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JUSTICE Secretary Menardo Guevarra asked undersecretaries and assistant secretaries of the department to submit their courtesy resignation. All five current justice undersecretaries were appointed during the tenure of his predecessor Vitaliano Aguirre 2nd. They could have done it earlier to give the newly appointed head a free hand in selecting his team. Gordon on Dengvaxia draft report: “More than the majority signed the recommendations and I am happy it will be discussed on the floor because it is there that it should be debated and not outside. We should debate within the chamber and within the rules. The aim of an investigation has always been the protection of the children, so we investigated in order to protect the children and to insulate the Health department from politics that endangers the health of the public.”

- As I said, partisanship should not play a hand when it comes to the general welfare of the citizenry. and customs as your profile will be validated and credit cards will be billed automatically as read by a QR code scanning system.

You need not attend classes as holograms and 3D simulation of lab work and research can be experienced in your living room.

- tion anymore as Alexa and Siri can answer any question by then. Even without physical presence, attending parties or events can be accomplished through limbs sensors and one can even mingle with fellow attendees via 3D eyeglasses or shades with cams. Clothes, shoes and accessories can be produced by 3D printing.

With nothing to do, we all gain weight, shortening our life span. Time to reinvent the wheel, let us roll us back to the caves where we came from and start learning how to build a fire once again.

*** Through Pythagoras and Aristotle, we know now that the earth is

again? Save our planet. the planet will never save us.

I was watching Nat Geo’s “Genius: Picasso” played by Antonio Banderas. I believe that choosing Banderas was a mistake. I would have given it to the likes of Anthony Hopkins.

Did you know that Susan Bennet, the voice behind “Siri” is a real person? Siri is the personal assistant on iPhones and iPads. Bennet admitted that she is the voice actor behind Siri after being interviewed by CNN. Bennett said she didn’t know she voiced Siri until Apple integrated it into the iPhone 4S in 2011. She told CNN that a colleague e- mailed her and said, “Hey, we’ve been playing around with this new Apple phone. Isn’t this you?” After Bennet heard Siri’s voice, she knew it was she.

The voice of Amazon’s “Alexa,” on the other hand, is computergenerated. There is this process that when a string of text is given to the Alexa cloud, Alexa reads it as it is fed and there is no person recording the voice. The computer knows how to read a text with a designated voice quality. Amazon invested a lot of research into doing this. We are positive though that in the initial phases of Alexa, they used a real human voice before the birth of the application.

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On DoT- PTV4- Tulfo issue: Roque said Malacañang would investigate the P60- million advertising contract between the tourism department and PTV-4. It is too early pass judgment on this issue pending the outcome of the announced inquiry. If true, similarly signed contracts by all agencies should be unearthed es-

of their agency heads. signed the much- awaited executive order against illegal endo labor practices. The key word here is “illegal.” PRRD said the total banning of contractualization lies with the legislature. The question now is how fast will the

“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.” -- Frank Herbert

Good work, good deeds and good faith to all.