Demonstrasi: 'Khalid letak jawatan'
Demonstrasi: 'Khalid letak jawatan' |
- Demonstrasi: 'Khalid letak jawatan'
- Hello Kitty on space mission
- Yahoo brushes up its e-commerce for small business
- 'World of Warcraft' to create Robin Williams character
- Philippines, rebels wrap up talks on draft Muslim self-rule law
- 'Flashmob' robots swarm themselves into shape
Demonstrasi: 'Khalid letak jawatan' Posted: 15 Aug 2014 03:49 AM PDT SHAH ALAM, (MLP) - Sekumpulan anggota-anggota pertubuhan bukan kerajaan berdemonstrasi di bangunan setiausaha negeri untuk meminta Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim meletakkan jawatan. Menurut laporan berita The Star Online, kumpulan tersebut yang menamakan protes ini sebagai "Kempen Kembalikan Selangor", membantah di luar pintu utama bangunan, mengatakan bahawa sejak Khalid bukan lagi seorang ahli PKR, dia patut meletakkan jawatan dan membuka jalan untuk Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail mengambil alih kedudukan menteri besar. Kumpulan ini dihalang daripada memasuki bangunan oleh pengawal. Anggota-anggota kumpulan kemudiannya ikat reben hitam di pintu utama bagi menunjukkan demokrasi telah 'meninggal'. Kredit gambar: The Star Online |
Posted: 15 Aug 2014 03:49 AM PDT Hello Kitty has been sent on her first space mission, as Japan's global icon of cute celebrates its 40th birthday in extraterrestrial fashion. A Kitty figure is now circling the Earth aboard a small satellite equipped with a digital message board, part of government-funded project to attract private companies into the space business. The initiative calls on fans to come up with short messages that will be flashed on the board sitting above the four centimetre (1.5 inch) cat, according to Kitty's creator Sanrio. The white feline with a red bow sits by a window looking back at Earth, with the board displaying messages of up to 180 characters in English and Japanese. "It can be a message that you want to send from space to someone special on Earth, or it can be something more general," a spokesman for Tokyo-based Sanrio said Friday. The satellite was launched in June from Russia. The moon-faced mouthless white cat first appeared in 1974 on a coin purse in Japan and has since built up a worldwide fan base, appearing on tens of thousands of products, from handbags to aircraft, in some 130 countries. |
Yahoo brushes up its e-commerce for small business Posted: 15 Aug 2014 03:49 AM PDT Yahoo announced Thursday the relaunch of its e-commerce platform, which allows small businesses to easily set up online retailing. The new Yahoo Stores system, said a company blog post, allows users to "turn your idea into a business in less than two minutes." Amit Kumar, head of Yahoo Small Business, said the new platform was "a completely reimagined, next-generation version" of a service Yahoo that began 16 years ago. The company "took the best of everything we've learned from our million-plus customers over the past 16 years and applied it to Yahoo Stores to give small business owners a more powerful, streamlined and beautiful way to turn their ideas into a business," he said. Kumar said the online store can be set up to take orders within minutes, including a secure payment processing system. Customers can visit the Yahoo Stores site and select themes from a variety of templates to sell on websites and mobile devices, the company said. The move can help Yahoo regain a foothold in online retailing in a market expected to grow to $304 billion this year, according to the research firm eMarketer. The research firm said mobile commerce -- or sales via mobile devices -- will represent around 1.2 percent of online sales this year. |
'World of Warcraft' to create Robin Williams character Posted: 15 Aug 2014 03:49 AM PDT Late Hollywood actor Robin Williams will live on in the kingdom of Azeroth after "World of Warcraft" said that he would be honored as a character in the popular video game. Williams, a renowned comedian and avid gamer, was known to be a fan of the online fantasy role-playing game. He was found dead Monday of an apparent suicide at the age of 63. "We haven't decided, but it will most likely be a character inspired by him or some of his favorite roles of the past," lead game designer Ion Hazzikostas was cited by local media as saying during a Los Angeles event unveiling the game's fifth edition, "World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor." Williams had even named his daughter Zelda in reference to Nintendo's "Legend of Zelda" game. "@robinwilliams Thank you. You gave us so much joy in our lives, and we hope you enjoyed your time in our world. We'll see you in-game," World of Warcraft's official Twitter page said on Tuesday. |
Philippines, rebels wrap up talks on draft Muslim self-rule law Posted: 15 Aug 2014 03:49 AM PDT The Philippine government and the country's largest Muslim rebel group said Friday they had wrapped up talks aimed at ensuring the terms of a landmark peace deal would be enacted into law. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) signed the peace agreement in March, but it fell into serious question amid a row over a draft law to create a Muslim self-rule area in the south of the mainly Catholic nation. "After a series of productive meetings... we have concluded discussions on the various issues involving the draft Basic Bangsamoro Law," President Benigno Aquino's chief aide Paquito Ochoa and chief MILF negotiator Mohagher Iqbal said in a joint statement. The MILF has been fighting since the 1970s for an independent or autonomous homeland for the nation's Muslim minority in a conflict which has claimed tens of thousands of lives. The Aquino government and the MILF signed an accord in March that laid out a roadmap for final peace by the middle of 2016. The deal called for MILF control of a new southern autonomous region, and the rebels would lay down their arms. However the process ran into difficulties after a draft bill creating the autonomous region was submitted to Aquino for review in April by a joint commission of MILF and government representatives that drew up the document. The president's legal team later ordered a series of changes that frustrated the MILF, which last month accused the government of trying to renege on the terms of the peace agreement. The joint statement said Friday the resolutions arrived at by both parties since the new talks began on August 1 "will be incorporated into the final draft Basic Bangsamoro Law that will be prepared and submitted to" Aquino. The statement did not discuss the details of these resolutions. The fresh talks were seen as crucial to keep the peace roadmap on schedule, allowing time for Congress to pass the self-rule law by the end of this year or early next year. The deadline of mid-2016 was set since Aquino must stand down by then after the end of his single six-year term as mandated by the constitution. There are no guarantees his successor will want to proceed with the peace plan. |
'Flashmob' robots swarm themselves into shape Posted: 15 Aug 2014 03:49 AM PDT Without any helping hand, more than 1,000 simple robots the size of votive candles can swarm themselves into complex shape like a star or the letter K, US researchers said Thursday. The project is the latest breakthrough in robotics from a team at Harvard University that has also created robots inspired by termites. Called Kilobots, these 1,024 simple machines were designed to act like bees and ants, using vibration motors to glide across surfaces and infrared lights to communicate with each other. "We are especially inspired by systems where individuals can self-assemble together to solve problems," said Radhika Nagpal, Fred Kavli professor of computer science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a core faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. The project, described in the US journal Science, builds on past advances by including more robots. Previous researchers used dozens or 100s. Because of the simple design, the robots can only communicate with others that are less than the distance of three robots away, but they need no intervention once they get their pre-programmed order. Just what they may be used for someday is not known yet. But whether they act like a school of fish, or an army of ants on tasks like environmental cleanup or disaster response, researchers say they believe the bots could one day be a boon to society. "Biological collectives involve enormous numbers of cooperating entities -— whether you think of cells or insects or animals —- that together accomplish a single task that is a magnitude beyond the scale of any individual," said lead author Michael Rubenstein, a research associate at Harvard SEAS and the Wyss Institute. |
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