If you’ve been in a Metro Manila traffic jam anytime in the last few months – and honestly, who hasn’t – you’ll probably have noticed a growing number of interesting new makes and models amongst the cars around you. This silent-running, green-plated smorgasbord includes newcomers like BYD, Tesla, Dongfeng, and Vinfast, as well as legacy manufacturers like Hyundai, Kia, and Nissan … all of them sporting electric motors and battery packs under the hood. Their growing popularity is the result of both a strong government incentive program and the fact that they are objectively superior to most of their fuel-based…
Author: Luis Buenaventura
Luis Buenaventura
Luis is a Filipino crypto author, artist, and entrepreneur. He was formerly the Philippine country manager of Yield Guild Games, a web3 startup, and a cofounder at BloomX, a licensed cryptocurrency exchange. He's one of the world's first NFT artists (CurioCards, 2017), and is the first Filipino NFT artist to have work sold at Christie's and Sotheby's. In September 2021, he founded the Cryptopop Art Guild, a non-profit generating sustainable income for underprivileged Filipino artists. He has authored two books on cryptocurrencies, The Little Bitcoin Book (2019) and Reinventing Remittances with Bitcoin (2017), and has presented on these topics at the UN, the OECD, and numerous international conferences since 2015. He publishes a weekly newsletter on cryptocurrencies, economics, and the culture of web3 at Cryptoday.live.
Upon scanning your iris, the Orb calculates a numeric representation of it called an IrisCode.
Editor’s Note: As PhilSTAR Tech is not a car site (you can go to our sister site Wheels.PH for that), Luis Buenaventura reviews the MG4 electric car like he would a smartphone — charger and all. Driving the MG4 for the first time is like being transported into the near-future. It’s a prime example of technology actively reducing the amount of work that humans have to do, while at the same time creating new paradigms for energy usage at the societal level. Its price point is the lowest that you can currently get for vehicles in this class in the…
It may surprise you to know that people have been building cryptocurrency businesses in the Philippines since 2013. But don’t worry if you hadn’t noticed.
EUCs propel themselves forwards or backwards based on which way the rider is leaning – there are no other controls. You have to consciously balance yourself as you go.
As one of the first users to receive their kit in late February, I got to test the service at both our city home in Taguig and our beach house in La Union. I ordered it directly through the official Starlink.com website…
