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by Karyn Nishimura-Poupee Agence France Presse FUJISAWA, Japan (AFP) — When 82-year-old Masako Wakamiya first began working, she still used an abacus for maths. Today, she is one of the world’s oldest iPhone app developers, a trailblazer in making smartphones accessible for the elderly. Frustrated by the lack of interest from the tech industry in engaging older people, she taught herself to code and set about doing it herself. The over 60s, she insists, need […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Enterprising internet users in China fear the tools they use to tunnel through the country’s “Great Firewall” may soon disappear, as Beijing tightens its grip on the web. Tens of millions of people are estimated to use Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to bypass Chinese internet restrictions — getting access to blocked websites such as Facebook and Twitter. Beijing has for years turned a blind eye to these holes in its Great […]
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom (CCTV) — China’s bike-sharing operator Mobike is gaining traction in UK’s Manchester just a few weeks after its arrival in the city. Steve Pyer, general manager of Mobike’s UK division, while expressing the service’s popularity, said each bike gets used nine times a day. “There were 20 bikes there 10 minutes ago, and the last two are about to disappear. So they are being used every day, up to nine times a […]
SAINT-AIGNAN-SUR-CHER,France (AFP) — There was joy and pain for French zookeepers Friday as their female panda gave birth to twins, but one died soon afterwards. Huan Huan, on loan to Beauval zoo in central France from China, delivered the first cub at 10:18 pm (2018 GMT) and the second at 10:32. But soon after birth, the first, which weighed just 121 grams (4.2 ounces), began having problems breathing and died despite the best efforts of […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — An extraordinarily well-preserved 110-million-year-old dinosaur found in a mine pit in Canada now has a name and evidence of a troubled past, researchers said Thursday. With fossilized skin and scales, the dragon-like creature is actually a new kind of nodosaur, coined Borealopelta markmitchelli, after the museum technician Mark Mitchell who spent more than 7,000 hours painstakingly removing rock from around the specimen. The report in the journal Current Biology described […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia’s Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest freshwater lake, has extremely high pollution levels, President Vladimir Putin warned Friday while visiting the Siberian lake. Lake Baikal is a UNESCO World Heritage site, the world’s deepest lake at 1,700 meters (5,580 feet) and also the oldest at 25 million years. Tourists flock there to enjoy the unique wildlife and clear waters. Putin, while meeting officials in a room looking onto the shimmering waters […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russia’s diamond giant Alrosa said Friday that one of its mines in eastern Siberia has suffered flooding with around 150 miners inside. Alrosa, Russia’s largest diamond producer, said in a statement on its website that water had broken through into the mine at around 4:30 pm (0730 GMT), while there were “more than 100 people” inside. The company later increased the figure to 148 in statements to Russian news wires. It […]
HONG KONG, China (Reuters) — A voice in your ear at the touch of a hand? The Orii ring allows people to take phone calls, handle text messages and interact with a phone’s digital assistant, all by transferring sound to a user’s ear through bone conduction. The wearable device connects to smartphones using Bluetooth. The ring, designed by Hong Kong-based start-up Origami Labs, was inspired by Peter Wong, the visually impaired father of the firm’s […]
With the launching of SINEBATA 2017, the nationwide search is on for the best video produced for, by and with children. “SINEBATA 2017: On The Road to First Southeast Asia Prix Jeunesse” was launched on Tuesday, August 1, 2017 in Quezon City. ANAK TV, President Elvira Yap Go signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Council for the Welfare of Children, headed by Executive Director V, Ms. Mary L. Cajayon-Uy and Deputy Executive […]
SICHUAN Province, southwest China (Reuters) — A total of six giant panda cubs were born in succession from four different giant pandas within a week at the Wolong Giant Panda Reserve in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The giant pandas namely “Jun Zhu”, “Qing Qing”, “Hai Zi” and “Zhen Zhen” gave births to two twins and two singles from July 23 till July 30. “Followed by giant panda ‘Jun Zhu’ giving birth on July 23, four […]
ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) — Aleppo’s beleaguered Old City, shelled, burned and shot up during years of fighting in Syria’s civil war, could be rebuilt with the help of local craftsmen and trainees, according to the United Nations cultural body UNESCO. There are detailed plans for the Old City’s great medieval mosques, souks, bath houses and citadel from an earlier restoration that should allow exact reconstruction, a local UNESCO representative said. The fighting in Aleppo ended […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — The near-supersonic rail system known as hyperloop has passed another key milestone on its path to become reality, the United States startup Hyperloop One said Wednesday. Hyperloop One, which is developing a system theorized by entrepreneur Elon Musk, said that a test last week of a full hyperloop system at its private facility in the desert near Las Vegas was a success, hitting record speeds. “That’s a huge milestone […]
