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Over the weekend, a video surfaced of a manager screaming at her subordinates because they hadn’t met their sales targets. We wanted to hear your management horror stories. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The glass ceiling is notoriously hard for women in leadership to shatter, but there’s another phenomenon that the few women who do break the glass ceiling face - the glass cliff . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Walmart have filed a patent for a shopping trolley that can track heart rates , temperatures and how tightly a customer is gripping the trolley handle - with the hope that they can determine when someone is stressed. Using this data they can then offer to help. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Spotify is asking its Family Plan users in the US for GPS data to prove that the family members all live together. But as Internet users were quick to point out, family members don’t necessarily live under the same roof. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A fund for NYC drivers could serve as the blueprint for a similar gig economy version - solving a number of driver issues in the process. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In an effort to combat screen addiction, Apple’s iOS 12 introduced a “Screen Time” feature that was supposed to limit screen time for children. But in a popular Reddit thread, parents revealed that their children could come up with very creative ways of working around the feature. Do parental controls like “Screen Time” actually work? See omnystudio.com/listener for p...

Many games already let those using PC, Nintendo Switch or Xbox One play together online, but Sony had refused to take part - until now . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A patient in anesthesia from Norway’s Østfold hospital had the worst luck ever recently as the only machine handling the anesthetic procedure went on a  forced Windows 10 update . Thankfully everything went back to normal after an hour and has forced the hospital to rethink their IT strategy and do updates manually. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Legendary rock band Led Zeppelin may be working on their own streaming service … and it actually sounds like a great idea! As far as unorthodox news is concerned, this one ranks pretty high. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Do traffic lights help or hurt with traffic congestion? A Carnegie Mellon University is looking at the possibility of vehicle to vehicle communication to help eliminate traffic lights and shorten your commute time. But should we just ditch traffic lights and go back to roundabouts? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For artificial intelligence, learning requires an absurd amount of data to learn from . In the medical world, data on medical conditions or rare diseases are lacking. But it turns out that generative adversarial networks (GANs) - the technology behind deepfakes - may be the key to training medical AIs See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We take a peek into some of the cool and unusual innovations unveiled at Alibaba’s annual computing conference earlier this week, which includes hotel room-service robots and smart cars that will park automatically and turn on the aircon before you get home. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For the upcoming US midterm election, Snapchat is letting users register to vote on the app itself . Especially in light of the recent announcement that the Malaysian voting age might be lowered to 18 from 21, we ask if app-based voter registration could work here in Malaysia See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

China is now the world’s biggest cashless marketplace. The mobile payment market is dominated by two apps, WeChat and AliPay - which have hundreds of millions of active users . But what might be some of the reasons that they’ve become cashless so rapidly? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In light of Nazir Razak’s resignation after 29 years, how do you know as a leader when it’s time to pass the baton? Roshan Thiran from Leaderonomics provides some insight into the ins and outs of long-term leadership. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Competition and Consumer Commision of Singapore (CCCS) has fined Grab and Uber a total of SGD 13 million over their merger , the strongest censure by a regulator since the deal was unveiled. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The co-founders of the photo-sharing app Instagram have resigned and plan to leave the company in the coming weeks. What will this mean for Facebook now that they’re losing one of their prize jewels? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

China’s increasing shortage of medical personnel has prompted tech companies to come up with AI-based solutions to curb the issue. In a futuristic scenario, doctors will no longer need to perform “mundane, routine tasks”. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"Billion Dollar Whale" has shed light on staff not willing to speak up when they know something is wrong. Would you speak up? Why or why not? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Have we gone too far now? HYT Food industries have decided that we just don’t have enough Nasi Lemak in our lives. With their pastry brand Casahana they’ve decided to combine two very important Malaysian staples - Nasi Lemak and Mooncakes . Interesting... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A catalogue of new insomnia aids popped up at IFA 2018 earlier this month, which might seem like a good sign for potential customers with sleep disorders… but is a rising demand for sleep-tech a cause for alarm? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With the recent hacks of cryptocurrency exchanges and articles slamming these exchanges, some believe that this could actually be a good thing for the digital currency space . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Facebook has begun testing its online-dating product, called Dating , in Columbia and will likely be available in other countries in the near future. Is this a step too far for Facebook, or a brilliant idea?  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Spotify are about to open the floodgates for independent artists to upload their music to the platform for free , bypassing current platforms out there like CDBaby and Distrokid who charge a one-off or monthly fee. Now we can all publish our own music. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

First, it was 3G. Then, it was 4G. Now, with 5G networks on the horizon, there are speculations that the technology could also welcome the possibility of phone-based holograms as well as on-the-go virtual reality and interactive live broadcasts, with 5G theoretically being able to handle greater amounts of data at higher speeds. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.