Newsletter: Home Buddies Bazaar debuts in October!

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Home Buddies, an esteemed group of Filipino home enthusiasts, celebrates its third anniversary with a bazaar event featuring established and budding local brands in the field of home improvement, décor, and design.

Newsletter: Taiwan’s Outlet Drift and Joanna Wang, South Korea’s ADG7, Japan’s Hitoto Yo and more to headline 2023 World Music Festival @ Taiwan

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The 2023 World Music Festival @ Taiwan expands its portfolio with bigger programming and a more diverse lineup featuring Taiwanese and international music acts.

Newsletter: Kaspersky details how cybercriminals can use AI for APT attacks

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There have been several reports on how humans can trick ChatGPT to write malware, but the possible applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in cyberattacks go beyond scripting malicious software.

Newsletter: Charlie Lim, Linying & Katz release new single ‘Definitely’

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A lilting, melancholic opus for the season, ‘Definitely’ is a three-way collaboration from London-based Singaporean singer-songwriter/producer Charlie Lim, Melbourne producer and electronic artist Katz, and L.A. based Singaporean singer-songwriter Linying. The idea for the song germinated from an impromptu jam when Charlie was visiting his family in Australia and caught up with Katz, an old friend and frequent collaborator. 

Newsletter: Måneskin releases new single “Honey (are u coming)”

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Måneskin has dropped their electrifying new single “Honey (are u coming?).” Erupting with new offerings shortly after the release of the latest, chart-topping album RUSH!, the song is tight with musical vibrancy, showcasing a mighty guitar riff and roaringly persuasive chorus. The band held a livestreamed event at Gazometro, Rome, where they performed three tracks live, including “Honey (are u coming?).”

Newsletter: PLDT, Smart back inaugural Laguna MSME Summit with eBiz Buy Local Bazaar

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PLDT and its wireless subsidiary Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart), together with TikTok Philippines, recently joined the Provincial Government of Laguna, Laguna Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), Department of Trade and Industry Provincial Office of Laguna, and Enchanted Kingdom in the first-ever province-wide summit for Micro-, Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs).

Newsletter: Investigating the role of bird perches in reforestation

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Reforesting damaged forests is crucial for fighting climate change and protecting wildlife. One common way to do this is by planting trees, but this can be expensive and labor-intensive. A cheaper and more effective approach is Assisted Natural Regeneration (ANR), which can involve the use of bird perches to attract fruit-eating birds that can help spread tree seeds and speed up the natural regeneration of the forest.

A Philippine green pigeon (Treron axillaris) is seen eating a fig, the seeds of which will be dispersed the next time the bird defecates. Researchers are looking at the potential role of artificial and natural bird perches in this dispersal process towards restoring degraded forests.(Photo credit: Jelaine Lim Gan)

Researchers from the University of the Philippines - Diliman College of Science Institute of Biology (UPD-CS IB), the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, and the UK’s Newcastle University aim to embark on a systematic review and meta analysis of previous studies and observations to figure out how well artificial and natural perches work in increasing seed dispersal and seedling growth on degraded areas.

Newsletter: JASMINE YEN UNVEILS DYNAMIC DEBUT ALBUM 'tbh'

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19-year-old singer-songwriter, Jasmine Yen unveils her debut album 'tbh' which consists of 8 songs, written in part or entirely by Jasmine. Among these songs, four are fully in English. The album release follows the announcement of her signing to RCA Records Greater China, a division of Sony Music Entertainment (SME) in late July, along with the release of her first single "idk".

Newsletter: Smart ‘Creativity Camp’ inspires artistry, love for sustainability among Mindanao students

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Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) helped welcome students to the school opening activities at the University of Mindanao (UM) and the Ateneo de Zamboanga University (ADZU), with its Smart Creativity Camp. The fun-filled events, run by Smart as part of a broad program to engage young people nationwide, enables students to bring out the artist in them as they learn more about sustainability.

Newsletter: Better With Beer Brings the Curtain Down on Two Days of Craft Brews, Live Music and Eclectic Entertainment

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Better With Beer, Hong Kong’s ultimate craft beer festival, brought the curtain down on two days of world-class brews, great food, live music and entertainment, comedy, outdoor games, and more today following two memorable Saturday sessions at Central Harbourfront. Organised by the team behind Clockenflap in partnership with the Craft Beer Association of Hong Kong, the two-day event featured over 150 beers from more than 20 local breweries and distributors, showcasing the very best of Hong Kong’s buzzing craft brewing scene across three four-hour sessions.

Newsletter: ADOY NEW ALBUM ‘PLEASURES’ OUT NOW

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After two years since the release of 'her', the Korea-based romantic indie pop band ADOY has finally returned with their highly anticipated album, 'PLEASURES', featuring the title single "Love Is". Listen here: https://orcd.co/adoy_pleasures

Newsletter: ISOXO SHARES NEW SINGLE 'SHYPOP' WITH NINAJIRACHI

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Hotly-tipped San Diego DJ / producer and Dancing Astronaut’s “Breakout Artist of the Year 2022” ISOxo returns with his thumping new single ‘SHYPOP’ co-produced with Ninajirachi, out now via 88rising and available on all streaming platforms. LISTEN TO 'SHYPOP' HERE. 

Newsletter: Beyond Einstein: Pinay physicist investigates exotic subatomic particles

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Building on Albert Einstein’s work, a Filipina physicist and an international team of researchers recently discovered that a special class of subatomic particles can be described using concepts from the famous scientist’s Theory of Relativity.

UPD-CS NIP associate professor Dr. Gennevieve Macam and her colleagues are working to understand the behavior of a relatively new subatomic particle called a Weyl fermion. (Photo credit: Dr. Gennevieve Macam)

UP Diliman College of Science National Institute of Physics (UPD-CS NIP) associate professor Dr. Gennevieve Macam and her colleagues were investigating Weyl fermions, exotic subatomic particles that are similar to electrons but have no mass. They found that the behavior of these particles can be understood by adapting Einstein’s ideas on causality.

Causality refers to how one event can directly lead to another event in a cause-and-effect relationship. Einstein took this idea further when he realized that nothing can travel faster than light. This led to the concept of "light cones," which represent all the possible paths that light—or any signal moving at the speed of light—can take from a given event in space and time. Anything inside the light cone of an event could potentially be influenced by that event, while anything outside the light cone cannot be affected by it due to the limitation imposed by the speed of light. The outer boundary of this cone is called the “event horizon.”

Dr. Macam collaborated with Prof. Guoqing Chang of Nanyang Technological University and his team. They found that these concepts, which normally apply to space and time, could also be used to describe the behavior of Weyl fermions in terms of energy and momentum.

“Our work shows how Einstein’s equations can be adapted to describe quantum materials,” Dr. Macam said. “This paves the way to a better understanding of how the strange quantum world and our everyday reality are intertwined.”

Weyl fermions were first theorized by German physicist Hermann Weyl in 1929 but their existence was only proven almost a century later, in 2015. Due to their charged but massless nature, Weyl fermions may have future applications in electronics and computers.

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Newsletter: Clara Benin to stage ‘befriending my tears’ concert this September

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Clara Benin celebrates the release of her sophomore studio album with a major concert happening at the Music Museum on September 22, 2023 (Friday), from 8pm onwards.

Newsletter: Hong Kong’s Ultimate Craft Beer Festival Launches at Central Harbourfront as Better With Beer Kicks Off in Style

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Better With Beer, Hong Kong’s ultimate craft beer festival, opened on Friday with a fun-filled evening of tasty tipples and live entertainment at Central Harbourfront. Attendees had the chance to enjoy over 150 beers from more than 20 local breweries and distributors, as well as a variety of food outlets, outdoor games, live music and entertainment on two stages, and much more.