Tech Talk

As we countlessly hit snooze on our phone alarms every morning, we often question ourselves – Why do we work? The conventional answer would be because we need to earn a living. However, is it as simple as that? Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage is here to shine some light on the trendline between tech and work as well as how millennials view work today.

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We live in a world where jigsaw puzzles are made to fit perfectly and dots on a colouring sheet are meant to be joined together. Both forms of linkage, both forms of connection. Today, however, we see an elevated version of connection- One where objects themselves communicate with each other and one where these objects are allowed to collect and exchange data. Being a mildly understated concept, we have Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage with us to break down the anatomy of The Internet of Things as well as to present his verdict on the notion.

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Waiting for a package to be delivered can be frustrating as deliveries mostly happen during office hours. Furthermore, customers often miss the delivery window and proceed to worry about the safety of their packages. To ensure the convenience of online shopping, the Singapore government has created a nationwide system of delivery lockers from which the public can retrieve packages ordered online.

FreshTurf, a technology company in Singapore, soughts to create a secure way of making these lockers available to any delivery company wishing to utilize the service. Think of it as the Uber of delivery lockers. We speak to one of the co-founders of Fresh Turf, Jarryl Hong about the creation of this blockchain startup and all its operations. 

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Jeff Sandhu and Richard Bradbury gets back online to review Alienation on the PS4. Is this the best arcade shooter game on the PlayStation console and is this worth your money? And updates on the world's most powerful console machine, Xbox Scorpion, and why Jeff isn't that all excited about Tekken 7.

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The geeks talk about politicians' social media blow-ups, Stephen Fry’s warning for the web, Google co-founder building the world's largest airship, Matt’s King of the Crowd featuring the Banana Phone, a phone with appeal, the unveiling of the robot priest in Germany, and 25,000 private photos from cosmetic surgery clinic being published by hackers.

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Just as humans evolve, so too does the process of innovation. There was once upon a time an era where you would hear the nostalgic, whirring noises of a rotary dial in every office, or the abrupt taps from flipping a flip phone closed instead of the gentle clicks from locking an iPhone. But, then came the era after computers- An era filled with new gadgets and tools that is nearly impossible to keep up with. Has innovation reached its prime and stagnated? Could this be the beginning of what we would like to call, the innovation crunch? Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage is here to present us with an idea as to where innovation stands in the world today, as well as where he sees it going.

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The IBM Bluemix Garage is an initiative that leverages the IBM Bluemix cloud platform and agile development methodologies to create a bridge between the scale of enterprises and the culture of start-ups. The result? An ecosystem of innovation that thrives on collaboration. We speak to Rachel Reinitz, the CTO of Bluemix Garage and Shawn Murray, the Global Director for Bluemix, about the creation of Bluemix Garages around the world and you can leverage this for your business.

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Karamjit Singh, Goh Thean Eu and Anushia Kandasivam from Digital New Asia.com (DNA) talk about:

0:18 - Soft Space Sealed Series A and set so scale aggresively

5:34 - Celcom Outlines Game Plan To Gain Share In Second Half

9:47 - Fusionex updates

15:03 -  E-Commerce Ready For Innovation

18:52 - SEA Ripe For ‘Massive Opportunities’ Through Digital In Next Decade

22:14 - Gobi Partners Exit Malaysian Beauty E-Commerce Site Hermo With 91% IRR

25:53 - CollectCo Makes E-Commerce Convenient Again

30:44 - Carousell Moving On With AI

32:11 - Cyberjaya A Model For Smart City Developments

34:32 - Bank Negara Calls For Ideas With Fintech Hacks

35:43 - HMD Global Marks New Chapter For Nokia Smartphones

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The geeks talk about the brain eating itself after chronic sleep deprivation, a 94-year-old professor who develops a longer-lasting battery, our brains preferring invented visual information to real information, Google’s AlphaGo AI defeating the world’s best human Go player, Ke Jie, Matt’s King of the Crowd featuring RompHim, a romper specially designed for men, healthy mice being produced from sperm frozen in space, the truth the whole truth and nothing like the truth, and how much $100 of bitcoin from 7 years ago is worth today.

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Freedom of speech and expression are all about our right to make a statement. However, where is the line drawn between expressing one’s frustration on a Facebook comment and valid censorship? Kulturpop’s Matt Armitage is here throw some light on what the media has been calling The Facebook Files, a drop of confidential company documents that outlines Facebook’s policies towards policing the site and moderating content.

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