The Widespread Impact of the October 4th Social Media Blackout
On October 4, 2021, the world experienced a social media catastrophe: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp were down for seven hours. People became frantic, gathering on…
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“Profits Before People” – Takeaways From The Facebook Whistleblower
After releasing thousands of pages of confidential documents containing incriminating details against Facebook, Frances Haugen called on Congress to take action against the company in…
TikTok Takes Over the Music Industry
1.7 billion people worldwide are currently using TikTok just five years into its creation. The relatively new social media platform is steadily gaining traction, particularly…
Pablo Escobar’s Cocaine Hippos: An Environmental Debate
Pablo Escobar brought hippos to his private zoo, which was a part of his Hacienda Nápoles estate in Colombia, in the 1980s. It is one…
Adele’s Return to the Music Industry
Now more than ever, music is the most sought out method to relieve emotional or physical stress. Adele, a British singer-songwriter, is best known for…
Calculating the Strong Force: Lattice QCD
As of August 2021, a team of postdoctoral researchers at Columbia University have successfully implemented NVIDIA’s CUDA cores to be used as a graphical computational…