The proposed laws currently pending in Congress on children’s online safety raise a difficult question for lawmakers: How can they protect children from online harm while preserving their access to information, education, and opportunities on the Internet?
As Filipinos observe All Souls’ Day, the Philippine technology journalism community remembers colleagues who devoted their careers to covering an industry that would eventually reshape how people communicate, work, do business, and access information.
Two Philippine inventions designed to improve home dialysis and detect structural damage in buildings have advanced to the Global Top 20 of the James Dyson Award 2026, marking the first time the country has placed two entries in the international shortlist.
Catbalogan City in Samar has launched a Wi-Fi vending machine that allows residents to exchange discarded plastic bottles for free Internet access as part of an initiative to reduce plastic waste and improve digital connectivity.
Veya Sebastian was around 12 when she discovered Webtoons. At 21, the Filipino artist has moved from reading digital comics to creating one, writing and illustrating the series “Head Over Heels” under the name FriedStrawberry.
Artificial intelligence-assisted interpretation of chest X-rays could reduce the cost of tuberculosis screening in rural Philippine health units, although researchers cautioned that the projected savings depend heavily on local costs and diagnostic conditions.
Two University of the Philippines Diliman graduates have won the Philippine leg of the James Dyson Award 2026 for developing a low-cost, semi-automated machine intended to make peritoneal dialysis easier and safer to perform at home.
A faculty researcher at National University Fairview has developed an artificial intelligence-assisted security platform designed to help Philippine schools monitor multiple CCTV feeds and preserve digital evidence during campus incidents.
Called Fish-i, the semi-automated fish census system combines an underwater camera rig with computer vision to analyze fish populations without requiring highly trained divers to manually identify and count fish underwater.
Called “Scam Ba ’To?”, the independently developed platform allows users to paste suspicious messages and receive Red, Yellow,, or Green risk guidance, along with an explanation of the behavior detected and verified official channels when available.
