At the beginning of last year’s NFL season, it seemed like you couldn’t watch football for ten minutes without finding yourself bombarded with advertising for the two largest daily fantasy sports websites operating in the United States, FanDuel and DraftKings. This aggressive advertising campaign triggered a high profile look at the relatively new world of …
What would happen if songwriters boycotted writing music? The Songwriters of North America, a songwriters’ advocacy organization, has filed a complaint against the U.S. Department of Justice, claiming that the agency created a new “100 percent mandate” rule that will prohibit multiple authors from fractioning their share of a song for licensing purposes. This is …
Slip on a pair of goggles and virtual reality can send you anywhere. One second you’re in your living room furnished with that couch you found on the corner of the street and the next you’re touring Los Angeles or right there in the 2016 NBA finals watching LeBron James lead Cleveland to victory. Now, …
With the largest state legislature in the country, national media coverage of the state’s presidential primary, and an electorate that has sided with the winner in eight of the last ten elections, citizens of New Hampshire take great pride in their influence on the political process. When your state motto is “Live Free or Die,” …
ESPN is in the midst of business-wide cuts. However, these financial deficiencies have not dissuaded the company from purchasing the broadcasting rights for the Drone Racing League to be televised on ESPN or ESPN2 extremely soon. The Drone Racing League, or DRL, is a relatively new organization that has received an injection of funding in …
As 21st century technology continues to rapidly develop, so does the American peoples’ interest in maintaining their privacy. As a nation, we value the protection and privacy afforded to us by the Fourth Amendment, allowing us to feel as if some portions of our daily lives are free from governmental intrusion. However, new advances in …
In this ever-expanding golden age of technology we are becoming more dependent on our cell phones than ever before. A normal person will look at their smart phone around 85 times a day, totaling just shy of one third of her day’s waking hours. Our lives seem tethered to our phones; from checking the stock …
If you’ve ever spent a night in one of Baltimore’s neighborhoods, chances are you may have seen the infamous Baltimore rats. I say “may have” because it’s equally likely you mistook them for stray cats. And if you’ve spent some time in Baltimore since this past January, chances are you’ve unknowingly been a part of …
We have all seen the commercials: people testifying to how ITT Tech enabled them to start a career in the tech industry and how ITT Tech took them from nothing to everything, wrapped up with a promising “education for the future” tagline. At first glance, it is easy to understand why ITT Tech “had more …
Let’s face it. Your ability to function in today’s digital economy, workplace, and world depends on your ability to access information quickly and from anywhere. The smartphone is the tool de jour for keeping up and staying informed, and digital trends say that our collective dependence on the smartphone will only increase. Today in America, …
