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How this ad has managed to enrage 99 per cent of the world
What’s the worst mistake you’ve made at work? Hit reply-all on a salty email, when you meant to send it to just...
Unruly air passengers put on notice
Passengers are smoking, drinking and generally playing up on more flights, prompting an overhaul to the global standards for passenger behaviour. From...
Loyalty programs could leave consumers open for hacking: Expert
Customers who sign up for loyalty programs could be exposing themselves to increasingly targeted and sophisticated cyber attacks, a leading marketing and...
Macquarie’s word of the year calls out bad behaviour
The word to sum up 2019 has been decided. (Well, it’s two words.) Spurred on by society’s growing disquiet with reprehensible behaviour,...
Penicillin allergies may fade after five years: Study
Nearly 10 per cent of Australians mark themselves as allergic to penicillin – but new research shows 90 per cent of them...
Hangovers cured by science: Just mix these three ingredients
There are all shapes and sizes of “proven” hangover cures: a greasy fry up. Raw eggs. Sports drinks. A Bloody Mary. Dry...
Woolworths trials new trolley-sized, self-serve system
There’s a special kind of awkwardness that has arisen with the advent of self-serve checkouts at supermarkets: The dance around the shopper...
Marie Kondo is back – to clutter your life with her stuff
We all took the advice of Japanese home-zen guru Marie Kondo and threw away two-thirds of our meagre possessions. The Kondo craze...
How online retailers are combatting an increasing amount of returns
Online retailers will be forced to drastically change the way they operate as consumers rebel against return policies that are decimating the...
Review: Nokia’s ‘Brick’ should be tied to a real one and thrown off a bridge
The year was 2000. Faith Hill’s Breathe was the hit song. We were safe from the Y2K bug. And Nokia released the...