Breaking News, Latest Philippines Headlines, World, Entertainment, Politics, Weather & Video News
LOS Angeles, California (Reuters) — Gaming fans at E3 2017 in Los Angeles over the weekend saw Microsoft present their new console, which they say is ‘the world’s most powerful.’ On stage at the annual gaming conference the computer giant revealed the Xbox One X, a fully featured 4K player, formerly code-named ‘Project Scorpio’. In a press release Microsoft said the Xbox One X ‘was designed to be the best console to create and play […]
CHINA (Reuters) – The newest outcome of the third expedition to the South China Sea may rewrite the textbooks of plate tectonics, according to a press conference co-hosted by Chinese Office of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) and Tongji University in Shanghai on Monday. The Chinese-led international scientific team wrapped up their research on the US drilling ship JOIDES Resolution on Sunday, with much of the new findings pointing towards some interesting discoveries about […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Chinese authorities say they have uncovered a massive underground operation involving the sale of Apple users’ personal data. Twenty-two people have been detained on suspicion of infringing individuals’ privacy and illegally obtaining their digital personal information, according to a statement Wednesday from police in southern Zhejiang province. Of the 22 suspects, 20 were employees of an Apple “domestic direct sales company and outsourcing company.” The suspects allegedly used an internal company […]
ZURICH, Switzerland (Reuters) – The colouring book has been a childhood favourite for many years and is often a first opportunity for creative expression. But Swiss-based researchers are using augmented reality (AR) to put a magical new spin to the traditional pastime. Children use pens or crayons to colour in a cartoon-like character, such as a princess or an octopus. When a tablet running their app is held over the finished picture the character bursts into […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — SpaceX’s first-ever recycled spaceship arrived Monday at the International Space Station, two days after the unmanned Dragon cargo capsule launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Live images on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s television showed the spaceship approaching the orbiting outpost, then being grabbed with the station’s robotic arm at 9:52 am (1352 GMT). “Capture complete,” said NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, who operated the robotic arm […]
ANAHEIM, California (Reuters) — Walt Disney’s first map of his planned Disneyland theme park in Southern California is going up for sale in June and could fetch up to $900,000, auctioneers said on Thursday (June 2). The 1953 map, hand-inked and hand-colored, was created by Disney and artist Herb Ryman and used to present to investors in order to secure funding to build the first Disney theme park in Anaheim. It clearly shows the layout […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — India’s most powerful homegrown rocket to date is set to launch Monday, another milestone for its indigenous space program that one day hopes to put a man into orbit. The 43-meter (140-foot) rocket is scheduled to lift off just before 5:30 pm (1200 GMT) from the southern island of Sriharikota, one of two sites used by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to launch satellites. This latest model boasts a […]
(Reuters) – The International Space Station’s latest expedition officially began on Friday (June 2) after Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency left the space station for earth. The two flight crew members, embarking on Expedition 52 having arrived on Expedition 51, bade an emotional goodbye as National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronaut and Expedition 51 Commander Peggy Whitson hugged them before the closing of the hatch that […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) – China has mastered the core technologies for mining natural gas hydrate after it extracted high purity gas in the South China Sea for 22 consecutive days, the longest time in the world, the Ministry of Land and Resources said Friday. Trial mining of natural gas hydrate, commonly known as “combustible ice” as it can be ignited like solid ethanol, in the Shenhu Sea area about 320 kilometers southeast of south China’s Zhuhai […]
Reuters — A technology company has created a fish-shaped underwater drone fitted with a camera, for exploring and filming underwater worlds. The drone, called BIKI, films in 4K resolution, avoids obstacles, has automated balance and Global Positioning System, which means it can find its way back to its user, company RoboSea said on the project’s crowdfunding page. Its page aimed to raise $20,000 but on Wednesday (May 31) had already reached more than $115,988. The […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (Reuters) — A robotic policeman who can help identify wanted criminals and collect evidence has joined Dubai’s police force and will patrol busy areas in the city, as part of a government program aimed at replacing some human crime-fighters with machines. If the “Robocop” experiment is successful, Dubai Police says it wants the unarmed robots to make up 25 percent of its patrolling force by 2030. Clad in the colors of […]
by Kerry Sheridan Agence France Presse MIAMI, United States (AFP) — A lightning strike near Cape Canaveral forced SpaceX to delay until Saturday its first-ever cargo delivery to the astronauts living in orbit using a vessel that has already flown to space once before, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Thursday. The lightning did not hit any of SpaceX’s equipment but happened within 10 miles (16 kilometers) of the launch pad. The strike happened […]
