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MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Boston Celtics star Marcus Smart says the locker-room bust-up following last week’s defeat to the Miami Heat has brought the team closer together as they chase a series-levelling victory on Wednesday. Smart reportedly stormed out of the Celtics dressing room after Boston blew a 17-point lead before slumping to a 106-101 loss to Miami in game two of the NBA Eastern Conference finals last Thursday. Boston fought their way back […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte gave telecommunication companies until December to improve their services, or government might just take over to provide Filipinos with better communication services. During his fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, July 27, Duterte called on “communication companies to improve their services, or we would be forced to take drastic steps for the less than clear services that the public is getting from you.” He urged […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart, who tested positive for the new coronavirus 10 days ago, has been cleared by American health officials, he announced Sunday on Twitter. “Corona Free as of two days ago. Cleared by Mass (Massachusetts) Dept of Health,” Smart wrote on social media. “Thanks for everyone’s thoughts and prayers and I’m doing the same for everyone that’s been affected by this. Stay safe and stay together- […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry and Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart will miss the United States’ national team’s intersquad scrimmage Friday with injuries, USA Basketball said Thursday. The squad of NBA players is training ahead of its bid to bring the USA a third consecutive Basketball World Cup title starting August 31 in China. Lowry, who underwent a procedure on his left thumb last month after helping the Toronto […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Antonio Trillanes IV wants Dennis Uy to be invited to the Senate panel hearing on Mislatel, the country’s third major telecommunications player. According to Trillanes, this is because he wants to ask Uy directly about how Mislatel, which is composed of Uy’s Udenna Corp. and its subsidiary Chelsea Logistics Holdings Corp, and China Telecom and Mindanao Islamic Telephone Co., bagged the contract on Nov. 19. “The public would like to know […]
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 […]
Eagle News — Telecommunication giants Globe Telecommunications Company, Smart Communications and PLDT Inc., launched on Monday, June 12, the free WiFI connection, project along the 23.8 kilometer Epifanio de los Santos Avenue or EDSA. The project was launched in coordination with the Department of Information and Communication Technology (DICT) along the stretch of EDSA that traverses Caloocan, Quezon City, San Juan, Pasay, Mandaluyong and Makati. According to Smart and Globe, the free WiFi can be used for the […]
(Reuters) — U.S. company Daqri wants to kick-start a new industrial revolution with its augmented reality smart helmet, saying it will help increase productivity and enable a wide range of functions, even in the most challenging environments. Aside from being a safety hard hat, the Daqri Smart Helmet uses computer vision to recognise and decipher the wearer’s surroundings. It then overlays relevant information in real-time as floating, interactive holograms. These relay data and work instructions […]
by Mariëtte Le Roux PARIS, France (AFP) — A tropical fish can tell one human face from another despite lacking a brain section that homo sapiens and other “smart” animals use for this task, scientists said Tuesday. The astonishing ability was demonstrated in experiments with eight archerfish, a tropical species best known for spitting pressurised water jets to shoot prey out of the air. Instead of aiming at bugs, the sharpshooting fish were taught to […]
