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The Scientific Importance Of Calling Your Dog A "Good Boy"
“Who’s a good boy?” has become a pretty popular saying for dog and other pet owners over the years. And, interestingly enough, it’s not just the phrase itself, but how it’s said that stands out. After all, just reading that phrase, I’m pretty sure you hear it as a specific tone in your mind. Well, it turns out that the...
Apple Takes on Netflix with “Quality over Quantity”
“We’re not after quantity; we’re after quality,” claimed Apple SVP of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue at SXSW this past weekend. The comment is seemingly in direct opposition to Netflix’s 2018 strategy, which includes an $8 billion investment to create 700 original series this year alone. However, Cue declared that...
Characters We Need For Smash Bros. Switch
In case you didn’t see the absolute tidal wave of social media posting yesterday, yes, Super Smash Bros. was finally announced for the Nintendo Switch. It’s almost as if Nintendo knows exactly what its fans want and are willing to give it to them. Well, in celebration of this momentous occasion, let’s take a look at a few...
Facebook Moving Forward with Music and MLB Streaming
In this fast-paced world, companies are constantly needing to adapt and expand in order to be successful. It’s no different for social media platforms, which often find it necessary to expand their reach and cover multiple territories. Recently, Facebook took steps into music licensing, signing a deal with ICE Services, a licensing...
Best Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games
I’ve made it no secret that I’m a huge fan of the Nintendo Switch. The console, which only just celebrated its first birthday, already has a large number of major hits, including Super Mario Odyssey, Splatoon 2, and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. However, the console is far from done putting out quality titles with that...
Words of Wisdom: Inspiring Quotes from Female Innovators
The world of innovation is full of incredibly intelligent and brave women who are constantly not only changing their industries but the world as a whole. Over the past year, we at Innovation & Tech Today have had many opportunities to speak with remarkable women who are improving their various industries. These women fight for...
The Stages Of Grief After Cracking Your Phone Screen
This weekend, I finally dropped my phone and cracked my screen. This is the first time in over a year and a half that this has happened, a personal record for me. Please, no need to applaud. As I have been on my high horse with my functional screen for quite a while, this is a bit of an odd position for me. And, since this is the first...
Tech Giants Take on the Ivory Trade
In June last year, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Twitter released a joint statement announcing the formation of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT). The Forum was created to combat terrorist propaganda on the internet and reduce the influence of these radical ideas. The internet has now become fully integrated...
I Love Rocket League On Switch (Even Though I'm Bad At It)
Rocket League is one of those games I was very late to the party on. In fact, I don’t think I even saw someone else play it until around a year ago, when two couch occupiers at a party were so involved with the game that they could barely acknowledge the world around them. Needless to say, this game about cars playing soccer intrigued...
How THC Can Actually Improve Brain Health
Have you ever wished you could give your brain a facelift? Researchers are discovering the antidote for “senior moments” may be as simple as a daily dose of dope. A recent study conducted by scientists at the University of Bonn and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem linked intake of THC (the active component of cannabis) to a more...
Opinion: Do Video Games Really Cause Violence?
On Thursday, March 8th, President Trump will be meeting with members of the video game industry to discuss violence in gaming and its potential relationship to real-world violence. In attendance will be members of the Electronic Software Association (ESA), who claim the meeting will provide an “opportunity to have a fact-based...
Dolce & Gabbana's Airborne Models
It’s been said time and time again that robots are going to take our jobs one day. In fact, I’ve typed that so many times at this point that I wish a robot writer could just take over and do it for me. (I’m only kidding, robot writers. I need this job to pay for things.) I’ve already written before about the different jobs that...
Three Employees Walk into Glass, Injure Themselves at New Apple HQ
In April 2017, nearly 13,000 Apple employees began the six-month process of moving into the all-new Apple campus in California. The massive facility, which originally began planning stages in 2006 under Steve Jobs, is shaped similarly to a spaceship and appears as if it could easily double as a nature commune. Officially titled, “Apple...
The Science of Sleeping In
Alarms, snooze buttons, weak coffee, traffic… there are so many reasons to loathe the morning routine. If you find yourself in a perpetual battle with your alarm clock, you might have type B chronobiology. Type B chronotypes are biologically inclined to hit the sheets later and wake up later than type As. This cycle is seldom...
Where Blockchain and Healthcare Intersect
Most people immediately associate blockchain technology with Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Justifiably so, as that is how the blockchain was first introduced. However, since its inception, blockchain has made its way into a number of industries. At the recent North American Bitcoin Conference, I was pleased to discover that blockchain...
Are You in an Unhealthy Relationship with Your Phone?
In this age of endless information, have we become too reliant on our pocket computers? Shiny, ever-beeping, always engaging, and constantly at our fingertips… are our phones taking up too much of our personal time? Recent data from the popular time-tracking app Moment found the average person spends at least four hours a day staring...
8-Bit Bites: Video Game Foods I Want to Eat
Admit it. At some point, you’ve been working your way through a video game when, all of the sudden, a delicious virtual meal inexplicably makes your mouth water. We’ve all been there. The Krabby Patty Effect (which I just invented) happens when a dish from a cartoon or video game, although being completely fictional, looks absolutely...
Altered Carbon’s Byron Mann Talks Upcoming Projects
With over 67 credits to his name, Byron Mann has played a large variety of roles. Best known for his appearances on Hell on Wheels and Arrow, Mann recently starred in Netflix’s Altered Carbon, an adaptation of the book by Richard Morgan. We spoke to Mann about the new show, his pre-acting career path, and future projects he has in the...
Disney Uses Black Panther Success to Donate to STEM Education
Of all the incredibly cool things in the recent Black Panther film, one of the coolest is Letitia Wright’s portrayal of T’Challa’s extremely tech-savvy teenage sister Shuri. The film has been making a lot of noise since its debut, helping IMAX break February box office records. Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger said himself that...
Need a Break from That Computer Screen? You Better Belize It!
Feeling bogged down by the daily dose of mind-numbing gridlock, pushy salespeople, recurring nightmares of unfinished tasks on your ever-expanding to-do list? Maybe you’ve endured one too many excruciatingly long meetings that could have been an email. It’s time you cash in on some of that hard-earned PTO you’ve accrued over the...
How to Use Automated Investing to Grow Your Income
Most people have difficulty saving money. Investing part of your income for the future sounds like a good idea in theory, but it's much harder to execute in practice. Fortunately, the long-revered technique known as automated investing has evolved of late into an even easier and more practical form. Dollar-Cost Averaging Timing the...
India’s Igloos: Coming Soon to a Moon Near You
The Moon is a pock-marked wasteland with extreme temperature variations and few resources. Rather than blasting rockets full of building materials to its airless atmosphere, researchers in India are discovering innovative ways to create livable spaces on this largely inaccessible natural satellite. The Indian Space Research Organisation...
Throw Like Callie Bundy: The Internet Fitness Star Talks Sports, Tech, and Trolling
Throwing a football with precision can take years of practice, as even the greatest quarterbacks of all-time spent decades honing their skills. But for internet sensation Callie Bundy, that talent came naturally. Best known for her “trick shot” videos, in which she makes unbelievable throws from long distances, Bundy has amassed...
The Dangers of E-Shaming
As a high school counselor, I witness countless student crises each year. Still, every now and then a particular student’s story really stays with me. Recently, one such story involved a student who I will call ‘Sarah’. In middle school, a boyfriend convinced her to send him a shirtless photo. This led to E-Shaming, blackmail,...Interview: Adrian Grenier's Strawless Ocean Campaign
Entourage star Adrian Grenier has had it with drinking straws. Not because the little paper wrapper is hard to open, or because if they bend and split they become useless, but because they are a perfect example of an unnecessary single-use plastic. “We all encounter plastic straws daily,” Adrian Grenier tells us. “And we use...Danni Washington Shows Us What Real Science Communication Looks Like
Fans of science fiction are no doubt familiar with the opening lines of Star Trek: “Space, the final frontier…To boldly go where no one has gone before.” But, in our frenzied enthusiasm to explore other worlds, we may have neglected our own. Space is certainly a frontier, but to hear Danni Washington tell it, we should be looking...
Barriers to Virtual Reality Adoption for Small Businesses
Based on a recent article in The Guardian, virtual reality’s (VR's) “tipping point for exponential growth is coming in 2019 to the early 2020s, with 250 to 300 million expected users worldwide.” Even though experts believe incorporating AR/VR into small/medium size businesses is a challenge, the successful adoption of virtual...
Entrepreneurs Give Boost to Detroit’s Resurgence
Detroit’s North End neighborhood is a community on the rise. New developments, job centers, and an engaged community are all a part of the upswing. But it has something else, too: a three-acre farm. The North End is positioning agriculture at the center of its resurgence. It’s home to the first Sustainable Urban “Agrihood” –...Exclusive Interview with Jon Spaihts, the Writer of Prometheus and Passengers
We sat down with Jon Spaihts, the writer of hit films Prometheus, the Marvel movie Dr. Strange, and his new sci-fi epic Passengers, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt. He told me about the struggle of getting the film made, the challenge of writing movies that are part of a larger cinematic universe and the sci-fi writers...
Are Hybrid Cloud Computing Environments Here to Stay?
Cloud computing has been a thing for a while now and the business world has quickly caught up by not only adapting to cloud environments but by taking advantage of the new options they offer. Even everyday users are by now accustomed to using services like Apple Cloud or Google Drive daily – and many professionals make the most of it,...
Physicist Michio Kaku on STEM Education
Superstar physicist Michio Kaku sat down with Innovation & Tech Today for a sprawling interview on education and future tech in the summer of 2016 for that year's fall issue. As one of the faces of popular science, Kaku is uniquely positioned to supply advice on how to engage young minds. Part of that interview is recorded...What Leonardo da Vinci Can Tell Us About STEM vs STEAM
While April 15 is generally known as Tax Day, it also is the birthday of one of history’s great inventors: Leonardo da Vinci. A pioneer in many fields, Leonardo da Vinci is a great lens through which to view a popular debate -- is STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) or STEAM (those emphases with the inclusion of...