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Fake Apps, Real Consequences.
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Fake Apps, Real Consequences.

Be cautious when you download apps!  The app stores are crowded with of fake apps  that will take your passwords and personal information.   These fakers may access your phone’s camera and microphone, listening in on your conversations and watching your every move. Fake apps do everything from pop-up ad scams […]

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How Do You Stay on Top of Media News? Try Our Podcast!

Listen to our New Media News Podcast! This Week: Facebook is for Friends not News! Will Mark Zuckerberg Change the Future of the News (Feed?) Muckrock’s Slack Channel for Journalists. How Has Mobile Shaped Citizen Journalism? Is Snapchat Discover News with a Millenial Twist? Did Social Media Ride to the […]

Online Course Evaluation
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Online Course Evaluation

  This semester SUNY Old Westbury is implementing their online course evaluations. There will be no more paper evaluations given out in class like past semesters, but students will still be given time to fill out their evaluations during class time. Last semester they tried out both the online and […]

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Are Gender Neutral Emojis in Our Future?

As it stands, emojis are either women or men; plain and simple, black and white, but will emoji-creators take a step into the gray area? According to Rachel Thompson at Mashable, Unicode is looking to do just that. Unicode is said to release three gender inclusive emojis by the end […]

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Air Pods or Other?

On September 2016, Apple unveiled their latest gotta-have-it gadget, the AirPods. Apple’s innovative design features the highly anticipated wireless earbuds. After that, are they actually good headphones? In short, the $159 Apple AirPods are better than you’d expect. The seamless Bluetooth pairing is an easy one step process where you […]

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The Public has Spoken: the Red iPhone

Apple released a red iPhone last Friday, March 24th, in support of finding a cure for HIV/AIDS. With the phone on the market for a week now, people have started to form their opinions on this cherry red phone. So what do people have to say about this brave new […]

Chief Says SLOW DOWN
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Chief Says SLOW DOWN

Too fast and too furious  causes injuries. Drivers entering the SUNY Old Westbury campus topping out at substantially higher speeds above the posted limit of thirty-miles  an hour are being logged into a database, even though no tickets have been issued yet. “We share our roads with faculty and staff […]