Technology

Today’s romantic landscape is completely different than the one that existed even a decade ago. It’s fueled by online interactions, as well as massive troves of personal and sensitive data. Dating sites like Match, Chemistry, and…

PyeongchangThe 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, features athletes from 92 countries competing over the course of one hundred events. In addition to the thrilling spectacle of seeing some of the world's best athletes…

Okay, we’ve all heard of Bitcoin at this stage. Whether it’s through the ransom from last year’s WannaCry attack or the articles about tracking down thousands worth of lost bitcoins, it’s been ubiquitous in the news over the last year. It…

When I was a kid, things were much different than they are now. I know saying that makes me sound like one of those grouchy complainers who always takes shots at the up and coming generations, but it’s true. I remember my main sources of…

Apple is certainly one of the world’s most successful corporations and boasts an iconic brand image. However, the company has recently come under fire for admitting that they have been purposefully slowing down iPhones in an attempt to…

Tech is all around us. Every. Single. Day. It lets us perform tasks with ease, stay in touch with loved ones over long distances, helps us get from A to B and it even saves us time and money. But there are strange uses of technology we…

Big data has become a common buzzword when discussing the rising ubiquity of technology in our day-to-day lives. Some sources now describe data as a commodity worth more than oil, so it is not hard to see how important it is as a resource…

Some people love them, some people hiss like monsters at the very sight of them, but whatever your thoughts on them, emoji are everywhere. Most of us know someone who communicates in little pictures instead of words. There has even been a…

Unless you’ve been living under a particularly dense and large rock for the last month, you’ve probably heard about Pokémon GO, the augmented-reality mobile game based on the long-running Pokémon franchise. The game was released in early…

Yesterday I read something that made my blood boil. In 1939, de Valera's minister for education announced a proposal to cut mathematics as a compulsory subject at the intermediate level (equivalent to the junior certificate). He said that…