Netflix. Spotify. Newspapers. Office365. Dropbox. Everything is a subscription now, but how many services can people afford? In the US, Uber is testing out a subscription model that gives you access to all their services and discounted rides for a monthly fee. Is this the way forward for all businesses in the future? Who even likes monthly payments?

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India’s first ‘Garbage Cafe’ is allowing people to exchange plastic and other recyclable trash for free meals. It’s a new initiative to clean up the streets, while also helping the homeless and needy have hearty meals daily.

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Since one of the main goals of completing an internship is securing a job, it’s important to know how to shine in the workplace. First impressions are crucial, but so is maintaining high professional standards through consistent hard work, a strong commitment, and avoiding getting caught up in office gossip.

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The current hot topic is whether or not interns should get paid. The dictionary definition of an intern is: a student or trainee who works, sometimes without pay, in order to gain work experience or satisfy requirements for a qualification. Is this definition outdated?

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It’s a sign of the times when farmers make more money advocating for the industry on social media than actually farming.

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Instagram is quickly becoming the internet’s very own Petaling Street, with counterfeit goods available everywhere you look. Sneakers and watches aside, thousands of Instagram accounts are now pushing fake money to users and things are beginning to take a very sinister turn. 

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The popular tourist destination of Komodo Island in Indonesia will be closed to residence and tourism as of the beginning of 2020. The shutdown is planned to be a year long and it is hoped that it will help improve the ecological conditions and environment. This follows other popular tourist destinations such as Maya Bay in Thailand and Boracay Island in the Philippines. Should there be a quota system in place for popular tourist places here in Malaysia?

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New tech, new scams. Convincing deepfakes are becoming easier to create, and scammers have started to use the tech to scam companies by impersonating their CEOs. With large amounts of data now accessible across the internet, it’s becoming frighteningly easy to impersonate someone else with a few simple tricks.

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It’s frustrating when a coworker misses a deadline or doesn’t hand off critical information you need to get your work done. It’s also easy to blame them for your own productivity pitfalls. A new study by leadership training provider VitalSmarts found that it only takes one or two team members to make a small fumble that cuts team performance by about 24%.

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We all know the importance of keeping our homes safe, and we still use the tried and tested method of keys, locks and burglar alarms. But as burglars are getting more sophisticated in their methods - we too need to up our prevention game. We’ll be talking about some high-tech and low-cost ways that you can make your home safer.

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