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July 8 – Palawan reclaimed the top spot in Travel + Leisure's "World's Best Islands" list for 2020 after getting the most votes from the magazine's readers. [271] July 21 – Liza Diño, the head of the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP), was removed from the executive committee of the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF). [272 ...
Pages in category "2020s in technology" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. ... April–June 2020 in science; April–June 2021 in science;
January 4 – President Duterte signs Republic Act No. 11510, institutionalizing the alternative learning system (ALS). [2] [3]January 18 – The Department of National Defense announces its unilateral termination of its 1989 accord with the University of the Philippines which took effect three days earlier over claims that the New People's Army is recruiting members in the universities' campuses.
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DeepMind used artificial intelligence for the first time to predict protein folding. [1]Singapore became the first jurisdiction to approve the sale of cultured meat. [2]The vaccines produced by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna against Coronavirus disease 2019 became the first vaccines developed using messenger RNA [3] and mark the fastest vaccine development and approval, taking only 10 months.
All data in the table is taken from the Fortune Global 500 list of technology sector companies for 2021 [6] unless otherwise specified. As of 2021, Fortune lists Amazon (revenue of $386.064 billion), Jingdong ($108.087 billion), and Alibaba ($105.865 billion) in the retailing sector rather than the technology sector. [3]
The Philippines Biofuel Act of 2006, RA 9376 mandates an increase of the minimum 5% bioethanol blend (E5) in gasoline to 10% ethanol blend (E10). In 2011, 600 million liters of gasoline was consumed by car owners in the Philippines, if the 10% bioethanol blend would be followed, this would be equivalent to 1 million metric tons of sugar.
The semiconductor industry is in turn the driving force behind the wider electronics industry, [7] with annual power electronics sales of £135 billion ($216 billion) as of 2011, [8] annual consumer electronics sales expected to reach $2.9 trillion by 2020, [9] tech industry sales expected to reach $5 trillion in 2019, [10] and e-commerce with ...