Convenience has become the top priority of the 21st-century American — above empathy, above human connection and above patience. From groceries delivered to our...
“Black Mirror” returned to Netflix on April 10 for its seventh season with its familiar dark, satirical commentary on society’s abuse of and overreliance...
Leksa, a student-tailored dining review app, promotes restaurants based on factors like affordability, convenience and value. The idea began with three UC Irvine students...
The Student Success Technologies (SST) team under UCI’s Office of Informational Technologies (OIT) has launched UCI Spark — a data-driven, personalized student dashboard —...
The Hub, UCI’s online innovation lab, introduced an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Credits Portal during a launch party at the ANTrepreneur Center on Feb....
Trigger warning: this article contains mentions of sexual abuse and misogyny.
Asia remains a largely conservative region, with an emphasis on traditional family values. These...
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is reviewing an application filed by SoCalGas on March 1 to initiate a hydrogen blending demonstration project at...
In a world that is becoming increasingly intertwined with technology, techno-utopianism has emerged as a dominant philosophy shaping humanity’s future. Visionaries like Elon Musk...
STEM students are better than all of you. I am better than all of you. Please recognize that so that I feel good about my negative eight hours of sleep and constant state of exhaustion-induced psychosis.
AI is a powerful tool that is capable of tackling complex social problems, such as access to education, elimination of bias in decision-making processes and other essential services... While it has the potential to systematically eliminate these issues, without proper regulation to ensure the safe development and deployment of AI, it can perpetuate biases and infringe on individual rights.
Gonzalez v. Google, a court case currently pending a decision from the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), has the potential to change the entire landscape of the internet. The case centers around Section 230, a section of U.S. code passed through the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA). Section 230 has protected social media companies from legal action against third-party content posted on their platform, essentially shielding these corporations from having to regulate user content. This has caused an explosion in false information and dangerous extremist views.
As the demand for electric vehicles increases in first-world countries, the race to obtain the necessary materials to manufacture them has damaged the environment and disrupted entire communities. Rather than focusing solely on the benefits of the final product, it is crucial to ensure the entire production cycle of electric vehicles is economically friendly.
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have helped fuel the rise of cryptocurrency’s prevalence over the past year. Celebrities such as Steph Curry, Jimmy Fallon, Eminem and...
