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The Tinder Effect: Why you should stop using Tinder

Erick (CK) Allas • February 10, 2015

CK Allas Tinder is a social media dating application that many people use as a modern-day hot-or-not. It enables the user to judge pictures of other Tinderers by swiping right if they like them or left...

Tech Talk: Software Showdown

Awais Qazi • February 8, 2015

Awais Qazi Apple’s proprietary mobile software is often compared to Google’s Android software. Both operating systems have been around since 2007. Since then, both companies have branched out in many...

Tech Talk: Best of CES 2015

Awais Qazi • January 30, 2015

New Years is always an exciting time; there’s the ball dropping in New York, the lights and fireworks of countries like Dubai and Australia, and just the multitudes of social gatherings and parties. The...

NJIT Hackathon: The Experience

Matthew Maravilla • November 20, 2014

With the help of numerous sponsors and corporations like Ordr.In and Addteq, HackNJIT has come back to campus after a 3-year hiatus. During HackNJIT, participating students have only 24 hours to create...

Tech Talk: The Nadella Regime

Awais Qazi • November 13, 2014

Things have changed at Microsoft. Ever since Satya Nadella took the reins of the multi-billion dollar company, things have been different. The company has become quiet, and yet so prominent in the last...

Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2015

Aditya Uppuluri • November 11, 2014

As mentioned in the last edition of the paper, this week’s article will explain the rest of Cleveland Clinic’s Top 10 Medical Innovations. All of these breakthroughs aim to extend lives by combining...

Concurrency in “Go” Programming Language

Tom Maciejewski • November 5, 2014

Last week we discussed why you should consider leaving languages like Java and Python and switching to Go. I provided a quick example of how to write a web server using go, pretty easy right? This week...

Cleveland Clinic Announces its Top 10 Medical Innovations

Vector Staff • November 4, 2014

Just six days ago, the Cleveland Clinic released its Top 10 Medical Innovation list. This list describes breakthroughs in medicine that are likely to have a substantial impact on public health in 2015....

Tech Tip of the Week: The “Go” Programming Language

Vector Staff • October 28, 2014

Ever hear of the Go (a.k.a “Golang”) Programming Language? If not, you need to check it out! It is perhaps one of the best, newest programming languages out there. What is so good about Go? For starters:...

How to Become a Successful Leader within STEM

Stephen Chan • October 24, 2014

Recently, the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) invited Cisco executive Ileana Rivera to campus. In an event co-sponsored by both the Honors College and the Center for Leadership and Professional...

NJIT Students Hack NY

Vector Staff • October 18, 2014

A room filled with laptops and tired programmers, one would expect this to be the work of the next successful start-up in technology. And one would be partially correct. On Saturday, September 20th,...

“Yak” It Up

Vector Staff • October 7, 2014

A new craze has swept across American college campuses in the form of a little app called "Yik Yak." The premise of the new iOS/Android application is simple: you can see the posts of people in your vicinity....