How repealing net neutrality will affect you and everything you love
By Daley Wilhelm / December 11, 2017
Cardinal Metrics is hosting a social mixer Tuesday evening in the hopes that students from all walks of life and all majors will come to learn about how they can get involved with using emerging technology. The event will be held in the Holden Strategic Communications Center in the Arts and Journalism building from 7:00 – 8:30 pm. Participants will be able to explore the emergent technology of eye-tracking through an iSpy game. Afterwards, students will get to visualize their results and make an in-depth evaluation of how they did.
In the past couple of weeks, Samsung released information confirming that their Samsung Galaxy X would be a foldable smartphone.
While in some ways the Pixel 2 is an improvement upon the Pixel released the fall of last year, its release is more akin to that of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 8, where most of the substance remains the same. Compared to other high-end phones released in 2017 like the iPhone X and the Samsung Galaxy S8 and Note 8, the Pixel 2 doesn’t quite measure up.
In an increasingly common discovery, yet another company has been found to be collecting user data without permission. OnePlus, a mobile phone company, has been collecting data from its Android-esque operating system, OxygenOS.
In a move to counter rival space-faring company SpaceX, Blue Origin has announced it’s plan to have tourists in space “within 18 months,” according to a statement sent out by the company.
Despite the suspicious Twitter accounts being traced back to the publication, RT hasn’t changed their practices of creating content.
“Some of the demonetization I understand and is completely fair based on YouTube’s user guidelines, the issue is that it does not tell you for individual videos what caused it to be flagged.” They told me in an email this weekend. Currently, the only context creators are given as to why their videos have been demonetized is the message, “not suitable for all advertisers.”
Microsoft has since transitioned to the “ID@XBOX” program, which Microsoft says is a more formal and managed approach to publishing independent games exclusive to the Xbox One or Windows 10.
Could similar action from people in congress influence Verizon to rescind parts of its plan in even the 12 other states it plans to pull service from?
Not that anyone would have experienced this phenomenon, on account of the Pirate Bay website being for committing illegal acts, but all the same, it appears that The Pirate Bay has been hijacking the CPUs of site visitors to dig for Bitcoin, according to Coin Telegraph.
The iPhone X reveal showed off some promising aspects. Below are compiled thoughts of what we thought was going to happen before Tuesday’s announcement as well as concluding thoughts of the phone’s pros and cons. For more information regarding the iPhone X’s details, be sure to check out Eben Griger’s article on the subject.
As of now, no other company has come out in favor of or against Verizon for this move. If it continues, it sets a precedent for businesses to act in interest of profit rather than the consumers.
After a litany of iPhones all bearing incremental numbers, Apple has decided to skip the iPhone 9 and reveal the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X (pronounced “iPhone ten”) at the same time.
