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Major Hollywood studios, like Disney and its newly-owned subsidiaries, have started depleting Netflix of content to serve its own streaming platforms like Disney+. However, Netflix may have the long-term upper hand here, because those same studios are contractually obligated to release their content to Netflix again in the not-too-distant future.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Are you a fan of comic books but don’t have the time to read them? Podcasts and audiobooks are becoming more popular in recent years and Marvel is getting in on them. Marvel Entertainment has partnered with Dreamscape Media to adapt a number of Marvel’s comic stories into a read-to-me style audiobooks. If you haven’t had a chance to experience this yet, check out last year’s release of an original, 10-episode podcast series called Wolverine: The Long Night.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

New science is emerging that suggests the moral panic about video games is misguided, and that many games can be benign or even beneficial by helping with social and intellectual development. In fact, researchers are exploring the use of games as pedagogical tools in education and even as therapeutic tools for anxiety and depression.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People love watching movies, but sometimes cinemas and streaming services can get a bit routine. Check out some of these alternative ways to enjoy your favorite films - from local gems to global blockbusters - without breaking the bank and while supporting local film initiatives in the process.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Netflix isn’t killing movie theatres. While streaming services have fundamentally altered how consumers watch TV, the idea that if audiences are spending more time watching content at home they are spending less time at theatres is a myth.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Not all that long ago, before streaming services existed, going to the cinema to see a movie was a full-on experience for the family. Netflix changed all of that and exchanged the experience for convenience. But there’s a growing number of cinemas that are reverting back to the more traditional, more refined way of film viewing - served with a side of steak. Luxury movie theatres are making a slow, but steady comeback.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Can you work out how to mine a diamond in just 4 days? This is a task that has been set out for artificial intelligence to tackle in the MineRL competition that will take place inside Minecraft. And it’s no easy feat, an AI equipped with the best tool in the game, a diamond pickaxe, would take 9 million steps to randomly find a diamond. May the best AI win.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fanatics of case-free phones say it’s about design, but could it really be about status?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today is ‘World No Tobacco Day’ and it’s also 5 months since the smoking ban was implemented at eateries here in Malaysia. Has the ban had a positive business impact?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's business landscape is demanding that companies spearhead large-scale changes in order to survive and remain competitive. In an ever-changing political, social, and economic climate, constant organisational change is the new normal. Few advancements promise to help organisations cross critical business chasms more profoundly than artificial intelligence. When it comes to business operations, artificial intelligence has enormous potential to catapult companies beyond the status quo and adapt to new dynamics.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.