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.

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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.

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While mentors are helpful, they can often be too formal or far-removed. Confiding in a network of friends could solve those problems.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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