Technology
Eat to Live or Live to Eat?
Instagram has been gaining massive popularity in the past decade, especially when it comes to food blogging. As of June 2018, 1 billion people use Instagram and according to The Washington Post, a Maru/Matchbox study found that 69 percent of... Continue reading...
Blabl: A Campus Startup Empowering All Voices
Most people have accidentally mispronounced a word or stuttered a bit in an intensely stressful interview. They momentarily experience the struggle to clearly and effortlessly communicate their thoughts, but this feeling is a constant reality for those who suffer from... Continue reading...
Social Media Companies Endanger Themselves by Acting as Content Filters
Social media companies are currently exposed in a more dramatic fashion than at any point since their ascent in the early 2010s. Regulation, election interference, and political bias dominated the discussion about social media companies this year, encouraged in large... Continue reading...
Mobile Payments are Changing the Shape of Chinese Banking, Data Privacy, and Consumerism
Over the course of the last decade, China replaced the U.S as the flag-bearer for grossly-overindulgent consumer culture. According to CNN, China’s private debt reached 6.7 trillion at the start of 2018, comprising an incredible fifty-percent of China’s gross domestic... Continue reading...
San Francisco’s Housing: Where Does It Go From Here?
The price of housing in San Francisco has skyrocketed. A San Francisco-based real estate agency, Paragon, found that the median housing price in San Francisco has risen over $200,000 since the end of 2017 to October 2018. This is not... Continue reading...
Unmasking Unmasked: A Look into Dartmouth’s Newest Startup
Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of the nascent world of online social networking was a space where people could create and foster an online social persona to connect with friends. Jack Dorsey limited the length of a user’s tweet to 140 characters.... Continue reading...
Augmented and Virtual Reality: Gaming’s Latest Frontier
Recent technological development has impacted the gaming industry by expanding the capability of existing platforms, creating exciting new channels and challenging developers to think creatively about alternate forms of consumer experiences. Of these changes, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality... Continue reading...
Bitcoin: How Did We Get Here?
A little over nine years ago, Bitcoin was born in an obscure corner of the internet to a pseudonymous father. In its short and volatile life, it has served to facilitate everything from pizza deliveries to murder, been both scorned... Continue reading...
Will Cryptocurrencies Save Online Gambling? Don’t Bet on It.
Online gambling was once thought to be dead.
Just six years ago, the domains of the world’s largest online poker platforms, Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and Cereus were seized by the United States government for bank fraud and money laundering. ... Continue reading...
The Final Breath for Department Stores
Old clichés such as “bigger is better” are being swept under the rug as dozens of America’s largest department stores begin a process of drastically downsizing their businesses.
The shift from traditional brick-and-mortar shopping to e-commerce has posed a challenge ... Continue reading...
