Technology

A weekend of innovation, learning, and some of the best hacks yet. There are two fish in a tank. One turns to the other and says: “So, how do I drive this thing?” Joseph Bolling ’15 coaxes a fish to...

Programmers are often their own worst enemies. When writing code, programmers may become responsible for the creation of insistent, malicious and sometimes challenging-to-locate errors known as “bugs.”...

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How Dozens of Companies Know More About You Than You Could Ever Imagine If anyone ever asked me to describe myself in a few phrases, I would probably summarize that I’m a male, around 20 years old, with an...

And Why the Special Gloves? It’s a cold winter day; you’re on your way to class when all of a sudden you get a text. You take out your phone, but with your gloves on, the phone’s touchscreen won’t...

The University of the People, a tuition-free online institute of higher education founded in 2009, has what some may call a controversial vision — “that access to Higher Education is a basic right and...

“A social instinct is implanted in all men by nature,” wrote Aristotle in 350 B.C.E. Aristotle was not the first nor the last to observe this seemingly innate tendency of human beings to form social ties...

Virtual Reality — On a Budget Innovation Time Off (ITO) is a policy championed by Google in which all engineers are encouraged to spend 20% of their work time on personal technology projects. Though...

A Senior Thesis by Prerna Ramachandra '14 (COS) It is no overstatement to say that improving UI (the user interface) is on the minds of the top in tech today, and that includes Princeton senior Prerna...

Imagine using your lightsaber to cut through any door without your prox. Or how about sneaking in and out of Thomas Sweets after hours with your invisibility cloak? After reading a Harry Potter novel or...