Emily Deer, Managing Editor of Print Operations
freerice.com donates rice to the hungry while you build your vocabulary. For each correctly defined word, this United Nations World Food Program site donates 10 grains of rice to countries coping with chronic hunger. The more you play, the bigger your rice donation and vocabulary become. According to the [...]

Kaylan Marks and Don Onyeokeziri, Staff Writers
Infinity Ward continues the Call Of Duty series with their latest installment, Modern Warfare 2.
Just like in any other Call Of Duty game you play as several different characters. You must complete various tasks to accomplish your mission, and these missions consist of eliminating enemy soldiers, planting explosives or [...]

Alex Richardson, Technology Editor
Open-source software tends to stem from ideas and principles inherent to Linux and its many, many variants. The idea of a community-driven computing platform is attractive to any person with a utopian vision and some time and knowledge on their hands. And any discussion about open-source software without mentioning Linux and its [...]

By Lucy Richardson, Staff Writer
iPod is to CD as Kindle is to book.
The Kindle is an electronic book (eBook) reader that can store up to 3,500 books at once — more than most families’ personal libraries.
The most recent version of the Kindle is a white, 1/3-inch-thick rectangle that has a nearly 10-inch screen and a [...]

by Audrey Jaquiss, Staff Writer
Photo by Audrey Jaquiss
For someone who has been in 45 states in five weeks, John King did not look a bit tired. He was polished and alert and managed to fill the lecture hall with listeners.
At the Clinton School of Public Service, King, the man who is to take over Lou [...]

By Alex Paslidis, J1 Writer
Ay, we’re technically savvy, mate, but we’ve lost all means to communicate.  After all the technological advances that have been made, one might assume that humans would be able to communicate better.  The question is: Do we?
“I hardly ever like talk to people on the phone anymore,” junior Angelica Kinget [...]

by Magdalene James, Staff Writer
Many people go to the spa for their treatments of manicures, massages and time in the sauna. But now the spa is in your hand with the app Sally’s Spa.
The game starts with a short scene with a girl named Sally and her friend, Neli. Neli is having trouble selling her [...]

By Alec Burgess, J-1 Writer
Photo Courtesy of Martin Sargent

The Internet as it is today is a free and innovative community that is founded on a single principle that ensures a level playing field for Web sites, no matter how big or small.  However, this founding principle has recently become the means by which Internet service [...]

by Jenna Sullivan, Staff Writer
Imagine massive laser beams crashing at a high rate of speed—stirring space and time as we know it. This was one of the many complex concepts Dr. Ronald Mallett tackled in his lecture at the downtown Main Library last Thursday evening.
Mallett, a professor of physics at the University of Connecticut, has [...]

By Brennan Suen, Staff Writer
Doodle Jump is the most addicting game on my iPhone. It’s an extremely simple concept: You tilt your iPhone to jump your Doodle from platform to platform while avoiding falling. The goal is to get as high as possible. Luckily, you can enjoy this terrifically fun game for less than $1.
It’s [...]