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NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — US sporting goods giant Nike unveiled Wednesday its first shoe that ties itself, the HyperAdapt 1.0, which will go on sale at the end of 2016. Sensors at the heel level activate the lacing when a foot slips into the shoe. Two buttons on the side of the shoe can be pressed to loosen or tighten the lacing. Nike calls the feature “adaptive lacing.” Nike’s star designer Tinker Hatfield said […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (March 15) – Better mark your calendar, guys. Because on March 19, the whole world will participate in the annual Earth Hour activity. For those who don’t know what Earth Hour is, it is the time when we turn off our lights for an hour as a way to raise awareness regarding climate change. Usually, during Earth Hour, we tend to just stay where we are, waiting for the hour to pass so […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (March 15) – Our generation is the first to experience climate change, and the least we can do is to take a step in preventing the worse. Earth Hour is a campaign that started in Sydney, Australia in 2007. It was participated in by 2.2 million homes and businesses. For a specific day and time, people will simultaneously shut their lights off to save energy and raise environmental awareness. Is an hour of […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The NFL’s top health executive Monday became the first senior league official to acknowledge a link between football-related head trauma and the brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Jeff Miller, the NFL’s vice president of health and safety, was pressed at a roundtable organized by the Energy and Commerce Committee of the US House of Representatives on whether there was indeed a link between the hard-hitting gridiron game and neurodegenerative diseases […]
GUADALUPE, Makati City – Due to the overwhelming heat, the Metro Manila Develoment Authority will implement a 30-minute “heat stroke break” for its constables and street sweepers. Said break will start on March 25 and will last until May 30. MMDA added that the alternate breaks will be from 9 in the morning until 3 in the afternoon. An additional 15-minute break can be added depending on the situation. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay […]
Ankara, Turkey (AFP)–‘The death toll from a suicide car bombing at a bus stop in central Ankara on Sunday has risen to 34, with 125 wounded, Turkey’s health minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu said. “Thirty people were killed on the spot and four others died in hospital,” Muezzinoglu said after a meeting of ministers and security officials in the wake of the blast. © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
Sydney, Australia (AFP)—A new piece of debris found by a South African holidaymaker that could be a part of the missing Malaysian flight MH370 will be sent to Australia for analysis, aviation authorities said. Teenager Liam Lotter told local media he had found the meter-long piece of metal on a beach while on holiday in Mozambique in December, and had taken it home. It was only when news broke earlier this month about a suspected […]
Sa Amerika, naka-imbento ng isang smart phone application na mabilis umanong makaka-detect ng tsunami at earthquake warnings. Sa ganitong paraan umano mabibigyan ng sapat na warning time ang mga tao na nasa lugar na prone sa mga lindol. Si Bernise Galanta sa detalye:
Ang Cordillera ay madalas na destinasyon ng mga turista mapa-dayuhan man o pinoy dahil sa angkin nitong ganda at mayamang kasaysayan. Isa sa kanilang ipinagmamalaki ay ang Maligcong Rice Terraces na matatagpuan sa Bontoc, Mt. Province.
REUTERS — The ability to capture video of your run down a mountain has come a long way. First there was shakey camcorder footage filmed by a friend. Then came GoPro, an affordable option to shoot HD video on the move. But Jason Soll of Silicon Valley based Cape Productions says the future of capturing the perfect digital memory is with flying robots. “The first time I saw a video shot with drones I knew […]
https://youtu.be/l-jFCIUl6ww by Agnès PEDRERO GENEVA Switzerland (AFP) — Global health experts agreed Wednesday to prioritize developing vaccines against the Zika virus suspected of causing birth defects, but a Brazilian specialist warned that doing so would take at least three years. “Perhaps in three years we will have a vaccine,” Jorge Kalil, head of the Butantan Institute in Sao Paulo, told reporters in Geneva, acknowledging that even that estimate was “optimistic”. He was among global health […]
(AFP) — After nearly a year orbiting the Earth, US astronaut Scott Kelly was greeted by friends and family upon his arrival home. He explained the “ubelievable feeling” he has after having spent more time in space than any other American. https://youtu.be/m83rQ2mfPjo
