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For the most part, Global Positioning System (GPS) works great. It gives people the ability to get from point A to point B with a simple press of a button on a smartphone. That’s until you hit a big city. Tall buildings and satellite signals don’t like each other and in an era where companies like UBER and YELP depend on accurate navigation, Pete Tenereillo of California start up Pathsense has this to say. “GPS […]
The vice foreign ministers of Japan, South Korea and the United States (U.S) urged China on Thursday (April 16) to adhere to international law and cease its development of island strips in the South China Sea for the apparent purpose of establishing its footprint in the region. “What, I think we all agree on, is the need to pursue any claims that countries have with strict adherence and respect for the rule of law, for […]
MANILA, April 17 – The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) cautions Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and in other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member countries against submitting fake or fraudulent credentials to get hired, regularized or promoted, in view of the increasing number of Filipinos charged and/or detained for falsification of documents. DFA said the falsification cases handled by the Embassies in the GCC member countries include submission of fake documents […]
ROXAS CITY, Capiz, April 16 (PIA) – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) continues to watch out for consumer protection. Capiz DTI provincial Director Ermelinda Pollentes said that they are taking steps to continue to protect the buying public to have standard products. She said that they are intensifying their efforts in the conduct of monitoring activities, focusing particularly on construction materials. Pollentes said that since summer season started they have noted a higher […]
Mula kay Queennie Boquiren ng Punturin,Valenzuela — Isang sunog ang sumiklab na nagsimula sa ganap na ika-9 ng umaga, dito sa Valenzuela. Sinasabing ang sunog ay nagmula sa pagawaan ng mga pintura at imbakan ng gasolina.Marami na ding nadamay na mga katabing bahay. Maraming sugatan, ngunit wala pang naitatalang namatay. Sa kasamaang palad, ang sunog ay hindi pa rin naapula hanggang ngayon.
THE annual ‘March of the Living’ march took place on Thursday (April 16) with thousands of Jewish adults and teens from around the world walking the three-kilometer stretch from the Auschwitz concentration camp to Birkenau. Among them were also Holocaust survivors and former captives of Nazi concentration camps. The March is also dedicated to students from all over the world to study the history of the Holocaust and to examine the roots of prejudice, intolerance […]
THE European Union Competition Commissioner accused Google Inc. on Thursday (April 16, 2015) of cheating consumers and competitors by distorting Web search results to favor its own shopping service, after a five-year investigation that could change the rules for business online. EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said the U.S. company, which dominates Internet search engine markets worldwide, had been sent a Statement of Objections – effectively a charge sheet – to which it has 10 weeks […]
A RESEARCH group with the National University of Defense Technology has recently tested its self-made brain-controlled robot in Hunan City, central China’s Hunan Province. The small robot can move forward and make turnings flexibly, which are all directly controlled by human brains. “This is our brainwave electrode cap which can collect human brainwaves. The facility can enlarge the weak brainwaves and send back to our computers. This is the collected brainwave produced by human brain […]
CHINA has urged the Philippines to respect its territorial sovereignty after President Benigno Aquino said Beijing’s efforts to control the South China Sea should cause fear around the world. The Philippine president made the comments during an interview with AFP on Tuesday (April 14), adding that while he did not believe China intended to start a military conflict in the region, there was a possibility of one breaking out. In response to the comments, China’s […]
WITH wildlife and forest crimes on the rise, yielding enormous profits for criminal networks, high-level officials from the United Nations (UN) have warned that they fuel violence, corrupt supply chains and undermine the rule of law. Speaking at a major anti-crime meeting in Doha, Qatar, co-hosted by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the […]
GOVERNMENT ministers from Australia, China and Malaysia on Thursday (April 16) said they would double the search area for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 if wreckage is not found in the current target area. No trace has been found of the Boeing 777 aircraft, which disappeared in March last year carrying 239 passengers and crew in what has become one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history. Most of the passengers were Chinese. The extended search […]
JUSTICE Secretary Leila de Lima said that some 90 suspects will be charged criminally for the killing of 35 of the 44 members of the Philippine National Police- Special Action Forces (PNP-SAF) based on the findings of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and the National Prosecution Service (NPS). Among those to be charged are members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), and private armed groups. De Lima […]
