Sci-Tech

Early smartphone launch boosts Samsung profits

SEOUL South Korea  (AFP) Wednesday 4/27/2016 –Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest smartphone maker, reported a better-than-expected jump in net profits Thursday, boosted by the successful early release of its new flagship Galaxy handset. The result will encourage shareholders after a disappointing 2015 that saw the firm lose more than $8.0 billion in market value, with its smartphone business sandwiched by top-end rivals such as Apple’s iPhone and lower-end devices from fast-growing Chinese outfits Huawei and Xiaomi. In […]

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SpaceX vows to send capsule to Mars by 2018

MIAMI,United States (AFP) — SpaceX chief Elon Musk announced Wednesday that he will send an unmanned spaceship to Mars as early as 2018, as part of his quest to colonize the Red Planet some day. Few details of the plan were released by Musk, the Internet entrepreneur who rose to fame as the cofounder of PayPal and currently also runs Tesla Motors. “Planning to send Dragon to Mars as soon as 2018,” Musk announced on […]

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Eagle Broadcasting Corp. joins NAB show 2016 in Las Vegas

Eagle Broadcasting Corporation (EBC), the media company that pioneered all-digital broadcasting in the Philippines, is joining delegates from more than 180 countries from every continent at the NAB Show, the world’s largest annual conference and expo for professionals who create, manage and distribute entertainment content across all platforms held from April 16 to 21 in Las Vegas. Julie Docena reports from Las Vegas!

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Europe launches environmental satellite

The European Space Agency launched a satellite on Monday (Aprli 25) to track the progress of global warming, as part of its Copernicus project. The Sentinel-1B joins its identical twin, Sentinel-1A, in orbit to deliver information for various services, from monitoring ice in polar seas to tracking land subsidence, the ESA said. It will also respond to disasters such as floods. Both satellites carry an advanced radar that images Earth’s surface through cloud and rain […]

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Wind Power! The windmills of Pililla, Rizal

QUEZON City, Philippines (April 24) – Other than providing a great backdrop for photos, what can these windmills in Pililla, Rizal,  possibly be useful for? As it turns out, these windmills are actually very important. They are part of the Alternative Energy initiative of the government of the Philippines. The Philippines is no stranger to wind power. For years, the windmills in Bangui, Ilocos Norte reigned supreme and was a popular tourist spot. But aside from […]

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NAB SHOW 2016

NAB or the National Association of Broadcasters, the world’s largest annual conference and expo for media and entertainment professionals was held at Las Vegas. Julie Ann Docena reports

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NASA releases 4k video of aurora borealis and aurora australis from space

Footage released by NASA on Sunday (April 17) shows the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis, as seen from an astronaut’s perspective, in a new “ultra high-definition” video resolution. The time-lapse video, shot from the International Space Station, shows the ethereal and hazy light formations passing across the night side of the planet. NASA released the footage to commemorate the launch of NASA TV UHD, a new television service operating in so-called “4K” video resolution. Aurora […]

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NASA video shows stunning 4K view of the Earth from orbit

Reuters — Footage released by NASA on Tuesday (April 19) shows a view of the Earth, as seen from an astronaut’s perspective, in an “ultra high-definition” video resolution. The video, shot in orbit of the planet, shows land masses and weather systems drifting beneath the viewer. It is the second video released by NASA in the so-called “4K” resolution in four days. The videos’ release came as the agency launched NASA TV UHD, a television […]

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Tesla shares fall on reports of Model X glitches

NEW York, United States (AFP) — Shares of Tesla Motors tumbled Tuesday after an article in Consumer Reports recounted a series of glitches with its new Model X electric sport utility vehicle. Tesla shares were down 3.4 percent at $244.27 in midday trade following the report in the widely read consumer magazine. Among the snafus cited: problems with the vehicle’s “falcon wing” doors either not opening or not shutting; difficulties with the car’s self-driving mechanism […]

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Apple, FBI return to Congress to spar over encryption

The divide between technology companies and law enforcement over the issue of encryption came to the fore at a congressional hearing on the issue on Tuesday (April 19). During the hearing called by a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee a lawyer for Apple Inc said the company has been asked by Chinese authorities within the last two years to hand over its source code but refused, in response to U.S. law enforcement criticism of its […]

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