allows You To Transfer Your Posts To Other Platforms

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Facebook today revealed that it has rolled out a new feature which would allow its users to preserve their published posts to platforms outside of its ecosystem such as Google Docs, WordPress or Blogger. This greatly expands the existing data transfer tool for photos and videos that was introduced by the social media company last year.

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The new feature is part of a cross-company data-sharing initiative that launched in 2018, simply known as the Data Transfer Project. Its aim is to have users freely move their data across various online services and platforms seamlessly without restriction. Among those participating in this initiative includes Apple, Google, Microsoft and Twitter – all of which also have introduced their own data-export tools.

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Concurrently, as noted by The Verge, the introduction of this new feature would also help bring Facebook in line with two recent regulation laws, the California’s Consumer Privacy Act and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. “We hope this tool empowers people to take control of their data and encourages the creation of updated rules around data portability by lawmakers,” said company Chief Privacy Officer Michel Protti. “We look forward to working with more experts and companies to expand the scope of what you can move between platforms.”

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This new addition to Facebook’s information transfer tool is now available to all users across the globe. Those who wish to utilise the feature may find it in the “Your Facebook Information” page, under the platform’s Settings page. From there, you can choose which type of content you wish to transfer, and to which platform outside of Facebook that you want it delivered to.

Facebook Data Transfer Too Share Posts To Other PlatformsKeep in mind that the choices of transfer destinations will differ depending on what type of content you wish to move. Also, it’s worth noting that any data ported to other platforms will not include elements such as comments or data from other users, as they belong to their respective owners.

(Source: Facebook [1] [2])

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Nearly Two-Thirds Of Google Searches End With No Clicks At All

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Almost two-thirds (or 64.82%) of Google searches in 2020 ended without people clicking through to another website, market research firm SparkToro found using data from SimilarWeb. In other words, people mostly just looked at the search results page and then decided to move on.

While that may be surprising, it really shouldn’t be. It can be argued that Google isn’t a search engine anymore, but an all-knowing guru. Type in any question and chances are, you’ll receive an answer on the search results page itself with no further clicking required.

This obviously applies to currency and time conversions, weather queries, and mathematical calculations. But it also helps that Google is integrated with Wikipedia – search for “nyan cat” and you’ll see a preview of its Wikipedia entry.

This is generally a good thing and Google deserves much credit for anticipating what users need and want. But it also implies that the tech giant has created this closed ecosystem and hogs all the traffic for itself.

So Google pushed back pretty hard against SparkToro’s findings, saying that they were based on “flawed methodology”. The company said that people searching multiple times as they reformulated their queries would falsely inflate the search-to-click ratio.

Someone looking for sneakers, it said, might go through a few zero-click searches before ultimately clicking through to a retailer’s website. Furthermore, people directly connecting with businesses, or navigating directly to apps would skip the traditional click-through altogether.

“We send billions of visits to websites every day, and the traffic we’ve sent to the open web has increased every year since Google Search was first created,” the company declared.

Are you wondering why Google even bothered to respond? Consider that the tech giant has recently been in the sights of US and European regulators over antitrust issues.

(Source: SparkToro, Google. Header image: Brett Jordan / Pexels.)

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The Queens Waterfront construction site cluster recorded a total of 145 Covid-19 cases as of yesterday

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The Queens Waterfront construction site cluster recorded a total of 145 Covid-19 cases as of yesterday

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The Penang government has instructed both the Penang Island City Council (MBPP) and Seberang Prai City Council (MBSP) to take stern action against construction sites which recorded high number of positive Covid-19 cases, including possible closure.

This follows the spike in Covid-19 cases in construction sites, with Penang recording a new cluster from yesterday.

The Queens Waterfront construction site cluster recorded 87 new cases yesterday, bringing the total cases to 145.

A total 709 people have been screened so far.

State Local Government Committee chairman Jagdeep Singh Deo said he had asked both the local councils to step up on their enforcement, more so following yesterday’s spike in cases.

“Our enforcement officers are on the ground.

“They have to do the monitoring and report back, and if necessary, they will take action. They have done so,” he said when met after receiving his Covid-19 vaccination at the Jalan Angsana Health Clinic here this morning.

Source: NST Online

 

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Microsoft Edge To Get Vertical Tabs And Other New Features Later This Month

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Microsoft has revealed that it will be rolling out several new features to its Chromium-based Edge web browser in an upcoming update slated later this month. These include vertical tabs, a side panel for browser history and the sleeping tab feature – all of which were initially released to Edge Dev channel testers four months prior.

Vertical tabs is something we never knew we needed, especially if we’re hoarding dozens of tabs during a web browsing session. As implied by its name, this new feature allows you to list all of your tabs vertically on the left side, independent from the rest of the browser. This is activated by simply clicking on the tab icon located on the upper left corner, From here, you can close or add tabs and also arrange them as you see fit, much like the original horizontal version.

Best of all, not only does this feature clean up Edge’s upper bar, the vertical tabs pane itself will minimise when not in use – further freeing more room for the active web page window and giving the browser a cleaner and minimalist look. When minimised, all tabs are represented by their respective website’s icon for your reference. 

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The next feature is very handy if you’re planning to revisit a particular page from your long list of web browsing history. In the current version of Edge (and Chrome), accessing the browser history will open up a new tab which would take you away from the current website that you’re viewing. To remedy this, Microsoft has introduced a new approach where clicking on the History button in the pull down menu or by pressing CTRL-H will now open up a new miniature pop-up window on top of the browser – displaying a list of previously visited websites that you can scroll through.

This pop up can be maximised, which would display it as an independent column on the right side of the browser. You may choose to close this at any time to free up more screen space by clicking on the “X” button on its top right corner.

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The third and last new addition to Microsoft Edge is the sleeping tab feature, which runs passively in the background while you browse the web. Having multiple tabs on any web browser open will clog up a computer’s resources and cause slowdowns. This is because each website in their respective tabs are functioning as per usual, even when you have a different page opened in the browser’s main window.

Sleeping tabs remedies this by putting these tabs to, well, sleep by cutting off resources after a certain amount of time of inactivity. This can be set manually by the user via the settings page. Microsoft says that, according to tester feedback, this new feature increases battery life for laptops by using 26% less CPU power on average and also reduces memory usage by 16% on average.

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Needless to say, these new features have granted Microsoft’s web browser an edge (pun intended) to surpass Google Chrome in terms of functionality and efficiency. Not bad for a cloned product with a rocky beginning.

(Source: Microsoft [Official blog])

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Facebook May Be Working On A Smartwatch; Runs Android

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There are many companies that you’d expect to come up with a smartwatch. Facebook is probably not one of them. Though a new report indicates that the social media company may very well be working on such a wearable.

The Information cites sources that say Facebook could be working on a smartwatch. And it would ship with the Android operating system, though it’s unclear as to if this means the Wear OS or the regular phone OS. The company may instead be using its own OS that is based on the Android OS.

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For now, there’s no word on when, or if, the company will be making an official announcement. But it does beg the question. would you buy a Facebook smartwatch? There are plenty of other more established brands in the business. So the social media company will have to offer something that no other competitor in the field does in order for its own wearable to be appealing.

Of course, there’s also the matter of data collection on such a device. Facebook doesn’t exactly has a clean record when it comes to privacy. It will likely be a source of concern, similar to Google’s acquisition of Fitbit.

(Source: The Information via Android Authority)

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