Starlink, the satellite broadband service operated by Elon Musk’s Space X, is now available in 32 countries worldwide. It mainly covers North America, Europe, New Zealand, and selected areas of South America and Australia. The coverage map has also included the estimated availability dates for the rest of the world with Malaysia expected to be covered in 2023.

TORONTO: Save the date! June 1 and 2, TikTok is staging an event for creators and advertisers in Toronto, Canada. The social network's first “#ForYou Summit” will take place in the real world and online, with a programme including conferences on trends like e-commerce, which is booming on social media.

Kota Kinabalu: A one-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed to empower women and marginalised communities via technology and innovation.

SAN FRANCISCO: Google on Wednesday said it is strapping a smartwatch onto its Pixel hardware line as part of an “ambient computing” vision to make its services available anywhere at any time.

SAN FRANCISCO: Apple put out word it is no longer making iPods, the trend-setting MP3 players that transformed how people get music and gave rise to the iPhone.

SAN FRANCISCO: Tinder parent Match Group filed a lawsuit in a federal court in San Francisco accusing Google of abusing monopoly power at its Play Store that sells digital content for Android-powered phones.

TOKYO: Mayu Iizuka sheds her soft-spoken personality and starts cackling, screaming and waving wildly in a makeshift studio in Tokyo as her avatar appears on a livestream before hundreds of fans.

Kuala Lumpur: It has almost become dogma: the general tech advice that the basic iPad is for those on a budget, the iPad Air is enough for pretty much everyone, the iPad mini for those who fancy portability over everything else and the iPad Pro is for those with specialised, heavy usage.

Kuala Lumpur: If you’re a gamer on PC, you might be familiar with the Game Bar. By hitting Win+G or, if you have an Xbox controller for PC, hitting the Xbox logo on the controller it’ll bring up the Game bar which lets you do things like control audio and monitor system performance while in game. It’s simple and only really ever useful when you’re already in game, but Microsoft are planning some notable changes to it especially for controller users in particular.

SAN FRANCISCO: Apple, Google and Microsoft said Thursday they are looking to get rid of passwords and replace them with a more secure way to access accounts or devices.