[ad_1] SpaceX launched a space shuttle on May 30, 2020. Image: AFP / HO / NASA / Roscosmos via AFP Relaxnews Reality TV is definitely an interstellar trend! Following the surprise announcement last week of the finale of the star reality TV show “Keeping Up With The Kardashians,” a new …
Read More »RP Gov’t Mints 4th Telco
[ad_1] The country now officially has its fourth player in the telecommunications industry. This was after the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) finally issued NOW Telecom Company, Inc. on September 14 the lengthy extension of its provisional authority (PA) to install, operate and maintain a national mobile telecommunications system. The authority …
Read More »China focus: China launches new satellite to monitor ocean environment
[ad_1] A Long March-4B rocket, carrying the Haiyang-2C (HY-2C) satellite, is launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on September 21, 2020. The third dynamic environment satellite the country’s oceanic vessel, the HY-2C, will form a network with the former HY-2B and subsequent HY-2D to carry out …
Read More »Ireland’s data watchdog criticized for allowing ad tech to continue with ‘biggest breach of all time’
[ad_1] The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) today published an evidence dossier detailing how the online advertising industry profiles the intimate characteristics of Internet users without their knowledge or consent, increasing pressure on the body of control of the country’s data to take compliance measures what the complainants claim …
Read More »NOW Telecom targets public listing, 5G launch as NTC grants provisional authority to ‘4th telco’
[ad_1] MANILA – NOW Corp said Monday that the National Telecommunications Commission has extended the provisional authority of its NOW Telecom telecommunications unit to install, operate and maintain a mobile telecommunications system. According to the NTC order, the provisional authority is subject to the infusion of an additional capital of …
Read More »The Reserve Bank of the Philippines will continue to work on its central bank digital currency that could simplify financial services
[ad_1] Benjamin Diokno |, the governor of the Reserve Bank of the Philippines, recently noted that the underlying technology behind digital tokens can streamline or improve existing financial services. The nation’s central bank is studying the feasibility of issuing its own virtual currency. Diokno believes that digital tokens can help …
Read More »Moderna CEO: it’s all or nothing
[ad_1] The CEO of vaccine developer Covid-19 Moderna Inc. (NASDAQ: MRNA) might be getting a little ahead of himself. In an Endpoints interview the day before the company’s research and development day, Stéphane Bancel suggested that Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotech could in the not-too-distant future have a research program that rivals …
Read More »China is determined to bring astronauts to the lunar surface
[ad_1] The 2020 China Space Conference opens in Fuzhou, capital of Fujian province, on September 18, 2020. Photo by Zhao Lei / China Daily / Asia News Network BEIJING – China is determined to get its astronauts to the moon and establish a science station there, according to a project …
Read More »Clinical trials continue as the world waits for the COVID vaccine
[ad_1] The protocols for starting clinical trials Volunteers are selected and monitored There is a Data Security Monitoring Board (DSMB) that bypasses the test The WHO Solidarity Trials will last 18 months; Sputnik V tests will last 3-6 months About 1,000 Filipinos will take part in Sputnik V phase 3 …
Read More »US Diplomat Concludes Discreet Visit to Taiwan; China sends warning with air power demonstration for second day
[ad_1] Taiwan’s Vice President William Lai (top left) and the heads of the island’s five branches of government yesterday placed the Taiwanese flag on the coffin of former President Lee Teng-hui. PHOTO: FACEBOOK / TSAI ING-WEN via The Straits Times / Asia News Network TAIPEI – For the second day, …
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