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200 brgy workers, children affected by DavNor floods receive assistance
200 brgy workers, children affected by DavNor floods receive assistance.....»»
DavNor’s IP women charity beneficiaries
BAE Rosita Q. Zafra, President of the IP Women Federation in Davao del Norte and the Island Garden City of Samal (Igacos), expressed gratitude as Indigenous People (IP) women were named beneficiaries of a charity event held on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, at the Philippine Women’s College of Davao (PWC)......»»
Cua seeks to extend PPS run in Bansalan
Dhea Cua builds up for a big performance on her home turf next week as she aims for another impressive two-title run in the Palawan Pawnshop national junior tennis circuit’s Gov. Yvonne Cagas Championship unfolding today at the Bansalan Tennis Club in Davao del Sur......»»
Cua eyes another two-title run in PPS Bansalan tennis tilt
Dhea Cua builds up for a big performance on her home turf next week as she aims for another impressive two-title run in the Palawan Pawnshop national junior tennis circuit’s Gov. Yvonne Cagas Championship......»»
CES 2024: A Guide to Watching Nvidia, Samsung, and More as They Unveil Hardware and AI Updates
Title: CES 2024: Anticipation Builds for Tech Showdown in Las Vegas LAS VEGAS – The highly-anticipated CES 2024 is just around the corner, set to.....»»
PeopleAsia’s ‘People of the Year’ 2024
From a construction magnate who builds skyways and charity wards; to a beauty queen who has conquered the universe; to business leaders, advocates and world-class talents, PeopleAsia’s “People of the Year” awardees are excellence personified......»»
‘Wonka’ review: A well-balanced confection
'For however there might be flaws and some slack and some things missing to it, on the whole, 'Wonka' builds out not just a world, but an experience for the viewer'.....»»
MILG builds field office in SGA Pigcawayan cluster
MILG builds field office in SGA Pigcawayan cluster.....»»
DENR builds water impounding facility
DENR builds water impounding facility.....»»
Globe builds new 5G sites
Wireless giant Globe Telecom Inc. has broadened its outdoor coverage in Metro Manila, Visayas, and Mindanao after sustaining the expansion of its 5G footprint in the country and overseas......»»
John Hay builds early lead in Fil-Am golf
Villamor Bumanglag fired a 7-over 76 worth 29 points to help Camp John Hay Golf Club erect a 10-point lead in the Fil-A division at the start of seniors competition of the 73rd Januarius Fil Am Golf Invitational here yesterday......»»
Voice-based biometric for online banking eyed
Aboitiz-led Union Bank of the Philippines plans to introduce voice recognition as another biometric verification as it builds on scalable technology for safer and more efficient online banking services......»»
MrBeast builds 100 wells across Africa
In his latest YouTube video, Donaldson said the new wells will provide clean drinking water for up to half a million people in Cameroon, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda and Zimbabwe. .....»»
Subscription plan promises boosted replies at X, formerly Twitter
X on Friday unveiled a $16-a-month subscription plan allowing users who pay more to get the biggest boost for their replies posted at the platform formerly known as Twitter. The "Premium+" plan is ad-free and designed to provide "the largest reply boost" at X, the company said in a post. The plan builds on features offered in a Blue subscription plan costing $3 monthly and a Premium Plan priced at $8 monthly, according to X. Listed features of Premium+ include a blue tick next to names in profiles along with "a visible ID verification label," according to X. The platform recently started charging new users in New Zealand and the Philippines for basic features such as posting messages in a trial aimed at reducing spam. Musk has suggested charging all X users, but the idea was widely panned. Industry analysts said it would make X even less appealing to advertisers. Musk has made a number of controversial changes to the social media firm's management and product since he acquired Twitter a year ago for $44 billion. In the days after his purchase, Musk quickly fired many Twitter executives and took the publicly traded company private. He also laid off most of the San Francisco-based company's workers, cutting ranks to fewer than 1,500 from 8,000. In the months following his takeover, Musk gutted content moderation, restored accounts of previously banned extremists, and allowed users to purchase account verification, helping them profit from viral -- but often inaccurate -- posts. Musk defended such changes in the name of free speech. Over the past year, the platform's advertising business partially collapsed as marketers soured on X. Musk started charging for features once free at Twitter, such as blue tick marks originally intended as badges of authenticity, in an effort to make money from subscriptions. X is tinkering with video and audio calling at the platform formerly known as Twitter, according to a recent post by Musk. Musk in July rebranded Twitter as X, saying it would become an "everything app" inspired by China's WeChat that would allow users to socialize as well as handle their finances. The post Subscription plan promises boosted replies at X, formerly Twitter appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
On the edge of Gaza, Israeli soldiers brace for battle
After 16 days of mobilising and massing near the Gaza Strip, an eerie calm lingers among Israeli troops as they await the highly anticipated invasion of the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory. The parched desert floor is now filled with hundreds of armoured vehicles along with columns of tanks primed for the expected onslaught. The mechanised steel is adorned with the blue and white Israeli flags, while soldiers labour away with the everyday maintenance of their vehicles. This entire first line is protected by an immense trench, about two kilometres (more than a mile) long, that was dug by engineering units outfitted with heavy machinery. Like most ground offensives, the combat engineering corps will lead the armoured formations when they enter Gaza -- breaching defences and clearing mines and booby traps to pave the way for ground troops. "Military engineering is essential. Without us, no one enters Gaza," explained a soldier serving with unit 601 of the military engineering corps, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "There are a lot of obstacles. The enemy is spraying rockets and other things that I cannot detail to prevent us from progressing," he added. Jammed Israel's general staff said their troops are "ready" for a ground incursion, after more than two weeks of heavy bombardment of Gaza by Israeli warplanes and artillery that the Hamas-run health ministry says has killed more than 5,700 people. The campaign follows the bloodiest day in Israel's 75-year history, when hundreds of Hamas fighters rampaged through communities across southern Israel, killing around 1,400 people and taking more than 200 others hostage, according to Israeli officials. The decision to launch a ground invasion is now in the hands of the Israeli government, even as pressure builds from its allies over the shape and parameters of the operation. As its forces wait to strike, Israel has jammed signals near the Gaza border, rendering navigation applications like Google Maps and Waze useless throughout the militarised zone that has been sealed off from civilian use. AFP journalists on the ground noted that the attempts to pin their locations with the apps resulted in errant positions, including the airport near Tel Aviv or the Egyptian capital of Cairo. To reach the sprawling Tze'elim base some 20 kilometres from Gaza, a steady traffic jam leads to the entrance of the largest military facility in the country's southern desert. For kilometres (miles), tourist buses, family cars, tanks and army jeeps form an seemingly endless convoy en route to the base. Tze'elim has long been renowned as one of the premier training grounds for urban combat, which includes life-size replicas of Gaza neighbourhoods, including a mosque and minarets. The forces that have spent years honing their skills at the base will likely be instrumental in the expected ground campaign. Israeli forces last entered Gaza on foot in 2014, allowing Hamas ample time since then to fortify and expand their defences, including a maze of tunnels snaking under the city. In Tze'elim, "tens of thousands" are believed to be on hand in addition to the 169,500 Israeli soldiers already serving in active duty, while an estimated 360,000 reserves have been mobilised to assist in the fight. "Many are already on the ground," explains a senior officer on condition of anonymity referring to the Gaza border. The families of conscripts flock to the base to deliver meals or join their relatives on brief stints of leave, as they lounge on camping chairs lining the road to the base. 'We have to face this' At the entrance to the facility, Omer, a 23-year-old artillery reservist, searches through the masses of troops hoping to find a friend who is taking him on 24-hour leave. "I have been cut off from everything for 14 days -- two weeks in the field, shooting day and night," explained the artilleryman, with a dirt-smeared face and an Indian necklace hanging from his neck. Before the war, the gunner was a yoga teacher and had been studying in northern India when he received his marching orders. Since then, Omer has been manning his battery during "impossible" nights filled with the repeated concussion of heavy artillery and clouds of dust kicked up by passing armoured vehicles. "The worst thing is being in this shit and not even having time to grieve. I have two friends from Nova killed and a friend of a friend kidnapped," said the Israeli soldier, referring to the desert rave where around 270 people were gunned down by Hamas. "When all this is over, we will also have to face this," he added. "But right now, we don't have time." The post On the edge of Gaza, Israeli soldiers brace for battle appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Vietnam overtaking Philippines in semicon output
As Vietnam builds a strategy to develop its semiconductor industry, the Philippines should focus more on its local semiconductor sector to be able to compete in attracting investments, an industry group said......»»
Cebu to supply vessels for Coast Guard, Navy
The Philippine Coast Guard and Philippine Navy may avail sea vessels made in Balamban, Cebu as announced by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Department of National Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro. “The new vessel that we are seeing there, the 40-foot vessel that’s made in Cebu, that will be included,” Marcos said. “We will eventually have 40 of them that would give us an increased capability. This is ongoing.” Cebu has long been recognized as the country’s shipbuilding capital with the shipbuilding industry propelling the local economy of Balamban in Midwestern Cebu on the brink of cityhood status and the newly-built ship building facilities in Danao City. The plan was confirmed by Teodoro, who recently went to Capitol and met with Governor Gwendolyn Garcia. “Cebu builds ships, Cebu builds equipment that we need, and therefore the synergy that we see today will continue but in a different dimension not only as a locator in the Province of Cebu but as a resource purchaser and resource user of the services, goods and other capabilities that your province can produce,” Teodoro said. He added that he is just waiting for amendments to the Armed Forces of the Philippines modernization law to locally source military assets. “We encourage our legislators here today that we are waiting for these amendments by the end of the year so that by next year we can start to leverage the talents and abilities of the people of Cebu,” Teodoro said. Balamban has its locators include Japan-based Tsuneshi Heavy Industries and Australia’s Austal Corporation, local builders Advance Catamaran Composites and Cebu Maritime Industry. “You have an important role to play here not only in maintaining peace and security in Central Philippines,” Teodoro said. The post Cebu to supply vessels for Coast Guard, Navy appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Canada firm on online news act, but ‘optimistic’ of Google buy-in
Canada "will not back down" in the face of opposition from tech giants to a new law requiring companies like Google and Meta to pay publishers for news content, Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge said Friday. She said she was "optimistic" that Google would come around, while Meta continues to take a hard line against the bill. The Online News Act builds on similar legislation introduced in Australia and aims to support a struggling Canadian news sector that has seen a flight of advertising dollars and hundreds of publications closed in the last decade. "We've seen two different types of reactions," St-Onge told press bosses gathered in Toronto for a media conference. "Google has been participating and collaborating throughout the entire process and on the other hand, Meta chose to ban news in Canada even though the act is not even currently enforced." Meta has called Bill C-18 "fundamentally flawed" and, starting in August, blocked news access in Canada to news articles on its Facebook and Instagram platforms. Google has also voiced opposition to the Online News Act, adopted in June but only set to come into force in December. The two companies control about 80 percent of all online advertising revenues in Canada. The government has estimated it could cost the pair a combined Can$230 million (US$170 million) by requiring them to make fair commercial deals with Canadian outlets for the news and information that is shared on their platforms, or face binding arbitration. St-Onge acknowledged that Google "does not wish to end up in an arbitration process" for commercial agreements, while Facebook "doesn't want to regulate content." "We are trying to strike the right balance," she said, aware that other nations are watching and interested in how this will play out. The minister commented that this is "new territory." "Canada is only the second jurisdiction in the world to enact this type of bargaining framework," after Australia. "We are leading the way but we're also facing a lot of resistance from tech giants," she said. Contacted by AFP, Google Canada maintained Friday that "critical structural issues" with the bill "have not been sufficiently addressed." "We continue to be concerned that these fundamental issues cannot be resolved through regulation and that legislative changes may be necessary," a spokesman said in an email. The post Canada firm on online news act, but ‘optimistic’ of Google buy-in appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Globe bankrolls P15-B expansion
Ayala-backed Globe Telecom Inc. has secured P15 billion in additional funding from Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company, a move that will strengthen the company’s financial capabilities to bankroll network improvements and expansion. In a report to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the company said it signed the term loan facilities on Monday. According to Globe, the proceeds will particularly finance Globe’s capital expenditures, debt refinancing, and/or general corporate requirements. Responding to the growing need to ramp up mobile data services amid a digital-savvy landscape, Globe has been also boosting its services to offer seamless and efficient services to users. Proceeds mostly for data network In the first half, the company invested P37.7 billion in capital expenditure, which was 25 percent lower than the similar period last year. It was also consistent with the company’s efforts to bring free cash flow back to more sustainable levels. The majority or about 90 percent of the capex spending was allocated to data network builds to meet the consumer’s escalating demand for data. As of June, Globe built 542 new cell sites and upgraded 5,087 mobile sites to LTE to meet the rising data demands of its customers. The company also deployed around 148,000 fiber-to-the-home lines, significantly lower than last year’s rollout to maximize the utilization of its existing fiber inventory. Relatedly, Globe continues to deploy 5G wireless technology nationwide, firing up 356 new 5G sites across the Philippines, increasing its 5G outdoor coverage to 97.44 percent of the National Capital Region and 91 percent of key cities in Visayas and Mindanao. The post Globe bankrolls P15-B expansion appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Japan’s Ryusuke Hamaguchi on following his Oscar success
Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi made history with his Oscar-winning "Drive My Car". For his follow-up, he has retreated into nature. "Evil Does Not Exist", which got its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Monday, has again impressed critics with its tale of a city-based corporation threatening a pristine rural village with a tourism project. The movie came about when composer Eiko Ishibashi asked Hamaguchi to shoot footage in the remote region for some live performances. It was well-timed for the director after the maelstrom around "Drive My Car", which became the first Japanese film nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars in 2022 and won Best International Film. "I really didn't want to do anything for a while after the Oscars, but... this felt like something I could do," the director told AFP in Venice. "It's not necessarily pressure that I felt -- I just really needed a break!" Not feeling qualified to shoot abstract images, Hamaguchi decided to write a story. "I figured if she was asking me I should just do something that is true to myself so I started writing a script and making a film," he said. "I've only really lived in urban areas," he added. "Because I'm a city person I can talk about what it's like for city people to enter these natural environments." The result is a gently-paced, but ultimately gripping and even shocking film. The Guardian called it "an enigmatic eco-parable... teetering on the edge of the uncanny". The Hollywood Reporter's critic said the "slow-burn drama builds its own hypnotic, changeable rhythms" and that the strange ending was like "a collision of disturbing dream and reality". That ending has left many at the festival scratching their heads, and Hamaguchi admits it baffles him, too. "I'm not entirely sure whether I like this kind of ending or not," he said. "But when I'm writing a script, I'm always interested in making sure it is not boring to me. "This ending just naturally came out of me," he added. "There's something there that perhaps I can't necessarily say in words but that feels right to me." What he likes most is showing the complexity of his characters. "This is usually how I depict people -- where it's not necessarily black and white between evil and good," he said. "I think I'm often depicting people who perhaps do a terrible thing and yet there are actions and reasons behind it. And I think that's something really important when I'm directing actors as well." "Evil Does Not Exist" is among 23 films competing for the top Golden Lion prize in Venice, to be decided on Saturday. The post Japan’s Ryusuke Hamaguchi on following his Oscar success appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»