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QUEZON City, Philippines (February 23) – Aside from taking selfies and posting on social media – Filipinos really, really love food. Admit it, we enjoy eating and in response to our insatiable collective appetite, the food park made its appearance. Come to think of it, the food park is a great concept, a welcome addition to the Filipino foodie culture. After all, we like to try a variety of dishes and food parks allow us […]
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) — Flying a single autonomous drone already has its challenges. Now multiply that by 25. That’s what scientists at the University of Southern California (USC) are doing: creating ‘flocks’ of coordinated drones capable of intricate, synchronized maneuvers. Their aerial performances are the result of complicated coding and algorithms – which ensure that each drone maintains its own path, avoiding the airspace of its neighbors. The drones are monitored by a series […]
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Researchers announced Wednesday the stunning discovery of seven Earth-like planets orbiting a small star in our galaxy, opening up the most promising hunting ground so far for life beyond the Solar System. All seven roughly match the size and mass of our own planet and are almost certainly rocky, and three are perfectly perched to harbour life-nurturing oceans of water, they reported in the journal […]
By Dexter T. Manglicmot Eagle News Correspondent (WASHINGTON D.C., USA) – The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that seven earth-like planets were seen orbiting a single star. They described this as a tremendous leap in the study of our universe because this is the first known system with this many planets that have the potential to support life outside our solar system. “Using the Spitzer Space Telescope, we’ve discovered seven earth sized […]
by Ella IDE Agence France-Presse MILAN, Italy (AFP) — Milan Fashion Week kicks off Wednesday with luxury giants from Versace to Prada sharing the stage with hot up-and-comers from Asia. Gucci opens six days of catwalk creativity, following earlier fashion weeks which throbbed with politics — New York runways flush with anti-Donald Trump protests, and Brexit-battered London. The Florence-based company’s head of design, Alessandro Michele, is signing up to the co-ed trend and will show […]
Over 30,000 attendees visited the NY Times Travel Show, the largest consumer travel and trade show in North America. It was held at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City from January 26-28, 2017 offering 3 days of seminars, cultural stages, expert talks, family pavilions and tastings. Attendees visited 500 exhibitor booths representing 170 countries from around the world to get the insider scoop on the best deals and places to visit. We […]
THE municipality of the Dutch town of Bodegraven installed a special lighting system to counter an increase in traffic accidents involving pedestrians using their smartphones. The lights are directly on the pavement to signal to people looking down on their phones that it is safe to cross. The led-lit pavement stripes, one on each side of a road crossing, are synchronized with the traffic lights. They blink green or red, so a smartphone user can […]
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (Reuters) — When conservationists discovered the world’s newest crocodile species after years of sloshing through mangroves and swamps from Senegal to Uganda, the elation was tempered by the knowledge that it was on a path to extinction. Now, in its struggle to survive, the West African Slender-snouted Crocodile’s fate is tied to a zoo in the heart of Ivory Coast’s economic capital Abidjan, that itself faced an uncertain future not long ago. […]
by Nina Larson Agence France Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Invisible particles washed off products like synthetic clothing and car tires account for up to a third of the plastic polluting oceans, impacting eco-systems and human health, a top conservationist body warned Wednesday. Unlike the shocking images of country-sized garbage patches floating in the oceans, the microplastic particles that wash off textiles and roadways leave the waterways looking pristine. But […]
By Love Ann Sison EBC London Bureau (Eagle News) — An extraordinary concert organized by Young Voices was held early this month at the London’s world famous O2 Arena Performing as the biggest school choir in the world, over 7,500 primary school students took part on February 7, 2017 during this music extravaganza alongside well-known artists such as soul/jazz singer Sharlene Hector, Beatboxers The Beatbox Collective, street-dance troupe Urban Strides as well as Guitar slinging & […]
CHESEAUX-LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) — The potentially catastrophic dangers of a drone striking an airplane have long been feared by aviation experts. The increasing commercial availability of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), allied with the current gaps in sharing of flight operation data between UAV operators and aviators, amplifies the risks. Now senseFly, a commercial drone subsidiary of the Parrot Group, has joined forces with Swiss-based air navigation app makers to develop what the two firms call […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Poachers are killing elephants for their ivory at an alarming rate in the central African nation of Gabon, leading to a loss of 80 percent of the population in the last decade. Some 25,000 elephants have been slaughtered in Minkebe National Park, an area that had been considered a sanctuary, said the report in the journal Current Biology. “Because Gabon is thought to hold the largest remaining population of forest elephants, […]
