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By Katherine K. Chan, Reporter THE Philippines’ dollar reserves as of end-December exceeded the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) estimate for the year as it reached over $110 billion. Based on preliminary central bank data, the country’s gross international reserves (GIR) amounted to $110.873 billion at end-December, slipping by 0.34% from the $111.254 billion seen in the previous month. However, this was 4.34% higher than the $106.257-billion foreign reserves recorded in 2024 and breached the BSP’s revised full-year projection of $109 billion. GIR refers to the central bank’s foreign assets held mostly as investments in foreign-issued securities, foreign exchange, and…

Welcome back! For Day 4 of the challenge, let’s do a short and fun activity based around a concept called cognitive reserve. Decades of research show that people who have more years of education, more cognitively demanding jobs or more mentally stimulating hobbies all tend to have a reduced risk of cognitive impairment as they get older.Experts think this is partly thanks to cognitive reserve: Basically, the more brain power you’ve built up over the years, the more you can stand to lose before you experience impairment. Researchers still don’t agree on how to measure cognitive reserve, but one theory…

Hello, hello 👋 I’m excited to be featured on Codrops. I’ve been pulling inspiration from this website since I began my career as a web developer years ago. As I’m writing this, I’m on my second coffee, which means at this very moment I’m extra passionate about everything. Let’s get started. My name’s Nathan and I’m a creative frontend based out of Toronto, Canada. I became self-taught in web development after university and found myself hating it for the first two years because the learning curve was too hard for my small brain. Coding was hard because it contained frustrating…

This image shows the location of Cloud-9, which is 2000 light-years from Earth. The diffuse magenta is radio data from the ground-based Very Large Array (VLA) showing the presence of the cloud. The dashed circle marks the peak of radio emission,which is where researchers focused their search for stars. Follow-up observations by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys found no stars within the cloud. The few objects that appear within its boundaries are background galaxies.NASA, ESA. G. Anand (STScI), and A. Benitez-Llambay (Univ. of Milan-Bicocca); Image processing: J. DePasquale (STScI) Every galaxy in the universe is anchored by a large,…

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ReutersPolice patrol Aden, from where the Saudi-led coalition said Aidarous al-Zubaidi had fled by boatThe Saudi-led coalition in Yemen has alleged the United Arab Emirates helped smuggle a separatist leader out of the country after he was expelled from Yemen’s presidential council and accused of treason.A coalition spokesman said Aidarous al-Zubaidi, head of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), fled Aden on Tuesday night in a boat to Somaliland. He was then flown by a cargo aircraft to Abu Dhabi via Mogadishu under the supervision of UAE officers, he added.There was no immediate comment from the UAE or STC.The STC…

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Just like any young kid thrust out into the world for their first real taste of independence at college, Starfleet Academy has a lot on its shoulders. It is a brand-new Star Trek show, and that always comes with plenty of expectation. It’s the first in an inevitable phaser-barrage of celebrations in Star Trek‘s 60th anniversary year. It’s also, in many ways, a legacy sequel in its own right to the series that, occasionally with some controversy, reignited Star Trek‘s status as a TV legend, Star Trek: Discovery. It’s also, thanks to Discovery‘s own bold choice midway through—to leap from a time…

Bitcoin hovered just below the $91,000 level today, paring recent gains after an explosive start to the new year that briefly pushed prices toward fresh seven-day highs. The bitcoin price was trading around $90,815, down roughly 1% over the past 24 hours, according to market data. Daily trading volume stood near $52 billion, while bitcoin’s total market capitalization slipped to about $1.82 trillion, also down around 1% on the day. The pullback leaves the bitcoin price roughly 3% below its recent seven-day high near $94,700, after prices surged more than 8% in the first days of 2026. That rally carried…

This affects users of Alethzero GUI client on Windows. Users of eth CLI client or not on the Windows platform are unlikely to be affected but should take action detailed below. Users of Frontier command line interface geth are unaffected. Issue description: While setting privacy permissions on the keys directory, insufficient error handling can cause the key files to not be written; this may be widespread on the Windows platform. As such, current versions of AlethZero and eth may include identities for which there exists no underlying key. Ether Presale Claim functionality of AlethZero may result in funds automatically being transferred…