Reading Time: 2 minutes Elizabeth Suggs | staff writer Coding Campus, a boot camp stationed in Provo, Utah, has partnered with UVU to encourage student growth in computer development. Students who wish to learn more about code will have the opportunity to take a 12-week course of Coding Campus. Coding Campus offers programming through HTML, CSS and JavaScript. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Elizabeth Suggs | Staff Writer A sign in the UVU Gunther Technology building restroom warns women, particularly dancers who change in there, to watch out for those passing by that may take their picture or take a peek inside. Brianne Cluck, a UVU student, saw the sign but was skeptical. “The sign is an […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Elizabeth Suggs | Staff Writer Data isn’t a forever storage deposit, and companies, like Backblaze, have been trying to get to the root of the problem. According to researchers at the ETH Zurich in Switzerland, the answer may be in the only known storage system that has been able to forever hold information: DNA. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Elizabeth Suggs | Staff Writer More than five years in the making, Arctic Apples were created by Canadian based scientists for the Okanagan Specialty Fruits company. Due to be available in stores before 2016, Arctic Apples are genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. According to Arctic Apples, the purpose for Arctic Apples is to create […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Elizabeth Suggs | staff writer | [email protected] For the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) annual video competition, researchers from Germany’s University of Tübingen brought the well known Mario, from Super Mario, to life. “As most of you know, this is Mario, but what you do not know is that this […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Elizabeth Suggs | Staff Writer | [email protected] Technology is everywhere, from corresponding with the internet to helping our computer, there’s always something new cropping up. But alas, I can’t list them all. Instead, I’ll just list three. NUMBER 3 -Skype’s live translator service You might have already heard about this feature, but if […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Elizabeth Suggs | Staff Writer | [email protected] The temperature is turning up despite the cold season for Utah Valley University students La Donna and her son Lauren Jensen for their 12-Month Greenhouse project, called Insulate with Nothing, which they are attempting to fund through Kickstarter. A greenhouse insulates the temperature so that plants are […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo by Brooke Morill When jobs are low and pockets are empty, what is a Utah resident to do? Elizabeth Suggs | Staff Writer | [email protected] In today’s world where many are out of a job, panhandling may be the only option to ensure food gets served on the table. This is, of course, if […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Why I took flight in the middle of a semster Elizabeth Suggs | Staff Writer | [email protected] If someone gave you the option to go anywhere in the world, but you had to miss a week and a half of class to take the trip, would you do it? In a world where life is […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Saturated fats, found in fatty meat, cheese, butter and sausages, may not be as bad as previously thought according to Ronald M Kraus, one of the top nutrition experts in the United States. The fear behind saturated fats started in the 1950’s by a pathologist named Ancel Keys at the University of Minnesota, when he […]