UCSB Hyperloop Team Showcases Innovative Hyperloop Design
Jessica Gang
Staff Writer
Theta Tau (UCSB’s co-ed engineering fraternity) presented “An Evening with Hyperloop,” an event designed to showcase the UCSB Hyperloop Team’s newest designs...
China Introduces a New Social Credit System
Krystal Chen
China will fully implement a “social credit system” that rates citizens on behavior ranging from online speech to expense records in 2020. This...
Professor Rod Garratt Discusses Cryptocurrency and the Decline of Cash
Minh Hua
Staff Writer
Last Wednesday, student-run organization Blockchain at UCSB hosted a discussion that UCSB Professor Rod Garratt led about the role central banks could...
Reddit Use May Be Good for Mental Health, Study Shows
Sabrina Bui
Reddit has gained a notorious reputation online and offline: the website is infamous as a hub for users who support unsavory topics such...
T-Mobile Agrees to Pay $40 Million in Fines Over False Ringtone Charges
Jessica Gang
Staff Writer
Cellular company T-Mobile agreed to pay $40 million in fines to the U.S. Treasury after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proved that...
Spotify Listed on the New York Stock Exchange
Mia Pollini
Staff Writer
As of April 3, Swedish music streaming service Spotify is finally trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol...
Plans to Map Mars with ‘Marsbees’ Unveiled by NASA
Jessica Gang
Staff Writer
NASA unveiled tentative plans to replace its traditional land-based Mars rovers with cutting edge flapping wing aerospace architectures on March 30th. These...
Explaining the Cambridge Analytica Scandal to a Student
Jack Alegre
Features Editor
While scrolling through your Facebook timeline, you might have noticed something called Cambridge Analytica pop up more than once. If that less-than-thrilling...
Turkey Creates State-Backed Cryptocurrency “Turkcoin”
Jacob Wong
Student investors at UCSB looking for the next hot Bitcoin or Ethereum, look no further: cryptocurrency is coming to Turkey.
Dubbed “Turkcoin,” the...
Google Tightens Hold on Digital Ad Industry With New Policy of Automatically Blocking Ads
Jessica Gang
Staff Writer
On Feb. 15, Google implemented a new ad-blocking policy that aims to automatically block ads that fail to comply with the new...
