The Samsung EVO SSD 1TB currently retails for Php 28,000 through Villman’s website. If you are planning to upgrade your hard drives, you may check out the listing here.
The successor to the two-month old Android Wear device, the LG G Watch 2, is already cooking and it is said to be a great competitor to the alleged Apple smartwatch.
LG G Watch
According to Korea Times, the next-generation LG G Watch is a “serious game changer” wearable. LG is working to have a September announcement for the new smartwatch wherein the IFA 2014 will commence in Berlin. The report says the IFA fair might just be the venue for the showcase, not for consumers, but for its clients.
Details about the LG G Watch 2 is still limited. Rumors claim that it will feature an OLED display versus the IPS LCD of the current generation plus a Qualcomm processor.
The Philippine Robotics Team is gearing up in preparation for the 16th International Robotics Olympiad that will be held later this year. Interested schools can still try out to be part of the team to represent the country at the said competition.
The International Robotics Olympiad is an annual event where different teams from all over the world gather and showcase their love and knowledge for robotics. This year’s event will be held at Beijing, China with the theme “Robots: Stop Global Warming!”.
Below are the different game categories during the competition:
Grace Christian College leads the Philippine Robotics Team. Seen here are their line-tracing creation along with their trophy during the National Robotics Competition 2014 last January.
Our own Philippine Robotics Team is spearheaded by the students of Grace Christian College which won the top spot during the National Robotics Competition 2014 last January. Students from different schools like Colegio De San Juan De Letran College – Calamba, St. Theodore School, and Pasig Community School are also part of the National team. During the press conference, it was mentioned that about 40 Filipino participants are expected to be flown to China for the competition.
Other school teams are still on the process of being selected to be part of the delegation. Interested schools may send a Letter of Intent to the Data Science and Technology Corporation (DSTC) where they will gladly help and guide them through the process.
For more information on the details and how to join, you may visit DSTC’s website.
The Ice Bucket Challenge, or also known as the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, has been trending on social media channels this past few weeks showing the rich, popular, and powerful dumping themselves with a bucket of ice. Among them are the current tech leaders known around the world.
The Ice Bucket Challenge is a campaign that involves dumping oneself with a bucket of ice water to raise awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, and encourage people to donate to an ALS charity of their choice. Those who accepted the challenge have 24 hours to complete the dare and nominate other people to do the same.
Watch your favorite tech leaders complete the Ice Bucket Challenge below:
THE WORD “memory” traces its roots to the Latin word “memoria” and “memor,” meaning “mindful” or “remembering.”
It is defined as the human mind’s ability to “encode, sort, retain, and subsequently recall information and past experiences in the human brain.” The website human-memory.net also said that memory can be “be thought of in general terms as the use of past experience to affect or influence current behavior.”
Sociologists also talk about “collective memory” – coined by the sociologist Maurice Halbwachs (“The Collective Memory”), which is defined as a construction of created narratives and traditions to give people a sense of community to understand an event or a “social phenomena.”
The declaration by President Ferdinand Marcos of Martial Law in the Philippines on September 21, 1972 is a social phenomena. The debate over his role and how society should judge the Marcoses who are still in power was renewed recently.
Some say that the country was better off under Marcos. They say we need need an iron fist for the Philippines to progress. Others believe that those who have not experienced or seen the horrors of Martial Law are the only ones who would favor it.
Some say, however, that the lack of understanding about Martial Law, especially those belonging to the young generation, is because the nation lack of a sense of history, a collective memory. Not much sense is made of the past, the horrors, sufferings, and hardships under Martial Law.
The most prominent victim of Martial Law was then Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr., an opposition solon who was imprisoned by Marcos. He was placed in solitary confinement for more than seven years, suffered a heart attack, and was sent to the United States for treatment.
He returned August 21, 1983 and was gunned down on the tarmac of what was then the Manila International Airport that was renamed in his honor several years after his wife, Corazon Aquino, assumed the presidency through a military-backed people’s uprising in February 1986.
It was not only Aquino who suffered under the dictatorship. At least 9,000 more were imprisoned, tortured, and killed during what is now being called as the darkest days in Philippine history based on the records that TFD holds it in its files.
This is the collective memory that the Task Force Detainees want Filipinos to have to point the nation in the right direction.
This video short by PCIJ deputy producer Cong Corrales tells us about this museum as the death anniversary of Ninoy Aquino nears.
Indeed, as the movie says, without memories, there would only be “the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.”
