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Disruptive technology
13 Nov

Disruptive technology

by Anushka Singh
in Education, Science, Social issues, Technology
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Disruptive technology means the technology which sweeps away the current habits of the customers and replaces it with something completely new. We can see that everywhere these days. Amazon taking online shopping to new heights, food delivery apps revolutionising the hospitality industry, even internet and television were a disruptive technology in their time.   “Businesses are being decimated by others that are adopting disruptive technology and then...

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friending
29 Oct

Friending made really easy

by pranjali wakde
in Economy, Social issues, Technology
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Northeastern University’s own, Andrew Smith and Jay Shome, launched an interesting app recently, which seems to have been garnering attention in a short span. The app is called FriendsUp, which enables users to exchange contact information and connect via social media platforms in less than a second. This brainchild of Smith and Shome already has a catchy motto - “Friending made easy.”   “The goal is to...

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08 Oct

An app and start-up for students

by Subarna Basu
in Social issues, Technology
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As the day progresses, students, as well as small businesses, start to slump. To provide a viable solution, students of Northeastern University, Djan Madruga, Francisco Carchedi, and Victor Bittar created an app that would establish a link between the students and these businesses. The app, which was released in the app store in October 2017, connects the Northeastern campus with the businesses near them. These...

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digital privacy
17 Sep

Does your face belong to you anymore?

by Anushka Singh
in Social issues, Technology
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FaceApp, an application, shows you how you would look like in your golden years when you upload a headshot on it. It is no doubt fun and entertaining. Everyone uploads their aged look on their social media and everyone has fun. What we do not bother ourselves with while having fun, are the privacy issues. Do we actually think about our digital privacy? David Choffnes, an...

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digitalisation
07 Sep

Digitalisation and ethics

by Anushka Singh
in Education, Science
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In the era of digitalisation, where you have a virtual identity, who is to say that your data and personal information will not be leaked publicly or it won’t be sold off to anyone? Every time you log into your social media account, or link your Gmail to any other website or app to login, all your personal information is accessible by the app. You...

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30 Aug

Connecting cultures through the WE Club

by Vaishnavi Singh
in Art and Culture
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Haley Meng, a graduate of Northeastern University’s 2011 batch with degrees in international affairs and East Asian studies, is a member of Northeastern’s Young Global Leaders program, which comprises more than 100 recent graduates who advise university leadership and help to strengthen Northeastern’s network of international alumni. When Meng reached Hong Kong after her graduation, she found herself completely out of place as she didn’t...

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faceapp
08 Aug

In the Face of World – Is FaceApp Safe?

by Shahjadi Rahman
in Social issues, Technology
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Over the past week, FaceApp has taken the internet by storm and people can’t get enough of it. It is a mobile application for iOS and Android developed by Russian company Wireless Lab. Neural network technology is used here to automatically generate highly realistic transformations of faces in photographs. The app can transform a face to make it smile, look younger, look older, or change...

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Recitation App that helps Muslims
27 Jul

Launch of a new app that help Muslims with their daily prayers

by Justin Aaron
in Uncategorized
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Anas Abou Allaban was one of the participants of Muslim Hacks, an event that took place at California. At this event participants share their technological ideas and solutions to build products for people practicing Islam. Allaban is an electrical and computer engineering student, Northeastern University was fascinated by a hack which used speech recognition tool that helps Muslims to recite their prayers.   In order to keep...

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PartRunner
23 Jul

PartRunner – A miracle born in Boston

by pranjali wakde
in Economy, Social issues, Technology
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You get your food, all tasty and warm, right at your doorstep, thanks to those food delivery apps. However, it is a real pain when you have to go out to purchase other things, especially when you have some other pressing matters to attend to. Yoshua Rozen thought so too, and hence, PartRunner was born.   Rozen is a Northeastern University graduate and the startup ‘PartRunner’ is...

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