Children bustled around the restaurant, entranced by the vertical machines making rounds across different tables, and Boyet, at 64, watched along in fascination. There, among the flock of families and uniformed employees, roamed robot servers that lit in blue and white, greeting hungry diners with whiskery winks and cartoonishly big round eyes. The scene might as well have been plucked out of a film or a book, as though it was the harmonious prelude to the eventual sequence of disquietude. Something is usually bound to go wrong in these situations — works of fiction have much proven the integration of…
Author: Zoe Aguinaldo
Cinephiles and casual viewers subscribed to Amazon Prime Video in the Philippines shall anticipate a change in their expenses, following the streaming platform’s recent price hike in its monthly and annual memberships. Prime Video will now charge its Philippine patrons P249 per month and P1,669 per year, a P100- and P279-increase from the platform’s previous deals, which were P149 and P1,390, respectively. Compared to those paying the monthly rate for 12-straight months, movie-enjoyers who avail themselves of the latter plan may save about P1,319 per year as the monthly cost under the annual billing is estimated at P139. The price…
Filipinos no longer need to rush to the nearest notary public to access legal services as they may now accomplish such a task with just one tap via the government’s newly-launched eNotarization portal. Starting Oct. 19, the public can get electronic documents signed and notarized through online platforms and process such transactions without leaving the house. Lawyers, businesses and individuals may do so through the Supreme Court’s (SC) official Accredited Electronic Notarization Facilities (ENFs). These facilities support remote notarization, wherein identity verification will be conducted through the presentation of a government-issued ID and a face scan as an alternative to…
