Experiencing negative emotions could actually be better for your well-being - as opposed to avoiding or repressing those feelings entirely. It turns out that striving for constant or endless happiness puts pressure on ourselves by creating unrealistic and unhealthy expectations.

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The battle of eWallets is heating up here in Malaysia. With at least 5 players in the space all eyeing your money, Tencent (the company behind WeChat) went for the aggressive strategy by giving free money to users who sign up for their platform. But is that enough to entice you to use digital wallets?

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While we ponder the future of AI and computing, we often overlook how technology will impact our most important need; food! Futurist Marius Robles examines how eating will change in the next couple of decades.

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If you feel like there are too many things to do—but not enough time to do them—you are not alone. People who report frequent feelings of time scarcity are less happy and more prone to anxiety and depression than people who report feeling time affluent.

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People today are tied to their smartphones tighter than ever, and injuries occur daily because people are looking at info on screens instead of where they’re going. This is why GM has banned its staff from walking and talking or texting at work.

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In his National Day speech, Singaporean PM Lee Hsien Loong said Singapore’s hawker centres were its “community dining rooms” and are a unique part of the country’s heritage and identity.

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Google seems to believe that people are getting too much bad news from the media and that it may not be good for them. So now, you’ll be able to ask “Hey Google, tell me something good.”

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As the three-month tax-free holiday period comes to an end, Malaysians and foreigners are rushing in for some last minute shopping before SST kicks in on the 1st of September. Doubled with Merdeka Day discounts, retailers are expecting to see a surge in sales numbers. So have you been shopping recently?

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The New York Public Library is turning classics like Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll into animated Insta-stories containing the full text of each book. In the competition between paper-based books and e-books, could this be a surprising middle ground?

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It’s a well-known fact that our attention spans have decreased over the past few years, some being even shorter than that of a goldfish. But are our smartphones really to be blamed here? New research shows that we’ve always been terrible at focusing and it’s just an evolution of our species, smartphone or not.

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