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#NeverApple: Fancy new features come at high cost

#NeverApple: Fancy new features come at high cost

When Sprint offered me a brand new iPhone 7 for next to nothing after my iPhone 5c crashed, I wasn’t relieved. I felt like a kid being bullied on the playground. Apple’s new iPhone 7 is nothing short of subpar, and they’ve attempted to coerce their loyal customers to buy its overpriced mediocrity in one of two ways: By over-advertising...

iPhone 7: Stealing hearts or stealing headphones?

When Sprint offered me a brand new iPhone 7 for next to nothing after my iPhone 5c crashed, I wasn’t relieved. I felt like a kid being bullied on the playground. Apple’s new iPhone 7 is nothing short of subpar, and they’ve attempted to coerce their loyal customers to buy its overpriced mediocrity in one of two ways: By over-advertising...

Digital organ pipes out tunes with new technology: Sophomore duo engineers computerized console, bringing pipe dreams to reality

Digital organ pipes out tunes with new technology: Sophomore duo engineers computerized console, bringing pipe dreams to reality

Science and art are, most of the time, unlikely bedfellows. When they do cooperate, however, they work in perfect harmony — literally. Sophomores Quinn Reichard and Jonathan Peters bring technology and music together with a new digital organ in the practice rooms of the Howard Music Hall, to offer an alternative to the unreliable organ for students looking to practice...

Subpar ‘Snowden’: Flick fails to recreate the drama

Subpar ‘Snowden’: Flick fails to recreate the drama

Our social media posts, phone calls, and emails are all being monitored. Since 2013, American citizens have known they are being watched. With Edward Snowden’s disclosure of 9,000 to 10,000 government related documents to the Guardian, the question of government overreach has inspired everything from conspiracy theories topolitical headlines proclaiming the destruction of freedom as we know it. On Sept....

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