Trading the Podium for the Stream
The Philippine Senate has lately felt less like a chamber for careful lawmaking and more like a nonstop live-streamed spectacle. Instead of relying on formal floor speeches and bound-by-procedure committee…
Madiskarte Moms PH shines at Asia-Pacific WEPs Awards
Madiskarte Moms PH (MMPH), the thriving online community of mompreneurs in the Philippines, took center stage at the inaugural Asia-Pacific UN Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) Awards. The event celebrated organizations…
TikTok shuts down in the US
The United States has officially banned TikTok, the widely popular video-sharing app owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance. The ban, which took effect on January 19, 2025, has left 170…
STUDY: AI detects ovarian cancer better than human experts
In February 2023, researchers at Karolinska Institutet published a study demonstrating the effectiveness of CAR T-cell therapy in mice with ovarian cancer. This immunotherapy involves programming the immune system’s T…
Facebook and Instagram end fact checkers
Meta announced that they have decided to end the current third party fact checking program in the United States and instead begin moving to a Community Notes program. Meta plans…
HP Philippines opens new store in Greenhills
HP Philippines continues to strengthen its footprint in the local market with the opening of a new retail store in Greenhills Shopping Center, one of Metro Manila’s most popular shopping…
Converge launches Netflix bundle
Internet provider Converge ICT Solutions Inc. has recently announced a new collaboration with Netflix, the world’s largest streaming service in terms of subscriber base. This new collaboration will be headlined…
YouTube extends Shorts up to 3 minutes long
YouTube empowers content creators further with new additions to Shorts, its popular short-form video platform, that will help everyone create more dynamic, compelling, and engaging videos. Chief among the new…
Marcos signs into law VAT on foreign digital services
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., signed into law Republic Act 12023, a measure imposing a 12% value-added tax (VAT) on nonresident digital service providers. “We are not imposing new taxes, we…
Necro Trojan attacks 11 million Android users
Kaspersky experts identified a new version of the Necro Trojan that had infiltrated several popular applications on Google Play and modified applications on unofficial platforms, including Spotify, WhatsApp and Minecraft.…