Enterprise Explores

We take a sneak peek into Childish Gambino’s new psychedelic AR app, and how it hopes to give people a small taste of the future. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Facebook and 27 partners has released a whitepaper for a new type of cryptocurrency called Libra . The new type of digital money is designed for the billions of people already using its apps and social network to shop and send money - on apps like Messenger and Instragram, as well as other merchants like Uber, Spotify and MasterCard. So, will it work? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inform...

An enterprising company in Cyberjaya has decided that the time is right to launch their drone delivery services - almost. Average Drone Sdn Bhd will have a three-month-trial period to see if they create enough buzz to make the service permanent. Delivery times are expected to be around 12 minutes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Do you own a Samsung QLED TV? If so, the company is advising that you regularly check for malware using its built-in virus scanner. Unsurprisingly, this hasn’t gone down well with most people. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The utility of self-tracking in achieving some specified goal doesn’t fully explain its fascination. There’s a compulsion, a curiosity, that seems to operate in advance of any particular use. We discuss why some people are obsessed with tracking themselves, despite achieving little progress. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Do you trust online ratings and recommendations? Perhaps you shouldn’t; a review of dozens of Amazon’s Choice products by BuzzFeed News found listings with troubling product defects and warnings, as well as review manipulation . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

While mentors are helpful, they can often be too formal or far-removed. Confiding in a network of friends could solve those problems . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Genius Media Group Inc. depends on Google’s search engine to send music lovers to its website stocked with hard-to-decipher lyrics to hip-hop songs and other pop hits. Now Genius says its traffic is dropping because, for the past several years, Google has been publishing lyrics on its own platform, with some of them lifted directly from the music site. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

Digital natives (everyone born after 1996) will grow up with texting, social media, and digital devices as part of their daily lives and as primary methods of communication . Some schools have taken the liberty of bringing in slightly older digital natives, ie teenagers, to teach younger children about the do’s and don'ts of life on the internet. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy infor...

Advertising has a time and a place, and the place is never on the lock screen of a smartphone you paid a lot of money for. As if Huawei didn't need more negative publicity right now, the company has seemingly begun allowing advertisements for Booking.com on the lock screens of several of its phones. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's the roundup of day two of CES Asia 2019 in Shanghai as Jeff Sandhu explains the future of AI with the dawn of 5G. And a tour of the exhibition hall looking at automotive tech, autonomous vehicles, AR/VR, personal home robots and of course the weird stuff at CES Asia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As more companies lean towards eco-friendly, biodegradable products, Native Shoes have figured out a way to design sneakers made completely out of plants. The shoes are 100% biodegradable , which means their carbon footprint is significantly reduced in the process. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There’s a suggestion that in just a few years’ time we won’t be listening to music as we know it , we’ll be listening to custom song equivalents that are automatically designed for each individual - and tailored to their brain. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

5G, Artificial Intelligence, AR/VR/XR, Automotive Tech, Robotics, Fashion Tech, Travel Tech; all this under one roof could only mean one thing. It's the return of CES Asia 2019 . Jeff Sandhu who's in Shanghai for the event talks to us about his experience of day one at the event. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Asking people to attack your online infrastructure seems counterintuitive, but Microsoft says it’s the only way they’ll be able to make improvements to Azure, their flagship cloud solution. Worried that the service isn’t getting as many “attacks” as it should, Microsoft is now coming up with ways to incentivise hackers to do their worst . See omnystudio.com/listener f...

Do you remember the last time you had to rewrite your résumé or create a new cover letter? If your experience is like most people’s, you end up sitting in front of a blank document with the cursor blinking all by itself. What do I say about myself and why does it matter? How do I even begin to put this together? Maybe it’s time to take a minute to reflect on the week you...

You’ve probably heard it at talent acquisition conferences, in industry articles, and maybe even from your boss: Mobile recruiting is on the rise , and it’s time to adapt. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Automation isn’t new and it certainly isn’t inevitable, but is there a limit to what we should allow robots to do? In South Korea, baristas are being replaced by robots , taking away a highly “human” element from the equation. It begs the question - are good cafes made better by the experience, and its people, or merely its line of beverages? See omnystudio.com/listener for...

Research has revealed just how much people’s travel preferences could shift with the advent of driverless cars. Which would you choose? And is the future of commercial flights in danger? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mozilla’s reportedly set to launch a premium version of its revered Firefox browser this fall. In an interview with German media outlet T3N, the company’s CEO, Chris Beard, said that it’s aiming to launch the new version by October, with features like a VPN and secure cloud storage. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Learning new skills is one of the best ways to upgrade your life and career. Top performers prioritise skill acquisition to get more done, and lifelong learning is mandatory if you want to achieve anything worthwhile. It’s rewarding but for many people, indecision, intimidation, and frustration are the key barriers to their growth. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Recently, there’s been a wave of startups designing clothes that require less laundering . And while these wash-less brands recognise they’re going up against years of cultural conditioning, they’re also making a valid environmental argument. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Vacations are wonderful, healing breaks from reality that give us something to look forward to when things in our daily lives seem mundane or stressful. But realistically, most of us are not in a position — financially or time-affluence-wise — of taking multiple recreational trips each year. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What do you want to be when you grow up? It’s a question we’ve been asked ever since we were kids, but deciding on a single career isn’t always as easy as it sounds. Many experts have weighed in on how to pick the work you want, but the truth is our wants change with age as well. So how do we choose ? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

At some point it makes sense for all students to identify a career track but the question is when . In Austria and Germany, for example, students sometimes as young as 10 are tracked for certain careers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.