Tech Talk

10,000. The magic number of steps fitness apps and wearables tell us we’re supposed to cover every day. But where did that number come from? Is it enough? And are those wearables making is healthier.

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Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) aims to come out with the virtual bank licensing requirements by the end of this year and looking to issue up to 3 licenses. What does this mean for us consumers, traditional FSI players, and the overall impact to the financial sector? More importantly, what exactly is a virtual bank and how should Bank Negara Malaysia approach this sector? We speak to YS Kim from EY Korea about the challenges and opportunities, as well as the road ahead for virtual banks to blossom in Malaysia.

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The Geeks discuss the scandal surrounding Facebook's new Study app as well as the power of hyperphantasia - hyper-vivid mental imagery - and its part in explaining consciousness.

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The robots are coming. Not a new message for MSP. It's not the robots that want to take your jobs. It's their human overlords and the people who enable them.

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As we passed the one year mark of the New Malaysia, it's time to take stock of all that has been accomplished since Pakatan Harapan took their historic entrance into government. We speak to Sudev Bangah, Managing Director of IDC ASEAN about Pakatan Harapan’s 1 Year Journey Review: The Trials or Triumphs of Boosting the Digital Economy of Malaysia and How to Keep it Real to achieving economic progress.

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Goodbye BBM. The Geeks say farewell to the instant messenger that started the revolution in text messaging and why robot hands are about to get a lot smarter with an $8 gloves.

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Sometimes it pays to be retroactively futuristic. As we approach 2019’s halfway mark, MSP takes a beat to pull together some of the threads of the first part of this long and stupidly confusing year.

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The Geeks talk about echolocation as a new form of human activity tracker. But also worry about the dangers of this new technology. Also, there’s never enough time to game during the day, hence Pokemon Sleep is a game that you can play in your sleep.

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What does it mean to be human in a world full of sentient machines and technologically enhanced people? In another Disrupted World special, we take a look at the future of the human species and get ready to welcome our quantum cousins.

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There’s no doubt, data is the oil powering our future lives and economies. As it drives our cars and planes, stock market and online shopping, the importance of data gave birth to a new Data Economy that centres around the extracting, refining, valuing, purchasing and selling of data. However, the Data Economy is opaque and lacks transparency. Few people understand the myriad of middlemen and data aggregators who sell data to companies. This happens for a number of reasons and the result is companies and governments spending millions of dollars making decisions based on data that could well be inaccurate.

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