Schedule flexibility may actually pressure employees to feel like they always have to be contactable. A suggestion to combat this is the concept of “transition days”, where the day before and the day after any sort of work break are blocked off specifically to prepare your workload in advance.

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First it was terrible tourists in Sekinchan. Now, paddy fields in Penang are being destroyed by a different kind of pest, affecting rice production in the process.

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A Japanese website called Sorehara allows victims of various kinds of harassment (from “smell harassment” to sexual harassment) to anonymously send emails to their tormentors about their actions. For Japan, where victim blaming is a major issue, this is encouraging people to identify antisocial behaviour without being penalised for it.

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The number of voice calls made on mobile phones in the UK fell for the first time ever in 2017 - despite the fact we seem hooked on our devices.

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His cars are already crashing, and now this? Our favourite super villain, Elon Musk wants to let people play video games on the dashboard screens of Tesla cars. Has The Musk finally lost it?

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Despite increased reports of ‘gaming addiction’, some parents now think it’s a smart idea to spend money having their kids ‘trained’ to spend more time playing the game ‘Fortnite’. The world works in mysterious ways indeed.

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As the Malaysian Education Ministry is calling for a new tender on the 1BestariNet project, an effort to connect over 10,000 government schools across Malaysia to the Internet, we ask if smartphones have changed the way we educate ourselves? How much time do you spend reading on your devices instead of a book?

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Google’s new “match” feature could help you find your one true love. And by love, we mean your next favourite cheeseburger.

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The hashtag has become a rallying cry for second or third generation immigrant in Germany - who have taken to Twitter to share their accounts of everyday racism.

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New research suggests that tapping into the power grid could be the key to solving traffic woes in most major cities across the globe.

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