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?

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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.

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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

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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?

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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

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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.

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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”.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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