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Cyberjaya is the first city to adopt DuitNow QR national code to allow merchants to accept various brands of e-wallets, making it more convenient and less complicated for businesses to go cashless. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In light of the coronavirus outbreak, China has built a makeshift hospital in 10 days in Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus outbreak. 10 days!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Over In Hong Kong civil servants, bank staff, lawyers, and a host of other private sector employees have been asked to work from home as Hong Kong does its best to minimise the threat of the Wuhan coronavirus spreading in the wider community. Last Tuesday, the government said civil servants would stay away from the office until the end of the week, although it would not apply to those who provide urgent and necessary public services. There are about 176,000 civil servants in Hong Kong. What measures is your company taking?  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From Deadpool to Aviation Gin and now Mint Mobile, Ryan Reynolds has proven to be a marketing genius… or at least the team behind the icon is. As brands flood to the Superbowl to get their 30 seconds of fame for a whopping $5Mil, Reynolds opted to do the opposite and advertise in print media instead. The results are hilarious and wildly effective.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fast fashion makes shopping for clothes more affordable, but it comes at an environmental cost. The fashion industry produces 10% of all humanity’s carbon emissions, is the second-largest consumer of the world’s water supply, and pollutes the oceans with microplastics.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fast fashion makes shopping for clothes more affordable, but it comes at an environmental cost. The fashion industry produces 10% of all humanity’s carbon emissions, is the second-largest consumer of the world’s water supply, and pollutes the oceans with microplastics.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From Deadpool to Aviation Gin and now Mint Mobile, Ryan Reynolds has proven to be a marketing genius… or at least the team behind the icon is. As brands flood to the Superbowl to get their 30 seconds of fame for a whopping $5Mil, Reynolds opted to do the opposite and advertise in print media instead. The results are hilarious and wildly effective.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Seven years ago, MIT debuted a landmark project, which allowed everyday people to photograph and rate their streets like a Hot or Not for cities. It was a powerful showcase of how crowdsourcing opinions from citizens could help quantify a city’s appeal and, in theory, help urban designers plan better cities. Less than a decade later, artificial intelligence is taking this idea so much further. FaceLift is a new AI system developed by Nokia Bell Labs Cambridge that allows scientists and urban planners to use a crowd’s aggregated sensibility to actually redesign the look of city streets.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  Atari Interactive thinks it has an idea to rekindle interest in the gaming brand: It wants to build Atari-themed hotels.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV continues to spread in Wuhan and beyond, authorities and medical staff are looking at innovative ways to tackle the outbreak. Cue Little Peanut, a robot that’s delivering food to a few quarantined patients as a way to reduce human-to-human contact.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.