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05 SEP 2012 – SOTTO LAUGHS AT LATEST PLAGIARISM ISSUE. Philippine Senator Vicente “Tito” Sotto III shrugs off the latest plagiarism issue hurled against him by the online community. On his turno en contra speech vs the Reproductive Health Bill on 05 September 2012, netizens started to post comparison of Sotto’s speech as a Filipino … Continue reading
APPLE SENT invitations to media for a 12 September 2012 event. The invite, showing number 12 that casts a shadow forming the number 5, points out to the release of iPhone 5 as speculated by enthusiasts. Above the number 12 is a caption saying: “It’s almost here.” The event will be housed at the Yerba … Continue reading
VIDEO-SHARING WEB site YouTube rolled out its Moodwall, a service that provides various emotion categories, available for U.S. users, Friday – 31 August 2012. With 20 emotion categories on its experimental release, it allows users a new way to express how videos they watch affect them. The Moodwall has 20 emotions, which include varying emotions such … Continue reading
[UPDATED 12:25 a.m. PHT] A preliminary 7.6 magnitude earthquake was recorded off the coast of the Philippines, today, 31 August 2012 at around 8:47 P.M. According to the U.S. Geological Survey and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, the quake has a depth of 21.7 miles and its epicenter was off the east coast, 91 miles … Continue reading
APPLE HAS announced that users can upgrade to its latest operating system OS X Mountain Lion, 25 July 2012. Available for download via the Mac App Store for 19.99USD (20.99AUD), the new operating system integrates many of its mobile operating system’s features into its desktop and laptop range. The OS X update was announced in … Continue reading
IN ITS campaign towards visual anonymity, the Google-owned site, YouTube, has provided a face-blurring tool to automatically blur out the faces of people in its videos. This new tool was made available on 18 July 2012 in the hopes of encouraging more people to speak out particularly about politically sensitive issues. “Whether you want to share … Continue reading
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS and Space Administration (NASA) announced detection of Pluto’s newest moon, 11 July 2012 — a year after the discovery of its fourth moon P4. The latest and smallest moon, called “S/2012 (134340) 1” or simply P5, measures about 10 to 24 kilometres across, according to researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope. With a distance … Continue reading
MICROSOFT UNVEILED its response to on-going heated tablet device competition between Apple and Google. Surface, Microsoft’s line of tablet devices, was revealed at a press event in Los Angeles, 18 June 2012. Surface tablets would feature a 10.6-inch touchscreen in a scratch-resistant magnesium case tagged as VaporMg. On a report from The Daily Mail, CEO … Continue reading
APPLE’S WORLDWIDE Developers Conference featured an all-new MacBook line, iOS 6, Siri for iPad, and OS X Mountain Lion on 11 June 2012. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Tim Cook updated spectators with plans for upcoming hardware and software releases. Kicking off the event is a good comic spiel from Siri, saying: “I am excited about the new … Continue reading
FOR SIX hours and forty minutes, the world had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness the transit of Venus, a phenomenon that occurs when Venus directly passes between the sun and Earth. The transit began 22:09 GMT on Tuesday, 05 June 2012 in eastern North and northwestern South America. It was also seen in East Asia … Continue reading
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