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Tech Talk: Pocket Casts

Tech Talk: Pocket Casts

Babatunde Ojo September 6, 2017

Platforms Available On: iOS & Android Cost: $3.99 When traveling long distance there tends to be a need to fill in the gap with something worth your time. When you are tired of listening to music and...

Venmo: The Social Media of Finance

Venmo: The Social Media of Finance

Karen Ayoub September 6, 2017

“Can I borrow some cash from you? I left my wallet at home.” “Ah, I actually don’t have any on me either; I only carry my card. I’ll pay, and you can just Venmo me.” This is a likely situation...

Uber President Steps Down 

Uber President Steps Down 

Joseph Mauro April 26, 2017

Uber President Jeff Jones has decided to step down and resign within fewer than six months of assuming the position at the titular ride-hailing company. Throughout this year, a large influx of controversies...

Major US Airports Change Check-In Rules 

Major US Airports Change Check-In Rules 

Nanditha Lakshmanan April 26, 2017

New US mandates require airlines from ten airports in eight nations to have passengers check-in electronics larger than a cellphone when traveling to the United States. Such electronics include tablets,...

America Online, Meet Election Online

America Online, Meet Election Online

Michael Tadros April 26, 2017

In 1990, 0.8% of the United States of America’s population had an Internet connection. Ten years later, around the turn of the century, that percentage was 43.1% of the United States’ population. Ten...

President Trump Supports Women in STEM

President Trump Supports Women in STEM

Katrina David March 25, 2017

Amidst the controversy surrounding President Trump’s time in office, from the travel ban to the buzz around his administration’s alleged ties to Russia, the President has also been busy signing other...

Snap Inc. Premieres on the Stock Market

Snap Inc. Premieres on the Stock Market

Joshua Vega March 25, 2017

On Thursday, March 2nd, Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, became a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), with the stock symbol SNAP. This comes after a better than expected...

The Rise and Fall of Beme

The Rise and Fall of Beme

Joshua Vega March 24, 2017

  It is not all that uncommon to see a social media platform rise and fall over the course of several months. There are many examples of platforms that experience a sudden (sometimes unexpected)...

NASA Finds 7 New Habitable Planets

NASA Finds 7 New Habitable Planets

Ujjwala Rai March 19, 2017

Through a journal publication on February 22nd and a news briefing at the NASA headquarters in Washington, NASA revealed that its Spitzer Space Telescope discovered the first known system of seven Earth-sized...

Netflix Employees Propose Mind-Controlled “Mindflix” Remote

Karen Ayoub February 21, 2017

In today’s world, technology is advancing so fast that what seems like science fiction is becoming reality. Enter MindFlix, a device developed by Netflix that acts as a mental remote. MindFlix was created...

Verizon Unveils Unlimited Data Plan For the First Time in Five Years

Prasanna Tati February 21, 2017

For the first time in five years, Verizon, the most subscribed carrier in the nation, announced that it would launch an unlimited LTE data plan called Verizon Unlimited. The data plan was released on Monday...

Google Pixel vs Apple iPhone 7

Google Pixel vs Apple iPhone 7

Joshua Vega December 28, 2016

In similar fashion to the past several years, Google and Apple have each released new smartphones during the months of September and October. Apple started off first on September 6th with the announcement...

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