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Students build program that sniffs out Twitter ‘Bots’

SAN FRANCISCO — For months, university students Ash Bhat and Rohan Phadte had been tracking about 1,500 political propaganda accounts on Twitter that appeared to have been generated by computers when...

NPC cautions DOH on sharing Dengvaxia master list to other agencies

MANILA -- The National Privacy Commission (NPC) has cautioned the Department of Health (DOH) of sharing the Dengvaxia master list, noting that the disclosure of such information should have consent from persons...

EU to disburse 3.8-M euros for DOH projects

MANILA -- A high-level European Union (EU) official on Friday bared a total of 3.8 million euros will be disbursed for its ongoing health program in the Philippines, which includes a...

Rabies kills 14 in west Visayas in 2017

ILOILO CITY -- Fourteen people died of rabies in Western Visayas in 2017, almost double of the number of fatalities recorded in the previous year. The increase in the number of deaths...

Moon to get its own mobile network

Several high-tech companies are teaming up on a plan to put a mobile phone network on the moon next year. Vodaphone Germany, Nokia, and Audi are working on a mobile network and...

Taguig mayor urges parents to vaccinate kids amid measles outbreak

MANILA -- Amid the recent reported outbreak of measles in a Taguig City barangay, Mayor Lani Cayetano urged parents to have their children vaccinated to give them protection against potentially fatal but...

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