Palace seeks balanced approach to social media franchise plan
MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang on Friday called for a balanced approach to a proposal to require social media platforms to obtain a congressional franchise to operate in the Philippines. Palace Press Officer Claire…
Google DeepMind’s AlphaGenome Atlas could help researchers find the genetic causes of diseases
AlphaGenome Atlas contains predictions for the molecular effects of all roughly 9 billion possible single-letter changes in human DNA. Researchers can search the database to see how individual variants are predicted to…
Study reveals evolutionary history of bats, dating back 65 million years
Bats first appeared in Europe about 65 million years ago, after the mass extinction event that doomed the dinosaurs, before spreading around the world, the largest bat genome study found.
What MARINA’s system failure reveals about government readiness
MANILA, Philippines — In the digital age, it only takes one cyberattack to bring a government service to a halt. When the Maritime Industry Authority’s (MARINA) seafarer document system was hit, the disruption exposed a…
UAAP Esports eyes main event status after quick success
MANILA, Philippines – UAAP Esports is no longer content with proving that esports belong in the collegiate sports scene. It now wants to prove that it can draw the same respect, attention, and energy as the league’s…
Lenovo Idea Tab Pro Gen 2 review: The tablet that travels to work
The Idea Tab Pro Gen 2 is the latest mid-range enterprise tablet from Lenovo. Released only this year, it refreshes and refines the specs and functions that came to define its predecessor. At a time when budgets are…
Telco brings single AI model workspace for subscribers
Most people who want to try AI tools in the Philippines run into the same problem: there are several of them, each with its own subscription, and most are priced in dollars. Local telco player Smart Communications is…