This week, the Taboo crew talks about something that everyone deals with at the beginning of the semester — whether or not professors let you use laptops in class. We get into how they can be both a distraction and a tool, how they can be used productively and why peoples’ learning styles are so different.
Technology
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CollegeEditorialsLifestyleOpinionTech
Opinion: The benefits of ditching social media
by Will Wittby Will WittI lost over 6,000 followers when I deleted my social media accounts, but it’s all been worth it. By William Witt
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How the evolution of sex toys has led to new technology, uses. By Alex Myers
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ColumnsDear DomnaLifestyleOpinion
Dear Domna: Technology has your whole relationship in its hands
by Domna Daliby Domna DaliHow social media is creating issues for this generation’s relationships. By Domna Dali
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ColumnsFront PageOpinionPolitics
Politics 101: What is “net neutrality”?
by Ellis Arnoldby Ellis ArnoldHow the government moved to protect net neutrality and the Internet as we know it. By Ellis Arnold
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By James Bradbury:
Slated for public launch later this year, this project developed by Google X Labs gives consumers what is essentially a wearable computer. -
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Mozilla open source advocate discusses future of the software
by Anna Cookby Anna CookBy Anna Cook
Stormy Peters of Mozilla captivated Monday audience with open source presentation, discussion -
By Alyx Saupe
The learning website’s outage last week interrupted the teaching process at CU but proved to be more inconvenient than angering. -
CUI interviews campus staff about the repercussions, alternatives to D2L and the possibility of another outage.
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Check out this list of all the cool things to keep you hip this fall.