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Gold iPhone 5S Release Disappoints Customers

On Friday, September 20th, the iPhone 5S was released to the public.  The model has been long awaited and introduced a few new concepts.  From a fingerprint-scanner to the new software called iOS 7 featuring a whole new design, the …

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UCF Area Targeted for Tire & Rim Theft

It has been noted that there is an increasing amount of tire and rim theft in the UCF area this month.  According to the Orlando Sentinel, thieving has increased 162 percent from last month.  UCF police are on high alert …

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Victoria’s Secret Pink Party Takes Over UCF

Last Spring semester, UCF was entered into the Victoria’s Secret back-to-school Pink party.  The contest consisted of students at the universities entered to tweet and Instagram using their college’s initials followed by pink party as a hashtag.  (Ex: #UCFPinkParty).  After …

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Self-Driving Cars to Take Over Car Market

While watching the news, the one story that caught my attention was the fact that Nissan was working on a self-driving car.  This is absolutely surprising news to me, even though technology continues to grow extremely fast.  The fact that …

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“Dance” Craze & Celebrities Take Over, Real News Means Nothing

Twerk.  Yeah, that’s right, you read that correctly.  It’s sad to say that this so called “dance” is taking over.  It is completely asinine and trashy, and it doesn’t help that this “dance” is creating a craze all throughout the …

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The Reality of MMORPGs

In Expressing My Inner Gnome: Appearance and Behavior in Virtual Worlds, Shyong (Tony) Lam and John Riedl describe the process of massive multiplayer online role-playing games, MMORPGS.  This type of game has taken the video game world by storm with …

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Digital Generation a Myth?

In Generational Myth: Not All Young People Are Tech-Savvy, author Siva Vaidhyanathan begins to reference a book titled Print Is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age by Macmillan.  He describes how the book stated how several, if not all in …

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Relationships Brought to the Online Community

In Relationships, Community, and Identity in the New Virtual Society, Arnold Brown begins to describe several ways that the Internet has changed and shaped our lives today.  Whether it be socially or physically, the Internet has had an impact …

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Away with Solitude, Power to Visibility

In The End of Solitude, author William Deresiewicz begins to describe how our independence and our “small voice” gradually become less important to us.  It seems the greater the advancement of technology becomes, the more we begin to lose …

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Computers Complicate Our Lives Through Multitasking

Computers were originally introduced to help un-complicate our lives and make tasks easier.  They would free up our time of researching, which would ultimately allow us to do more and perform more adequately.  According to Brian Hayes in Automation on

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