Bryce Cullen Staff Writer Are the days of flying cars coming sooner than we think? With the right effort they might just be. Uber has just recently teams up with an advanced aircraft engineer by the name of Mark Moore. Moore has spent the past three decades of his life working with NASA. He has served as chief technologist of on-demand mobility at Langley Research Center; he is testing the likely hood of being able to invent a Vertical Take-off, (VTOL). According to Bloomberg Technology, Uber’s head of product, Nikhil Goel stated, “Uber continues to see its role as a catalyst of the growing developing VTOL ecosystem,” They are so confident in the VTOL system they said these “flying cars” have the capability of taking someone from San Francisco to San Jose in fifteen minutes. On a normal day when someone takes a car, the trek takes around two hours. But if they are able to make VTOL cars a reality, it would change the way travel, work, and even live. However this is not their first attempt in quick easy aerial transportation; Uber once offered a helicopter service. This service was able to bring passengers from New York City to the Hamptons on Long Island or vice versa. Although this does not mean it was perfect, these services were often very expensive and temporary marketing gimmicks. This is how the VTOL planes fall into place, since they are much cheaper to operate. That leaves us with the fact Flying Cars are looking to be a thing of the not-so-distant future. Claire Garner Staff Writer Technology is advancing at an alarming rate, but pretty soon with a new Android app, you can wear it. Kenza Zouiten, Swedish fashion blogger and co-founder of Ivyrevel, has teamed up with Google to bring you a dress that fits to your everyday activities and lifestyle. When you download the app, you will go through a process of personalizing the look of the dress, and your phone will recommend the rest. During the week, by using Snapshot API, the application will track your daily activities such as where you work, what you do at night, and how much physical activity you engage in. For example, do you go to the local burger joint with your closest friends, or do you go to a high-class restaurant with a date? Do you sit in an office chair all day, or does your job require a little more action? Not only will the app detect your actions but also your surroundings. Is it typically windy where you live or relatively calm? Do you live in a warm and sunny climate or cold and cloudy? These are just a few of the many factors that will make the perfect dress. Jake Gibson Staff Writer On Feb. 1, Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak at the University of California. However, the event was canceled after violent rioting, involving over 1,500 students, broke out. Milo Yiannopoulos is a thirty-three year old gay, Catholic, right-wing conservative, self-made millionaire and drop-out of Cambridge University. Milo is a Senior editor at Breitbart with his own tour known as “Dangerous.” In Milo’s tour, he travels to different Universities discussing Feminism, Muslim rights, and wide variety of other issues. Milo refers to himself as a troll, in an ABC interview with Terry Moran. McKenzie Feldman Web Editor Tom Brady and the Patriots are the Super Bowl LI champions. Although many prefer watching the game, others are always anticipating the fiery halftime show and the laugh-out-loud commercials. A historic Super Bowl comeback went perfectly with this historically executed halftime show. Ashton Baysden A&E Editor The Super Bowl LI commercials were hits for many different reasons, but of the sixty-five brands that were advertised during America’s favorite sporting event, none started quite the social media firestorm that the Netflix original series Stranger Things did. A teaser for the second season of the supernatural drama was unveiled during Sunday’s Super Bowl and generated 307,000 tweets within a four and a half hour timeslot. Stranger Things took the world by storm the second the first season hit Netflix on July 15, 2016. Standing at an astonishingly-high approval rating of 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, the drama was one of the most critically-acclaimed shows of 2016. Set in the 1980s, the show takes place in the fictional town Hawkins, Indiana where young friends Will Byers (Noah Schnapp), Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard), Dustin Henderson (Gaten Matarazzo), and Lucas Sinclair (Caleb McLaughlin) reside. When Will disappears, the young friends set out to follow a trail of supernatural clues to find him. Along the way, they encounter malevolent forces, dark government agencies, a new dimension called the Upside Down, and a mysterious young girl named Eleven. Patrick LaLiberte Staff Writer Growing up in Massachusetts, it wasn’t hard to become a fan of the professional sports teams in the area. The Red Sox won eight World Series, the Bruins and Celtics were always interesting, and the Patriots were a modern-day dynasty. Everyone in New England loved all of these teams, especially Tom Brady and the Patriots. Tom Brady is talked about as a god and the best quarterback of all time. I never really gave any thought to what everyone else in the country thought of Tom Brady and the Patriots; I had no idea that being a Patriots fan would attract so much unwanted attention. Every time I mention anything about the Patriots, I get bombarded by NFL fanatics telling me that Tom Brady sucks, Bill Belichick is a cheater, and the Patriots get away with penalties because the referees are biased. To me, all of this is nonsense, but this seems to be the general belief of every non-Patriots fan. Claire Garner Staff Writer If you are a dog lover looking for a good laugh along with some tears, grab your tissues because this is the movie for you. Although there was controversy about the mistreatment of dogs during the filming process, the relationship that this dog makes with his owners will make you want to run home and play with your own dog. If you have read the book, you will notice some changes to the plot, but the dog still has the same heart that W. Bruce Cameron developed throughout the novel. For those of you who have not seen the previews, the movie is about a dog who reincarnates as a brand new puppy after death. If you have seen other dog movies such as Marley and Me where the dog passes away, you get to suffer through the sad passing of this dog four times. Even though it sounds like you will be crying a river through the whole film, there is a fitting balance of gloomy moments to go with cheerful laughter and edge-of-your-seat suspense. Jake Gibson Staff Writer “Can you hear me?” is the newest telephone scam and is causing a lot of stir-up all across the nation. The scam has been reported in New York, Idaho, Florida, Wisconsin, Virginia and more states to come. The scammer will first ask “Can you hear me?” Unsuspecting callers will then answer “yes.” Once the scammer has your recording of your voice saying “yes”, they will generally then say you have agreed to purchase some sort of product. If you refuse, they will threaten legal charges. In some cases, the scammer will say, “Sorry, my headset must have fallen off.” Directly after, they will hang up. If you get one of these calls the best thing to do is hang up. However, be aware that the other end is not a real caller. If a caller asks, “Are you a robot?” the scammer will laugh and say, “I’m a real person.” The majority of these calls are from a sales department, consumer department, or other type sales pitch. The tricky part is that the caller I.D. is shown from the same area. Patrick LaLiberte Staff Writer The hands on the symbolic “Doomsday Clock” are now the closest they have been to midnight in over sixty years. After being pushed thirty seconds ahead, the clock now stands at two minutes and thirty seconds to midnight (midnight being the end of the world). The Doomsday Clock was made in 1947 by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to show how close the world was to ending by an apocalypse of some kind. It had originally been created to warn people how close the world was to nuclear war; however the clock began to stray farther and farther from midnight as the years went on until just recently. The clock has not been as close to midnight than it is right now since 1953, when the clock was set at just two minutes to midnight due to Cold War tensions. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has stated that a number of factors has contributed to the Doomsday Clock being moved closer to midnight, including the recent inauguration of President Donald Trump. Bulletin executive director and publisher, Dr. Rachel Bronson, also claimed that concerns with the heightened tensions between the United States and Russia, which altogether possess about ninety percent of the entire world’s nuclear weapons, influenced their decision to move the clock thirty seconds ahead. Other reasons mentioned for the Doomsday Clock being set ahead are the lack of progress in fighting climate change and recent innovations in artificial intelligence and biology. Despite the Doomsday Clock being moved so close to midnight, the end of the world does not seem to be as close as the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists believe it is. Tensions of world-ending nuclear war were much higher in the 1950s than they are right now, and Donald Trump’s presidency and artificial intelligence does not ensure the end of the world is near. It seems like the world is still the same as it was before the clock changed, but only time will tell if the world really is that close to Doomsday. Amelia Borger Staff Writer The final week of January and first week of February is a very somber time for NASA. It is the anniversaries of the Apollo 1 accident, the Challenger accident, and the Columbia accident. In these past couple weeks, NASA and many other branches of the space program reflect on the lives of the astronauts lost, along with other men and women who gave their lives in the pursuit of adventure. Jan. 31 is recognized as NASA’s day of remembrance. On Jan. 27, 1967, veteran astronaut Gus Grissom, first American spacewalker Edward White, and rookie Roger Chaffee were performing a pre-launch pad test, a normal procedure before every mission. Once they were sealed in the capsule, there was a spark, and a fire broke out in the highly oxygenated capsule, killing all three in less than a minute. A later investigation led engineers to find a major design flaw and built a safer module, ultimately leading to safer Apollo missions to the moon. |
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