Adam Van der Zwan
New anti-spam laws aren’t all they’re cracked up to be
July 14, 2014For Canada Day, our country’s Parliament gave Canadians a birthday present: an anti-spam legislation that would ensure electronic users have the option to free themselves from the suffocation of Internet spam. The new legislation was praised by many as an important step for Canadians to control where their digital information goes. However, further research has me a little disheartened. This new law may not help un-clutter our inboxes at all. As of July 1, commercial businesses across the true north are now required to ask their customers for express (meaning deliberate or conscious) consent to recieve commercial messages via email,…
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DNA in video games: no thanks!
June 30, 2014The hoopla surrounding our lack of privacy in the digital age is about to reach an all-time high. While the Internet has increasingly provided authorities with ways to rob us of our privacy, mainly in the form of online spying,…
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Google claims the road
June 9, 2014Yet another ground-breaking technology is being covered by global news outlets: Google’s new self-driving car. Yes, you read that correctly. Self-driving. For the last week or so, the vehicle has incited both positive and negative speculation. Some analysts have argued…
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Rob Ford being in rehab vs. still talking about him
May 26, 2014Woohoo After months, the man is finally where he needs to be. His blatant alcoholism, substance abuse, prejudice, and all out immaturity make it amazing that he was ever even elected mayor of Toronto. Not only that, he’s caused one…
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Goodbye, Nintendo.
May 26, 2014It has been 31 years since the release of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), the system that revolutionized the world of videogames and helped create the now immensely influential modern video-gaming culture. But unfortunately, after seven home consoles, six handheld…
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The world’s cheapest tablet is good enough!
May 12, 2014[caption id="attachment_76727" align="alignnone" width="600"] Datawind CEO Suneet Singh Tuli[/caption] I love electronics stores. I’m the kind of guy who you’ll find sauntering around Future Shop, staring at all the items I’d already seen when I was in last week.…
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Zuckerberg wants his dollars!
April 7, 2014It seems I’m not the only one who feels that Facebook’s recent purchase of the virtual reality gaming technology Oculus VR was the wrong way to go. As I scroll down the Oculus blog page, I’m delighted to read such…
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Does Not Compute
March 31, 2014Illustration by Eleanor Qu Brave New World For most of us, the word cyborg likely conjures images of RoboCop or the Bionic Woman. We envision bodies where limbs are replaced by machines, enhancing one’s way of life: Darth Vader, whose…
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Pooping towards a more sustainable environment
March 31, 2014Hyundai is reportedly soon to give a whole new meaning to the term “gas tank.” It’s only a matter of weeks before the company introduces its new Tucson Fuel Cell car which is run on neither gasoline nor electricity, but…
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Post-secondary bullies
March 24, 2014It seems the phrase “I’m just a big kid at heart” couldn’t be more applicable to current research from SFU, which revealed that cyberbullying (or cyber-harassment) is more prominent among students and faculty members than we’d expect. So prominent, in…
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