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NJIT's Student Newspaper

The Vector

Google Developer Group Conference

Google Developer Group Conference

Stephen Chan September 15, 2014

Technology giant Google recently stopped by Newark via Google Developer Group (GDG) North Jersey. The founder of the chapter, Todd Nakamura, held a conference near the end of the summer at NJIT’s Weston...

Predicting Popularity

Joseph Iacoviello May 2, 2014

Artificial intelligence in computer science is often viewed as emulating or predicting the actions of a single intelligent individual, such as a human or an animal. Not many people picture artificial intelligence...

Heartbleed

Joseph Iacoviello April 18, 2014

On Monday, April 7th, the OpenSSL team reported the Heartbleed bug to the world. OpenSSL is the software that is used to encrypt or hide the data coming from your computer to the website. It is widely...

European Net Neutrality

European Net Neutrality

Joseph Iacoviello April 12, 2014

Europe is currently doing what American legislatures seem to have trouble doing: they are drafting a net neutrality law. The European Union has just voted in favor of a law that will ensure all traffic...

How the NSA Did It

How the NSA Did It

Joseph Iacoviello March 27, 2014

Image Courtesy of: Google The more we learn about the NSA’s secret surveillance program, the wider and wider the scope becomes. Since Snowden leaked files containing data on the NSA’s surveillance...

DOS: You Got Served

DOS: You Got Served

Joseph Iacoviello March 14, 2014

DOS (Denial of Service) attacks come in various different forms and intensities, but all have the same purpose, to take a website offline and damage the organization running that website. The most common...

Technology Discussion: Game Brain

Technology Discussion: Game Brain

Joseph Iacoviello February 25, 2014

The question of whether video games are good or bad for you has been debated nearly to death. Scientific studies may put this argument to rest, however, as studies show that action based games actually...

Plastic Cards

Plastic Cards

Vector Staff December 5, 2013

Americans love plastic. There’s plastic everywhere - in your car, your phone, and your computer. There’s one particular piece of plastic that America just can’t get enough of, and it’s in your...

Cable Cutting

Cable Cutting

Joseph Iacoviello December 5, 2013

“Cutting the cable”, or unsubscribing from television cable networks, has been a popular idea but hasn’t really caught on yet. Despite the growth of third party networks such as Netflix, most people...

Phone Companies

Phone Companies

Joseph Iacoviello November 19, 2013

With the leak of the PRISM program run by the NSA, many were left wondering how the NSA was able to get at such a huge amount of data in the first place. It turns out that many carriers, including AT&T,...

Surface Pro 2 Review

Surface Pro 2 Review

Vector Staff November 19, 2013

A while ago, I wrote about the Surface Pro, Microsoft’s brand new tablet laptop hybrid. In my review, I said the product is very well made but had one huge flaw – a poor battery life of barely 4 hours....

Silk Road 2.0

Silk Road 2.0

Joseph Iacoviello November 13, 2013

The “Dark Net” is a series of nefarious websites that are impossible to access from the normal web. Dark Net is usually hidden behind a firewall or some sort of anonymous network, such as Tor. Tor...

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