Fast fashion makes shopping for clothes more affordable, but it comes at an environmental cost. The fashion industry produces 10% of all humanity’s carbon emissions, is the second-largest consumer of the world’s water supply, and pollutes the oceans with microplastics.

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From Deadpool to Aviation Gin and now Mint Mobile, Ryan Reynolds has proven to be a marketing genius… or at least the team behind the icon is. As brands flood to the Superbowl to get their 30 seconds of fame for a whopping $5Mil, Reynolds opted to do the opposite and advertise in print media instead. The results are hilarious and wildly effective.

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Seven years ago, MIT debuted a landmark project, which allowed everyday people to photograph and rate their streets like a Hot or Not for cities. It was a powerful showcase of how crowdsourcing opinions from citizens could help quantify a city’s appeal and, in theory, help urban designers plan better cities. Less than a decade later, artificial intelligence is taking this idea so much further. FaceLift is a new AI system developed by Nokia Bell Labs Cambridge that allows scientists and urban planners to use a crowd’s aggregated sensibility to actually redesign the look of city streets. 

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  Atari Interactive thinks it has an idea to rekindle interest in the gaming brand: It wants to build Atari-themed hotels.

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As the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV continues to spread in Wuhan and beyond, authorities and medical staff are looking at innovative ways to tackle the outbreak. Cue Little Peanut, a robot that’s delivering food to a few quarantined patients as a way to reduce human-to-human contact.

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On the 1st of Feb 2020, Pos Malaysia will be revising its commercial postage in tandem with the rising operational costs and the increase in the international rate structure by the Universal Postal Union (UPU). The revised postage rates will only apply to registered mail, commercial mail and small parcels below 2kg, which in some way would affect the ecommerce merchants. But would this increase lead to better delivery services in light of more competition?

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Startup Genome and the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) today announced a partnership to supercharge the growth of Malaysia’s startup ecosystem, starting with Greater Kuala Lumpur. As part of this partnership, Startup Genome will perform its startup ecosystem assessment to identify policies and initiatives that will help to unleash the potential of Malaysia’s vibrant startups and the wider innovation ecosystem. The research and advisory firm will be engaging the country’s startup founders along with investors, policy leaders, and other key stakeholders for input.

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In November of last year, we finally caught up to the future envisioned in the 1982 movie Blade Runner. But things may not be exactly how Ridley Scott Imagined. We don’t have flying cars, we don’t have Replicants, Los Angeles is not an oversized mega-city choked in smog - just yet. But we do have some of the technology that made an appearance in the movie, somewhat. Digital assistants are ubiquitous, video calling is the norm, and L.A. fashion is still questionable. But how do we think work life will actually be in 20 years time? How will we be working, what will we have to change?

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As the Wuhan Virus spreads and paranoia slowly sets in, more and more people are turning to a very particular videogame either for answers, escapism, indulgence, or all of the above. Aptly titled Plague Inc, the videogame maps the spread of a humanity-ending disease worldwide while also dishing out nuggets of information at the same time.  

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It’s a battle of mathematicians vs engineers! A new book by math professor Alex Krylotov highlights how traffic woes could be solved if engineers just stepped aside and allowed math to do the rest. Apparently it’s all about thinking about traffic in terms of numbers and “flow” instead of coming up with expensive solutions.

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