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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A company in the UK has come up with a “Cuddle a Co-worker” Day, based on the idea that cuddling promotes oxytocin and serotonin release. But what are the implications of cuddling your co-workers? And would this really be a good team-building exercise?

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We’ve all had our frustrations with customer service representatives, but what would make it more efficient? Artificial Intelligence perhaps?

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Huawei was caught using photos taken on a DSLR camera to promote their new Nova 3 smartphone in a recent advertisement. However, in the advertising world almost everything is faked or edited in some way, shape, or form. Is this the faux pas it seems to be?

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New research shows more people than ever before are ditching their latest model iPhones and Androids for “dumb phones” or burners which only let them make and receive calls.

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The Australian government wants to force companies to help it get at suspects data. If they can’t, it would jail people for up to a decade if they refuse.

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