Category Archives: Science and Technology

Zoo in Copenhagen feeds Giraffe to Lions for Public Viewing

Earlier this week, A zoo in Copenhagen publicly killed an eighteen year old giraffe and afterward was fed to lions. The Zoo put down the Giraffe to prevent inbreeding with the populations of giraffes located in the populations database for …

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Bill Gates Participates in an Amazing Online Mass Interview

For those of you who are not aware of the website Reddit.com, it is a social news and entertainment website where anyone across the world can submit content, whether it be original or just shared, in the form of links …

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Are People Too Reliant On Technology?

This past week I encountered quite a few obstacles.  For one, my car was acting up, yet again, and I had to take it in.  There went my way to school.  Also, I was not able to finish a project …

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Kinect Sensor Monitoring Korean Boarder

The Kinect made by Microsoft is being used to monitor the Korean border since August of last year. The program used for the Kinect was created by Jae Kwan Ko who is a South Korean programmer. The device is monitoring …

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The Development of Digital Media Brings Opportunities for Niche News Seeking

The incredibly rapid development of American journalism has brought the United States a long way since the days of paperboys in street corners. American journalism is currently in a transformational phase, which culminates the era of dominant newspapers and influential …

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How Netflix redefined the Television Industry.

Established in 1997, Netflix Incorporated started as a DVD-by-mail rental service for home entertainment and by 2009 was offering a collection of 100,000 titles on their on-demand streaming website. This Los Gatos-based company is now leading the market and because …

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A Bittersweet Deal: Google Sells Motorola Mobility to Lenovo

Last week, news broke that Lenovo would buy Motorola Mobility from Google for $2.91 Billion, giving the Chinese PC manufacturer a respectable share of the smartphone handset market. This move has caused nearly as much unrest in the mobile industry …

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Technology Is Taking Over Our Youth!

If our youth is the future then why are we hurting their chances to succeed?  I work as a part time server and it absolutely appalls me that parents bring Ipads and head phones to the dinner table and place …

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Keeping the Old with the New, Livers? New Liver Transplant Procedure for Children

Today standard liver transplants are at a very high success rate, so why should we try a new technique? Dr. Tomoaki Kato a surgeon at the New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, has started conducting a new liver surgery called …

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Man Robbed of His $50,000 Twitter Account

Naoki Hiroshima has been a Twitter user under the handle “@N” since 2007. Apparently, this is a well sought-after screen name and Hiroshima has been contacted for years by people begging him to give up or sell his username. Someone …

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