Sci-Tech

Learning Summit 2016 Highlights Global Trends and Innovations in eLearning

  by Caesar Vallejos Eagle News Service online correspondent THE Global Online Association for Learning (GOAL), in cooperation with ADEC Innovations and the Commission on Higher Education, conducted Learning Summit 2016 on February 16 to 18, 2016, at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City.  A three-day event that brought together influencers and movers in  corporate development and education, Learning Summit 2016 is the fulfillment of GOAL’s mission of immersing education and corporate stakeholders in the […]

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S. Korean prosecutors raid Volkswagen’s office

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Prosecutors raided Volkswagen’s South Korean head office Friday, a spokesman for the car-maker said, as part of a probe into the firm’s emissions-cheating scandal. Investigators confiscated  computer hard drives and documents after searching the headquarters in Seoul and other Volkswagen offices in the South Korean capital, Yonhap news agency said. Homes of company officials in charge of product quality control were also raided. “We have made clear that we will […]

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New reaction buttons VS. “like” button

QUEZON City, Philippines (February 18) – The first version of the “like” button, then called the “awesome” button, was developed in 2007. Facebook Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mark Zuckerberg was concerned about the public nature of the feature, and chose not to launch it until 2009.In 2010, “like” buttons were added to individual comments on posts and other objects. Since then, almost all public activity on Facebook has been likable. Facebook also started including posts and links […]

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Why do you still prefer the “like” button?

QUEZON City, Philippines (February 18) – Facebook is the most popular and most commonly-used  social networking site. People love this because of its accessibility and simple features. You can post your pictures and ideas, have conversation through chat,  comment on your  friends’ posts and share and agree on other’s perspective. It’s easy, all you have to do is hit the “like” button. From the start, the “like” button has confused several people. The big question is why […]

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Japan launches satellite to study black holes

  TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan successfully launched a jointly developed space observation satellite on Wednesday tasked with studying mysterious black holes, the country’s space agency said. The ASTRO-H satellite, developed in collaboration between the agency, NASA and other groups, is set to orbit at an altitude of about 580 kilometres (360 miles) and observe X-rays emanating mainly from black holes and galaxy clusters. The satellite was carried out by the country’s mainstay H-IIA rocket, which […]

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Like a sloth – free Wi-Fi is slow Wi-Fi

QUEZON City, Philippines (February 15) – 256 kbps and lower. That’s the promised allotment of data transfer given to each of the users of free Wi-Fi in selected public places that was launched by Department of Science and Technology’s Information and Communications Office (DOST-ICTO) last year. They proudly said, “Hey, it’s available 24/7 and free!”. Our response? It’s not enough. That speed is not worth the taxpayers’ money. To enlighten you all, 256 kbps is the lowest speed […]

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N. Korean leader pushes for more satellite launches

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has promised to put more satellites in space, even as the international community prepares to punish his regime over a long-range rocket launch just last week. At a banquet to congratulate the scientists, technicians and officials who contributed to the February 7 launch, Kim noted that the mission had come at “a complex time when hostile forces are more bloody-eyed than ever to strangle” the North, […]

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Twitter suspends over 125,000 accounts for ‘promoting terrorist acts’

  TWITTER Inc said on Friday (February 5) it had suspended over 125,000 accounts since mid-2015 for “threatening or promoting terrorist acts, primarily related to ISIS.” Reuters said the microblogging service provider said in a blog on Friday that it had increased the size of the teams that review reports of such activity, reducing the response time significantly. The company said it was seeing results, including an increase in account suspensions and “this type of […]

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Brain scan detects depression during childhood

MASSACHUSSETS, United States of America – The Massachussets Institute of Technology is using a new type of brain scan imaging to find out if children are predisposed to depression. Said scan discovered that there are differences in neural pathways that will help in the early detection of what could later be a serious psychological disorder. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno/Aniway Acosta and Uploaded by Vince Alvin Villarin)

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Smart band-aids on the horizon

Wearable electronics will revolutionize the way doctors diagnose and treat patients, according to researchers at MIT, who are developing stretchable hydrogels that share many of the same properties of human tissue. “Hydrogel is a polymer network infiltrated with water. Even though it is only 5 to 10 percent polymer, this network is extremely important,” said Xuanhe Zhao, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The polymer network Zhao and […]

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NASA releases animation showing flight over dwarf planet Ceres

NASA uploaded video showing an animation of what a flight over the dwarf planet of Ceres would look like illustrating the different craters that can be seen including “Occator”, “Ikapati”, “Ahuna Mons”, “Urvara”, “Haulani”, “Yalode” and “Dantue” The video was uploaded onto the social media page for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on January 29, 2016. The video was created using images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, a probe that was launched in 2007 to study Ceres […]

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Facebook shares soar as mobile drives big jump in ad sales

Facebook Inc smashed investors’ expectations with a 52-percent jump in quarterly revenue as it sold more ads targeted at a fast-growing number of mobile users, sending its shares sharply higher after hours. The world’s biggest online social network bucked the trend of underwhelming tech results from Apple Inc and eBay Inc, in the face of economic uncertainty around the world and a strong U.S. dollar depressing the value of overseas sales. Facebook’s dominance in mobile […]

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