COMMUNITY | PLDT, Smart make DepEd Commons and other education services free to subscribers
MANILA, PHILIPPINES -— PLDT and Smart recently provided the Department of Education (DepEd) with a package of digital services to...
Month: April 2020
COMMUNITY | Repatriated seafarers on 2GO quarantine facilities stay in touch via Smart
Repatriated Filipino seafarers will now be able to stay in touch with their families as they complete their mandatory quarantine...
GADGETS | OPPO Find X2 Pro supports HDR on YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video
MANILA, PHILIPPINES -- OPPO announced on Monday that its latest flagship Find X2 Pro, equipped with a stunning 120Hz QHD+...
SPACE | Astronomers to stream asteroid flyby
NANJING, CHINA -- Chinese astronomers will stream a close encounter with a huge asteroid heading toward Earth Wednesday. Known as...
HEALTH | UP-PGH, PLDT upgrade Action Center with Telemedicine Program
MANILA, PHILIPPINES -- Since the establishment of the University of the Philippines Manila-Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH) Bayanihan Na! COVID 19 Action...
COMMUNITY | Accenture, Intel, Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation use AI to save coral reefs
Accenture, Intel and the Philippines-based Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation have developed a new solution powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor, characterize and analyze coral...
BUSINESS TECH | After taking $16M funding Axinan rebrands to Igloo
SINGAPORE -– Singapore-headquartered insurtech startup - Igloo (previously known as “Axinan”), announced recently that it has successfully closed its Series...
HEALTH NEWS | COVID-19 ‘silently’ spreading in U.S. ‘far earlier’ — NYT
WASHINGTON -- The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was likely to be spreading in multiple U.S. cities "far earlier" than Americans knew,...
BYLINE | The rising popularity of voice assistant devices in the home and beyond
by Dr. Ryan Chen, General Manager Computing & Artificial Intelligence Technology Group MediaTek Dr. Ryan Chen, Voice recognition technology is...
TELECOM | PSF, Smart launch ‘Text-to-Donate’ drive for COVID-19 health workers, frontliners
Text DONATE to 3456 to donate to PLDT-Smart Foundation The PLDT-Smart Foundation (PSF) and PLDT mobile subsidiary Smart Communications, Inc....