Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Huang Xilian has criticized the United States intelligence community report on the origin of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) as “mendacious” that was made to scapegoat China. Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Huang Xilian (Manila Bulletin) “It is...
Opposition Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday, August 24 slammed the government’s move to seek P4.5-billion worth of confidential and intelligence funds for President Duterte under the proposed P5.024-trillion budget for 2022. At a time of a COVID-19 pandemic, Hontiveros said such funds could be...
The Office of the President (OP) is seeking a budget of P8.18 billion for fiscal year 2022, the final year of the Duterte administration. Malacañang Palace, the official home of the Philippine president (File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) More than half of OP's proposed budget will go to confidential...
More than P10 billion worth of smuggled goods have been seized in various ports and warehouses in the country over the last six months of 2021, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) bared Wednesday, July 7. (Photo courtesy of the BOC) The confiscated contrabands were a combination of counterfeit cigarettes,...
Officials from the science and technology departments of Israel and the Philippines have agreed to continue their discussions on potential cooperation in the areas of agriculture, biomedicine, and artificial intelligence (AI) at the conclusion of the just-concluded First Joint Committee Meeting...
The technology which seeks to determine whether a patient caught coronavirus disease (COVID-19) or simply a viral pneumonia, known as CHERISH App, and the gender-responsive COVID-19 Cases Monitor (CCMon) were the two COVID-19 Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies unveiled by the Department of...
The Philippines and Argentina may soon be partners in exploring useful application of artificial intelligence (AI). (Photo from DOST) The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said it has been in touch with Argentina’s Industrias Metalurgicas Pescarmona S.A. (IMPSA) to explore the benefits...
Wala Lang Journalist Andrew J. Masigan points out the alarming results of a survey conducted by the OECD Program of International Student Assessment (PISA) of some 600,000 15-year-olds from 79 countries. Filipino teenagers ranked last in ability to comprehend lengthy narratives, to deal with...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara Imagine this. On your next grocery trip (wearing a face mask of course), you pick up an item listed on your shopping list. You put it in your bag. And then you walk out of the store to accomplish the rest of your day’s errands. In this instance, no crime was...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Sunday welcomed the proposed establishment of the National Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (N-CAIR) under the recently launched AI roadmap. To sustain this program, Gatchalian said it is imperative that the country’s high school students are equipped with...
The country can still recover lost ground and accelerate growth to catch up with its aspiration to end poverty and be a predominantly middle-class society under the Ambisyon 2040 through frontier technologies, the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) said. PCCI President Amb....
Artificial intelligence-driven drone has started revolutionizing Philippines’ rice farming n as Bayer Crop Science (BCS) completed a “drone seeding” demonstration in Paniqui, Tarlac that is significantly eliminating costly and time-consuming labor in rice planting. A technology demonstration...
