Category: Tech Talk

Miscellany of questions and information tidbits on day-to-day interaction with technology

Will a China-owned telco operating in the Philippines spy on Filipinos?

December 21, 2017December 21, 2017 benign0 19 Comments

For one thing, it is a bit presumptuous to think spying on the minutiae of day-to-day lives of ordinary Filipinos is an important enough main objective for a multi-million dollar investment in network infrastructure and telco service delivery capability. There really isn’t much to learn from data collected from Filipino Internet users beyond what Facebook…

Media, Society, Tech Talk

Your Tito’s Car: The Ford Ecosport

December 12, 2017 P. Farol 3 Comments

So, a friend from Facebook I have only seen in person twice (once when she interviewed me for her thesis and the other when I was interviewing her for a job) chatted me up out of the blue and asked if I wanted to test drive the Ford Ecosport. As with all offers on the…

Lifestyle, Tech Talk

Filipinos were taught FAKE Philippine history for 30 years!

November 2, 2017November 2, 2017 benign0 11 Comments

Back in the heyday decades of Yellowtardism in the 1980s and 1990s, mass communication was pretty much a one-way street. The ability to efficiently reach a mass audience was a capitalist monopoly — held by those who possessed the means to organise enterprises that could build and operate what today are regarded as conventional broadcast…

Media, Tech Talk

Knowing the Mind of God: Einstein’s unfinished symphony, Hawking’s partial unification (part 2)

October 23, 2017October 23, 2017 Anthony Quilon 4 Comments

General Relativity + Quantum Mechanics = Troubled Marriage in Short Distances One of the biggest scientific challenges today is the unification of gravity and quantum mechanics. Einstein’s baby or prima donna, his general theory of relativity, described the laws of the cosmos and the birth of the universe, the orbits of the heavenly bodies and…

Science, Tech Talk

Blade Runner 2049 features the consummation of personal AI

October 15, 2017 benign0 5 Comments

Blade Runner 2049 got rave reviews then “bombed” on its opening weekend. So what? I enjoyed it. The same thing pretty much happened to the original one in 1982 which took the slow road to cult classic status. Both are multilayered and sublime films. Even back in 1982, back when the youth of the time…

Film Review, Tech Talk, Technology

Knowing the Mind of God: Einstein’s unfinished symphony, Hawking’s partial unification (part 1)

October 15, 2017October 23, 2017 Anthony Quilon 10 Comments

I was an undergraduate astronomy major studying the physics of the “Schwarzschild Black Holes” when I decided to study the laws of the quantum field theory in a black hole’s curved spacetime to round up my education. I really like that it is trying to reconcile quantum theory with gravity which is one of the…

Science, Tech Talk

TNVS infestation: Uber and Grab services are no different to jeepneys and tricycles

July 19, 2017July 19, 2017 benign0 11 Comments

The only relevant point that needs to be highlighted as far as the circus surrounding Transport Network Vehicle Services (TNVS) like Uber and Grab is this: The only Filipinos who could really afford these services on routine bases are people who, themselves, could afford to own and drive private cars. A trip in an Uber…

Development, Tech Talk

A pilot and his mission: to save the environment by transforming plastic waste to fuel

January 27, 2017 Ilda 13 Comments

It’s not every day one comes across a person who can walk the talk. But I was lucky enough to meet someone who does and what he does is something extra-ordinary for the environment. UK-born pilot and now Australian resident Jeremy Rowsell has made it his mission to not only raise awareness about the negative…

Civics, Tech Talk