Xbox Nano Controller Costs $49.99 and Works on Consoles, PC, Phones and Select TVs
Microsoft announced the Xbox Nano Controller on October 14. It costs $49.99, and pre-orders opened the same day. Small enough to carry Microsoft says the controller is meant for younger players, people with smaller hands and anyone who wants something to…
Perseverance Rover Sets the Record for Farthest Drive on Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover has driven more miles than any other vehicle on a world beyond Earth. The agency announced the record on Tuesday, October 13. As of October 11, the odometer read 45.22 kilometers (28.10 miles), counted from the…
Cloud Seeding Is Part of the Philippines’ El Niño Plan
PAGASA says a strong El Niño is active in the tropical Pacific and expects it to become very strong between September and December 2026, lasting through the first half of 2027. In the Philippines, El Niño often means below-normal rainfall, with dry…
Filipino Crew Completes PhilSA’s First Analog Space Mission in Batangas
PhilSA has finished its first analog mission, and the crew was entirely Filipino. The Analog Habitat Waypoint (ANAHAW) ran for 24 hours on September 25 and 26, 2026, at Batangas State University. A moon base on a campus Analog missions copy parts of…
Meta Removes the Camera From Its New AI Glasses
Meta showed off camera-free smart glasses at its Connect event on Wednesday, September 23. The model is called Ray-Ban Meta Audio. It starts at $349, opened for pre-order at the event, and ships October 13. Built on a camera, now selling without one…
Ten Filipino Engineers Are Building a Rocket for a 2027 Cagayan Launch
A ten-member team from the Philippine Space Agency is spending three months in South Korea learning how to build a rocket. The training runs from August to October 2026. It is preparation for a planned test launch in Lal-lo, Cagayan, in 2027. The…
Xbox Adds a Platinum Trophy Rival: Mythic Achievements
Xbox has a new completion reward coming, the Mythic Achievement, reportedly built as its version of PlayStation’s Platinum Trophy. Multiple outlets tracking the leak, citing a TrueAchievements report, say players will earn it by finishing every…
A Short Discord Outage Showed How Deep It Runs in Filipino Life
Discord went down briefly in the Philippines. Servers stalled. Voice calls cut out mid conversation. Messages sat unsent, mid reply. In one server, a voice note was still playing and reactions were still stacking under an unread message when it happened.…
What Happened at Meta’s Livestream
Meta Connect 2026 kicked off from Menlo Park on September 23, opening a few minutes after its scheduled 7 PM ET start as the room filled with employees and press. When the lights dropped, the show opened on a video labeled “live demo,”…
Discord Blocked on Globe, TNT, GOMO, and DITO. No Official Ban Exists.
As of September 23, Discord will not load for subscribers on Globe, GOMO, TNT, and DITO. Smart and Converge users open the app fine. No telco has published a blocking order. The CICC has not announced a nationwide ban either. Nobody ordered this.…