When a former undersecretary of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) recently questioned the reportedly exorbitant cost of the agency’s current Free Internet Wi-Fi Project, incumbent officials defended the project and claimed the VSAT tech being used is actually cheaper and provides faster Internet. But the former undersecretary remains unconvinced. In his Facebook […]
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Redmi Note 10S officially launched in the Philippines
Xiaomi Philippines just held a big event and introduced two new budget phones in the Philippines. One of them is the Redmi Note 10S
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Redmi Note 10 5G price in the Philippines revealed
Xiaomi has brought another affordable 5G phone in the Philippines, the Redmi Note 10 5G.
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AnTuTu list of best performing midrange, flagship phones for May 2021 now out
AnTuTu’s monthly best-performing Android phones list just got its May 2021 edition.
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Norton 360 adds crypto mining to its security suite
Anti-malware and security software these days often come in bundles and suites of utilities. For the Norton 360 suite, there’s VPN, parental control, password manager, and so many more on top of the standard malware protection. And it’s about to be added with one more utility: Ethereum mining. That’s right, in the coming weeks Norton […]
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Samsung Galaxy A32 5G price in the Philippines
Samsung Philippines subtly revealed the official price of the Galaxy A32 5G in the country.
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AMD Cezanne Ryzen 7 5700G and 5 5600G desktop APUs announced
AMD Cezanne Ryzen 7 5700G and Ryzen 5 5600G APUs for the DIY segment have been introduced.
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World’s fastest AI supercomputer is building a 3D map of the universe
The National Energy Research Scientific Computer Center (NERSC) in California just got a new supercomputer touted as the fastest in the world for Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. Named after Saul Perlmutter, an astrophysicist who discovered dark energy, the supercomputer will use the 6,000+ NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs on board to build the universe’s biggest […]
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TECNO Pova 2 priced at Php7,990 in the Philippines
TECNO Mobile launched the new Pova 2 and it will be instantly available in the Philippines.
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Huawei P50 series teased at HarmonyOS 2 event
Hundreds of Huawei devices will be upgraded to HarmonyOS 2 in the next few weeks. But that’s not the only thing people got excited about. In the closing moments of the event, Huawei gave a sneak peek of what we can expect from the upcoming P50 series. As you can see, the image shown above […]
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Valorant Mobile officially announced by Riot
Mobile devices will soon be able to play Riot’s popular tactical shooter Valorant. Not much information has been revealed, like the hardware requirements and mobile gameplay, but the company says it will be aptly called Valorant Mobile. According to the developer, there’s already an average of 14 million monthly players for the PC version of […]
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DOST will build a Php132 million Nuclear Magnetic Resonance laboratory in Visayas
A new Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) lab will soon rise at the University of San Agustin (USA) in the Visayas. According to Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Secretary Fortunato de la Peña, this laboratory will be the first one outside of Region 4-A and National Capital Region (NCR). “The NMR facility will be used […]
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Congress OKs bill for permanent validity of birth, marriage, and death certificates
House members approved on its third and final reading the bill which would grant permanent validity to birth, marriage, and death certificates in the Philippines. The proposed ‘Permanent Validity of the Certificates of Live Birth, Death, and Marriage Act’ (House Bill 9175) managed to get 199 votes. Once officially enacted into law, birth, marriage, and death, […]
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Former Illegal manga website operator sentenced to 3 years in jail
Romi Hoshino, a 29-year-old Japanese who previously operated an illegal manga site has been sentenced to 3 years in prison in Japan. The man was found guilty of copyright infringement by the Fukuoka District Court for providing illegal copies of mangas on his website, Manga-Mura. In total, the manga industry reportedly lost over 300 billion […]
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AMD’s answer to NVIDIA’s DLSS is FidelityFX Super Resolution
It has certainly taken a while, but AMD finally has unveiled its own upscaling technology to compete with NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Super Sampling. Unveiled at this month’s Computex, the AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution is slated for a June 22 launch. To recall, NVIDIA’s DLSS is an upscaling technology that’s powered by machine learning and artificial […]