Posted on 08 April 2012.
For the technologically “plugged in”, chances are by now you’ve heard of Google’s big announcement “Project Glass”.
For the uninitiated, “Project Glass” is Google’s attempt to bring heads-up displays to the masses through small glasses.
Announced alongside a promotional concept video and concept photos of models wearing futuristic glasses, “Project Glass” quickly grabbed the attention of the technologically geared en masse.
The concept video showed a person going through his daily life — except this time he’s aided by pop-ups, directions and live-chat all appearing seemingly smoothly from the background to the focus of his attention.
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Posted on 08 April 2012.
SCSU will host the 15th Student Research Colloquium on campus Tuesday, April 17. The SRC is the annual event wherein the university allows students to present their research. It is open to faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students from SCSU and other regional universities.
SRC helps the students, faculty and members of the community to get along and participated in various kind of activities which range from scientific to artistic. There are creative arts, mathematics, business, social science, humanities, physical and life sciences and engineering research in the event.
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Posted on 08 April 2012.
Whether they like it or not, businesses and organizations have been switched over to the new Timeline format of Facebook.
The change, which took effect last week, makes room for a large cover photo and changes the format of the page’s News Feed.
With the official rollout came a bug: the images that appeared on some pages weren’t the ones assigned by their author. According to Tony Bradley of PC World, the images displayed on his page didn’t even belong to him.
The bug has apparently been removed as Timeline becomes compulsory for all organization fan pages.
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Posted on 01 April 2012.
Until last week, checking in may have given you more than you bargained for.
Thanks to the iPhone app Girls Around Me, Foursquare users could scan their surroundings for male or female check-ins. They could then view pictures and information of the checkers-in and decide where to go based on what they saw.
Foursquare recently revoked the app’s API access for violating its data aggregation policy.
Going a step further, the app is no longer available from the iTunes App Store.
The developer defended his app, but said that he takes the privacy of users seriously and will develop an app that better suits users’ need without violating privacy.
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Posted on 01 April 2012.
Student loans are an excellent way to get you through school without the overwhelming feeling of having to pay in full each time a payment is due.
However, too many former students have reported problems when it comes to paying off said loans.
Every day, debt collectors are calling former students and asking for monthly payments, which can be almost impossible to meet on their current salaries. What most “borrowers”, those who take out loans, don’t realize, is that they have the right to discuss a lower payment option, according to Deanne Loonin, an attorney with the Boston-based National Consumer Law Center, on www.dailyherald.com.
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Posted on 25 March 2012.
A person’s phone may soon be worth more than their car or credit card in the near future.
A good ten years ago, mobile phones started introducing color and GPRS into the life of everyday consumers. Screens had a 96×65 pixel large resolution, if you’re lucky, and a built-in stopwatch function was a feature instead of a given.
Today, 42 percent of the US’ population own smartphones that have high resolution displays natively capable of web-access and a whole slew of other features people only dreamed of ten years ago.
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Posted on 18 March 2012.
Whether it be due to nuclear warfare, natural disasters, the uprising of rebels or a zombie invasion, people across the globe are preparing themselves for December 2012, the supposed end of the world. Though there are endless possibilities to prepare oneself, there are three real-life products by ThinkGeek that stood out as essential items everyone should have in their doomsday kit.
1. The Tactical Sammich ($5.99): To prepare for doomsday, ThinkGeek has brought a new type of technology to the table, this time available in honey BBQ beef and pepperoni flavors. With a weight of under 4 ounces, these sandwiches have a shelf-life of two years to ensure that alongside a couple canned peas, survivors shouldn’t have to worry about starving to death. And better yet, each sandwich has fewer than 300 calories.
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Posted on 18 March 2012.
It was Teddy Roosevelt who said something to the effect of doing what you can with what you have. This is the attitude many adopt toward living a green lifestyle.
Many recycle plastic bottles and soup tins, opt for reusable shopping bags and read the news and books online instead of purchasing paper versions.
Unbeknownst to many, those in the chemistry world are doing what they can, too.
The Green Chemistry movement began in the 1990s when a group of scientists recognized the importance of reducing environmental impact when working with chemicals.
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Posted on 18 March 2012.
It is not uncommon to see students drinking energy drinks around campus at SCSU. In the last 10 years, the popularity of energy drinks has skyrocketed.
Red Bull, which remains the top-selling energy drink according to energyfiend.com, was first introduced in the U.S. in 1997.
On Saturday, Thailand’s national news agency, MCOT, announced Chaleo Yoovidhya, the co-founder of Red Bull, died of natural causes. He was 89.
Yoovidhya was listed in Forbes’ list of billionaires. His net worth is an estimated $5 billion. In Thailand, he was the third wealthiest person.
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Posted on 11 March 2012.
Undergraduate and graduate students across the U.S. are already saddled with huge amounts of student loan debt, but come July 1 that debt may be increasing.
The U.S. government, struggling to reduce the nation’s deficit, has proposed to change how many government loans graduate students can receive and how soon they start incurring interest on those loans once they are done with school.
Recently, an analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that the $870 billion in student loan debt has surpassed the $693 billion in credit card debt in the U.S.
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