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The much anticipated Summer 2016 Olympics’ opening ceremony is set to air Friday, August 5, 2016 in Rio. Tourists and top athletes from around the world will be traveling to Brazil if they’re not already there. The Games will be hosting many familiar names like Michael Phelps, Simone Biles, and Pavlos Kontides. With all that…
Matthew Gdovin, an associate professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Texas at San Antonio and a team of other researchers have developed a new way to kill cancer cells. This new method will help patients with tumors located on hard to reach areas of the body or with cancer that has…
Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Medical School who have been working with Project MinE’s global gene sequencing effort have recently made an important discovery in their ALS research to aid in creating a cure. Why does this sound so familiar? Project MinE’s research efforts are funded by The ALS Association through the 2014 ALS Ice…
Facebook Flies a Drone, But Why? After two years of development, the solar powered drone, Aquila completed its first successful test flight in Yuma, Arizona according to a Facebook post by Mark Zuckerburg on Thursday, July 21st. Facebook wants to bring the internet to the entire world and their effort to do so is to…
The Pokémon renaissance is in full swing, and Hollywood is eager to capitalize on the renewed zeitgeist. After news broke on July 12 that a film deal was being offered up by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company, it’s been announced this week that Legendary Entertainment has purchased the rights to the very first live-action Pokémon movie. Based…
As Internet connections have sped up, it could be thought that it is not so important to have a speedy website as it used to be. It can be tempting to pack a website full of content, videos, pictures etc to keep people interested and looking at it. However, not only do you need to…
Hello to my readers! Most of whom are probably related to me! So this week, I decided to do a brief overview of Jupiter, what we know, and what we are hoping to learn from Juno! (Best 4th of July ever). I don’t want to do the basic, 5th planet from the Sun, largest in…
The Robot Did What? It may sound alarming, but these robots don’t actually come in contact with babies or patients for that matter. So, could it be beneficial? Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been studying for the past two years to see if robots can be more than a helpful hand. Experiments…
Can you imagine wearing a sweater that gives great back massages? It’s time to stop imagining it because it actually exists. It’s called the AiraWear Jacket and Tware, the Singaporean startup behind this jacket, gained more than 1,000 backers and $150,000 on Kickstarter. This jacket is as a basic regular hoodie with an inflatable vest…
Last week, Star Wars fans sleuthed out a surprise trailer for Rogue One hidden in an ABC listing, and Friday July 15 is the date it’s set to air. At 8:00 PM EST, ABC will show a one-hour special on the making of The Force Awakens, including a “3-minute trailer for ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’”–and the…
Autonomous vehicles are the future, at least, that’s what a lot of people are thinking. Companies like Tesla and Google are laying down the groundwork for a driverless world. Unfortunately, several bumps in the road could stop this disruptive technology from making it to the mainstream anytime soon. A few days ago, the first fatal…
Wearable tech is one that connects you in some way and not like some people think that it’s something you can wear, confusing? Well think of it in this way, if there really is no reason to wear it then it probably should not really be worn. For instance, if we bought something that would…
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of HP MPS for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. Printers have evolved to become increasingly essential and multi-functional pieces of business technology. Because contemporary printers can print, scan, transmit, and sometimes also store confidential information, they also present a complex area of security vulnerability…
After five years of travel, Juno will finally make its approach to Jupiter sooner than you think. NASA’s Juno probe is set to enter Jupiter’s Orbit on July 4 to get an extraordinary first look at our solar system’s largest planet. It will be the second spacecraft in history to orbit Jupiter. Juno’s Quest to…
If you’ve been on Instagram lately, you may have noticed that your feed isn’t in reverse chronological order anymore. You’ll find posts from 43 minutes ago at the top and posts from 5 minutes ago down below and wonder what is going on and why. There’s a few changes going on. Instagram is bringing a…