College-Based Website Offers Speedy Emergency Condom Delivery

Friday, 15th February 2013
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Tags: college, condam.net, condom, delivery, Kyle McCabe, New Jersey

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College of New Jersey students who find themselves caught up in the heat of the moment now have an option: emergency condom delivery, courtesy of Kyle McCabe and his handy (ba-dum!) website, CondAm.net.

You phone in a message to the guy via his site, he hits you up, you’re bagged in no time. Continue reading “College-Based Website Offers Speedy Emergency Condom Delivery” »

The Apocalypse Grows Nigh(er): IBM’s Human-Beating Supercomputer Goes to College

Thursday, 31st January 2013
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Tags: college, computer, IBM, Institute, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute., University

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Just in case the notion of Watson — the supercomputer that reigned supreme in Jeopardy a couple years ago, before beating some of the world’s chess masters — didn’t alarm Stephen Hawking and others at the Centre for Existential Risk enough, it turns out IBM will be sending their baby off to college. Watson is the supercomputer, named after its first company President Thomas Watson, that can answer questions posed in natural language at a speed of a “million books per second.”

Why send Watson “back to school”? According to its developers, it needs some work on its English and Math skills. So when it’s volleying missiles from its Skynet launch sites, it can quote Macbeth or something. “Life… full of sound and fury, signifying nothing,” maybe?

Or maybe it’ll quote perennial frat boy Bluto from Animal House, just to be ironic: “Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? HELL NO!” Continue reading “The Apocalypse Grows Nigh(er): IBM’s Human-Beating Supercomputer Goes to College” »

Should Schools Be Using Assassins Creed III In The Classroom?

Thursday, 8th November 2012
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Tags: ac iii, AC3, assassin's creed 3, college, education, gaming and education, revolutionary war, teaching

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Assassins Creed III has been critically acclaimed, record setting, and is now beginning to raise an unprecedented question: should a video game with a storyline deeply rooted in one of The United States most historical events be used as a tool in the classroom?

You’d probably have to ignore the bayonets and swords, but the notion that Assassins Creed III is just another violent video game is widely disputed.

Most modern video games are built around a team of developers, maybe military/intelligence personel, or even economists — but Assassins Creed III used a team of Historians to develop the storyline. One person in particular was Maxime Durand, who left the University Of Montreal almost three years ago after he was “amazed” to get a call to work on AC3.

According to AC3 Creative Direct Alex Hutchison, history is not only the medium for the game’s storyline, it is the foundation for the mechanics of the game: Continue reading “Should Schools Be Using Assassins Creed III In The Classroom?” »

Lucky Bastards: Stanford Residents Getting Google’s 1 Gb/second internet

Monday, 18th July 2011
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Tags: college, culture, google plus, stanford, technology

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Palo Alto Patch did some on the ground reporting with the residents of Stanford California todayas the first wave of Google’s Google Fiber program rolled out, and the results are encouraging–the beta test for Google’s high-speed internet program will be delivering game-changing speeds (literally, imagine not lagging when that damn spy sneaks up on you in TF2) to Stanford residents, giving them access to internet speeds of 1 Gigabyte per second download.

Yeah, you read that right. 1 GB per second. For reference, most high-speed internet programs only get up to 20 MEGAbits per second download. So that huge movie you wanted to download off of iTunes? It can be there like that. Online gaming? Pssssh. And streaming HD games or other content would be easy, making services like Onlive incredibly reliable.

So Stanford’s getting it first–residents can opt in at $250 for a professional installation or $50 for a self-installation, but Google’s apparently heading to Missouri next with its glorious chalice of internet speed, so pay attention! You may not know when the internet fairy may bless you next.

(Also, if you’re on the ground and get Google Fiber in your house, let us know! We want to hear your experience.)