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Jaja Santiago is set for a new journey. Saitama announced on Saturday that the 6-foot-4 spiker out of Tanza, Cavite has opted not to re-sign with the team. The National University great spent the last five seasons with the Ageo Medics. “It is with a heavy heart that I have decided to step out of my comfort zone, take risks, and broaden my perspective in my volleyball career,” said the 27-year-old Santiago. “The Ageo team will always hold a special place in my heart. This doesn’t mean goodbye, but rather, I’ll see you around. “The road ahead will be challenging, but I am ready to move forward and face the obstacles that lie ahead.” In her five-year stay with Saitama, she helped the squad to a third-place finish in the 2019-20...

Michelle Dee wagi sa Evening Gown competition NA-SHOCK ang mga pageant fans at ang mga nanonood ng Miss Universe Philippines 2023 grand coronation night na ginaganap ngayon sa Mall of Asia Arena. Pagkatapos kasing i-announce ang Top 10 finalists na maglalaban-laban sana sa final round ng nasabing national pageant ay muling ibinalik ang 18 kandidata para rumampa sa Evening Gown competition. Rumampa ang 18 kandidata suot ang kanilang evening gown sa pangunguna nina Jannarie Zarzoso, Agusan del Norte; Pauline Amelinckx, Bohol; Angelique Manto, Pampanga; Airissh Ramos, Eastern Samar; Michelle Marquez Dee, Makati; Clare Dacanay, Paranaque; Afia Adorable Yeboah, Tiaong, Quezon; Rein Hillary Carrascal, Sorsogon; Iman Franchesca Cristal...

MANILA, Philippines–The Philippines will not bring home a gold medal in billiards for the first time in the Southeast Asian Games after the country’s remaining bets lost their respective matches on Saturday in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Carlo Biado and Johann Chua settled for bronze in men’s 9-ball doubles after a 9-7 loss to Myanmar’s Phone Myint Kyaw and Thaw Zin Htet in the semifinals at Aeon 2 Sen Sok despite erasing a pair of four-rack deficits. Alvin Barbero fell to Thailand’s Akani Songsermsawad in the round-of-16 of men’s snooker singles to end any hopes of salvaging at least one gold in the 32nd edition of the biennial meet. Only two bronzes were produced in billiards, the other coming from veteran Francisco dela Cruz in men’s...

BREAKING NEWS: Muntinlupa City Regional Trial Court Branch 204 acquits former senator Leila de Lima in one of her remaining drug charges. She is now free from two out of three cases. De Lima awaits the resolution of her pending bail petition from Branch 256.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk, center, speaks with Linda Yaccarino, chairman of global advertising and partnerships for NBC, at the POSSIBLE marketing conference, Tuesday, April 18, 2023, in Miami Beach, Fla. Musk announced Friday, May 12, 2023, that he's hiring Yaccarino to be the new CEO of San Francisco-based Twitter, which is now called X Corp. AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell© Provided by The Manila Times SAN FRANCISCO: Elon Musk has chosen top ad executive Linda Yaccarino to take the day-to-day reins of Twitter as he fights to reverse the tide at the struggling platform he bought for $44 billion last year. Yaccarino is a highly respected advertising executive who stepped down from NBCUniversal "effective immediately" on Friday as rumors...

Lone bettor wins P225.2-M Mega Lotto jackpot in May 12 evening draw BY LUISA K. CABATO A lone bettor won the jackpot prize for Mega Lotto 6/45 worth P225,248,638 in the evening draw of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) on Friday, May 12. The winning numbers were 14 - 05 - 44 - 25 - 01 - 36. Meanwhile, 75 bettors hit the second prize worth P32,000, and 4,002 players got the third prize worth P1,000. Its jackpot was previously won by a player from Bayugan, Agusan del Sur last March 6 who took home P12.1 million. Mega Lotto is drawn every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9 p.m. PCSO also announced that there was no winner for UltraLotto 6/58 with a jackpot worth P118,372,607. Four bettors won the second prize worth...

Photo from dbp.ph At least three-fourths of the Development Bank of the Philippines' (DBP) more than 4,000-strong workforce are in danger of losing their jobs should the proposed merger with the Land Bank of the Philippines materialize, the state-owned lender’s chairman said Tuesday. At a press conference in Makati City, DBP chairman Dante Tiñga said that the proposed merger is strongly opposed by officials and employees of the DBP as most of them “would lose their jobs if the merger pushes through with Landbank as the surviving bank.” Tiñga said that three-fourths or about 75% of the bank’s workforce “would become unemployed.” “That’s roughly 3,000 [employees],” he said. On Friday, Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno defended the...

Codename Burnham: Amazon has a secret new home robot with ᑕᕼᗩTGᑭT-like features that understands a lot more of its surroundings Amazon is developing an upgraded version of its Astro home robot to make it better understand what it observes and respond to things more intelligently, Insider has learned. This is part of a secret new AI robot project, internally codenamed "Burnham," that adds a layer of "intelligence and a conversational spoken interface" to Astro, according to internal documents obtained by Insider. Called "Contextual Understanding," Amazon describes the new technology as "our latest and most advanced AI technology designed to make robots more intelligent, more useful, and conversational," the documents show. The company...

MANILA, Philippines – Three companies owned or managed by the family of top Filipino billionaire Manuel Villar Jr. owe Las Piñas City at least P213.55 million in accumulated taxes and penalties, according to documents obtained by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ). For decades, Brittany Corporation, Villar Sipag Center, and Villar Sipag at Tiyaga Foundation have not ρáíd real property taxes for a number of assets in the city, including Mella Hotel, three Evia buildings, Portofino Commercial, and the Villar Sipag Center. These three companies recently sought a waiver of the penalties totaling P71.6 million from Mayor Imelda Aguilar, sister-in-law of Senator Cynthia Villar, wife of the Villar patriarch. Aguilar...

The former head of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency, Dmitry Rogozin, has E×ρréššed doubt that the US Apollo 11 mission really landed on the Moon in 1969, saying he has yet to see conclusive proof. In a post on his Telegram channel on Sunday, Rogozin said he began his personal quest for the truth “about ten years ago” when he was still working in the Russian government, and that he grew skeptical about whether the Americans had actually set foot on the Moon when he compared how exhausted Soviet cosmonauts looked upon returning from their flights, and how seemingly unaffected the Apollo 11 crew was by contrast. Rogozin said he sent requests for evidence to Roscosmos at the time. All he received in response was a book featuring Soviet...

P inatunayan ni Simone Gabrielle Balaba, 18, ng Lapu-Lapu City sa Cebu na hindi kailangang maging valedictorian o galing sa prestihiyosong eskuwelahan para makakuha ng scholarships sa U.S. universities. Si Simone na nag-aaral sa isang public school sa Brgy. Basak ay nag-apply sa 10 universities and colleges sa U.S. Pumasa siya sa lahat, at nakakuha ng scholarship grants na tinatayang aabot ng PHP55 million. Bawat isa sa sampung paaralan ay may alok na yearly scholarship kay Simone na renewable sa loob ng apat na taon. inatunayan ni Simone Gabrielle Balaba, 18, ng Lapu-Lapu City sa Cebu na hindi kailangang maging valedictorian o galing sa prestihiyosong eskuwelahan para makakuha ng scholarships sa U.S. universities. Si Simone na...

The owner of a Rivian R1T got a $115 parking ticket in New York City because he violated NYC's special parking rules for commercial vehicles. Because it weighs more than 7,000 pounds, the Rivian R1T is automatically classified as a commercial vehicle in New York state and therefore has to feature commercial plates and submit to CV regulations. This particular owner's R1T appears to have the plates, but apparently that's not enough to dodge a parking ticket in NYC if you drive a Rivian R1T. As the owner says in a short video, he got fined because his electric truck did not have lettering and signs on the outside as the law requires. Under NYC traffic rules – section 4-08 (K) Special rules for commercial vehicles – "parking of...

Polymer ₱1,000 bill wins 'Banknote of the Year' International Banknote Society (IBS)'s annual "Banknote of the Year Award" has finally been named for 2022. And it's the Philippines' very own polymer P1,000 bill, making it the first Filipino banknote to bag the award. “The Philippines’ successful design in eye-pleasing blue combines an endangered species with an environmental motif,” said the IBS. Our polymer P1,000 bill beat finalists like Algeria, Barbados, Egypt, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. Read more here: Polymer ₱1,000 bill wins 'Banknote of the Year'

Filipino boxing legend Manny Pacquiao said he would shoulder the medical expenses of a local boxer who fell into a coma shortly after winning an eight-round fight in Cavite. 22-year-old Kenneth Egano, who hails from Sarangani, collapsed while waiting for the official results of his match against Jason Facularin, and was immediately rushed to the hospital. The Egano-Facularin match was part of the Blow-by-Blow program, a televised boxing competition produced by Pacquiao’s production company. Egano was scheduled to undergo an operation on Sunday. “There is nothing more precious than human life,” the eight-division boxing champion said...

Tinutukan ng buong mundo ang marangya at parang mga eksena sa pelikula na koronasyon ni King Charles III na ginanap kahapon, May 6, 2023, sa Westminster Abbey, London, England. Si King Charles (born Charles Philip Arthur George) ang humalili sa kanyang ina na si Queen Elizabeth II na sumakabilang-buhay sa edad na 96 noong September 8, 2022. Kasabay ng koronasyon ni King Charles ang pagpuputong ng korona sa kanyang asawang si Camilla Parker Bowles bilang bagong reyna ng United Kingdom. Si Camilla ang third party at isa sa mga dahilan ng paghihiwalay nina Prince Charles at Princess Diana noong December 1992. Sa panayam kay Princess Diana (born Diana Frances Spencer) noong 1995, ikinagulat ng buong mundo ang kanyang rebelasyon na...

Peugeot has pulled the covers off its refreshed 2008 and e-2008, and in news that will come as no surprise to anyone, it has been treated to a new face and a fresh LED light signature at both ends. Yep, it’s the standard facelift fare. Peugeot says that the 2008’s new design "reflects its move upmarket and strengthens its SUV status." Eugh. Still, we do like the ‘fangtastic’ lights up front and the link to the 9X8 Le Mans Hypercar.

A senator has filed a bill requiring telecommunication companies and internet service providers to refund their subscribers for service interruptions.

The Sandiganbayan on Friday denied the Motion for Reconsideration filed by former First Lady Imelda Marcos and her daughter Irene Marcos-Araneta and affirmed its January 2023 Resolution which denied the Marcoses bid to take back the wealth and properties seized from them by the government. Source GMA News: Read More

President Marcos did not lose the chance to learn from the UK's finest practices and implement them in upgrading Philippine airports after embarrassing hiccups at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) during his visit for King Charles III's coronation. On Friday evening, Marcos and his delegation landed at London's Gatwick Airport, where he, Speaker Martin Romualdez, and Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista were given a briefing and tour by representatives of Global Infrastructure Partners, the company that manages one of the UK's busiest gateways. “Our vision for safe, efficient and sustainable airports in the Philippines is one step closer to reality,” Marcos said in a post on Twitter yesterday after exploring Gatwick...

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OpenAI Blocks Attempts to s†éál ᑕᕼᗩTGᑭT Source Code San Francisco, CA - OpenAI, the company behind the powerful language model ᑕᕼᗩTGᑭT, has blocked several attempts by Chinese häçkers to s†éál the source code for the software. The häçkers were reportedly trying to gain access to the source code in order to develop their own chatbots that could compete with ᑕᕼᗩTGᑭT. OpenAI has not released any details about the specific methods that the häçkers used to try to s†éál the source code. However, it is likely that they used a variety of techniques, such as phishing attacks and malware, in an attempt to gain access to the code. OpenAI's security team was able to successfully block all of the attempts to s†éál the source code. However, the...

Earthquake HAS BEEN RECORDED AS OF 8:49AM this morning neer Candon Ilocos Sur. Felt the shaking up her in Isabela and Quirino province

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After doing homeworks, reports and projects, employed na si ᑕᕼᗩTGᑭT! Good job!

‘DRINK YOUR WATER’ PAGASA urged Filipinos to take care as the heat index on April 22, Saturday, could reach 50C, the would-be highest one since the country's dry season or "summer" began last March. READ: April 22's heat index could reach 50C: PAGASA

MWSS wants LGUs to ban inflatable pools Story by Francis Earl Cueto • 7h ago THE Manila Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) prodded local government units (LGUs) to issue ordinances that will temporarily ban the use of inflatable pools and car-washing, saying these consume a lot of water. Children enjoy swimming in inflatable swimming pools in Tinajeros Malabon City. PHOTO BY: RENE H. DILAN© Provided by The Manila Times "The amount of water being consumed by these practices is huge," Jose Dorado Jr., deputy administrator for engineering and technical operations group of the MWSS, said in an interview with the government television station. He clarified that passing the ordinance should be done by the LGUs when the water level in...

India has surpassed China as the world’s most populous country, according to UN estimates.

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SIM CARD EXTENSION +90DYS Your thoughts mga Ka-PHC.

https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/04/11/23/globe-urges-govt-to-extend-sim-registration-deadline ABS-CBN News Posted at Apr 11 2023 03:30 PM | Updated as of Apr 11 2023 06:50 PM MANILA (UPDATE) - Globe Telecom said on Tuesday the government should consider extending the deadline for the mandatory SIM registration due to low registration turnout. In a statement, Globe said it has reached only 32 percent or 27.85 million of its total mobile customer base with 2 weeks left before the April 26 deadline. Other telcos are facing the same circumstances, the telco said. The Department of Information and Communications Technology meanwhile said it has yet to decide on the proposed extension. Despite efforts to roll out registration...

JUST IN: The government has extended the mandatory SIM registration for 90 days. Its deadline was originally scheduled on April 26.